*I am not liable for how wrenched your guts get while reading this.
With all of the amazing video games in the world, I've easily played this one the most. Fast Break College Basketball 2010. A text sim. I would not want to see how many hours I've wasted staring at the bland screens of this game.
So, what's a few more hundred hours. Here goes.
It's May, 1968 and 28 year old Emmett14 has spent the last 4 seasons as an assistant for a very successful Notre Dame program, with 4 NCAA tournament appearances in his 4 years capped off by a national championship in 1965-66.
Hampton, Virginia is where he'll begin, to coach the Hampton Pirates of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Pirates are coming off a very strong 24-10 (11-5) season. After winning the play-in game in the NIT, they lost in the 1st round to Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, most of that talent is graduating.
The guys in blue are graduating. It doesn't leave us much. We'll get into the roster and the staff I have to hire soon, but first a bit about the universe this is taking place in.
It started in 1900, starting with the circa 2010 alignment and a handful of changes over the years. There have been a lot of smaller colleges added, all real D2 schools that have been created and spread around the league. A lot are unaffiliated with a conference and Independent. There are too many to mention, so as we come across them we'll learn about the new additions.
Given that we're nearly 70 years from the genesis of this league, there is zero resemblance to any real life prestige, as far as Kentucky, Duke and Kansas being perennial powers in real life means nothing in this.
That being said, here are the current powers in college basketball:
All time, here are the teams with at least one championship:
In the major conferences:
East Carolina has joined the ACC.
Illinois State is in the Big 10 and a very good college basketball program.
The PAC 10 is the PAC 11 and has the 10 from the 90's and 00's and has added UNLV. A 12th team is likely to be added in the next few season.
Memphis and Louisiana Tech are in the SEC and both are strong programs.
There are a couple of new conference in the NCAA that debuted in 1958-1959, the Frontier Conference. There are 9 teams and they currently play just 8 conference games. They do not receive an automatic bid but will sometime down the line as they accumulate a few more teams.
The other is the Lone Star Conference which has absorbed a huge number of Texas schools. They are a level 2 (out of 5) prestige conference and do receive an automatic bid.
Again, there are a lot of minor changes that would take too long to go back and delineate. So, I won't. But, what I will do is talk about my Hampton Pirates the next post.
With all of the amazing video games in the world, I've easily played this one the most. Fast Break College Basketball 2010. A text sim. I would not want to see how many hours I've wasted staring at the bland screens of this game.
So, what's a few more hundred hours. Here goes.
It's May, 1968 and 28 year old Emmett14 has spent the last 4 seasons as an assistant for a very successful Notre Dame program, with 4 NCAA tournament appearances in his 4 years capped off by a national championship in 1965-66.
Hampton, Virginia is where he'll begin, to coach the Hampton Pirates of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Pirates are coming off a very strong 24-10 (11-5) season. After winning the play-in game in the NIT, they lost in the 1st round to Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, most of that talent is graduating.
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HAMPTON PIRATES Averages Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [COLOR="Blue"] Neal Wells PG 34 34 34.4 12.3 1.5 4.6 3.9 1.4 0.1 2.2 2.4 7.7 Bret Caudill SG 34 34 33.7 14.2 1.3 5.1 3.1 1.0 0.1 1.4 2.2 8.4[/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]Chris Brower C 30 30 28.8 19.2 1.6 6.0 1.5 0.7 0.1 1.3 3.1 6.2[/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"] Laurence Graybill PF 34 34 28.4 7.3 1.2 7.3 1.3 0.8 0.3 1.2 3.0 7.5[/COLOR] Earl Gordon SF 34 29 26.1 9.7 0.8 3.7 2.4 0.7 0.1 1.8 3.2 5.7 Joe Hackney SF 5 5 26.0 7.0 1.8 4.8 2.0 1.4 0.4 0.2 1.8 5.6 [COLOR="blue"]Chet Rivera C 34 4 18.4 3.9 0.8 3.4 0.9 0.2 0.5 0.5 1.9 3.2[/COLOR] Dirk Gentile SF 34 0 15.1 6.8 0.8 1.7 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.8 1.6 2.6 Charles Neff PF 31 0 7.4 1.8 0.4 1.8 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.9 0.3 Anton Cleland PG 29 0 5.9 1.9 0.2 0.9 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.5 -0.6 Michael Ovalle PF 8 0 5.1 0.6 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 -0.6 Abe Hackman SF 6 0 4.8 1.3 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.3 -0.5 Tory Greco SG 21 0 2.1 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 -0.6 Charles Ceja C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Peter Albert SF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
It started in 1900, starting with the circa 2010 alignment and a handful of changes over the years. There have been a lot of smaller colleges added, all real D2 schools that have been created and spread around the league. A lot are unaffiliated with a conference and Independent. There are too many to mention, so as we come across them we'll learn about the new additions.
Given that we're nearly 70 years from the genesis of this league, there is zero resemblance to any real life prestige, as far as Kentucky, Duke and Kansas being perennial powers in real life means nothing in this.
That being said, here are the current powers in college basketball:
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Team Conference Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California Pacific-11 Conference 100 Louisiana State Southeastern Conference 100 Ohio State Big Ten Conference 100 Rutgers Big East Conference 100 Baylor Big 12 Conference 99 Boston College Atlantic Coast Conference 99 Notre Dame Big East Conference 99 Florida State Atlantic Coast Conference 97 North Carolina Atlantic Coast Conference 96 Texas A&M Big 12 Conference 96 Southern California Pacific-11 Conference 95 Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast Conference 94 Northwestern Big Ten Conference 93 Illinois Big Ten Conference 92 Nebraska Big 12 Conference 90
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Stats Leaders
# Team Apps W L Pct Sweet 16 Elite 8 F4 Champs
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1 Michigan State 48 88 44 .667 20 12 8 4
2 Kentucky 49 98 45 .685 24 16 8 4
3 West Virginia 39 79 35 .693 21 12 5 4
4 Duke 32 76 28 .731 18 11 9 4
5 Mississippi 45 96 41 .701 23 14 8 4
6 Ohio State 29 64 26 .711 16 10 7 3
7 California 50 79 47 .627 19 11 7 3
8 Louisiana State 33 55 30 .647 15 9 5 3
9 Baylor 47 103 44 .701 27 16 11 3
10 Pittsburgh 46 88 43 .672 25 13 7 3
11 Iowa 25 35 22 .614 7 4 3 3
12 Rutgers 42 74 40 .649 18 11 7 2
13 Illinois 26 50 24 .676 13 9 4 2
14 Arizona 27 42 25 .627 10 4 2 2
15 Virginia Tech 20 38 18 .679 9 5 5 2
16 Oregon State 23 41 21 .661 10 7 3 2
17 Mississippi State 42 80 40 .667 23 14 7 2
18 Notre Dame 50 106 49 .684 31 20 10 1
19 Florida State 53 79 52 .603 22 10 7 1
20 North Carolina 52 81 51 .614 20 14 7 1
21 Southern California 35 52 34 .605 13 7 4 1
22 Northwestern 40 64 39 .621 16 11 5 1
23 Indiana 41 57 40 .588 17 8 2 1
24 Illinois State 37 46 36 .561 11 8 2 1
25 Louisiana Tech 38 60 37 .619 14 8 6 1
26 Maryland 47 68 46 .596 18 6 4 1
27 Connecticut 26 50 25 .667 12 10 4 1
28 Colorado 15 20 14 .588 4 2 1 1
29 Virginia 10 11 9 .550 2 1 1 1
30 Washington 26 47 25 .653 14 6 4 1
31 Clemson 17 27 16 .628 9 4 2 1
32 Saint Mary's 34 43 33 .566 7 5 2 1
33 Syracuse 32 65 31 .677 17 11 8 1
34 Missouri 32 35 31 .530 7 3 1 1
35 VCU 17 17 16 .515 3 2 2 1
In the major conferences:
East Carolina has joined the ACC.
Illinois State is in the Big 10 and a very good college basketball program.
The PAC 10 is the PAC 11 and has the 10 from the 90's and 00's and has added UNLV. A 12th team is likely to be added in the next few season.
Memphis and Louisiana Tech are in the SEC and both are strong programs.
There are a couple of new conference in the NCAA that debuted in 1958-1959, the Frontier Conference. There are 9 teams and they currently play just 8 conference games. They do not receive an automatic bid but will sometime down the line as they accumulate a few more teams.
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1968 Frontier Conference Standings TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Azusa Pacific Cougars 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 237 30 Colorado School of Mines Orediggers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 280 19 Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 281 20 Cal State East Bay Pioneers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 288 30 San Francisco State Gators 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 293 21 Chico State Wildcats 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 355 21 Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 410 22 Utah Valley Wolverines 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 413 13 Chaminade Silverswords 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 419 17
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1968 Lone Star Conference Standings TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prairie View A&M Panthers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 29 49 Houston Baptist Huskies 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 79 37 Dallas Baptist Patriots 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 80 31 Lamar Cardinals 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 82 47 Texas Pan American Broncs 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 140 31 Texas San Antonio Roadrunners 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 154 30 Angelo State Rams 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 181 37 Texas A&M International Dustdevils 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 215 22 Texas Southern Tigers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 245 36 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 294 35 Incarnate Word Cardinals 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 304 39 Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 354 33
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