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Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 1:43 AM, ztejas said:

Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

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it only seems better because he's been able to avoid Abilene Christian

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  On 3/22/2025 at 1:43 AM, ztejas said:

Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:

2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points

2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7

2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11

2025 7 seed - loses 7/10

And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

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Well, it's because Texas is a cesspool. 

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  On 3/22/2025 at 2:12 AM, Burt Macklin said:

Watching Shaka at Marquette is such a weird mix of PTSD and schadenfreude. It brings back up the six years of absolute bullshit we had to endure, yet I now get to revel in watching him do the exact same shit that didn't work here. He genuinely has not adapted or changed at all. He's just doing the exact same thing wearing a different color shirt. 

 

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agree with every word of your post, especially this part. hell my 71 year old mom stayed up late just to root against shaka lmao. she’s a Texas alum and a hardcore hoops fan, and she can’t stand him any more than i can lol. the guy has done an amazing job of using cool sound bites and empty platitudes to distract people from the fact that he’s not a good coach.

that said, based on tonight’s twitter action we may be having a great awakening. people are starting to poke around, and suddenly his shambolic record is in the spotlight. good. fuck him. loser ass fraud who didn’t do shit here and then ran his mouth on the way. watching his team go home early in march due to his blatant ineptitude just makes me so happy. so happy.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 1:43 AM, ztejas said:
Shaka's tourney resume through 4 years at Marquette*:
2022 9 seed - loses 8/9 matchup by 32 points
2023 2 seed - wins 2/15, loses 2/7
2024 2 seed - wins 2/15, wins 2/10 by 4 points, loses 2/11
2025 7 seed - loses 7/10
And yet somehow it's a lot better than the dogshit he put on record in 6 years at Texas.

6 years? There's no way in my mind that he was at Texas for 6 years. Who the fuck would allow that?
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  On 3/22/2025 at 2:57 AM, ATXbronco said:

How did they decide what "expected wins" were? And do you have a chart with Tommy on it?

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Expected wins is what you would get with complete chalk. A 7-seed is expected to go 1-1. A 2-seed is expected to go 3-1, etc.

The analysis is incomplete, though. The last column can be heavily influenced by pure longevity. They should then divide that number by the number of years.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 1:57 PM, jimmyjazz said:

What's a 1-seed expected to do?  It gets tricky with 4 1-seeds making the Final Four.

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Not sure what they did but I would give a 1 seed 4.75 expected wins if they're not using the full S curve. If everything went chalk then 2 of the 4 seeds win 4 games, 1 wins 5, and 1 wins 6.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 1:57 PM, jimmyjazz said:

What's a 1-seed expected to do?  It gets tricky with 4 1-seeds making the Final Four.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 3:15 PM, Huckleberry said:

Not sure what they did but I would give a 1 seed 4.75 expected wins if they're not using the full S curve. If everything went chalk then 2 of the 4 seeds win 4 games, 1 wins 5, and 1 wins 6.

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What he said.

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  On 3/22/2025 at 5:37 PM, dcar00 said:

It is funny.  I really like Altman, and think he could do well here, but everyone says "too old" when I see him interviewed he seems much younger than his age.

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i mean it's literally his name

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  On 3/22/2025 at 3:03 AM, ATXbronco said:

I bet you're right, not enough games.

But a big enough name.

Bet he'd be pretty high on that list.

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I'm not sure you understand the point of that list. Lloyd would actually be low, as he has not yet beaten a better seeded team in the tournament. Limited sample size, obviously, but probably the worst element of his resume to date. 

'22- entered the tournament as a 1 seed. Beat 16 seed, beat 9 seed, lost to 5 seed

'23- entered the tournament as a 2 seed. Lost to 15 seed

'24- entered the tournament as a 4 seed. Beat 13 seed, lost to 5 seed

'25 - TBD but entered as a 4 seed. Beat a 13 seed. Has a 5 seed up next. 

Still want!

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  On 3/22/2025 at 4:36 AM, Machinator said:

This is one of their active message boards, they are getting a bit restless but the fanbase doesn't seem to be ready to run him off yet.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?board=2.0

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Here's a quote from one thread.  WYKYK.

The two main offensive weapons, who were average three-point shooters at best, were asked to lead an offense that relies on three-point shooting. Add to that, when they missed shots, and they missed almost 70% of them, there was no one capable of getting offensive rebounds. The team also was missing a consistent inside scorer. Every game was them expending tons of energy on offense with not enough to show for it.

To sum it up, this was a very-poorly constructed team with enough talent to beat bad and average teams, but not enough pieces to win consistently against teams above average and up.

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imagine being a highly active online poster and having this be your signature after every single post:

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i bet this guy’s onlyfans bill is off the charts.

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  On 3/19/2025 at 5:05 PM, CurlyDumps said:

I was listening to yesterday's CBS Eye on College Basketball podcast, and they talked about Shaka. It was a positive conversation, but they brought up a stat I guess I'd forgotten about - VCU's 3 pt shooting during their FF run. They made something like 54 threes in the tournament which was a record at the time. During the regular season, they had one game with 10+ made threes. In the tournament, they had FOUR. In the game against Kansas, they shot 48%. Kansas shot 9%.

Really puts into perspective what a massive fucking fluke that was.

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We have the "luxury" of Texas and Marquette history of Shaka to help guide us to understand how subpar he is.  Even with that, it still does not really make sense that Shaka was hired in the first place.

He was hired 4 years after the Final 4 run, where they went 5-1 (with play-in).  After that, his teams we a combined 2-4 in the tournament.  The final 2 years, he lost in the first round to a lower seed.

I spent a couple of minutes looking at VCU's 2010-2011 run, and it was a glimpse into VCU's peak performance during the regular season.  Looking at info from Sports Reference, VCU was #2 in 3pt attempts and makes, #58 in percentage.  They averaged 9/23.8 in games they won and 6.5/21.4 in games they lost.  They lived and died by the 3 - and opponent turnovers.  That was abundantly clear in the tourney.  By my quick count, they had 12 regular season games with 10+ 3s made.  However, they had zero in the final 8 games, where they went 3-5.

In the conference tournament (2-1), VCU averaged 8-20.7 from 3.  In the NCAA tourney, they averaged 10.2/23.8 from 3 and 13 opponent turnovers.  They got really hot while others got cold.  In 4 of the 5 wins, their 3pt %-age was higher than the total FG percentage.

For the subsequent 3 years at VCU, their 3-point shooting was significantly worse.  Shaka leveraged that outlier into a higher national profile and ultimately a better job.

Even after that f4 run, 2011 KenPom has VCU as the #53 team.  Not that it matters...

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