Template talk:Infobox college basketball team

message: As it stands, there's no way to specify a specific person for a coach link if there's multiple people with the same name.  For some people (Mike Krzyzewski), this clearly isn't a problem.  For others (Roy Williams), the only way to get the right one is to put Roy Williams (coach) as the entry, which just looks lame.  Any ideas as to how to fix this?
I think a similar thing needs to be done for conferences, where long names can be somewhat cumbersome, and in the case of the independents, the only way to get the appropriate page is to put in NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball), the actual name of the page.  --fuzzy510 18:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I find this layout to be a bit constraining as well. Wouldn't it work if we simply removed the tags around the Coach and Conference tags? They'd no longer be auto-linked but the user could resolve that on a page per page basis. Thoughts? Pepto gecko 18:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm being bold here - I've added a way to make a short name for the conference displayed, and I'm going to remove the brackets around the coach name.  If someone really hates that, I certainly won't be offended if it's changed back.  --fuzzy510 18:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

text:  No complaints here. If anything your actions are are a trite circumspect ;-) Live long and prosper! Pepto gecko 18:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unable to disambiguate 

message: It is very hard to read text in the second half of the infobox when the team color is the background, and I suggest only using the colors in the two small squares the line below Colors: x and y. 
I'm an amateur at wiki-formatting, but what I mean is that the only thing that should be colored is the two boxes under Colors: Navy Blue and White, and the rest of the table cells, NCAA Tournament Champions: 1991, 1992, 2001 and so on should be colored normally.
Hangfromthefloor 21:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the "fontcolor" variable.  That will allow you to specify the color of the font.  Moverton just added that ability a few days ago.  See Kansas Jayhawks basketball. X96lee15 23:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes... that looks much nicer. Hangfromthefloor 16:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors 

message: It seems that this infobox does not allow the Table of Contents to collapse. I do not know if this has been discussed before but I think it's a problem that definitely needs to be fixed. I thought it was just my page at first but with a little help I've discovered that it's also a problem on other CBB team pages. DanThaMan17 17:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with Template 

message: What happened to the NIT parameters? Until the mid 1950s or so, the NIT was THE tournament that determined the national champ. That's a big deal. If a team won a national championship in the 50s, they should be able to put that act in the infobox. Wrad (talk) 16:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While I disagree that the NIT was THE tournament, it was certainly well respected and on a more equivalent footing. Helms, for instance, only picked the NIT champ over the NCAA champ once in 1939.  There was also a series during WWII where the NIT champ played the NCAA champ.  All 3 years the NCAA champ won, and these were all played in NYC and St. Johns was in two of them. So, the prowess of the NIT is a little bit overblown sometimes. However, I do think there could be field(s) for NIT achievements but it in no way should be considered a national champion in any season with the possible exception of Helm's LIU selection of 1939.CrazyPaco (talk) 09:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the NIT? 

message: What is the consensus on adding a parameter for student sections?  Several student sections (Cameron Crazies and most of them from the Big Ten) have articles. I'm sure there are others.  BroadSt Bully (talk) 23:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no problem. Schools without such sections can just ignore it. Wrad (talk) 23:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done and done.  I created it, and CrazyPaco helped make it an optional setting for those schools without a student section organization.BroadSt_Bully [talk] 19:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student sections 

message: I think a separate women's basketball template might be useful, or at least the option should be added to this template to include AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament results (which would apply only to women).  Unlike the NIT debate above, it is a fact that the AIAW was THE national championship tournament for women until the NCAA started in 1982.  I don't have a clue how to add this, or I would do it myself. -Kgwo1972 (talk) 19:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and created a new template for women's teams, here: Template:Infobox WCBB Team. -Kgwo1972 (talk) 21:03, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women's template? 

message: In the SEC, there is an East champion and a West champion. This plays a big part come SEC Tournament time and is a big deal in the SEC to claim East/West champion each year. So why not be able to list the years for Division Champions? It could be right above (or wherever) Conference Regular Season Champions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nateb2003 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As of the 2010-11 season, four conferences are split into divisions for basketball: the Mid-American Conference, Southeast Conference, Southern Conference, and Sun Belt Conference. I see no reason why the infobox should exclude these division championships and with continuing conference expansion, division titles may play a larger role than in previous seasons. NorthTechsan (talk) 22:56, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no divisional championships? 

message: I've started a discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject regarding the standardization of how to list the tournament achievements in the infobox. If you have thoughts and/or comments, please share them at at the discussion there. CrazyPaco (talk) 02:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardization of tournament achievements 

message: Can we add the option for a fourth school color? Maryland has four official school colors, and the infobox will only show three. Here are a couple of references for the colors:
:*School Traditions
:*UMD Web-design Guidelines with official hex-values
acomas (talk) 16:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Cosign.  In addition, would it be possible to add provisions for a 4th/second alternate jersey?  The Terps use 4 different jerseys with regularity (a black one in addition to the three there currently), the 3rd and 4th are not gimmicks/one-offs. 216.164.53.2 (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured out how to enable four colors. I also fixed the grammar of the text if a school has 3 or 4 colors. I checked on a few dozen MBB pages using the template to make sure it's working, please post if you spot an issue.  I'll look at my jersey question next, but it will be difficult to add a fourth on the same row.  Perhaps 2 rows of 2 can be achieved. 216.164.53.2 (talk) 01:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, a fourth jersey should be added.  For example, Kansas State has four jersey colors: white, grey, black and purple.  As it stands now, white does not show up in the infobox. Topgun530 (talk) 14:08, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a fourth color 

message: See it's use at Oregon State Beavers men's basketball and notice the extra space between University and Conference. Appears extra tr's are being inserted. --ben_b (talk) 02:57, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template spacing issues 

message: Would like to see founded date added like . --ben_b (talk) 05:15, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founded date 

message: This won't come up much, but the NYU Violets men's basketball infobox shows one way to deal with a situation where a school has appeared in the NCAA tournament in 2 different divisions.  It's sort of a work-around solution.  Just thought I'd share this here.  -Kgwo1972 (talk) 18:29, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing Divisions (DI, DII, DIII) 

message: Some teams claim pre-NCAA tournament national championships from sources other than Helms, such as the AAU national tournament (Utah, NYU, Butler, Washburn) and others.  I propose adding the field, "NCAAchampion3" to this template to allow articles to distinguish between the Helms national champion ("NCAAchampion2") and other national championships.  In the alternative, I propose removing "Helms" and simply having the category be for pre-NCAA tournament national championships in general.  City boy77 (talk) 18:48, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other national championships 

message: What if a team has played in more than one arena?  I was expecting to see arena1=, arena2= (and capacity1=, capacity2=).  Could these params be added? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No need, Stevie.  Just use the  coding at the end of the first arena name, and then add the second arena name following the coding.  The  coding is a hard line break and will automatically create a second line.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, will do.  Thanks.  By the way, I've been programming (off and on) for the past quarter-century, so I know HTML and then some. :) Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 01:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

text:   But wait, how does using breaks keep the arena with their respective capacity?  Or does the previous arena's capacity not matter? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 01:05, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If we're doing a manual work around, just don't use the capacity parameter, and code it like this: "Arena1 Center (12,000)Arena2 Hall (22,500)," using the arena parameter only.  Jerry-Riggers 'R' Us.  Voila.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I guess a workaround is my only hope for now.  Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 02:23, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple arenas 

message: How about adding a line for the apparel sponsor or apparel outfitter?
How about adding a line for the team's practice facility if they have one?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Misterintensity101 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional optional parameters 

message: I added free headers to support usage of this template on non-NCAA team articles.
I also added new params, namely:  – alternative for , and  – if a team has at least one former names.
The modifications have been implemented in /sandbox ().
Test case for these changes is available at /testcases.
Let me know if there are features affected by the amendment. – McVahl (talk) 10:37, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add support for non-NCAA or non-US teams 

message: For listing a team's WNIT results, there is currently no space for the third round (round of 16). It jumps directly from the second round (Round of 32) to the quarterfinals (round of 8). There need to be separate sections for NIT and WNIT as the WNIT has 64 teams while NIT only has 32. 3ntry0urus3rn4me (talk) 19:46, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  NIT/WNIT Rounds 

message: Good morning. As U Sports is the Canadian version of the NCAA, I am struggling with adding it to the template. As I have started creating pages for several U Sports teams (especially those that have won the national title), any help is appreciated as I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Mark Staffieri (talk) 13:11, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unable to add U Sports 

message: Would it be possible to have spaces created for teams with NAIA championships or tournament appearances? User:Wmtribe2015 (talk) 10:39, 4 April 2022
: okay, added. Frietjes (talk) 15:11, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NAIA championships 

message: I attempted to add the NAIA section to Oklahoma City Stars men's basketball and the NAIA parameters are not working. Also NAIA First Round and appearances are redundant. However the NAIA runner up is missing.- UCO2009bluejay (talk) 09:11, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: okay, added. Frietjes (talk) 15:11, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NAIA parameter errors