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With the B1G teams flopping so badly in the tournament it really appears the majority of these schools were over ranked and over rated prior to being selected for the field of 64. The media obsession with these high profile teams definitely skewed the seedings.

It begs the question, and offers a real opportunity for the field to be expanded to 128 teams. Obviously there were teams from smaller conferences who never had a chance of being selected who might very well have been successful in the tournament. Maybe Morgan State, Prairie View, St. Louis, Colorado State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota, Toledo, Buffalo, Nicholls or others could have upset some of the big boys.

It sure has been fun watching the Davids' playing the Goliaths' so far, although most of my bracket selections have all been blown to the four winds.

Thoughts?

GO OWLS!

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Loyola Chicago showed how a point guard and a big man could control a game

Remember those days? Feels like yesterday. Waiting on Selection Sunday, not worried if we were in, but where we were seated. Then listening to the analysts say, no matter where we were seated or who we were playing, “ “Temple will be a tough out”,”I sure wouldn’t want to play them”. “John Chaney and that matchup zone is a nightmare”. And they were right, we would watch our owls win and win, often upsetting a higher seed. Even though we never made it to a final four we played well and usually would end up getting beat by a better team, usually. I feel bad for the younger guys on the board that never experienced first hand, how truly great, how special, we were.

Am I living in the past, you bet. Unfortunately with Temple Basketball, that’s what I have. How the mighty have fallen. I long for those days. Let’s hope one day, hopefully sooner than later we will be watching a Selection Sunday, not hoping, but knowing we are in.

Nextflix just released Season Five of "Last Chance U". First 4 seasons followed JUCO football teams. This season (filmed last season) followed East LA College (ELAC) in their quest for the California State Championship. One of the featured players was Joe Hampton from Hyattsville MD. who went to Dematha and the Oak Hill. Was a 4 star 6-8. Went to Penn State in 2016 but never played. as pointed out in the doc, He liked weed. A lot. He ended up at' ELAC. He's now at Long Beach State but in on of the final scenes of the last episode, he's shooting hoops with his best friend from childhood, Alani More II. Just FYI. All 5 season have been interesting.

He’s doing a heck of a job at Colgate and has to be in line for a bigger job soon. Not sure what his recruiting chops were while he was here (aside from his famous recruitment of Juan), but it seemed like he was instrumental in coaching up and developing guards like Ramone, Juan, Brooks, and Khalif.

Is it inappropriate to point out that one of our own was arrested by the FBI yesterday for conspiracy against the United States? FOX graduate Zach Rehl, local chapter President of the Philadelphia Proud Boys. I was really hoping to see Villanova, Rutgers, Penn State alums pop up before Temple.

There's still time to get in on this if you're interested.

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Based on the past three years of his coaching, is Aaron McKie really the answer to bring Temple back to a semblance of our old glory?

Headed home to Carolina!

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Enjoy your regularly scheduled programming. Kid brain problems. JDC or Kyle feel free to delete this thread.

I’m going to say it’s just COVID year. Some really big names aren’t in the tourney this year or have horrible records and squeezed in.
I expect 18 wins next year and some bubble talk. No reason to not be optimistic. Talent level is solid and we have some very impressive freshman coming in like Hysier who should contribute write away. I’m not sure how good we will be defensively, but I do suspect we will be more exciting to watch offensively.

I also would like to see potential changes to assistant coaches sooner than later if next year is not 18 wins. We all know temple will not fire mckie right away given what he means to temple and Philly. So I suspect he will serve the remained of his contract. BUT he should be given a tough convo on his staff and getting some A+ recruiters. Howard at Michigan has an offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator too. This approach is becoming more common in college basketball.

My nephew goes to Elon, so I’m exited for him... They started 3-0, lost seven straight and now have won eight in a row, including three straight in the CAA tourney as an 8 seed. They play Drexel tonight for an NCAA berth. Screw the Philly ties, go Phoenix!

With that said, why not us? Go Owls!