r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 19 '26
Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #11 Miami (OH) defeats #11 SMU, 89-79
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u/danhoang1 UConn Huskies • Santa Clara Broncos Mar 19 '26
I guess the haters are right. The game did end in a double digit victory
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u/ProfNinjadeer Florida Gators Mar 19 '26
The Redhawks are UNDEFEATED in Q1 Games
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u/BEAR-D0WN Arizona Wildcats Mar 19 '26
Unfortunately, no quality Q1 losses though
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u/Firepolitoed Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 19 '26
Bruce pearl is asking where the quality losses are
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u/SaintArkweather Delaware • American University Mar 19 '26
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 19 '26
Remember when they were supposed to be a lock?
Remember when they were ranked?
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u/TojiSorcererKiller Kentucky Wildcats Mar 19 '26
He tricked me is one of my favorite college basketball memes.
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 19 '26
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u/meyer_33_09 North Carolina • Miami (OH) Mar 19 '26
Honesty, if Bruce was genuinely upset about their inclusion in the tournament, I feel like he’s done a really good job of not acting like it on this Inside March Madness show tonight. He’s also given Miami a ton of props before and after the game so I respect him for that.
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u/mcwilly Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 19 '26
Well yeah he received a ton of criticism for how he acted on the selection show and he’s a fucking snake. So of course he’s changed how he’s acting now.
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave Mar 19 '26
Hypothetically this is basically a loss to like 6 different mediocre SEC teams tho… sorry not sorry, it just means more /s
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u/SaintArkweather Delaware • American University Mar 19 '26
Directional Michigan schools benefitting from (at least) triple the normal tournament revenue for a mid-major conference despite collectively not even winning a single MAC tourney game the entire decade
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 19 '26
Truly, are they playing chess when we are all playing checkers…
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u/IReviewFakeAlbums Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Mar 19 '26
Sounds like they were playing chess while y’all were playing basketball
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u/TurkishDonkeyKong Bowling Green Falcons Mar 19 '26
And western Michigan has money they just suck
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u/Germ_germ Western Michigan • Kansas Mar 19 '26
We use the money on our MAC champion football team and our national champion hockey team 🤫
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u/InYourFace1023 NC State Wolfpack • Utah State Aggies Mar 19 '26
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 19 '26
Especially fitting meme, considering that the RedHawks have a player called Elmer lol
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u/XenoBound Butler Bulldogs • Florida Gators Mar 19 '26
UMass will be known as the only team to defeat the mighty 2025-26 Miami Redhawks.
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u/StrictRestaurant1132 Mar 19 '26
I find it funny how out of all teams, it was UMass. I'm from Mass and my sister goes to UMass, and we both were cheering for Miami lol
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u/twister_rocket Miami (OH) RedHawks Mar 19 '26
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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State Buckeyes • Malone Pioneers Mar 19 '26
I understand why no P4 team wanted to schedule them LMAO
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u/corundum9 Ohio Bobcats Mar 19 '26
This postgame reporter is aggressive
ELMER!! Get over here!
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u/HorilkaMedPerets Kentucky Wildcats Mar 19 '26
She was not having any of MU's shenanigans
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u/picklerw Mar 19 '26
“Postgame reporter”? You mean Jenny Dell?! Get out from under your rock and call her what she is - amazing!
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave Mar 19 '26
Turns out the team that won every single one of their regular season games actually does, in fact, deserve to be in the tournament. Who would’ve FUCKING thought??
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u/Dro24 Duke Blue Devils Mar 19 '26
People really hate underdogs now, it’s crazy. Social media has taken the joy from so many people.
What a fun game and a fun team!
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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Miami (OH) RedHawks Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
It sure feels like the discourse now is “they are frauds” rather than “hey maybe they can pull this off” which really is a shame
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For real, this isn’t college football we don’t want to see the same 2-3 teams win everything
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u/No_Butterscotch8726 SMU Mustangs Mar 19 '26
I think it's really the gambling that does it. Too many bet the favorite and hate getting taken by cinderellas. I would argue, don't bet, and especially don't do it for the early NCAA tournament rounds.
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u/Mukaido Houston Cougars Mar 19 '26
Yeah for real. For some reason, maybe because of social media like you said, quite a big portion of humanity is now more about competing to be the biggest hater rather than enjoying the moment. It’s unfortunate. A big portion of the tournament is all about allowing the Cinderellas to have their chance and capturing lightning in a bottle.
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u/alittledanger Boise State Broncos Mar 19 '26
This is nothing compared to the nonstop whining over what happened in the college football playoff.
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u/chipper124 Central Michigan Chippewas Mar 19 '26
Not the analytics nerds that’s for sure
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u/Electronic_Tip_7671 Duke Blue Devils Mar 19 '26
TBF, Torvik’s metrics had them in with WAB.
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u/cappy412 Michigan Wolverines • Kansas Jayhawks Mar 19 '26
Every resume metric has them in the tournament. All the nerds wanted them in. It was the meatheads appropriating our culture that wanted them out
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u/MaizeRage48 Michigan Wolverines Mar 19 '26
"Uhhhhhmmm ashkewally they don't have any quad 1 wins"
They do now.
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u/chipper124 Central Michigan Chippewas Mar 19 '26
Everyone knows this tournament should really be played on paper
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u/DaMantis Oklahoma State Cowboys Mar 19 '26
Had quite enough of that back in March 2020 thank you very much
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u/Recent_Surprise_7391 Arizona State Sun Devils Mar 19 '26
The funny thing about obsessing over quad one wins is it’s entirely arbitrary too. ASU in Tempe is a quad one win, the same way Wisconsin beating Michigan was lmao
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u/thythr North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 19 '26
No nerd ever says anything about quads. Quads are the devil's work. If you're talkin about quads, your ip address should be blocked from kenpom.com. man I hate quads.
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u/AthleticAlarm32 California • North Carolina Mar 19 '26
ESPN gave SMU like a 75% chance of winning. Miami continued to get disrespected
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u/SaintArkweather Delaware • American University Mar 19 '26
Something the analytics models can't capture is the fact that every team that played Miami the second half of the season had that game circled on the schedule. Just look at that Ohio game, that had a postseason atmosphere for a regular season game that didn't even really matter for seeding. They got basically everyone's best stuff night after night.
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u/Master-Praline-3453 Creighton Bluejays Mar 19 '26
To be fair, that was also their hated conference rival at home on senior night, but yes.
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u/ridethedeathcab Dayton Flyers • Notre Dame Fighting Irish Mar 19 '26
The Miami Ohio gam is always a big one. It’s a big rivalry.
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u/bluediamondsm North Texas Mean Green • Houston Cougars Mar 19 '26
That was so dumb people actually thought an undefeated team in the regular season should’ve missed it…
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u/lowes18 Florida State Seminoles • FAU Owls Mar 19 '26
I still have no idea why SMU was in
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u/JerseyDvl Seton Hall Pirates Mar 19 '26
People said we would see a team that didn't belong in the tournament tonight and people were right.
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u/Maxkpop247 Iowa State Cyclones Mar 19 '26
Because they lied and said BJ Edwards was healthy enough to play probably
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u/eatapenny Virginia Cavaliers • Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 19 '26
FSU building a time machine to go back to 2023 to lie about Jordan Travis' injury
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u/tc100292 Vanderbilt Commodores Mar 19 '26
Harder to do when people can see dude's foot get turned around on television
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u/XAfricaSaltX Georgia Bulldogs • Florida Gators Mar 19 '26
Unfortunately it’s hard to lie when his leg snapped in half on national television
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 19 '26
A 13-loss ACC team was favored over a team that went 31-0 in the regular season. 😭
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u/MaizeRage48 Michigan Wolverines Mar 19 '26
Because 31-0 backwards is 0-13 so they're basically the same. I am very smart.
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u/SaxRohmer Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 19 '26
r/collegebasketball try to understand statistics and probabilities challenge: impossible
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u/the-real-macs Virginia • North Carolina Mar 19 '26
this win has some of the dumbest people alive puffing their chests right now
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u/ALStark69 Alabama • Florida State Mar 19 '26
Their hypothetically healthy superstar
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u/Primary_Psychology95 Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 19 '26
SMU would’ve fit right in the SEC with these hypotheticals
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina • Mississippi… Mar 19 '26
On a related note, I know it’s the First Four but the ACC looking mighty fraudulent rn
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u/ControllerPlayer06 Duquesne Dukes Mar 19 '26
Get ready to speak VCU buddy
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u/juggalotweaker69 North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 19 '26
At least if we lose to VCU, we won’t have to suffer the indignity of being blown out by Illinois by 30 points.
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u/ControllerPlayer06 Duquesne Dukes Mar 19 '26
I unfortunately know the feeling of getting blown out by Illinois after upsetting the 6 seed as the 11 seed
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u/UluruMonster Wisconsin Badgers Mar 19 '26
Get ready to speak Sienna buddy
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u/aMilo_14 North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 19 '26
If you’re gonna jerk do it right
Siena*
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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon Duke Blue Devils • Wake Forest Demon Deacons Mar 19 '26
I mean, call a tech when the Texas coach runs out onto the court with that last shot in the air and State wins.
State lost, but played fine. They were competitive.
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u/7Raulphie ACC Mar 19 '26
Who was the better alternative? Auburn?....
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u/Solesky1 Indiana State Sycamores Mar 19 '26
Tulsa, San Diego State, SFA, Belmont, New Mexico...
Anyone other than another mid P4 with great "metrics"
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u/bh6891 Wichita State Shockers Mar 19 '26
The fact that USF would have been out if they didn't get the auto bid is a travesty
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u/MassiveResolution7 Arizona State Sun Devils Mar 19 '26
The committee chair flat out said VCU would have been out of luck without the auto bid. That's worse than USF.
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u/PaidUSA Youngstown State Penguins Mar 19 '26
VCU who is a coinflip with UNC right now.
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u/Solesky1 Indiana State Sycamores Mar 19 '26
If the A10 final was SLU/VCU instead of Dayton/VCU, VCU was in with a loss. There was just zero chance they were putting a 3rd A10 team in
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u/Dro24 Duke Blue Devils Mar 19 '26
SDSU but SMU with Edwards wasn’t a terrible choice. They thought he’d be back for tonight
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee Volunteers • Cornell Big Red Mar 19 '26
Fuck Bruce Pearl
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u/Turbulent_Juice_Man Iowa State Cyclones Mar 19 '26
The collective, mutual loathing of Bruce Pearl that makes this March Madness just a little bit extra special.
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u/nitebusnitebus UConn Huskies Mar 19 '26
I don't think anything has ever united this subreddit so hard
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u/Jomosensual Iowa State • Northern Iowa Mar 19 '26
Charles Bediako/Nate Oats and James Nnaji/Scott Drew made real good runs at it
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u/ALStark69 Alabama • Florida State Mar 19 '26
I hated him before it was cool!
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u/Chief_Illiniwek Illinois Fighting Illini Mar 19 '26
I think I've got you beat there. Illinois fans have despised him for decades. A cheating, slimy, fat piece of shit.
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u/dubscurry30 Memphis Tigers • Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 19 '26
Everyone in Memphis has despised him for decades too!
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u/tc100292 Vanderbilt Commodores Mar 19 '26
But didn't you hear that his son set the record for most wins by a first-year Auburn coach?
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee Volunteers • Cornell Big Red Mar 19 '26
all 18 of them!!!
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee Volunteers • Cornell Big Red Mar 19 '26
always, you don’t even have to ask
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u/jsinatraa UConn Huskies Mar 19 '26
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u/chipper124 Central Michigan Chippewas Mar 19 '26
Could add half this sub to that picture with Bruce
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u/twizbuck Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten Mar 19 '26
I hope the postgame set is just everyone staring at him and waiting for his babble.
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u/ooboh Iowa Hawkeyes • Maryland Terrapins Mar 19 '26
Miami’s best win of the entire season came in the NCAA tournament. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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u/corundum9 Ohio Bobcats Mar 19 '26
Me and Bruce Pearl just fuming right now
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u/meyer_33_09 North Carolina • Miami (OH) Mar 19 '26
You guys have done your fair share of pissing us off. It’s our turn lol.
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u/chipper124 Central Michigan Chippewas Mar 19 '26
Miami might have won on the court, but SMU won where it really matters, the KenPom rankings.
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u/TheHotGates Michigan State Spartans Mar 19 '26
Green beer day is about to be a continuation of the post game party
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u/DirtAndShovels Texas A&M Aggies Mar 19 '26
The committee can ligma balls for making a team that went undefeated until the conference tournament go through a play-in.
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u/greysfordays Indiana Hoosiers • Kansas Jayhawks Mar 19 '26
part of me hates the committee for it, but part of me says hell yeah a basically home game atmosphere for them was fun to watch
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u/mattychefthatbih Mar 19 '26
Honestly though it’s good for them. Play a legit P5 team (in a friendly environment) and get a night to yourself to show the country what you got
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u/guywholikescheese Kansas Jayhawks Mar 19 '26
I honestly think playing tonight was the best thing for Miami. Gives them a chance to play a tournament game in a friendly environment and get some momentum going into the round of 64. They also get a nice payout for winning a tournament game while being in prime time for all to see.
If I’m Tennessee, I’m worried going into the first round.
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u/Maxkpop247 Iowa State Cyclones Mar 19 '26
Well at least due to that decision we got to watch a fun game, they r electric
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u/fskier1 Michigan Wolverines Mar 19 '26
Eh I’m glad they got to prove they belonged before potentially losing to a higher seex
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u/AppropriateCattle69 Ohio Bobcats Mar 19 '26
Yeah, MAC teams never win games in the tournament.
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u/mynameisrainer Marshall Thundering Herd Mar 19 '26
Never would've guessed that a team that went 31-1 would be good and win a ncaa tournament game. What a wild and crazy world we live in
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u/kingofthesqueal UCF Knights Mar 19 '26
How many of you guys that were saying they’d lose by double digits in Dayton are now suddenly switching up and saying stuff like “turns out the +30 win team is pretty good”
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u/AP-FUTChemist Houston Cougars • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 19 '26
College football elite fuming rn
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u/nitebusnitebus UConn Huskies Mar 19 '26
"Indiana didn't play anyone" all over again
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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears Mar 19 '26
Wow a team that is now 32-1 turns out to be pretty fucking good
Fucking nerds ruining our sports
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 19 '26
If you go unbeaten in the regular season, you 100% deserve to be in the tournament. The fact that people actually disagreed with that notion is crazy.
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u/A-Centrifugal-Force Mar 19 '26
Especially in a 68 team tournament. This isn’t a 4 team college football playoff lol. There are a ton of teams in this tournament who don’t have a shot at winning it, and I wouldn’t have it any other way, that’s part of the fun. 16 loss Auburn wasn’t going to win 7 straight games either
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u/eatapenny Virginia Cavaliers • Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 19 '26
Honestly, just make it a new rule that if you go undefeated in the regular season, you get a special autobid that allows you to bypass the conference tourney (which is still for a normal autobid)
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u/TDenverFan William & Mary Tribe Mar 19 '26
I feel like we keep venturing more and more into hypothetical sports. There are so many rankings and advanced stats that the actual results of the games become an afterthought.
And obviously there is a time and place for analytics, but so many of these rankings rely on everything but the actual game results.
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u/Sportsgirl77 Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 19 '26
It's funny that college basketball is more reliant on analytics than college football, and yet I feel like the hypothetical games get played a lot more in football. Maybe that's just cause football doesn't have autobids for every conference champion
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u/Crims0ntied Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 19 '26
There's fewer data points in football, so the analytics tend to be a little less reliable. Every team has, at best 2 or 3 usable nonconference games.
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u/carguymt Kentucky Wildcats Mar 19 '26
Probably because there are fewer games too. So to compare certain teams all you can use is analytics and hypothetical matchups. There’s more out of conference games in basketball and more games in general there are more opportunities for direct on court comparisons.
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u/eatapenny Virginia Cavaliers • Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 19 '26
Almost like a team that went 31-0 in the regular season is a pretty good team
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u/shifty1032231 Texas Longhorns • Colorado Buffaloes Mar 19 '26
Miami and Afroman won today. Good day for the state of Ohio.
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u/AbsolutelyHung Iowa Hawkeyes Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
So… you’re telling me the team with one loss maybe deserves to be in the tournament?
I don’t believe you /s
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u/kaeganc Kansas Jayhawks • SMU Mustangs Mar 19 '26
two selection rules related to the teams in this matchup that I think would make the tournament better:
• If you are undefeated against your conference schedule, you get an autobid
• If you have a losing conference record, you are ineligible for an at-large bid
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u/FalseRecording3699 Texas Tech Red Raiders • Big 12 Mar 19 '26
Stupid that this team even had to play this game
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u/razorbear3 Arkansas • California Mar 19 '26
Agreed, but they did get to play in front of a home crowd. Must have been fun for the fans.
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u/packmanwiscy Wisconsin Badgers Mar 19 '26
Plus they won a fat stack of cash by winning this game for their troubles.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane Mar 19 '26
I agree but man it must be awesome for their fans to literally just have to hop in the car for an hour to see their team make history and be home to in time to sleep in their own bed.
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u/Master-Praline-3453 Creighton Bluejays Mar 19 '26
I haven't had that much fun watching a basketball game in a long time.
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u/Yellow_Evan UNLV Rebels • Oklahoma Sooners Mar 19 '26
I was told the tournament needed to be the 37 best at large teams.
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u/Squishy_20 Kansas State Wildcats • Big 12 Mar 19 '26
KenPom doesn’t win basketball games crazily enough
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u/Ok_Hooper412 Houston Cougars Mar 19 '26
Some people seriously thought the Red Hawks didn’t deserve an at large, ridiculous
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u/BUSean Providence Friars Mar 19 '26
Alright. The field is truly set. We've waited a year, friends. It's Price Is Right time.
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u/billsmafia5366 James Madison Dukes Mar 19 '26
Thursday/Friday PTO taken, Wings/Beer purchased, and 4 TVs set up in the living room. Bring on the madness.
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u/ControllerPlayer06 Duquesne Dukes Mar 19 '26
I think it’s time we discuss who the real power conference is
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u/galacticdude7 Michigan Wolverines Mar 19 '26
Nothing personal against SMU, but I am so glad that this Miami team's story didn't end here in the play in games in Dayton
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u/burrito_abuse Purdue Boilermakers Mar 19 '26
Guys in front of me at the game kept chanting “poopie” every time Boopie got the ball. Figured I’d share
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u/dmkolobanov Indiana Hoosiers • Maryland Terrapins Mar 19 '26
Not to be dramatic, but I would die for the 2025-26 Miami RedHawks
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u/MSFNS Purdue • North Carolina Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Tourney win and it's Green Beer Day tomorrow 🤣
Guarantee kids will be showing up for exams still plastered and w/ 6+ bars ticked off on their green beer day t-shirts haha
"Bro, look at it like this - we start drinking at 5AM, stop at 10, and we've still got like 2 whole hours to sober up before the exam at 11:50"
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u/TheStuffisLegal Memphis Tigers • North Texas Mean Green Mar 19 '26
Shoutout to the “power” conference slobs. Tell y’all coaches to quit being hoes and schedule mid major teams. Miami was never a one loss team by accident
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u/attapulgus Georgia State Panthers Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
As someone who doubted Miami:
The haters said I couldn't do it and they were wrong. Honestly, terrible call by the haters.
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u/ityaboi7279 Arizona State Sun Devils Mar 19 '26
Elmer banished the Mustangs and haters everywhere to the glue factory
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u/Background-Pea4700 Ball State • Michigan State Mar 19 '26
FIRST EVER FIRST FOUR WIN FOR A TEAM TO FINISH THE REGULAR SEASON UNDEFEATED MAC REPRESENT BABY!!!!!
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u/mattychefthatbih Mar 19 '26
How do we know that Miami Ohio is any good if they haven’t even played a Q1 opponent?… wait
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u/mrwhitaker3 /r/CollegeBasketball Mar 19 '26
Xavier let go of Travis Steele just to get shanked by Sean Miller, who skipped town as soon as he could. Steele is 57-10 his last two seasons. Glad to see him revive his coaching career.
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u/starmiesan Wisconsin Badgers • Miami (OH) RedHawks Mar 19 '26
This game was actually so fun to watch I don’t think I felt stressed even once lol
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u/Savages_in_box UConn Huskies Mar 19 '26
How the hell did SMU make the tournament? Both san diego state and New Mexico lobos deserved to be in over them
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u/tropic_gnome_hunter St. Lawrence Saints • Syracuse Orange Mar 19 '26
Enfield underperformed and got outcoached? Wow, next thing you'll tell me is that we landed on the moon.
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u/arietwototoo Florida Gators Mar 19 '26
Nerds in shambles. That team nice enjoyers feasting. Rooting for these dudes to make a run.
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u/Ancient-Village6479 Kansas Jayhawks Mar 19 '26
Love how there’s no doubt who most people’s 2nd team to root for will be
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u/sourpatchkid567 Miami (OH) RedHawks Mar 19 '26
31-0 regular season doesn’t sound like such a fluke after all does it nerds
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u/nitebusnitebus UConn Huskies Mar 19 '26
there's no chance it'll happen but Miami/Wright State would be the ultimate sickos game
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u/Dolphinz811 Xavier Musketeers Mar 19 '26
Hope this wins helps mid-majors get more respect. Hopefully the RedHawks win a couple more to really show that we need to give mid-majors more love going forward.
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u/mustangswon1 Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 19 '26
I'm sorry SMU had to die for it, but America needed Miami to win this.
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u/Aurion7 North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Bad night for the '31-0 regular season doesn't mean anything' section of the commentariat.
There are far worse ways than 'taking everyone's absolute best shot on a constant basis- and coming out on top' to build a team that deserves to be here and can win a game or two while here.
Redhawks deserved to be in either way, but since tournament results tend to shape the narrative that type of meathead nonsense should hopefully be on a temporary moratorium. At least.
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u/TheLoneWolf527 Duke Blue Devils Mar 19 '26
As a Miami (Ohio) hater throughout the season, they deserved to be in over every bubble team. Why? Because they know how to win. Basically every other team that didn't get in didn't show the ability to consistently win games. A large chunk of them lost like 80% of their games down the stretch. Auburn only had 2 winning streaks of 3 games all year.
I hope this game can be a signal for future tournaments to look at those conferences with teams who win 28 games and still don't make it over these P4 teams that keep losing all the time and get in because "NET"
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u/Naive_Inflation5768 Mar 19 '26
I’m so glad Miami Ohio beat SMU! They weren’t a first four team. There was no reason why a one loss team should have been disrespected so much! It’s very hard to go 31-1 and now they are 32-1 and beat an ACC team by 10 points! This should put to rest the strength of schedule argument since any team that only loses one game in 32 games is good, regardless of schedule!
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u/MAC_Agenda_Pusher MAC Mar 19 '26
NOBODY defeats the undefeated regular season MAC champions in a first four game 😤
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u/milin85 Miami (OH) RedHawks Mar 19 '26
WE ARE SO LIT