ashokan said:

A good thing about going to a place like RU is that its not going to close.
That might sound too dire but colleges are closing at rate of one a week and the pace is accelerating.
Colleges can lose accreditation for shaky finances.

"About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.

So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning. "

SUNY is over 160 million in debt and some colleges will crash

"“Gov. Hochul’s goal of revitalizing SUNY and making it the best public higher education system in the nation cannot happen when all but six of its campuses are in serious financial jeopardy,"

Oswego, Fredonia, Buffalo St, Potsdam, SUNY Maritime in trouble - "A recent SUNY report indicates that, if current expense and revenue trends persist, the system will face an annual budget shortfall of over $1 billion in 10 years.

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LeapinLou said:

It's definitely hard to figure this thing out sometimes. Without playing, we advanced more spots than Illinois dropped after losing at home by 19. Crazy. My daughter just went back for her last semester at UMD. I really hope they make the tournament. Last night gave them a massive boost, regardless of how the NET reacted.

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Source said:

I was there too. I waved to you but you didn't wave back.

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RUChoppin said:

I think what had had a large negative impact on the Missouri Valley Conference's at-large chances came from the departures of Creighton (2013) and Wichita St (2017), which coincided with the switch to the NET system in 2018.

Over the 20 years up to Wichita St's departure, the MVC had 37 bids.... but 16 of them were from Creighton or Wichita St (10 auto-bids, 6 at-large). From 2014-2017 after Creighton left, the conference had 6 bids in 4 tournaments... and 4 were from Wichita St (2 auto, 2 at-large).

In 2018, the MVC moved forward without two of their best programs of the prior 20 years, and NET was introduced to assist with tournament selection. Sort of a perfect storm of the MVC conference SOS dropping at the same time that NET quadrants were introduced.

Since then, the MVC has had just 7 bids across 6 tournaments (1 at-large in 2021)... 3 from Drake, 3 from Loyola-Chicago, and 1 from Bradley. Those three schools had appeared in the NCAA tournament just twice in the prior 20 years (1 from Drake, 1 from Bradley).

Conference consolidation has been gradually plucking the better mid-major teams into stronger conferences, leaving behind an increase in weaker conferences in its wake.

Looking at the top 5 conferences (SEC, B1G, B12, ACC, BE), you see a lot of schools that came from mid-majors over the past 25 years: Butler, BYU, Cincinnati, Creighton, DePaul, Houston, Louisville, Marquette, SMU, TCU, UCF, Utah, Xavier. And the mid-majors that lost those schools pulled the better schools up from the next tier down (for example, C-USA was founded in 1995... not a single member from 2004 is left; the MWC grew out of the WAC in 1999, and will be unrecognizable in 2026)

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DHajekRC84 said:

Don't mind the extra security at all but just to be clear as crossing guards they suck . Ask anyone trying to get in or out of the blue lot.

Extra security makes total sense at the entrance to or within the stadium (vs. the jr,. kids on the RU police force managing inflow). THAT'S where the potential issue is. *Stopping something from happening vs. being there To react is a terrible plan.

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goru7 said:

See this is the problem , Illinois loses 3 of 4 and is still 9 in the NET . You say no one cares Harper was hurt but look what happens when Illinois missed their top guard for 2-3 games and now their center for 1. They got their guard back but were waxed by Maryland at home. Never in the game and never made a run. But they are not penalized by that loss nor the prior ones. Rutgers missing Dylan was huge regardless of you ignoring it or saying no one cares because wins at Indiana and Wisconsin with a healthy Dylan changes the NET by 15-20 spots. Plus it changes the 10-9 to 12-7. Huge difference.

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NewJerseyHawk said:

We've jumped the shark discussing Drake, Princeton and UC Irvine.....and how Indiana State and Seton Hall was a ratings winner, which is certainly possible with no other basketball games on TV that night.

In any event, no one here actually believes Princeton or Drake or UC Irvine is better than most of the teams in the B1G, Big 12 or SEC over a 20 game confidence schedule.

I'm waiting for the ESPN+ subscription to watch Drake vs Missouri State.....which could be a great game. But we have fans stuck in the 1980s, when Georgetown played Princeton one time and almost defeated Patrick Ewing and the mighty Hoyas.

I really hope that one day, all of these really good schools that are in the MVC, Sun Belt, Ohio Valley, MAC and others get a very fair playing field where those league and the Ivy League or whomever else can play a 32 game tournament and let the winners of those 4 games advance to play the seeded teams that ultimately generate the revenue for the sport.

It is NOT fair that Drake can go 26-5 and miss the NCAAs.....let those schools get a chance to win 30 games to make the NCAAs in a play-in scenario. Other than that, it's absurd to think people want to see Drake or Princeton as 14 seeds, when they can battle it out to be a 10 or 11 seed. Let the Power 4/5 teams that have invested into their programs, the real opportunities to compete in the post season, if they're on the "bubble", just seed them as a 14 or 15 seed and let them play UConn or Kansas as a 2 or 3 seed.

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Zak57 said:

Mets possibly interested in a Max Scherzer reunion.

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rutgersal said:

These crossing guards help keep the peace, and ensure quick response for any issues that might arise.

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goru7 said:

Their scheduling and blowing out cupcakes got their NET high to begin with and they seemed like a paper tiger because they were 0-4 on the road before last night. But last night was an annililation of an Illinois team that was 8 in the NET , a high Quad 1A win on the road . Only Illinois did that to Oregon earlier in the year and Oregon dropped 10 spots and Illinois went up 7-8 spots. That Maryland win was not only their best win of the year but might have been the best win of any team in the country this year.

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RU-AGK said:

When seared on a scotching hot iron skillet, then put into a 425 degree oven for about 20 minutes or until you get to an internal temp of 127 degrees so the final 7 or 8 can happen during the rest period during which you THEN season (nothing but salt before as everything else will just burn if seared correctly) and tent in foil, then slice thin, few things are better for the price.

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