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Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 03-16-2025, 09:43 AM:

Florida looks like the best team in college basketball to me. They even have the Handgloten back now and he is a difference maker.

Obviously they can be beat, but I think if they win the SEC they deserve the #1 overall seed over Auburn.

St John's looks good too. They are suffocating on the defensive end. If they are hitting from the outside they are almost unbeatable. They are only like 8 points away from being undefeated this year.

Duke also was impressive in the ACC tourney minus Flagg. I know the ACC is down and they didn't have to play the second best team Clemson, but never the less it was impressive for them to win the ACC tourney. If they get Flagg back then they are a legit threat to win it all, but I think they are a notch below Florida and St. John's.

Auburn and Alabama, especially Auburn, are pretenders in my mind.

I would not be surprised at all to see the SEC have a bad tournament outside of Florida. The league is so physical and when you are going to have refs from the ACC/Big Twelve/Big Ten calling those games.....well they are going to call more fouls. The SEC teams like Auburn/Ole Miss/Miss State/Texas A&M will have to adjust.

As for our Wildcats, they just don't have enough in the tank to advance in my opinion, especially if Butler is not anywhere close to full strength. Even with Butler they are one bad shooting night from losing in the first round again in my opinion, especially if they draw a team like Bryant who has size on the wings.

[ 03-16-2025, 09:43 AM: Message edited by: Trey Ball ]

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 03-16-2025, 12:55 PM:

We are probably just one game away from ending this season. Maybe 1 win depending on who we are matched up against.

We have several problems beside injuries that all reared their ugly heads against AL, thus our worst loss of the year.

1.When our 3 point shooting goes south we are SOL.
2.When our pourous defense gets like a seive forget it
3.When Mr. lackadaisical rears it's ugly head (per Williams and others) we are doomed.
4.And of course there's the loss of Robinson and Butler.

We have one more game if we can correct some of this and an outside chance for a second game before we put this return to joy and fun to sleep.

If we had all the above working on Friday we could have beat AL and be just as good as FL. We have the personnel but things just went south and made large wreck of this season.

[ 03-16-2025, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Bama Cat ]

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 03-17-2025, 09:20 AM:

m looking for a lot of SEC teams to go home the first week. I guess that would be normal since there are 14 teams that made the bracket.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 03-17-2025, 12:30 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Bama Cat:
We are probably just one game away from ending this season.

Bama Cat, everyone is one game away from ending their season.
[Big Grin]

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 03-17-2025, 02:41 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by PaulCat:

quote:
Originally posted by Bama Cat:
We are probably just one game away from ending this season.
Bama Cat, everyone is one game away from ending their season.

Truth!