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You're one lucky man

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I think this is the point, we haven't had a good year... because we aren't getting upsets. Like I mentioned if we had 2 or 3 upsets (at home) we are probably looking at the ncaa tournament bubble right now.

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This is exactly the point of my post. To become a tournament team, you have to be able to pull off a couple upsets, especially in a difficult league like the SEC. JimTiger keeps bringing up South Carolina last season. Part of the reason that they were able to have a breakout season and make the tournament is because they were able to pull off some upsets and beat teams they weren't supposed to beat. The year that we won the SEC under Wade, we weren't favored in 9 games. We went 6-3. You're not going to be favored in every game, no matter how good you are. You have to figure out how to win games where the odds are stacked against you, and Mcmahon can't figure out how to do that.

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Well, our program has been way less successful than those 2 over the past 3 years.

SC had 12 wins as an underdog during their NCAAT run last year. Now they’re 1-14 in SEC.
Vandy is an NCAAT team this year.

I’m not defending MM, but it’s not a fair comparison bc we’ve never had a “good” year.

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So its not a fair comparison because we have sucked?

Last night, Georgia pulled off an impressive upset over Florida at home. Saturday, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina pulled off wins as underdogs. Multiple on here have said that we shouldn't expect to beat the likes of Florida and Tennessee, so there's no point in getting upset about it. However, teams across the league pull off upsets, especially at home, yet we are the one team that is very much incapable of doing so, we have the right to get frustrated over it. Under Mcmahon, we are a grand total of 9-45 in underdog games. 3 of those wins are against out of conference opponents. Looking at the other teams in the conference, the only teams that have played more games as underdogs are South Carolina and Vanderbilt. USC is 19-42 and Vandy is 17-40. We have the second worst winning % in games that we are not favored since 2022 in the SEC, only above Auburn who is rarely not favored in games with a 2-11 record as an underdog.

Even bad teams have decent crowds when they play top ranked teams. The PMAC continues to be a morgue against the top teams in the country because there is little to no hope that Mcmahon is capable of pulling off an upset. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut, but Mcmahon seems incapable to do even that

Having to count a 196.6 at Arkansas as one of our scores is seriously hurting our score. If we are able to score around a 197.5 or above friday we should be easily into the #2 spot.

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Just keep money to football and baseball. It’s a new landscape.

Basketball can get fricked

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- Scott Woodward (probably)

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This is pretty surprising. Bellarmine's entire scheme is predicated on dribbling the ball as little as possible

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I went back and compared the NCAA official stats to ESPN's stats. For some reason the NCAA's stats were a little off, particularly for this year, not sure why that is. Taking a look at ESPN's stats, these teams have in fact had at least one player over 3:

Bellarmine
North Dakota
Chattanooga
Coastal Carolina
Florida A&M
Nicholls
St. Thomas (MN)
Le Moyne
Queens (NC)
Southern Indiana
Utah Tech
Lindenwood

My original list has been updated. So in summary, its even worse than what I initially put

If they are able to win all three of those, that should negate any criticism of the non-conference schedule and we should be ranked squarely in the top 3 if not 1 overall

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You have no concept of context.

None of those coaches inherited a team (a) devoid of players because they all transferred, (b) with active sanctions, (c) navigating the NIL era for the first time at this school, and (d) navigating the new transfer portal rules while dealing with (a)-(c) simultaneously.

No other coach in the nation has that combination of roadblocks. He may well suck when it's all said and done, but blindly comparing him to others who were in entirely different contexts is a meaningless endeavor.

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LSU docked itself 1 scholarship. Wouldn't call that much of a sanction, especially considering Mcmahon was able to work around it with a walk on player. All new coaches in modern basketball are inheriting teams with virtually no players due to the transfer portal. Why does mcmahon get a pass for being terrible when I can find examples of dozens of coaches that have been hired since Mcmahon and have had more success with less resources in the NIL/transfer portal era

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CoachMc > Wade

Wade lost 33 SEC games in 5 years, CoachMc has already tied him in less than 3 seasons. CoachMc is about record setting pace.

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Truly a record-breaking coach