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W.T. Ford's avatar

Great article. My favorite example of this in recent memory is when a very mediocre 2021 Georgetown team led by James Akinjo won the Big East tournament and saved Patrick Ewing’s job for a few years

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Nolan Stevens's avatar

Gotta subtract the bottom three Big Ten teams that won't make the B1G tourney this year from that 350.. Thanks for the reminder that Stetson still has a better shot to win it all than my Hawkeyes (most likely) :/

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Evan O.'s avatar

Thank you Rodgers for sharing the NMTC link, was having the hardest time googling for that. Go North Alabama!

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Domenic C. Scarcella's avatar

> This essentially creates a 350-ish team single-elimination bracket

I've been telling people this for years. People think I'm weird 🤣

I grew up in Big East territory, back when it was a nine-team (if I remember accurately) conference, and winning the Big East Tournament for men's basketball was a huge deal (to me, at least)!

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