The Deuce: 12 play-in games? Gross*

New College Basketball thread: Enshittification of the tournament is go - assassin April 28, 2026, 16:56:08

Brandon Lee to JMU - jdl May 8, 2026, 13:51:07
dots - jdl May 8, 2026, 13:27:21
- guy likes hats* - ATL May 8, 2026, 13:28:02
I saw Ty Rodgers to Boise state on twitter.* - Toonces May 8, 2026, 12:39:32
Nm* - GCIllini99 May 8, 2026, 11:36:34
too much creatine is what took Peterson out this year? And they didn't figure this out all year?* - John Coctostan May 8, 2026, 11:29:41
- I’m surprised at how teams sound so willing to look past his red flags. - Carl Spackler May 8, 2026, 12:42:11
- Feels like a PR play ahead of the draft* - CWR10 May 8, 2026, 12:29:20
- Would be interested to know if the Kansas S&C was the one that suggested/provided that* - OB25 May 8, 2026, 11:54:46
  - He wasn't likely taking any different of a dose than the rest of his teammates* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes May 8, 2026, 12:28:08
- Who is Peterson?* - ATL May 8, 2026, 11:44:07
- Was Rory the strength coach? * - Jersey May 8, 2026, 11:35:53
Well of course - jdl May 7, 2026, 15:06:09
- They already expanded halftimes. It’s never enough* - Potomac May 7, 2026, 15:28:15
- A “Well of course” post in a college basketball offseason thread gave me a jump scare. - OB25 May 7, 2026, 15:23:51
  - #grizzle* - DocWalk20 May 7, 2026, 15:25:19
- Revenue good* - CWR10 May 7, 2026, 15:14:02
- Shhhhhooooooocking that it's all about the money* - bjl63 May 7, 2026, 15:07:41
UConn game at United Center to be on Friday night, 12/4. That is awesome* - OB25 May 5, 2026, 16:35:03
- Darn. I will be in Maui* - Dilbert May 5, 2026, 19:38:35
  - nice lam.* - Ari Gold May 7, 2026, 15:30:45
Wild story. Guy graduates HS at 6’4 150 never played HS hoops. Joins the Navy… - LeatherneckIllini May 5, 2026, 7:14:43
- crazy that a guy athletic enough to play college ball wouldn't have played HS ball even at 6' 4" - ATL May 5, 2026, 7:49:49
  - Dude bagged groceries for 5 years after HS. Just guessing but probably a good kid that didn't - LeatherneckIllini May 5, 2026, 10:06:28
    - Not if Pete Hegseth has anything to say about it* - ATL May 5, 2026, 10:07:32
Petrovic to Florida - jdl May 4, 2026, 14:17:31
Juke Harris to Tennessee. Early in portal season was assumed to be going to Michigan* - OB25 May 4, 2026, 11:22:40
- That’s a lotttt of mouths to feed in Knoxville. * - assassin May 4, 2026, 11:27:57
- Nice. Next tell me Morez is staying in the draft.* - DocWalk20 May 4, 2026, 11:26:13
Nm* - illini21 May 2, 2026, 21:12:55
Torvik’s projections have us 13 - biclops May 2, 2026, 10:47:03
- I didn't realize this at first, but apparently he has factored in a lot of guys - Blazer May 4, 2026, 15:35:10
  - Does his model assume any kind of year-over-year improvement for players? - OB25 May 5, 2026, 10:12:11
    - Don't know, to be honest - Blazer May 5, 2026, 15:54:07
- So gullit is Torvik?* - AintHatin May 4, 2026, 12:15:10
- I’m sure our Twitter fan base is taking this in stride* - OB25 May 2, 2026, 11:36:32
Q wins the Iverson Classic 3 pt contest - assassin May 1, 2026, 17:52:40
- I don’t know what this event is but he now won MVP as well* - OB25 May 2, 2026, 20:53:45
- Are we calling him “Q” or “Quen” or “Tin” or “Cole miner” or “the Colemanster”?* - bbonb May 1, 2026, 18:03:04
Boswell, Stojakovic, and Wagler invited to the draft combine - biclops May 1, 2026, 17:22:22
Vaaks has signed. * - assassin May 1, 2026, 13:22:42
- Noice.* - Warrin'_Illini May 1, 2026, 13:44:54
Mirk simply runs campus now - OB25 April 30, 2026, 23:07:27
- Him and that heifer. - ATL May 1, 2026, 13:41:24
- Is that Ty up there with him? * - Tuscy May 1, 2026, 13:28:58
  - Still kind of wondering if he might come back. - OB25 May 1, 2026, 13:36:41
    - I’m gonna predict Oakland University based on nothing other than vibes. * - assassin May 1, 2026, 13:39:14
  - They both take the DJ class* - assassin May 1, 2026, 13:32:58
  - Yes* - illini21 May 1, 2026, 13:31:15
Ayo and Augie make the Illini HOF - jdl April 30, 2026, 17:10:28
- stacked class* - assassin April 30, 2026, 17:28:13
  - Hundo P - IlliniSax05 April 30, 2026, 17:42:55
Duke on Prime - jdl April 30, 2026, 11:23:02
- Heard that Amazon will also be an NIL parter for Duke. Can that be true?* - bjl63 April 30, 2026, 17:35:17
  - That's what the article says - jdl April 30, 2026, 18:16:56
- I really don't understand how they can do this... - uofi1998 April 30, 2026, 12:26:40
  - might be neutral only games? * - ijustkrushalot April 30, 2026, 13:38:51
    - Sounds like Duke traded some future guarantees to ESPN to get these games - CanHartlebHireSnider April 30, 2026, 14:58:09
      - The ACC Grant of Rights is tied up with the conference's ESPN deal. - Chicago1995 April 30, 2026, 15:17:58
    - I think that's what it is. - Chicago1995 April 30, 2026, 14:51:38
  - Does Duke have some sort of exception from the ACC? I can’t imagine a B1G team ever doing this. - voiceofreason April 30, 2026, 12:30:33
    - You can absolutely bet it's coming next for OSU and Michigan... - uofi1998 April 30, 2026, 12:49:00
      - For fun: Apparently Duke worked with the ACC office on this. - osklister April 30, 2026, 13:18:44
        
        Jim Phillips is terrible* - bjl63 April 30, 2026, 17:29:21
        
        What money does an opponent get, and do the conferences get a cut? - Potomac April 30, 2026, 14:30:50
        
        Gotta think with those dates, Dook paid to get out of previously signed contracts... - osklister April 30, 2026, 16:22:07
        
        Work with ESPN, but... reap the rewards... IDK... *shrug* * - uofi1998 April 30, 2026, 13:23:05
It’s inevitable an power conference school will make it in with losing record - bjl63 April 29, 2026, 13:18:18
Man this is so lame* - illini21 April 29, 2026, 8:52:14
This expansion along with the bigger conference post season tournaments is a pile of crap - jdl April 29, 2026, 8:33:27
- "Who's the marketing genius...." * - osklister April 29, 2026, 8:38:24
  - (ad wizards)* - VIV April 29, 2026, 9:29:33
    - wtf is a wizard (RIP mech)* - Gene Parmesan April 29, 2026, 10:16:50
Mirkovic be getting himself into situations sometimes - biclops April 29, 2026, 8:07:05
- There are 19-21 year old hosts at my restaurant who got excited when I told them - JacobRDaugherty April 29, 2026, 12:52:28
  - He looks like Keanu Reaves and Chris Klein had a baby.* - Warrin'_Illini April 29, 2026, 13:22:48
    - oooo - Blazer April 30, 2026, 13:56:55
- For old hags like me who yell at kids to get off his lawn....what exactly am I looking at? - illinilosch April 29, 2026, 8:53:34
  - Mirkovic somehow ended up in a group live stream with women’s basketball players from USC & UCLA* - biclops April 29, 2026, 9:32:23
    - they invited him out of conference pride* - Sammich April 29, 2026, 9:36:11
- nothing wrong with chatting up the Betts sisters* - OrangeSox April 29, 2026, 8:35:43
ooo - biclops April 29, 2026, 7:24:30
Inspired by something Underwood said last year, - JacobRDaugherty April 28, 2026, 20:09:15
- Good lord man. That's awful* - illini21 April 29, 2026, 13:23:30
- There’s no legitimate argument to expand that isn’t purely financially-based - OB25 April 28, 2026, 21:27:10
  - and it's mostly a bunch of uninteresting games being played midweek... - shua April 29, 2026, 6:48:02
  - Maybe if the slots went to mid-majors and small conferences only - Potomac April 29, 2026, 6:22:49
    - yeah, but this almost certainly is for the Stephen Pearls of the world* - Gene Parmesan April 29, 2026, 8:10:48
  - I don’t think it even makes financial sense * - assassin April 28, 2026, 21:27:38
- Dear God no - IlliniSax05 April 28, 2026, 21:26:38
- No. * - assassin April 28, 2026, 20:33:43
I'm sure they think that eventually people will just accept it. - doubledown April 28, 2026, 18:40:32
- Just as long as we all continue to agree that a play in game does not count as making the tourney* - Blazer April 28, 2026, 19:05:14
Is horrible, this idea - Blazer April 28, 2026, 18:26:14
- hi Blazer! I agree!* - Poldark April 29, 2026, 9:31:04
Kansas gets #1 overall recruit (Stokes). Kentucky in shambles.* - OB25 April 28, 2026, 17:51:59
- My daughter saw him walking around UK campus on his visit a couple of weeks ago. Kentucky had - voiceofreason April 28, 2026, 17:59:27
beyond stupid. why not just forgo the regular season and have 4-5 different tourneys a year* - memyselfandillini April 28, 2026, 17:21:59
I'm sure they'll make all of the added schools the bubble teams only. - uofi1998 April 28, 2026, 17:12:00
- From what I’ve seen, it would be 8 additional auto qualifiers and 8 additional bubble teams. - voiceofreason April 28, 2026, 18:02:24
  - 12 play-in games? Gross* - Orangeillini April 28, 2026, 18:31:12
Glad we got to participate in the last true Final Four.* - Warrin'_Illini April 28, 2026, 17:06:53

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