As some people have said about Houston, I think the reason Duke fans are gun shy about UConn has more to do with history than with how the 2025-26 UConn team has been playing so far in the 2026 calendar year.
NCAA Men's D1 General Discussion
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Indoor66
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What is TBF?
AGDukesky
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To Be Fair
geography gets preference over s curve at the 2-line. Uconn will get the first 2 seed whose preference is texas, which will likely be florida, who you think prefers south to east at this point, but still games left to be played.
Gainesville is closer to DC than Houston which trumps whatever Florida's personal preference is. The only team that gets to pick is the #1 overall
i'm not sure that's true anymore. They ask schools their preferred location, regardless of absolute distance or overall 1.
MChambers
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I think that’s only true for the overall #1.
Yes
MChambers
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I’ll say. Probably a 3 seed now.
LTLurker77
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This seems to be a bit of a pattern with Uunderwood’s teams.
bro is stubborn as anything. will double down on things which continuously fail him.
This is the part the galls me. Why does geographic proximity trump both the S-curve and the preference of the teams higher on the S-curve? How does that make sense?
Thank three teams from Maryland playing in Idaho about 24 years ago for changing to the pod system, and pushing proximity to the top of the list.
brevity
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USC announces that graduate student guard and leading scorer Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer on the team. The Trojans (18-11, 7-11 Big Ten) are likely on the NCAA Tournament bubble and still have 2 regular season games left.
usctrojans.com
From ESPN:
Baker-Mazara left Saturday's loss to No. 12 Nebraska early in the second half following a hard fall after he blocked a shot by Pryce Sandfort. Baker-Mazara told coach Eric Musselman he couldn't go back in, then went and sat with injured USC star Rodney Rice in a section for fans, not on the bench with the rest of the team...
Baker-Mazara became the Trojans' top offensive option once Rice went down with a season-ending shoulder injury in late November and averaged a career-high 18.5 points in 26 games, also putting up career highs in rebounding (4.2 per game) and assists (2.8).
An Update From USC Men's Basketball - USC Athletics
LOS ANGELES – Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer a member of the USC Men's Basketball program, the team announced Sunday.
From ESPN:
Baker-Mazara left Saturday's loss to No. 12 Nebraska early in the second half following a hard fall after he blocked a shot by Pryce Sandfort. Baker-Mazara told coach Eric Musselman he couldn't go back in, then went and sat with injured USC star Rodney Rice in a section for fans, not on the bench with the rest of the team...
Baker-Mazara became the Trojans' top offensive option once Rice went down with a season-ending shoulder injury in late November and averaged a career-high 18.5 points in 26 games, also putting up career highs in rebounding (4.2 per game) and assists (2.8).
How can you be 7-11 in your conference like USC and make it into a National Championship Tournament? I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me. If you can't even be .500 in your own conference, even these mega ones (where you may not even have played the very best in your conference), who could seriously believe you were capable of winning the national one? Shouldn't that be the criteria for being invited? And when these under-achievers get in over a team from an admittedly weak one who won theirs but got bounced by a freak loss in their little conference tournament, I get a little irritated. Sure this lesser team is likely to get trampled their first outing in the Big Dance, but it still should be their reward, rather than some team with a losing conference record who has done nothing to deserve the invitation other than whining 'but we lost to a dozen good teams!' So? And now the NCAA wants to EXPAND this?
Now get off my lawn. And we LIKED black-and-white tv, and what's this 'internet' thing?
Now get off my lawn. And we LIKED black-and-white tv, and what's this 'internet' thing?
Please tell me it’s not possible for him to transfer to another school at this point in the season. Also, I won’t be the least bit surprised if this clown tries to get another year of eligibility.USC announces that graduate student guard and leading scorer Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer on the team. The Trojans (18-11, 7-11 Big Ten) are likely on the NCAA Tournament bubble and still have 2 regular season games left.
An Update From USC Men's Basketball - USC Athletics
LOS ANGELES – Chad Baker-Mazara is no longer a member of the USC Men's Basketball program, the team announced Sunday.
From ESPN:
Baker-Mazara left Saturday's loss to No. 12 Nebraska early in the second half following a hard fall after he blocked a shot by Pryce Sandfort. Baker-Mazara told coach Eric Musselman he couldn't go back in, then went and sat with injured USC star Rodney Rice in a section for fans, not on the bench with the rest of the team...
Baker-Mazara became the Trojans' top offensive option once Rice went down with a season-ending shoulder injury in late November and averaged a career-high 18.5 points in 26 games, also putting up career highs in rebounding (4.2 per game) and assists (2.8).
sagegrouse
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Yep. I refer you to 2010. Thank you, Andre.