03-18-2007, 03:42 PM | #551 |
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UNLV's win doesn't hurt my bracket since that part was trashed anyway and it's good for the Mountain West to have a rep in the Sweet 16.
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03-18-2007, 03:45 PM | #552 |
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Had them losing to Oregon anyway.
Between this loss and the tough game against TAMCC...bad tournament. |
03-18-2007, 03:53 PM | #553 |
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All season long, everyone reports that the Big 10 and ACC are the two best conferences...now it looks as if they'll each have only one team left?
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03-18-2007, 03:55 PM | #554 |
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i don't remember anyone saying the Big Ten was a top conference.
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Usually when there is talk of a conference receiving 2 #1 seeds leading up to the tourney (Wisconsin and Ohio State), they are talked about as one of the top conferences.
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03-18-2007, 04:00 PM | #556 |
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Great for my bracket. I was sitting in second down 1 point. The guy in first had Wisconsin going to the final four, I had UNLV beating them.
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03-18-2007, 04:05 PM | #558 |
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Since you seem to be such a big fan of RPIs, the Big 10 was #4 in conference RPI, only 0.0124 behind the top RPI conference.
edit, which is almost the same difference between #4 and #5 (0.0104). So the top 4 conferences RPI-wise are very close to each other stat-wise.
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when was i a fan of rpi, because i like duke?
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03-18-2007, 05:33 PM | #560 |
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Texas just doesn't seem like they were ready to play today. USC is simply taking it to them. The Horns climbed back to within 7 at the half, but USC is on a 16-3 run here early in the second half.
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03-18-2007, 05:33 PM | #561 |
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Nice run by the Trojans. 17 point lead with 15 minutes left.
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Not everyone did. If you go back and take a look at page 3 of the college basketball thread, several people said that Pac 10 was the best conference
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03-18-2007, 05:59 PM | #563 |
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Nevada sure let this one get away.
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03-18-2007, 06:08 PM | #565 |
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Wow. I can never remember a year where so many of the higher seeds made it through relatively unscathed.
Has there been another year since the tourney expanded to 64 (or now 65) teams that no double digit seeds made it to the Sweet Sixteen? Off-hand, I can't recall a year. |
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I hope Randolph Morris does not think he is ready for the NBA yet.
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03-18-2007, 06:12 PM | #567 |
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All hail the ACC!
The RPI is sure a useful tool. |
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I did a little bit of research to answer my own question. Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the only other year in which no double-digit seed advanced to the Sweet Sixteen is 1995. That year, the lowest seed to make the Sweet Sixteen was a #6 seed held by Tulsa, Georgetown, and Memphis. It bears stating that none of those teams made it to the Elite Eight (which had two 1 vs. 2 matchups, and two 4 vs. 2 matchups) |
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To be honest, as an ACC watcher, I'm not really surprised at the decimation of the conference in the NCAAs. When you looked at the standings and saw a cluster of nine teams running between 7-9 and 11-5, it meant the conference was deep, but there were no super teams (UNC's current form notwithstanding) that would be carrying the banner deep this year. Hell, a 5-11 State squad that had gotten crushed at Maryland the last regular season game ousted three of those NCAA teams in three days before falling in the title game to Carolina. The seed distribution does indicate something of this because only Carolina had a 1-seed. Everyone else was a 4 or worse. So, having all of them but UNC gone before the Sweet 16 isn't actually that surprising if you assume a 4/5 matchup is relatively even with the 4 being a slightly better team. The ACC wound up losing both 4/5 games today which will make things look worse for the conference overall as a result.
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Sweet 16!
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This has to be the most snoozer of a bracket year in a while. In the Sweet 16, only 5 of those teams didn't play to seed and the lowest seed advancing is a 7. Not feeling as bad about not making a bracket now and it looks like one of those years where office secretaries across the country will win the pools again.
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03-18-2007, 08:13 PM | #574 |
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Making a bracket sure does impede my ability to enjoy the games much. I doubt I'll do one next year.
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And after an ugly first 10 minutes, the Lady Vols took care of business nicely. Nothing like a 34-0 run to put those early game jitters behind you.
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No real word on CDR's ankle yet, other than a moderate sprain. I do not know if he is going to play or not. I think he was on the way to a career game today, but that is the luck.
It is going to be tough to beat Texas A&M in San Antonio.
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I don't think anyone said the Big Ten was one of the best conferences. What I heard was that OSU and Wisconsin were great and everyone else was mediocre to bad. Look at the number of bids the conference got, the committee certainly didn't think the Big Ten was a great conference.
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I totally agree with this. That's why I haven't done one for a few years (despite really being pressured this year). I did find something that is the best of both worlds... my boss at work (who doesn't know a clue about basketball) had me fill her bracket out for her. So if it does good, I can say how smart I am, and if it messes up (which it inevitably will), I just say "it's not my money so I wasn't trying". And it doesn't mess with my enjoyment of the games since it has no effect on me at all...
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Is there another sport in the world where people are upset when by the lack of upsets than college basketball? It is just a weird phenomenon.
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No. But that's why the tournament became the tournament. There would be very little interest (only the diehards) if the Sweet 16 was historically filled with (close to) 4 sets of 1-4 seeds. |
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Interesting
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Sorry...I love the fact that no team worse than a 7 advanced. Hopefully, in the last eight, they are all 1 and 2 seeds. I love the underdog for the first round, maybe the second. After that, let the best teams play.
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I don't often fall into the 99% anyway. But...I think all in all, it would be a lot more enjoyable to 1) root for upsets, knowing that it won't matter if my bracket gets trashed and 2) to enjoy just good games that go down to the wire and most important 3) to root for the best teams to win and to prove themselves. It's not even like I spend money on my brackets or earn cash with any of the ones I bother with (or lose money, that is.) It's just hard to watch the games in the same way. And heaven forbid Wyoming actually slip up one of these days and get back to the tourney, I'd have a hard time writing a bracket with an actual dog in the hunt. I prefer to watch the games the same way I can watch college football's postseason. Without much allegiance to anyone and the ability to pick the team I'm rooting for on the fly.
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Woot again! Marist upsets #5 Middle Tennessee State to become the highest seeded team (well tied with two others) in women's tourney history to make the Sweet 16. Sadly the run will probably end there as they will likely face Middle Tennessee's big sisters, Tennessee in the next round. |
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Good matchups coming up for the sweet 16. There is potential for some really sick ass basketball.
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Yeah. I mean, everyone likes to see an underdog advance, but it should make for some prettier games in the sweet 16 and beyond.
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Man, the arena looks empty for the SIU game
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I'm looking forward to catching the Pittsburgh-UCLA game today. I haven't been able to catch much of the tourney thanks to the lousy times the games are on over here (midday), but I've taken a few hours off work to watch this game.
UCLA should win, but I'm keen to see Aaron Gray play for Pitt. Haven't seen him in action before, and I'm interested to see how he'll do against Mata and the rest of UCLA's frontcourt.
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How can a major network look at the two games in this slot (A&M/Memphis, SIU/Kansas) and decide to air SIU/Kansas as the main game. On paper, I think the A&M/Memphis game has a chance to be the best one of this round.
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I'm hoping and praying that Memphis knocks the living hell out of A&M...
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I really like A&M. I am a big fan of Law, and I like the coach a lot. Another annoying thing by the way...there are two games going right now, CBS has the scoreboard in the upper right corner and it's showing the score of one game at a time. Half of the time, the score is the game I'm actually watching. |
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We've got the Memphis-A&M game on. REALLY wish I could be watching that right now.
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The Tigers need to D up just a bit.
Keep it up, Salukis!
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same old Kansas
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03-22-2007, 07:32 PM | #598 |
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That white boy broke #15's ankles.
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Ugh, this is unpleasant to listen to and it really annoys me that I can't think of the name of the play-by-play guy.
I know we're big, scary Kansas (uh.. yeah, having choked the last couple of years- not the scariest thing on 2 wheels) but I love how anytime KU plays a little D, they're roughing up the Salukis but NIU, who just doesn't have the same size, if they're shoving us around, it's just great defense. And, conversely, anytime SIU gets a foul called on them, the "refs are whistling it tight now"... SI
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this A&M- Memphis game is shaping up to be a classic
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