But none in Carolina's bracket? Just seems like the ACC should have been spread around more evenly. I think it's always to a higher seed's advantage to play someone not familiar with their system. Or, put another way, a lower seed from the same conference has the advantage of familiarity compared to teams from other conferences.
Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
A friend passed away a few years ago who was a Lehigh grad and board member. At his memorial service, there were two or three references to Lehigh's win over "mighty Duke." One guy said he called and said, "Congratulations, but your cheerleaders are really ugly." Tough crowd.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Who is this “Dude” of whom you speak? At 72, I think I’m way beyond Dude. If you want to have a conversation, don’t be so disrespectful. Also, what conflating are you referring to? All the 4s are grouped together and all the 2s are grouped together and we would play the 4 before the 2. Lastly, I agree that the tournament is all about matchups. That’s what I said. I prefer to discuss physical matchups and playing styles to some arbitrary law of averages that has nothing to do with this year’s team or worrying about a geographical matchup based on the South Carolina game two years ago. Please take a deep breath before responding.
To get back to the original question, times will depend on matchups, not just for our game, but for the other games as well.
The last time we were relegated to cable in the second round, that day had a large number of big name programs playing on Sunday.
This year, assuming no major upsets, the clear top two pods of interest are ours and the Columbus pod. CBS will have both games from one pod and one game from another pod. I think the edge right now should be Columbia early so that CBS can have their top crew on two of the three games. That would likely mean Virginia at 12:00pm and us at 2:30pm with UNC at 5:00pm and Tennessee in the night TruTV game. The other configuration would have Tennesse then UNC then us on CBS and Virginia on TruTV.
If you are going to be in Columbia, Duke will have a public practice Thursday at 3:25.
If you are not going to be in Columbia, Duke will still have a public practice on Thursday at 3:25. You just won't be able to see it.
In addition to the K/Johnny Dawkins possible round of 32 meeting, that would also mean AD Kevin White v AD Danny White.
That's exactly how the law of averages works, and I think you kind of mis applied it to UMBC UVa. The law of averages dictated that at some point a 16 would beat a 1, but not often, because 1's are far superior to 16s. In the case of Duke Michigan State, Duke is normally better, but not by much, and sometimes Michigan State is better, and yet K is 11-1 against them. Your analogy does not work because the disparity between Duke and MSU is nothing like the disparity between 1s and 16s - and besides, I didn't say this was going to start a MSU run of success against Duke.
Basketball matchups are not random events, though, especially when you're looking at the results of 12 meetings between two coaches/schools over the last 24 years.
I would expect K to have a great record against Izzo because he's a better coach and usually has superior talent when the two teams do meet. There's not going to be a reversion to a mean at the K vs. Izzo level because it's the thirteenth time they've met and K has won eleven of the last twelve meetings. If Duke plays MSU and loses it will be because Izzo outcoached K and/or MSU's team played better than Duke's team that night. It will have nothing to do with the law of averages.