I dont particularly pay attention to this, but many do...
Anyone have any connections to the games?
Anyone making a prediction?
Will you be watching the games?
1) My school regularly makes the tournament...
2) ...and loses in the first round.
3) I won't be watching.
Not sure who's playing yet, but I'll definitely be joining some pools and will hopefully get to watch as many games as possible. I don't think that any of the schools I am personally connected to have any chance of playing this year, so that makes things a little easier.
Quote from: ohnoes on March 12, 2023, 10:49:21 AM
1) My school regularly makes the tournament...
2) ...and loses in the first round.
3) I won't be watching.
Our men made it to the big dance. The women qualified today.
The men will likely be one and done but the women have a history of punching above their weight in these situations.
I agree with 2 & 3 above
Hard for an academic to have anything particularly good to say about Big Time Div I college basketball.
Quote from: kaysixteen on March 12, 2023, 08:41:44 PM
Hard for an academic to have anything particularly good to say about Big Time Div I college basketball.
No, it isn't.
"The federal graduation rate, however, remains the only measure to compare student-athletes with the general student body. Using this measure, student-athletes graduate at a rate 2 percentage points higher than the general student body — 68 percent compared with 66 percent. The difference is most stark among black women. Student-athletes in this demographic outpace their peers in the student body by 19 percentage points — 70 percent for student-athletes compared with 51 percent for the student body."
SOURCE (https://www.ncaa.org/news/2018/11/14/college-athletes-graduate-at-record-high-rates.aspx)
Div I men's basketball graduation rate is ~ 80%, for Women it is ~90%.