Updated CBB Imperialism map
Latest imperialism map (for combined regular season and tournaments). FSU only has 9 territories, so not much land to gain by defeating them. KSU has 148 and UM is second with 52. All of which is meaningless in reality, but still a fun concept.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/86q1e8/college_bask…
Which remote island in the Bering Sea has Kansas (KU) claimed and why were they on anyone's schedule? Also, I seriously doubt there's a university there.
Funny, that's what I came here to ask. Glad we're all on the same page.
That part of the Aluetians is closer to U Hawaii than any other D1 university, so it becomes part of that territory in this case. The rest of Alaska is part of the U Washington territory.
Bill Self played a one on one game with Motel Putingrad in the Aleutian Islands. MP deserved the win, but Self had paid off the refs and won an ugly game for all of MP’s land. Just be grateful the map does not show Asian territory.
I want a rematch at the Alamodome
Fake news
Virginia had all the ACC land from winning their conference tournament... and promptly gave it to umcb in the first round, who then gave it to KSU. All the territory FSU has now was won in the tournament.
You seem to put a lot of thought into this...
March 24th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
He nailed it.
Doesn't take that much thought to figure out. You just follow the bracket upstream, and Virginia was the ACC tournament champion.
These territory maps wind up a lot more logical than the college football imperialism version, because everybody plays down in tournaments and tournament winners all make the NCAA tournament. Much like the magnificent college hockey championship belt, these things usually work themselves out by the end of the season.
The college hockey championship belt has been tracked literally back to the beginning of the sport, a labor of love by Ralph Baer on the USCHO board. Notre Dame just took the overall belt from Michigan Tech, I believe.
A former Soviet Republic is home to the Dookies.
This made me laugh...awesome input fine sir!
Lol. Michigan State has claimed Kansas State, probably because they both have State in their name. Sounds like something my little brother would do.
Wouldn’t Duke have claimed MSU territory after they beat Cuse? I has confused.
March 24th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
I'm pretty sure this is a whole season one. Reddit has a tournament only one as well that is more what you were expecting. Duke would have MSU territory in the Tournament only one.
EDIT: here's the tournament only one. https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/86qvez/2018_ncaa_to…
March 24th, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
MSU doesn't claim anything. This is based on game results. Kansas State owns MSU's territory because they beat someone (who beat someone) who beat MSU earlier.
This has us owning Tallahassee area but the game hasn’t taken place yet....
Because we've beaten someone who already owned the Tallahassee region. Florida State already lost it somewhere along the way and we've picked it up from someone else over the course of the season.
March 24th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^
So, basically this map is just an exercise in futility? I’m lost on how that works. FSU beat NC who beat us, so...
March 24th, 2018 at 11:19 AM ^
Its just like the football one that got mentioned all CFB season.
You start with all the land your university is closest to.
Win you beat someone, you gain their land, and all land they have acquired via their wins.
When you lose, you lose your land and all that that you acquired.
You can lose your land, and then beat someone later and gain new land.
Its for the whole season,not just the tournament.
Thank you for giving me some context on this.
He who occupies Matagascar wins the game.
Australia is the seat of power.
Ukraine is weak!
March 24th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
Steady supply of armies, easy to defend.
They switched our background to maize.
As a MLB the show fan I appreciate this
It's ok to be an autocrat. Relent or learn the hard way. Go Blue.
couldn't have said it better myself.
Shouldn't we also own Indiana because we curb stomped Purdidn't in the BTT? This map confuses me...
Purdue was not in control of those territories when we beat them. The only B1G territory that ended up in our control at the end of the BTT was 1) our own and 2) U Maryland's. All other B1G territory had been lost to other conferences by that time.
March 24th, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
Michigan coming for the UP like the Starks retaking Winterfell.
March 24th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
Starks didn’t take much but an ass whooping and the title of Windbag.
March 24th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
Don’t get this but how is it that we don’t possess Montana? Didn’t we just beat them last weekend?
March 24th, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^
Presumably Montana had already lost their territory to someone else, so it wasn’t available for taking when Michigan played them.
March 24th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
Man what is it like to have that kind of time on your hands? I have to hide in the bathroom to read MGOBLOG. My family thinks I have IBS. Sorry for those that do, that’s shitty.
Firstly, this is all done by so.e person on Reddit - I just posted it here since it is mildly amusing to some of us. Second, I don't believe it takes much time to update. Most of work was likely to create the map and index of original territories (this appears to be done on a county-by-county basis). Once that is done, the rest is just reassigning counties by wins and losses. The person posting has new maps up every few days, so it must not take long. Still more time than I would devote to sports trivia/fanatiscism, but I can appreciate it.
March 24th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
Makes me itchy
March 24th, 2018 at 11:23 AM ^
BTW, here is the tournament-only imperialism map:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/86qvez/2018_ncaa_to…
March 24th, 2018 at 11:24 AM ^
Much clearer and more relevant map IMO.
March 24th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
This reminds me of an old girlfriend . . . fun, but basically useless.
This is dumb. Kansas State has ALL OF THE LANDZ, but Kansas and Duke barely have any? LOLZ NO.
Don't take it too seriously. This is mostly just a fun way to track team momentum - teams that did better towards the end of regular season should (in theory) have more land and be able to take it into the tournament.