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    I believe it is time to create a thread on the 2011 NCAA season.

    One of the headlines I've come up with are the following:

    1. Harrison Barnes 6'8, 210 Lbs. committing to the North Carolina Tarheels. Barnes is projected as the No.1 Pick by Mock Drafts in various media and is expected to carry the load for the Tarheels. Alongside John Henson 6'10, 200 lbs. will bolster the frontline.

    (Also my good friend, Kendall Marshall 6'3 180 lbs. will be teammates with them.

    2. John Calipari and his Kentucky 2.0 + Enes Kanter.

    3. Rest In Peace Tobi Oyedeji. He could have had a bright future in Texas A&M. I have sent my respects to his bereaved family.
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  • #2
    Originally posted by CKR13 View Post
    I believe it is time to create a thread on the 2011 NCAA season.

    One of the headlines I've come up with are the following:

    1. Harrison Barnes 6'8, 210 Lbs. committing to the North Carolina Tarheels. Barnes is projected as the No.1 Pick by Mock Drafts in various media and is expected to carry the load for the Tarheels. Alongside John Henson 6'10, 200 lbs. will bolster the frontline.

    (Also my good friend, Kendall Marshall 6'3 180 lbs. will be teammates with them.

    2. John Calipari and his Kentucky 2.0 + Enes Kanter.
    ...And as usual, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

    I wish an all-mid-major Final Four happens next year. Last March, one of my brackets had St. Mary's and Xavier making it.
    Keep running, big boy.

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    • #3
      Find here an updated List on all Europeans that were recruited so far this season by NCAA Colleges
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      • #4
        Originally posted by CKR13 View Post
        I believe it is time to create a thread on the 2011 NCAA season.

        One of the headlines I've come up with are the following:

        1. Harrison Barnes 6'8, 210 Lbs. committing to the North Carolina Tarheels. Barnes is projected as the No.1 Pick by Mock Drafts in various media and is expected to carry the load for the Tarheels. Alongside John Henson 6'10, 200 lbs. will bolster the frontline.

        (Also my good friend, Kendall Marshall 6'3 180 lbs. will be teammates with them.

        2. John Calipari and his Kentucky 2.0 + Enes Kanter.

        3. Rest In Peace Tobi Oyedeji. He could have had a bright future in Texas A&M. I have sent my respects to his bereaved family.
        I'm excited to see Kyrie Irving play, Duke will be the team to beat...

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        • #5
          NCAA committee ready to debate new 68-team tournament

          CBSsports reports that

          Texas-San Antonio athletic director Lynn Hickey is getting ready for her next big balancing act.Yes, she wants to be the impartial judge and find a workable format for the NCAA's new 68-team format for the men's basketball tournament. She also must perform her role as an advocate for schools such as UTSA and smaller conferences such as the Southland.

          All 10 men's basketball committee members will face a similar dilemma next week as they sift through the responses to the format change. The five days of meetings in Indianapolis will not include much easy reading, and it's not likely to be a simple vote, either.

          "It's the first time we'll have a summary of what the different conferences are submitting," Hickey said. "I think there's been a variety of responses, but they're all over the map."

          Those reactions could complicate what once looked like a simple process.

          After meeting in May, the committee asked NCAA schools to give their opinions on the recommended expansion to four opening-round games, one in each region. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith confirmed there were three options on the list -- making the eight lowest seeds in the tourney play in the opening round, making the last eight at-large teams in the field play or a combination of the two.

          The only clear answer heading into the meetings, which start Sunday, is this: Nobody wants to play in the opening-round games.

          Teams competing in conferences such as the Southland, like Hickey's Roadrunners, or the Southwestern Athletic, a league made up primarily of historically black colleges and universities, do not want to be pigeonholed into playing an extra tourney game each year. Power-conference schools, which usually take most of the 34 at-large bids, think they should avoid the opening-round games, too.

          So Smith and Hickey must figure out how to play both advocate and arbiter.

          "My responsibility is to the groups I represent, so I need to be very well informed about what they want," Hickey said.

          The expectation is that a vote will take place next week, though a formal announcement may not come right away.

          Should the committee want more time to consider the schools' suggestions, which Hickey described as going "above and beyond" previous proposals, it could push back the vote.

          "I think what the committee will do is engage in a robust discussion about the various options. Short of that discussion, it's impossible to anticipate where it comes out, how it comes out because it's the committee's decision," NCAA vice president Greg Shaheen said. "I don't think it [the time frame] has changed at all. I think it remains on the course that it has been."

          Committee chair Dan Guerrero has said that a decision would be made this summer and that the new format is still expected to be in place for the 2011 tournament.

          Smith, who replaces Guerrero, UCLA's athletic director, as selection committee chair later this year, wouldn't even guess at what will happen this week.

          Last month, Guerrero said putting the eight lowest-seeded teams in the opening-round games would help the selection committee stay "true to the seed process" -- though he understands why some leagues are worried. Committee members also must determine when and where the opening-round games will be played. Previous games have been played in Dayton, Ohio.

          And with so many schools and conferences trying to score points in this debate, nobody can be sure of what will happen next.

          "It's going to be very interesting when we get the full report," Hickey said. "What we have to see is how our principles are written, how our entertainment principles are written and then look at what's best for the tournament and, most important, what's best for the student-athlete. So it should be an interesting discussion."
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          • #6
            Jeff Jordan joining Marcus Jordan on UCF

            from CBSsports

            ORLANDO, Fla. -- Make that two sons of Michael Jordan playing for UCF.

            UCF announced Monday that guard Jeff Jordan is enrolled at the school. He joins his brother, Marcus, who was a freshman last year for the Knights.

            Jeff Jordan left Illinois after last season. He played 92 games in three years, averaging about 13 minutes a game last season. He must sit out the 2010-11 season under NCAA transfer rules and will have one year of eligibility left.

            Marcus Jordan averaged eight points and three rebounds a game for UCF last season.

            The pair will now get a chance to play together in front of their father, Michael, the NBA great and new majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.
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            • #7
              NCAA settles on 68-team tourney format, will unveil next week

              INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA has settled on the format for the new 68-team men's basketball tournament, though the announcement isn't scheduled until sometime next week. The Division I men's basketball committee reached its decision after studying a number of options and discussing feedback during meetings in Chicago, said David Worlock, associate director of the March Madness tournament.

              Details were not disclosed.

              "We discussed several options, just trying to not leave any stone unturned," said committee member Laing Kennedy, the athletic director at Kent State.

              The NCAA announced in April that it would add three teams to the field, the first expansion for the tournament since it went from 64 to 65 in 2001 after going from 48 to 64 in 1985. The new format is scheduled to take effect next March.

              NCAA officials recommended the 68-team field after the public loudly complained that going to 80 or 96 teams would water down the NCAA's marquee event, and network executives insisted they did not need more tourney games to make a profit on the next television contract - a 14-year, $10.8 billion television package with CBS and Turner Broadcasting.

              A 96-team field likely would have enveloped the 32-team NIT, the NCAA's other, independently run season-ending tournament. Instead, the expansion was much more modest, but it was not without hurdles.

              The committee was known to have looked at at least three possibilities. One would slot the bottom eight teams in the tournament into the opening round and have them play for the right to move on to the round of 64.

              Another option would put the last eight at-large teams to make the field into the play-in games. There was also talk of a hybrid plan that could include both at-large teams and automatic qualifiers.

              Committee chair Dan Guerrero, the athletic director at UCLA, has said putting the eight lowest-seeded teams in the opening-round games would help the selection committee stay "true to the seed process."

              One of the issues for the committee was how to handle schools from smaller conferences that don't want to be consistently forced to play in additional early-round games. Since the tournament increased to 65 teams in 2001 and added a play-in game, a school from the Southwestern Athletic Conference has been sent to that game five times.

              The committee also had to figure out when and where the opening-round games will be played. Guerrero has said there's a good chance the opening round will stay in Dayton, Ohio.
              source: CBSsports
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              • #8
                NCAA adds new round of four games to March Madness

                Get ready for a First Four before the Final Four.

                The NCAA unveiled its plans for the expanded 68-team men's basketball tournament on Monday, opting for a format that involves the lowest seeds and last at-large qualifiers in a "First Four" round.

                Beginning next March, eight teams will play early in the first week, with the winners advancing to games on Thursday or Friday. The NCAA decided against picking the lowest eight seeds for the new round. Instead, two of the early games will match the tournament's lowest seeds, Nos. 65 through 68, with the winners advancing to play a top seed. The other two games will match the last four at-large qualifiers.

                The format probably will prevent mid-majors from being over-represented in the first round, and could also mean that two teams from bigger conferences -- those generally seeded between 11th and 13th -- will be out before the tournament really gets going.

                "You're not going to come up with the perfect model," committee chair Dan Guerrero said. "You're not going to come up with a model that is going to appease every constituency out there. But we felt that this model provided the opportunity to do something special for the tournament."

                The NCAA announced in April that it would add three teams to the field, the first expansion since the tournament went from 64 teams to 65 in 2001 after going from 48 to 64 in 1985.

                It was a hotly debated decision, with critics saying the tournament already is as close to perfect as any collegiate championship can be. Some pointed to Butler's run to last season's championship game and George Mason's Final Four run in 2006 as examples of parity.

                The NCAA decided against a larger expansion to 80 or even 96 teams. It settled on 68 and its new 14-year, $10.8 billion television package with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting not only ensures that every game will be televised but gives the NCAA sole authority to expand again.

                All four of the "First Four" games will be broadcast on Turner's truTV cable channel.

                There has been only one opening game each year since 2001, when the expansion to 65 teams essentially added a 34th at-large team. Now, there will be 31 automatic bids and 37 at-large bids.

                The at-large teams will be seeded where they would normally be placed in the bracket, meaning a first-round game between two No. 10 seeds would result in the winner advancing to play a No. 7 seed.

                "I think some people are going to look at it and say it looks like a compromise," said Laing Kennedy, a retired Kent State athletic director who is on the men's basketball committee that developed the new format. "What we look at is that it really does preserve the integrity of the 31 automatic qualifiers."

                Gene Smith, Ohio State's athletic director and a member of the committee, said there was no consensus on a favored format from the NCAA membership and "we were a little surprised." "It also made it a little more difficult to come out to where we were," Smith said. "Where we ended up, we really feel good about."

                Atlantic 10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade called the final choice an "interesting approach" and said her members generally supported just having the bottom eight seeds slug it out to make the second round.

                Daniel Gavitt, Big East associate commissioner, said he thought the "hybrid" plan under consideration was to put the last four at-large teams in games against the bottom four seeds -- an easier task, in theory, for the at-large teams. He also expressed some concern over whether the winners of the at-large games might have an advantage in the second round, having already played and won.

                Guerrero and NCAA vice president Greg Shaheen said the committee was sensitive to the fact that some big-name teams could be ousted shortly after the brackets are filled out.

                "We took that into consideration," Guerrero said. "That would have been the consideration if all eight at-large teams had been a part of the 'First Four.' The expanded tournament allowed for three new at-large teams to get into the tournament. We felt it was appropriate since we had a 68-team model, that those three teams be a part of that equation along with the 34th at-large team."

                The NCAA said there could be games on both Tuesday and Wednesday of the tournament's opening week. The Tuesday winners would play Thursday and the Wednesday winners would play Friday.

                "In the end, we selected a format that we felt allows us to break new ground," Guerrero said.

                There was concern that the new additions would be smaller schools from the same leagues. Since 2001, a school from the Southwestern Athletic Conference has been sent to the early opening game five times.

                Athletic director Skip Perkins, whose Arkansas-Pine Bluff team won last season's tournament opener, said he thought the committee did a good job, and offered a few suggestions.

                "I hope it's not a situation where the MEAC and the SWAC always have the play-in games," Perkins said. "And No. 2, I would hope that it would never be two play-in games at one time. ... I would at least hope that out of those four, that each would have their own life."

                Locations for the first-round games have not been determined. Dayton, Ohio, which has hosted the early game since 2001, is under consideration to host each of the first four games.

                Ball State coach Billy Taylor said he hopes the NCAA isn't finished tweaking.

                "What I'm still hoping for is that this is a step along the road of making more room to expand the tournament, and to allow more teams to participate within reason," he said. "I really see this as just a gradual step. This isn't where we're going to finish, but hopefully, we're going to evolve from here."
                from cbssports

                The format should be something like this:

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                • #9
                  Mock 68 Team format:



                  Officials have revealed plans as to how they will add three more teams and three additional games to the NCAA tournament starting in 2010. Dubbed the "First Four", two games will match teams ranked 65 through 68 on the overall seed list, while the other two games will feature the last four at-large teams selected to the field.

                  The winners from the two games featuring at-large teams will occupy the seed line where they would normally be placed in the bracket. The winners of the two first-round games involving teams seeded 65 through 68 will advance to play against No. 1 seeds.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by CKR13 View Post

                    This should be easy, but NCAA is involved, so it will not be easy, nor will it make anyone at all happy.

                    I agree that conference tournament champions should not have to win a play-in game.
                    Last edited by rikhardur; 07-29-2010, 01:18 AM.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jordan10 View Post
                      This should be easy, but NCAA is involved, so it will not be easy, nor will it make anyone at all happy.

                      I agree that conference tournament champions should not have to win a play-in game.
                      True, I have read a lot of opposition to the new 68 Team Format.
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                      • #12
                        The PAC 10 will welcome new members Utah and Colorado. it will be PAC 12
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                        • #13
                          Kentucky Wildcats Head Coach John Calipari has cleared the air on the question of troubled Kentucky Wildcat player Darnell Dodson's status for the NCAA tournament.

                          "Practice is underway as we prepare for our Canada trip, [and] I'm pleased with the energy everyone brought," Calipari said. "I do want to let you all know that junior Darnell Dodson will not be playing for UK this season. If Darnell, who is academically eligible, decides to return, he could practice with the team if he meets our standards."
                          Darnell Dodson had off-court issues and troubles for the Kentucky Wildcats last season but Dodson averaged 6.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in 14.5 minutes per game.
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                          • #14
                            Texas A&M dedicates the upcoming season to Tobi Oyedeji.

                            RIP Tobi Oyedeji
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                            • #15
                              Anthony Davis

                              Anthony Davis Jr. a 6'10 wiry power forward from Chicago HS will be committing to Kentucky as Kentucky Wildcat Head Coach John Calipari had announced in an interview with the Kentucky Times.




                              The Kentucky Wildcats now has 6 big names: Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones, Enes Kanter, Doron Lamb, Stacey Poole, Jarrod Polson and Eloy Vargas. + Anthony Davis Jr.
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