I can't! I just can't mark that little circle. I cannot do it.
But, it's going to happen whether I vote or not
Xavier
unc
Michigan
Gonzaga
Ohio St.
Houston
Texas A&M
Missouri
Florida St.
Providence
San Diego St.
South Dakota St.
UNC-Greensboro
Montana
Lipscomb/NCC/TxS
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-Jason
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I can't! I just can't mark that little circle. I cannot do it.
But, it's going to happen whether I vote or not
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
I voted for the cheats hoping that my sports betting prowess seen in the ACC Degenerate gambler contest holds true.
Cheaters never advance to the Sweet 16 on my brackets and I sleep well. No mental gymnastics required to pick Michigan tho. They’re playing great. Intestine that so far no one has voted for the #1 seed.
Providence has wins over Villanova, Creighton and Xavier twice. Not going to count them out! They should get past an undisciplined TAMU.
The only thing I like about UNC's draw here is that they have to have that dreaded Sunday-Thursday turnaround with a cross country trip in between. I would not have wanted that for us
I can't believe there is a college called Lipscomb. Sounds like a barber school specializing in mustaches. Well anyway, go barbers!
Voted cheats, hoping for jinx factor. Hate em. GoDuke!
I believe providence can beat UNC if they meet.
Xavier has a good record but nobody thinks they’re that good. If Las Vegas did the brackets, Xavier would just be a 3-seed. I had personally hoped that if we were a 2-seed to be paired with Xavier, even if in the West.
Sadly I think UNC is the easy pick for this region.
True teams travel a lot, but rarely cross country and rarely have to travel for back to back games like this. Most of the times it's a one way trip with a home game on either end. Having to travel for a weekend, come home, have one rest day, travel again across the country, have a practice day with media obligations, then play three time zones away from normal is not what they do all the time. I can only find two instances of back to back road games for UNC all year (I'm not counting Stanford into PK80 as they stayed out west the entire time). They had FSU then UVA, losing both. And they had Louisville followed by Syracuse. They looked really good in the first one, but really shaky before hanging on in the second. Do I think "oh man, there's no way anyone can handle this" of course not, but even a very small effect from the travel schedule can have a huge impact when you look up at the scoreboard. It will be mitigated a bit by the fact that they won't be playing a west coast team, so they all have to travel, but their opponent will have an extra day rest. It's not a death sentence or anything, but it's definitely much easier not to have to go that far that fast.
I voted Michigan. If this was UNCheat and all the other 15 and 16 seeds from the tournament, I wouldn't vote for UNCheat.
Hopefully Michigan has improved since losing to UNC by 15.
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