I hated that…

Actually...and I'm not saying this facetiously...with the explosive growth of AI programming over the last two years, this would be an easy thing to take the guesswork out of. CTG is an analytics and metrics guy, but he has to make these decisions on the fly and within a few seconds. I can envision an AI that is tracking in real-time the action on the floor (score, time left in game, time on shot clock, etc.) and measuring it against the statistical histories of every player on the court as well as statistical outcomes of thousands of game results, and tell the coach exactly when to foul and who to foul for the best probable outcome. The coach could have this info all on his electronic clipboard.
I'm not saying it would be good for the sport. I don't want to see the human coaching element diminished. But at the moment it would be within the rules, unless I'm mistaken.
Get to work on this, you programmers.

 

Where I REALLY want to see AI implemented is in reffing. There are already programs / software that analyze every possible detail of games, especially those where they bet on them which of course includes college basketball. It should start with an audit of games where the software pre-programmed with all the rules determines when fouls should have been called, when a foot was over the line, 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 8 seconds, etc. THEN that data should be compared to how it was actually called by the human refs, with a disparity variance report. Imagine how powerful that tool would be. Fouls aside in the last game we lost by one there was a missed 3pt call that should have been a 2.

Now of course since there is so much money bet on games, it would attempt to eliminate the human error/control factors (and home cooked reffing), but then the regulating body would have to be the NCAA or at the very least the SEC, and we all know how useless and unaccountable they are

in the end all these things CAN be replaced by AI, the question is SHOULD they be.

 

Agree on all. Biggest thing though overall, and very disappointing, was that they came out ready to play and we did not and that big lead was too hard to overcome. We watch Auburn without their best player and a top 5 player in the country continue to play well, hoping they lose today, and that speaks to coaches getting kids ready to play.
I’m shocked we came out the way we did, especially at home. Hope to see a dominant performance today. Based on upset at home we will need to upset a great team on the road to attempt to “catch back up”. This team should not be any worse than 11-7 or 12-6 in league play but losing to Mizzou as I said gives us much less room for error.

 

Sounds plausible. Might be made illegal but then there will be coaches with brain implants and you'd have to scan them to prevent it. Then of course AI robot coaches. Then the RBA. Hopefully they keep robot players out of colleges. Or at least limit them to bi-pedal models.