The Crown tourney

[bearcatbret]

Nebraska punched their ticket to the finals.

[bearcatbret]

UCF and Nova are in OT. Nova went on a 9-0 run to take a 3-point lead around the 4-minute mark of regulation.

[swilsonsp4]

UCF will play the Huskers after knocking off Nova, 104-98, in OT. Darius Johnson hung 42 on the Wildcats.

[bearcatbret]

UCF 104 - Nova 98. I am guessing that Nebraska will win tomorrow. Just based on they had the early game and UCF had the late game that went into overtime. Darius Johnson scored 42 points.

[sedz]

UCF will play the Huskers after knocking off Nova, 104-98, in OT. Darius Johnson hung 42 on the Wildcats.

This run is making it clear that Dawkins doesn't use analytics. Here are the BPMs for UCF this year:
6.0 Darius Johnson
3.6 Jordan Ivy-Curry
3.4 Nils Machowski
3.0 Keyshawn Hall
3.0 Mustapha Thiam

Keyshawn Hall had the highest usage at 28% - that's a coaching choice based on "eye test" or "feel" or whatever subjective term you want to use. Getting him out of the way and letting their more efficient players take the shots has made them a much better team. Darius Johnson has always been their best player and now he's able to put up traditional counting stats instead of watching Hall brick shots.

We're in the same boat with Wes Miller and Jizzle James.

[GoBearcats31]

Nebraska wins, hooray

[GoBearcats31]

College Basketball Crown secures ho-hum audience for debut

https://awfulannouncing.com/fox/coll...nce-debut.html

Sunday’s College Basketball Crown title game, which aired at 5 p.m. ET on Fox, shortly after the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament wrapped up on ABC, drew 822,000 viewers for Nebraska’s win over UCF. The audience was 62% bigger than the NIT championship game Thursday night on ESPN (508,000 viewers).
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Across the entire competition, College Basketball Crown games averaged 260,000 viewers on Fox and FS1. That beat the average for this year’s NIT on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU (212,000 viewers), though would have fallen short of the NIT audience with ESPNU games excluded.
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If Fox’s goal was incremental viewership gains, then the College Basketball Crown was a success. In the absence of any postseason college basketball coverage, something is better than nothing. Whether the Crown will have longevity, as Fox play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson suggests, will be determined in the years to come.

[longtimefan]

If it does have longevity, expect the purse to go up.