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Mar 24, 2025
9:04:17am

Roko's Basilisk All-American

lamenting the fact that no no-name Cinderella made a deep tourney run this year?

Weird thing to be concerned about!

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Originally posted on Mar 24, 2025 at 9:04:17am

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Transfer portal has kind of killed the magic of March Madness

Jesse Pinkman

Mar 24, 8:56am

Or is the SEC just taking up too many spots?

kccougar

Mar 24, 8:58am

Still chaps TNT's hide

TNT

Mar 24, 9:04am

I don't know .. this year is feeling pretty magical

Cougar TD

Mar 24, 8:58am

Fine with me. We’re in one of those conferences now.

SoCalCoug

Mar 24, 9:00am

Conferences should be capped at no more than half

cougarfann888

Mar 24, 9:01am

So you want to let worse teams in? None of the best mid major teams did anything

RealTaysomHill

Mar 24, 9:19am

Outside of Arkansas none of the lower seeded sec teams did much either

cougarfann888

Mar 24, 9:27am

Right, but every lower side aside from Georgia was in the game. I don’t know how

RealTaysomHill

Mar 24, 10:03am

'23 had San Diego and Florida Atlantic in Final Four. This and last year I agree

Wife_Apologist

Mar 24, 9:04am

We're in the sweet 16, we're recruiting better than ever before, and you're

Roko's Basilisk

Mar 24, 9:04am

I was thinking about that regarding Tonje. He left CSU after last season to go to Wisconsin. CSU lost by 1 point to

buhlcougar

Mar 24, 9:05am

Very possible.

Benfica1

Mar 24, 9:08am

#12 CSU hit a go-ahead shot with seconds left then lost to Maryland by 1 point

Doogal McCougar

Mar 24, 9:13am

But if Tonje was on the team would they have won by 10? In our modern NIL/portal world, would a Damian Lillard ever play

buhlcougar

Mar 24, 9:18am

Another counter argument to my point (I don’t know CSU’s roster to know the answer), but surely, they had players

buhlcougar

Mar 24, 9:48am

And BYU is in one of those conferences...

Loafer

Mar 24, 9:08am

St. John's, Colorado State, UConn, Zags, St. Mary's, and New Mexico all had the

Six Foot Seven

Mar 24, 9:09am

St. John's? Out of the Big East? Wouldn't put them as a Cinderella.

Wife_Apologist

Mar 24, 9:13am

OP was focused in on the P4 leagues. I listed the teams who had a shot from

Six Foot Seven

Mar 24, 9:16am

This is just conference realignment

Swish

Mar 24, 9:10am

Cinderella 10-seed Arkansas still in it. Still some magic out there

Goliath

Mar 24, 9:11am

Totally disagree

cambo

Mar 24, 9:11am

It is a bummer watching teams like St Peters or Oral Roberts make a good run and then realizing they all could

mokelembembe

Mar 24, 9:18am

The MWC almost won two of the games.

Napoli

Mar 24, 9:40am

I’ve found a way around this… don’t follow the transfer portal. Those transfers

Polecat

Mar 24, 10:16am

CSU should have won. Last shot was a total travel.

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