Phredd3
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I wish that comment had aged a little better.
2024-25 NET/Bracketology Thread
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Well, this Duke team can bully back. If we do play Tennessee, it will be a physical game. I'd hope we would get good officials with none named Groover or Ayers.
GoDuke!
Next time, put this in the 'not gonna jinx it' thread. That aside... nicely done.
This does not seem to follow bracket theory: why do we as the number three overall seed get the hardest number two seed?!
Oh yeah Bubba…
I’ll be very very surprised if Tennessee winds up as the #5 overall seed.
Only the overall #1 is protected from the "best 2." Beyond that, it's simply placing the teams in geographic preference so top 2 gets the closest regional unless it's the overall #1. There is no "s curve" except in adding the real seeds of the top 4 in a region to ensure there aren't huge imbalances but the acceptable range is pretty wide.
DBKilby
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I would be very surprised if Tennessee made it to the E8. I want them to be our #2.
MChambers
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Yes, and in some years even then the overall #1 gets the best #2 (2019, for example, not that I'm still bitter about it).
They’ve made a rule against that now.
DBKilby
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Without looking, is this when the committee didn't want to send Michigan St. out to Anaheim because they beat Michigan 3x and didn't want to give the Wolverines shorter travel to DC?
mattyoung18
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The SEC will probaly get
12 teams total.That would put 3 SEC teams per region on average.Florida looks like the team to give us the most trouble.What would be worse is our region getting a solid Big East team as a 8 seed like Uconn or Creighton.
12 teams total.That would put 3 SEC teams per region on average.Florida looks like the team to give us the most trouble.What would be worse is our region getting a solid Big East team as a 8 seed like Uconn or Creighton.
Also, even in 2019, while it doesn't accord with everyone's memory of Michigan St. being the "top 2 seed" (and I do remember the general consensus at the time being that Duke got hosed) it looks like from the NCAA committee's true seed list that year that they technically had Michigan St. as the #6 team not #5. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...9-every-teams-seed-no-1-duke-no-68-nc-central
BrummieDevil
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Entering the NCAA Tournament Michigan State was No. 4 on KenPom compared to Tennessee at No. 8, and they were trending in opposite directions. So I don't blame anyone for remembering MSU as the bigger threat.
MSU lost three straight as January turned to February to drop to 18-5, then closed by winning 10/11 including the Big Ten Tournament. Tennessee had been 23-1 in mid-February, then lost 4/10 down the stretch (after being a one seed during the midseason Top 16 reveal) including a blowout loss to Auburn in the SEC Tournament.
CameronBornAndBred
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Lunardi has 4 ACC teams in, barely. Duke, Louisville, Clemson...and Wake as a 12 in a play-in game. UNC is in the first four out. (Which is too high, it seems to me.)
SkyBrickey
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Wake has a favorable schedule down the stretch except for their game at Cameron.
@NCSU, UVA, ND, GT. Torvik projects they will get upset in one of these games. They do have 2 Q1 wins which is better than SMU and UNC.
OldPhiKap
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I know that rooting for the Pack tomorrow night against the Heels is a fool’s errand, but as they say in poker — one time, baby!
robed deity
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Unlikely to happen, but that would be the last straw for Hubert methinks.
OldPhiKap
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I agree that if they lose to State and Duke at home, barring a miracle run in the ACCT to qualify for The Big Dance it will be hard to give him another year.
CameronBornAndBred
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Wake moves up to the "last four in", and the Cheaters move deeper down on the "last four out" in today's update.
Edit..wait. Wake was already there. But Cheaters did move in the wrong direction.
Edit..wait. Wake was already there. But Cheaters did move in the wrong direction.
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SlapTheFloor
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Wow. Lunardi has ten teams from the Big Ten getting in. That would have to be all of them, right? /s