2020-21 season?

[WstateU]

I want more! Thanks!!

[JVShocker]

I want more! Thanks!!

Agreed. And we'd pay/subscribe to a service to watch us some Shocker bball in this household.
And if I may say THANK YOU for the choice of background music. Wasn't distracting nor did it make me want to stop watching.

[WstateU]

Agreed. And we'd pay/subscribe to a service to watch us some Shocker bball in this household.
And if I may say THANK YOU for the choice of background music. Wasn't distracting nor did it make me want to stop watching.

Agree... the background music was solid.

[wichshock65]

[Wooglin]

Agree... the background music was solid.

I've always been a big Nina Simone fan!

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

I've always been a big Nina Simone fan!

Not to derail the thread but I will just leave this here. No need to say anything further...

[wichshock65]

[wichshock65]

[WuDrWu]

Ticket info, a little general info, can be found here.

https://goshockers.com/sports/2020/6...-fan-page.aspx

Doesn't appear many of us will get to go to the games.


This may be the best news we hear for awhile.

[Stickboy46]

Battle for Atlantis likely getting moved from the Bahamas .... to South Dakota. Glad I wasn't able to attend this year anyways.

[wichshock65]

[WuDrWu]

What does that even mean? Instead of a first 4, you'd have to play 94 games (188 teams) to get to 256 for a true bracket. Anything more than that and you're just splitting hairs about conference tournaments that are basically elimination games already.


162 teams would get a one round bye. Then it would go 256, 128, 64, 32, Sweet16, Elite 8 and Final 4. Two extra games for the top 162, potentially 3 extra games for the Cinderella to beat all Cinderellas.

Which is fine, except how do you do that, logistically, in 2021? Travel restrictions etc. Sounds like a huge nightmare that would almost certainly fall apart, to me at least. Even if you impose some baseball thinking and get regional, Tulane v ORU and Kstate v Texas State at where? You'd need almost 50 destinations, or play them at home arenas which would make more sense but then doesn't that defeat the premise of a real tournament if you have to play a road game to get into the main draw of 256? I mean, I'm glad we're talking about it...…...

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

My guess is that they would do some sort of conference tournament thing that would narrow down the field substantially.

[ShockingButTrue]

Yes.

Taking into account conference tournament play, every team does participate in the Big Dance. An 11-19 can keep on winning all the way to the Final Four.

[Kel Varnsen]

What does that even mean? Instead of a first 4, you'd have to play 94 games (188 teams) to get to 256 for a true bracket. Anything more than that and you're just splitting hairs about conference tournaments that are basically elimination games already.


162 teams would get a one round bye. Then it would go 256, 128, 64, 32, Sweet16, Elite 8 and Final 4. Two extra games for the top 162, potentially 3 extra games for the Cinderella to beat all Cinderellas.

Which is fine, except how do you do that, logistically, in 2021? Travel restrictions etc. Sounds like a huge nightmare that would almost certainly fall apart, to me at least. Even if you impose some baseball thinking and get regional, Tulane v ORU and Kstate v Texas State at where? You'd need almost 50 destinations, or play them at home arenas which would make more sense but then doesn't that defeat the premise of a real tournament if you have to play a road game to get into the main draw of 256? I mean, I'm glad we're talking about it...…...

It would have to be the college basketball equivalent of the US Open Cup in soccer.