"Does the big tourney win mean that next year TU will be able to play within 10 points of OU and ORU?"

Nope. Means we'll have to HEAR about how TU basketball is on the rise again, the "giant" has been awakened, and how great it is to be one of the few teams to win their last game of the season. Big whoop. When both ORU and OU put it on TU, we'll then hear about how hard it is for TU to get great players when they have A), B), and C) obstacles to overcome.

It'll be the same old crap over and over.

Congtrats, TU! You're No. 98!!!

Potential TU plug to a recruit: "Come play for us, the 98th best team in college basketball, in front of 1500 fans in a brand new arena that looks 12 years old already."

It'll work. Kids from NEO will be lining up at the doors.

First, I want to give credit to TU for a 25-14 record and the CBI title. It will be the ONLY season-ending title for ANY D-1 school in the state of Oklahoma. That makes them, oh #97 or #98 (if you include both play-in teams in the Big Dance). Let's call it what it is...practice time, and practice time ONLY! Please don't confuse this with something it isn't! Why storm the court? Heck, during the season, TU would have had to hire extras just to fill the house, much less storm the court. Enjoy it fans, just don't get too carried away.

Picker, you suck, as do your sycophants below. Only a cowardly idiot hiding behind an alias could write such drivel about TU and the CBI.

What is wrong with reenergizing the fan base? What is wrong with letting a young team cut its teeth on some on some post season play?

TU made some strides toward next season. Are you suggesting that things would have been better if the team and fans had sat on their duffs and pouted until next season??

Picker, you sad sacka...

TU did this because they had a better chance of being better than 98th next season than had they done nothing at all. This may only be a first step, but it is a step in the right direction. I have not seen anyone jumping on top of car or hanging from lamp posts screaming that TU is number one!

They stormed the court. So what? Fans now have something to look forward to. A few years ago TU fans stormed the football field after the only win of the season. Soon afterward they were CUSA and Liberty Bowl Champs.

We will wait and see what things may come for TU and this team. If TU does improve or even become a contender in the next few years, I doubt anyone would fault them for playing in the CBI.

Put a sock in it, Pick. As the saying goes, misery loves company. I think that is especially true in your bog. Something good happened at TU and its something that may portend good things to come.

They COULD be better next year, Pick, and that is the whole point. The team and the fans are better off for the CBI for the experience and the renewed excitement in the program.

What would a single loss in the NIT have proven? Jokers like you want to knock every team that doesn't make it to the NCAA anyway! What if all fans stayed home and pouted if their team didn't make the NCAA?? You would rather that fans not support their team? Are rebuilding teams not worthy of any excitement from the fan base?

I can't understand the masturbatory joy you seem to have in dumping all over the excitement of the TU students and fans. The CBI is what it is. I think most TU fans woke up Saturday morning and knew that the CBI was little more than a potential first step to something better next season. I don't understand the venom toward the joy expressed by TU students who were excited to see their team end the season with a win.

I turly was gonna try to help Tyler understand that nobody was bashing TU or it's fans, it's just that where in the heck were they, oh, say a month ago? Even the coach bashed them, the media, and whomever challenged his reasoning. But now, having to read a potential word like 'masturbatory', I realize it's futile to say much more than has already been said...it helped TU in one way, they got on the floor and played games.

Mr. Picker; would you help me find a job where I receive a guaranteed $2.7 mil should I "RESIGN"? Perhaps it wasn't a resignation after all. Do you think Holder is fibbing?

Bill, why isn't anybody allowed to once in a rare while disagree with a TU fan?

I'm not trying to make anybody mad. I stated this simple fact: Had TU been slightly better, it would have probably been beaten soundly in the NIT.

Are TU people saying this was a quality tournament, that playing fair to downright lousy teams at home means something special?

Did TU improve, or did the competition lessen?

We'll see.

In the meanwhile, there's no law against disagreeing with a TU fan.

Picker congrats on the picks, and I agree with the one for tonight. I've said all along whoever wins out of UNC and Kansas will take it all. After the way Kansas dismantled UNC(even you have to admit you didn't see that coming), Kansas will probably have another great win for the national title, putting them even more in the argument for a top-five program, since national titles is the only category where they really lag behind UNC, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky and UCLA.

Tyler,

Thank you for personifying my first post. I couldn't have been more right. I give you kudos while patting myself on the back.

We'll have to see how much whining TU fan does after ORU and OU punk them next season. If past history is any barometer, THAT will also happen as I've predicted.

TU administration is smart on a few points in regards to its participation in that talent deficient tournament. First, they got a bunch of people to pay their own money to watch third-rate basketball teams play for a mythical title. The games were nothing more than glorified scrimmages and practices. Second, they allowed their marquee sport to get a little face time. Only time will tell if it's the face time they would've wanted. Last, the cheerleaders and band get more practice, along with the basketball team. Whoopie.

Cutting down the nets after winning the CSI tournament is like tearing down the goal posts after winning the Poulan WeedEater Bowl.

Spread the news!!! TU's back!!!

According to Tyler, TU will win the C-USA basketball championship within the next two years, and may end up a sweet sixteen or better team. Whatever. Give Memphis a game, then we'll listen. Til then, this is all a joke everyone but TU fan is laughing at.

Tulsa did well playing in the CUSA tournament. Congrats for being the lamb to Memphis. That they played that well, then continued to win their scrimmages, does give them some feel good to the end of the season.

Also, I can't stand ego maniacal idiots making predictions based solely on assumption. TU could have beaten a large portion of the NIT field. But who cares what the picker says: "OSU is the best team in the state and will beat OU soundly" -- YOU

First of all picker, I had Memphis and Kansas in the Finals of every bracket I submitted and I had to pick that a month ago. Second, lay off TU. I usually have respect for you and your picks as we tend to think alike, yet nit-picking TU for getting in a few more games so young players can develop is ridiculous. As for ORU next season, my guess will be let's see if ORU can stay within 10 points of TU and as for OU/TU, that game is a toss-up. Talent is there but the confidence was not early this season. Uzoh, Jordan, Reese, all know they can play at a high level with anyone now and we should not see a drop off come next season.

gods you're an arrogant prick