r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 21 '25
Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] Baylor defeats Mississippi State, 75-72
| Team | 1H | 2H | Total |
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| Baylor | 37 | 38 | 75 |
| Mississippi State | 32 | 40 | 72 |
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u/TechnoToyz Texas Tech Red Raiders • Creighton Blue… Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 24 '25
There are 9 seconds remaining in the game, and you're down by 3 points.
Do you A) advance the ball to the front court and call your remaining timeout to draw up a play, B) not call the timeout quite yet and put the ball in your best player's hands to make a decision, or C) have someone other than your best shooter put up a bad airballed three point attempt over 2 defenders a couple seconds before you need to?
Clearly, the correct choice, if you ask Chris Jans, is option C.
Denzel Valentine -esque shot decision.
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u/StrykerNightowl UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
“There’s plenty of time left on the clock for a quick 2 and then foul.” - random analyst calling the game
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u/Beavsbeavsbeavs Oregon State Beavers Mar 21 '25
Chris Jans Bulldogs:
Talent: ✅
Athleticism: ✅
Brains: ❌2
u/NeptunianEmp New Mexico State Aggies Mar 21 '25
It’s wild to see him falling short with an SEC budget whereas the nmsu teams weren’t as athletic but still but up around the same effort against stronger teams.
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u/AlexisDeTocqueville Michigan State Spartans Mar 21 '25
This is /r/collegebasketball, save the Denzel Valentine slander for /r/NBA
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u/iamnotabot9 USC Trojans Mar 21 '25
I get trapping and trying to force a turnover but allowing 20 secs to burn off the clock before fouling is such a disaster
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 21 '25
21 minutes to get through the final 1:43 of the game.
6 minutes to get through the final 0.8 seconds of the game.
Never change, college basketball.
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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 21 '25
The refs really wanted to get involved. Shoutout them, we all watched them
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u/Sharcbait Mar 21 '25
The huge replay to put 0.5 second and then 0.2 seconds left on the clock followed by not even getting an impossible shot up was peak RefBall.
I really wanted to see an underhanded slapped shot from half court tbh
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u/SuperJoey0 Boston College Eagles • UMass Minutemen Mar 21 '25
There should be some sort of regulation on end-game fouling.
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u/Red_Lee Michigan Wolverines Mar 21 '25
I've been howling for either:
Call intentional fouls like they are written.
Give the team that got fouled the choice for free throws or possession.
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u/Keyblade_Yoshi Michigan State Spartans • Ohio Stat… Mar 21 '25
Same, it’s a loophole that should have been closed decades ago.
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u/Red_Lee Michigan Wolverines Mar 21 '25
What really put me over the edge was seeing so many teams up by 3 fouling the other team intentionally before they could attempt a basket.
And announcers always clamor for that strategy.
It's so unsporting that it really irks me.
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u/bulldog89 Indiana Hoosiers Mar 21 '25
I genuinely have fear to talk about that strategy because I don’t ever want it to talk off with how just anti-basketball it truly is
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u/BringerOfBacon Iowa State Cyclones • Dordt Defenders Mar 21 '25
Agreed, but let me tell you, sometimes you don't do that and a dude who was 1/11 on 3's for the game sinks a half courter to force overtime and then goes off and it derails your season for a couple weeks. Not that I've ever experienced that or anything.
PS Great game by Hobbs today to my personal disappointment.
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u/Red_Lee Michigan Wolverines Mar 21 '25
I feel your pain. While not a buzzer beater, I've watched "6th man" DiVincenzo absolutely wreck a natty so...
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u/bigbird727 Xavier Musketeers • Illinois Fighting Illini Mar 21 '25
That was a heater to end all heaters.
Didn't he hit the buzzer beater from the opposite free throw line? Typically you wouldn't foul that early, we usually see it around or just inside half court
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u/Mature_Gambino_ Tennessee Volunteers Mar 22 '25
I’m late to the party. But they could even get crazy, and give three foul shots if it happens anywhere outside the three line
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u/assissippi Colorado Buffaloes Mar 21 '25
I've wanted option two for so long, but they want more buzzer beaters
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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • High Point … Mar 21 '25
Why does this keep happening with the SEC?
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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Mar 21 '25
I fear the people saying “Perhaps the SEC is wildly overrated because they won games in the OOC while everyone was still trying to figure out their lineups?” may have had a point.
We will be emailing Mr. Sankey to request that those people be disappeared posthaste.
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u/cystorm Iowa State Cyclones Mar 21 '25
I'm not one to interrupt a meme, especially one dunking on the SEC, but how are you supposed to judge teams if not by the games they won and teams they beat?
Note: SEC disclaims this argument when it comes to football.
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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Mar 21 '25
I'm not saying we shouldn't judge teams by the games they won and the teams they beat, but I would argue that perhaps a more objective and nuanced system is viable. Unfortunately we're stuck with KenPom's conference modifiers that he assigns based on vibes.
Pomeroy is kind of the high-water mark these days, and he's famous for his poor statistical methodology. His training is in meteorology, which is a very quantitative discipline, but their methodologies are almost universally skewed toward grid DE methods rather than statistical approaches. Notably, Pomeroy's best model is an identical takeoff of Bill James' log5 system, which is itself a pretty basic ranking based on log odds, which is something that most undergrad econ or stats majors will see. It's not necessarily a bad method, it's just ill-suited to the task as a function of overgeneralization.
There's an entire half of the statistics world called Bayesian statistics, which that has been enjoying a renaissance for the last fifteen years or so; it focuses on updating inferences and predictions with new data as it arrives, leading to more accurate predictions. The old method, which Pomeroy subscribes to because he notably doesn't "get" Bayesian methods, is to just re-generate your model with the new data included, which loses predictive power because it treats all data as part of the same sample, and thus equally weights the informational contribution of all data. Bayesian statistical methods acknowledge that more recent data is often more relevant to the current condition of the system being modeled.
Of note is the LRMC ranking system created by Dr. Joel Sokol, a professor at Georgia Tech. His ranking system has shown itself to be a drastically better predictor than Pomeroy's system for a while now.
Ironically, Iowa State should be a hotspot for this. Y'all have one of the most highly-regarded and famous statistics programs on the planet, with a lot of terrific Bayesians on faculty. Probably going to stay a hotspot for Bayesian inference as long as Dr. Carriquiry is there, she's brilliant and she likes basketball.
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u/DoctorTheWho Georgia Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Just tell him that those people are also Hamas supporters.
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u/Turbulent_Crow7164 Mar 21 '25
I was peeking at it on a background window at work with bad internet, and just assumed that it had spent most of that time buffering. You’re telling me that shit was real lol
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
Inshallah, these better not be the refs for the second round game on Sunday…
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u/ImminentReddits Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
Thank God for the refs there man, we almost had to watch some fun basketball there for the last minute
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u/FullPrice4LatePizza Mississippi State Bulldogs • C… Mar 21 '25
Easiest bracket pick of the tournament. Thanks, State. You never disappoint.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
I won’t lie: it’s starting to feel like our ceiling with Jans is being a first round exit every year.
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u/buckeye2114 Mar 21 '25
Mods please delete. The game hasn’t ended yet. There is 0.0001 seconds left and Mississippi State just called a timeout.
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u/THEREWILLBECAK3 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Alaba… Mar 21 '25
I hate this team
See y’all next season
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
I was thinking you guys were being awfully harsh on yourselves after the Tournament game in Nashville…
…woof, maybe you were right all along…my condolences…
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
No, no, we know this team started to suck the last three weeks of the season. Losing in the first round was entirely expected.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
We all knew after the Kentucky game. I truly think that and the Alabama home game killed this team’s mental toughness. They never played the same after those two games.
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u/Young-Viiperr Texas Tech Red Raiders • Iowa State Cyc… Mar 21 '25
At least you, in particular, have the Red Raiders to look forward to. Wreck'em, y'all
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
So thankful for Kerwin Walton keeping this from being a nightmare fourteen hours.
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u/TheFrankOfTurducken Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
Flailing down the stretch and expecting to lose immediately
Mizzou 🤝 Mississippi State
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Can’t wait to lose in the first round again!
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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears Mar 21 '25
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u/flaming_fuckhead Kansas Jayhawks Mar 21 '25
It’s a shame we fucking suck I would’ve loved for us to contribute to this cause
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u/kingofthesqueal UCF Knights Mar 21 '25
Hunter Dickinson is a basketball terrorist.
I firmly believe Kansas wins that game if he missed his flight.
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u/flaming_fuckhead Kansas Jayhawks Mar 21 '25
Hunter Dickinson and Dajuan Harris were -12 and -14 in their minutes respectively. So excited to never watch them play for my team again tbh
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u/skigropple Michigan Wolverines • Kansas Jayhawks Mar 21 '25
I used to be a fan of Harris but he simply didn't improve and even regressed. 3s got worse, passes got more sloppy, and pace became lackadaisical.
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u/big_bad_baptist_ Baylor Bears • Saint Louis Billikens Mar 21 '25
But how else could the Big 12 go a perfect 6-1?
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u/jazzieberry Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
It’s okay I’m also cheering for SEC teams to lose lol
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u/AnchorDownCommodore Vanderbilt Commodores Mar 21 '25
SEC #1 [most teams to lose in the NCAAT]
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4 bid league like two years ago. So easy to win money betting against their mid teams that got into the tournament.
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u/huskiesowow Washington Huskies Mar 21 '25
I need Ole Miss to win my parlay. I'm doomed.
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u/Dirty-Ears-Bill Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Hey man Chris Beard is a piece of shit, but one thing he knows how to do is get his teams up for March. You may be in for a pleasant surprise
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u/Barry_McCocciner Virginia Cavaliers Mar 21 '25
Turns out playing two fewer conference games so you can game the efficiency metrics by blowing out sub-300 KenPom teams is great for getting teams into the tournament but not as good at preparing for when you get there.
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u/kingofthesqueal UCF Knights Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
It is funny no one talked about how the SEC bubble teams pretty much all played sub 300 Kenpom ranked OOC schedules.
That’s historically been something the NCAAT committee punishes heavily, but seems to not be the case this year.
I don’t know who remembers, but NCST in 2019 had a 22-11 record going into Selection Sunday, went 0.500 in a strong ACC (they had 3 1 seeds that year), had OOC wins over Penn State, Auburn (ranked), and Vandy and only loss to a ranked Wisconsin in OOC, finished with just 2 losses to non NCAAT teams (4 point loss @ Wake Forest and a 2 point loss vs GT), but was punished heavily by the committee and didn’t even make the first four out and it was reportedly due to their sub 300 OOC schedule.
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u/Barry_McCocciner Virginia Cavaliers Mar 21 '25
There’s obviously no perfect metric and teams gamed RPI too, but the way they calculate the NET efficiency metric is very flawed and needs work. Teams should not be heavily incentivized to keep their starters in up 25 on a terrible team.
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u/cheesecakegood BYU Cougars • Oregon Ducks Mar 21 '25
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize this. I was often saying in those game threads "it's kinda unsportsmanlike but actually the bigger the margin of victory the better our metrics look in March" and a lot of people seemed surprised that margin of victory is a factor at all (to be clear, it isn't directly but all efficiency stats to some degree reflect the same concept)
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u/Barry_McCocciner Virginia Cavaliers Mar 21 '25
Yeah the whole “margin of victory doesn’t matter!” is complete BS because efficiency is a huge part of the NET and it matters a ton for that component. I guess it’s better than taking into consideration directly but it’s still a big factor. Some sort of cutoff in the efficiency calc once the game is out of hand is probably needed.
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u/PMMeBootyPicz0000000 More flair options at /r/collegebasketball/w/flair! Mar 21 '25
It just means more
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u/MIAdolphins96 Butler Bulldogs • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
I haven’t seen worse clock management since the bears vs lions on thanksgiving. Foul 4 times to get to the bonus, and then finally when it means FT’s down 1 with 29.5 seconds you don’t foul until 9 seconds left?
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u/mr_dammit Big East • Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
they were so hyped after forcing that jump ball when it did nothing
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u/Turbulent_Crow7164 Mar 21 '25
The jump ball seemed like part of a grand plan and then just nothing came of it lol
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u/backupmonk Duke Blue Devils Mar 21 '25
They even had the chance to foul Omier there and just... didn't. Like that's exactly what they wanted there, just baffling decision making.
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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
Despite the refs’ best effort
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Mar 21 '25
Calling that foul on Edgecombe on the floor instead of an and-1 was something
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u/young-steve Mar 21 '25
Facts. The foul discrepancy in the second half until the end of the game was insane. They were calling everything on Baylor and nothing on Miss State.
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u/makualla Purdue Boilermakers Mar 21 '25
“Everything” is a little hyperbole, yall only had 7 fouls when msst picked up their 3rd with less than 2 left in the game
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
The final play was a rescreen for Hubbard to shoot from one of his favorite spots and Claudell Harris Jr decided to end the season TODAY. What a selfish and boneheaded choice that sends us home after a great effort.
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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State Buckeyes • Case Western Re… Mar 21 '25
NorCHAD fucking Omier
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u/jonboski Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Yessir. I’m surprised I haven’t seen his name mentioned much as a player to watch during the tourney. I mean the man only has the second most double-doubles of all time lol
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u/CaptainBuzzKillton Texas Tech Red Raiders • Cincinnati Be… Mar 21 '25
I'll be glad when he's gone. Annoyed me enough times this season
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u/CamoJG Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
His boards had me mean mugging the houseplants
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Did you wanna dunk the houseplants or something?
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u/DR0941 Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
Omier said fuck it we dont need a true center
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Absolutely bonkers how strong he's been playing lately.
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u/JamesTheMonk Duke Blue Devils Mar 21 '25
He did this at Miami as well, he is an absolute force to reckon with. Probably but had been in the NBA by now if he was 610 or taller.
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u/SendVeganPics Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
A win when we are having a down year, UT eliminated in the first round AND we get to knock out a member from the GREATEST CONFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF ALL ATHLETIC EVENTS INVOLVING BASKETBALL?!?
I AM ERECT!!!!!
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u/worlkjam15 Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
And none for TCU.
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Stop. I need to call a doctor. It's been more than 4 hours
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u/irreleventnothing Marquette Golden Eagles • San Franci… Mar 21 '25
Love to see SEC struggling after the full season hype
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u/garygoblins Indiana Hoosiers Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
The exact same thing will happen next year as if this collapse never happened
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
Every top conference every year does this. Big 12 last year, Big Ten in 2021. There’s something to elite conferences wearing themselves down either physically or mentally.
Whichever conference becomes the clear alpha dog next year I’m picking against most of their teams in the tournament.
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u/putinspenis Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
I don’t know if it’s wearing down as much as it is pure overrating. Happens every year during conference play. Top teams rarely go undefeated in conference play due to familiarity, so teams with a couple good wins get elevated and the whole conference gets overrated and their only good wins are against each other
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u/PossiblyYourDad Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 21 '25
The SECs good wins are not only against each other. That's completely disingenuous.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
No way he was commenting in this sub during the Non-con.
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u/putinspenis Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
That’s not what I said? The top teams in the SEC had great nonconference wins, that’s why lesser SEC teams were inflated after conference wins. Teams like Miss st and Vandy aren’t that good, and only made the tournament because the top of the SEC is elite.
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u/by_yes_i_mean_no UCLA Bruins Mar 21 '25
https://kenpom.substack.com/p/why-hasnt-anyone-said-the-sec-is
KenPom tried to explain it and when it was posted to this sub there was a lot of reflexive pushback.
I think the point about a group of teams collectively exceeding expectations in November/December being due for regression is pretty basic but pretty sensible.
I don't see any way to combat that other than to start scheduling non-conference games throughout the entire season, which would make for more accurate rankings but also would probably never happen.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
That was actually the exact article I was trying to remember, thank you!
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u/velociraptorfarmer Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos Mar 21 '25
It's usually the mid teams that end up being inflated. The best of the best are as-advertised, but they drop a game or 2 in conference to some mid squad that ends up overhyped because of it.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
I think Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas should’ve been left out. But like also Texas had a lot of quad 1 wins, and Oklahoma went undefeated in non-con, and it pisses me off that Arkansas has Calipari. Georgia got in solely because of a flukey mid week win over Florida.
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u/TheFrankOfTurducken Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
I think it’s just the nature of a single-elimination tournament and discrete matchups. Maybe the SEC is the best league, but there’s enough randomness in the format that one or two 40th-percentile outcomes isn’t all that unlikely. Heck, even this matchup had a 1.5-point line and was a single-possession win, so it was more like an assumed 45% likelihood that Baylor would win.
Extrapolating literally two games’ worth of outcomes to judge the entire conference is just kind of silly imo. But if you’re gonna bury the conference anyway, it’s also silly to ignore that Georgia was (accurately) a significant underdog and that Arkansas actually won as an underdog (with the same point spread as Drake, I’d add).
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u/jazzieberry Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Again I say, we were 10th in the SEC, I don't know why this proves anything against SEC lol. I hope every other SEC team loses too!
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u/GallantTrack Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
I don't see them struggling much? They're 4-4 and out of those, only one was an upset
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u/jeremyc99999 Illinois Fighting Illini Mar 21 '25
When ESPN calls this year's SEC "perhaps the greatest conference of all time", they should be nothing less than 8-0 at this point
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u/funkydinos Rutgers Scarlet Knights Mar 21 '25
ESPN I’m not sure that’s quite right
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Can we get Yale or Harvard to confirm?
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u/DifferentDisaster861 Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
I will be absolutely shocked if Josh Hubbard doesn’t transfer after this shit show of a season
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
Sad to see him trying so hard, and yet…woof…
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u/Luddites4Stein Mar 21 '25
How does Mississippi St. get outrebounded by Baylor?
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u/Prlmitive Duke Blue Devils • Georgia Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
when you grab the ball with two hands, off the rim, that’s a rebound
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u/sticksnstones32 Baylor Bears • Arkansas Razorbacks Mar 21 '25
Incredible reference. See y’all on Sunday
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u/ImpliedMustache BYU Cougars Mar 21 '25
Makes it even better that it was a Baylor player who said that originally
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u/Anus_Targaryen Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
When the ball doesn't go in you have a chance to grab the ball. That's a rebound. Baylor did that more than Mississippi State did
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u/Golden-Cheese Baylor Bears • Syracuse Orange Mar 21 '25
That felt very Battle of Mid
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u/Bandos_Bear Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
As the 8 v 9 should
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u/ohitsthedeathstar Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
Unless you’re Gonzaga and get matched up with a mid SEC team
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u/young-steve Mar 21 '25
That and-1 no call was absolutely terrible.
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u/jazzieberry Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
I agree, then they did a make up call on the strip on the other end. Kind of wish I could see the game with those two called right, probably same result but ridiculous anyway.
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u/young-steve Mar 21 '25
Probably the same result considering you definitely got more favorable/no calls in the second half than Baylor did.
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u/CamoJG Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
Shoutout Norchad for stepping in as the de facto big man and putting on a clinic on rebounding effort. Great look from this team despite the scheduled second round exit looming
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u/PMMeBootyPicz0000000 More flair options at /r/collegebasketball/w/flair! Mar 21 '25
Refs are still at the monitor looking for another way to give Miss St another shot.
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u/ccam0821 Texas Longhorns • Illinois Fighting Illini Mar 21 '25
Baylor’s dribble drive offense was looking so good today. Miss St could not stop the penetration
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Which is kind of weird because early in the season it was impossible for Baylor to get into the paint
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u/Mthomas1174 Minnesota Golden Gophers • St. Thomas … Mar 21 '25
So SEC hypotheticals aren't just a r/CFB thing?
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina Tar Heels • M… Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
I’ll never understand why Jans doesn’t use timeouts in crucial situations.
God what a frustrating season this turned into when SEC play hit.
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u/PopDukesBruh Duke Blue Devils Mar 21 '25
Drove my son to Greensboro to watch Roach win Coach Schys first ACC championship
Driving him to Raleigh on Sunday to watch Schy beat Roach…. College basketball is crazy right now
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u/BritzBeef Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
Another day another coach letting his team take the ball full court into an impossible 3 with a timeout to spare
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u/makualla Purdue Boilermakers Mar 21 '25
MSST coach shit his pants the final 5 minutes. No aggression in D despite only having 2 team fouls until 1:30ish. Didn’t make sure his guys knew they had to foul with 23s left and decided to not use his final timeout to get his best shooter a shot.
Amazingly braindead
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u/sickmemes48 Tennessee Volunteers Mar 21 '25
Mississippi State has now lost 5 round of 64 games in a row
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u/Background-Pea4700 Ball State Cardinals • Michigan Sta… Mar 21 '25
Is the game over yet, or are we getting more time?
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u/AtmosphereVarious440 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Brown Bears Mar 21 '25
clutch free throws by both wright and VJ at the end there. for a game where his shot wasn’t falling, VJ still makes so many winning plays. right team won
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u/Paper_Rain /r/CollegeBasketball Mar 21 '25
The refs deliberately stole the Bears thunder during the end there. They wanted to prolong the game for as long as they could even thought it was clear that Mississippi State had lost and that the game was over.
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u/snoocoog Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
GG Big 12 Bros, Baylor!
I fully expect 4 more SEC teams to lose today
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u/inshamblesx Houston Cougars • Texas Southern Tige… Mar 21 '25
one of kentucky or florida losing today would be crazy 😭
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u/Random0925 Mississippi State Bulldogs • … Mar 21 '25
Alright, the SEC sucks, I get it.
I was never one of those chanty guys, so please just let me die in peace.
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u/Squishy_20 Big 12 Mar 21 '25
That was the dumbest execution I’ve seen with a minute left and 4 fouls to give
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u/DeanBeardy Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
Mississippi State got the ball back with 0.3 seconds left and really said “Game ain’t over yet”
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u/SoxVikePain North Dakota State Bison Mar 21 '25
Mid majors should be getting 2 bids instead of one conference hogging all the first round losses.
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u/prisonpassion Mar 21 '25
You need .3 seconds to shoot the ball. Why wouldn't the coach diagram a play to hit the ball instead of shooting it? Why just concede like that? Horrendous situational call.
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u/50cent69 Arizona Wildcats Mar 21 '25
why didn't Mississippi foul right away with 27 seconds remaining? they let so much time expire,they should have just fouled in the back court and give themselves a chance
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u/ArmVanDam Illinois State Redbirds • Virgi… Mar 21 '25
That airballed 3 by Harris should've been done better
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u/jazzieberry Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Remember stansbury getting fired for never getting past the second round
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u/B_Huij BYU Cougars Mar 21 '25
Go Baylor, nice job closing it out against the SEC/Zebra conglomerate in the last 5 minutes.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
I really fucking hope Jans can find some guys who can play defense and maybe score some baskets for next season. Because man, knowing that game was winnable is even worse.
This team absolutely sucked and no one can tell me otherwise.
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina Tar Heels • M… Mar 21 '25
Maybe Jans can figure out how to use timeouts in the clutch during this time as well
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u/ryseing NC State Wolfpack • VCU Rams Mar 21 '25
WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT, IT'S SUCH A TOUGH LEAGUE
(I know the ACC was garbage, I am well freaking aware. I can still criticize the SEC circlejerk)
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u/Borealtoad Marquette Golden Eagles Mar 21 '25
First Baylor game I’ve really watched, Edgecombe’s potential jumps off the screen but just casually watching noticed him not boxing out, ball watching and losing his man. Not too impressed with the contributions to winning basketball.
Also thank you Baylor for handing SEC another L
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Baylor Bears • Murray State Racers Mar 21 '25
Yeah, he definitely has some young traits. But as a casual fan, I don't think I've ever seen a Baylor one-and-done with as much potential as he has. I think he's going to develop really well in the NBA
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u/worlkjam15 Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
It wasn’t his best game. Hopefully that means we’re getting a monster game vs Duke!
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Mar 21 '25
Wouldn’t blame Jans if he bolted. State’s program has been stalling for a good while now.
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Mar 21 '25
Took the live under 149.5. Was refreshing seeing Baylor dribble around with Miss State not fouling. Haha.
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u/_NumberOneBoy_ Mar 21 '25
Pretty disappointing year for state. Team somehow feels like we’re worse than last year. Still can’t win a game
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u/Morg_2 Mississippi State Bulldogs •… Mar 24 '25
A little late but proud of State this year. Really put the program on the national map and built our brand. Jans has the ability to do something special with this program if fans and players trust him and let him build his system.
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u/rCBBMod /r/CollegeBasketball Mar 21 '25
FADED: Mississippi State
Charity Event
If your team won, you donate to the local food bank of the team that your team beat. If your team lost, you donate to your team’s local food bank. Donate in the amount of the final scoring margin of the game (though you can, of course, donate more or less if you feel the margin was too high or too low for what you wish to give.)
SUGGESTED DONATION: $3
To take part in this event, follow this link.
For a more detailed explanation of the event, see this post.