03-16-2008, 05:30 PM | #351 |
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I must have missed something. Why are "South" region games being played in Colorado and California?
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03-16-2008, 05:30 PM | #352 | |
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03-16-2008, 05:31 PM | #353 |
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First round games are in pods to maximize fan attendance. Regions are named for the regional location.
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03-16-2008, 05:31 PM | #354 |
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I'm wondering where Purdue gets seeded, because right now I'm having a hard time understanding the Big Ten seeds. I'll guess a 6 seed for Purdue.
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03-16-2008, 05:32 PM | #355 | |
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pod system...the regions only really come into play starting in the sweet 16.
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03-16-2008, 05:33 PM | #356 |
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I love the Drake.
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03-16-2008, 05:34 PM | #357 |
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BYU isn't an easy out, I kinda like their matchup against UCLA(I don't think they win or anything, but I was pretty impressed with BYU earlier in the year).
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03-16-2008, 05:34 PM | #358 |
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Arizona is a 10? Thought they would be lower.
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03-16-2008, 05:35 PM | #359 |
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ok.
I was wrong about Georgia |
03-16-2008, 05:35 PM | #360 |
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Looks like THEEE Ohio State are the odd team out.
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03-16-2008, 05:35 PM | #361 | |
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Good call. Unbelievable.
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03-16-2008, 05:35 PM | #362 |
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Wow. 14 seed after all for Georgia. Like others, I thought the committee would seed them no lower than a 13, despite their RPI and record.
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03-16-2008, 05:36 PM | #363 |
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I can see Duke being gone the first weekend
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03-16-2008, 05:36 PM | #364 |
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Duke in no way deserved a #2 seed this year.
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03-16-2008, 05:37 PM | #365 |
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Weakest Bracket: West
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03-16-2008, 05:37 PM | #366 |
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Is Xavier really worth a 3 seed? I haven't seen them play at all or anything so I have no sense of them.
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03-16-2008, 05:39 PM | #367 |
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W00T FOR VILLANOVA!
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03-16-2008, 05:41 PM | #368 |
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I'm telling you right now Wisconsin is going to the Final Four. That team plays some lockdown D and they're physical.
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03-16-2008, 05:43 PM | #369 | |
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I can definitely see that happening. They've got a fairly balanced offense as well for the points they do generate.
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03-16-2008, 05:44 PM | #370 |
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03-16-2008, 05:45 PM | #371 |
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Butler got hosed
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03-16-2008, 05:46 PM | #372 |
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03-16-2008, 05:48 PM | #373 |
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Va Tech got screwed
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03-16-2008, 05:49 PM | #374 |
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Packer fighting for the ACC again.
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03-16-2008, 05:50 PM | #375 |
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billy packer is a moron. The ACC only deserved 4 bids and only 1 other team was on the bubble. Questioning how they only got 4 teams compared to conferences with clealry more teams w/ great tourney resumes is just dumb.
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03-16-2008, 05:54 PM | #376 | |
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Shows how much you know. For a low mid major team that is in a conference abit behind the WCC, Horizon or Missouri Valley, CS Fullerton is pretty good. Wisconsin shouldn't sleep on them. Fullerton ended up seeded #3 in the Big West, but they actually tied for the Big West championship, a conference which in years past has produced tournament giant killers like Pacific and UCSB.
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03-16-2008, 05:57 PM | #377 |
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hahaha seth davis:
"Hard to go against North Carolina, but Tennessee has the hot hand" Tennesee is hot? By what measure? |
03-16-2008, 06:00 PM | #378 |
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Although I'm frustrated with, and a bit disturbed by, Tennessee's play of late ... how in the hell do they end up behind Duke in the seeding?
How does Wisconsin end up behind Duke? On a smaller note, I'm not sure how Pitt ends up behind Louisville
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03-16-2008, 06:02 PM | #379 |
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I ended up with 63/65 misisng on the two Philly teams having ASU and VATech in the field. Biggest miss with Butler and Indiana on seeding.
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03-16-2008, 06:07 PM | #380 |
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ASU sweeps Zona and gets left out....huh.
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03-16-2008, 06:09 PM | #381 |
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Arizona State should be hating on Georgia right now.
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03-16-2008, 06:18 PM | #382 |
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Butler is definitely the most screwed team in the field, both in seeding and location.
Now we must endure hours of "they should expand the tournament" talk on ESPN. The tournament is already expanded, in the form of conference tournaments. The number of teams in the field is fine, outside of the retarded play-in game. Can we just talk matchups please? |
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03-16-2008, 06:32 PM | #384 |
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Am I the only one who is happy with the entire selection? I don't think teams like UD, Ohio State, Arizona State, etc. deserved a spot in the field. This is the best job overall I can remember in recent times. I have a few issues with the seeding, but nothing too major. Hopefully the tournament is exciting this year. Can't wait til Thursday!
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I didn't look too closely. Is there a sub-.500 at large team in the field?
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03-16-2008, 06:37 PM | #387 |
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Argh! Horrible time for a power failure. Lost the power here right at the end of the North Carolina-Clemson game, and I missed the Texas-Kansas game. Just now got the power back, and saw the final score.
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If you read that as being an ass, you need to turn on your ass-sensor. Since I wasn't intending to be an ass, you got a bad Internet read, I think. I was just commenting that you may need to look up CS Fullerton more. Wisconsin's still going to win the game. They're probably seeded lower than they should have been, too. The Big West champion has regularly been seeded #14 or higher (usually #13), even after UNLV left, and as I noted, have been known to pull off an upset every now and then. It's not one of the big mid majors, but it's a decent conference for what it is. Fullerton features two key transfers, Josh Akognon (from Wazzu, a dead-eye shooter) and Scott Cutler (a wide body PF type who scores inside in bunches who came over from Kent State), and they have several other key players on a senior-heavy squad. If they get hot from outside, Wisconsin will have to be careful. That said, Wisconsin should win that game by 10 points if they come prepared, and more if Fullerton is off from outside.
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03-16-2008, 06:50 PM | #390 |
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I bet Dayton, Illinois State and perhaps others would have gotten in before Arizona State. We'll never know of course but they were throwing around an RPI in the 80s when they were discussing Arizona State today. Whether it *should* be a key factor or not is of course up for debate, but given what we know about selection proccesses, I'd say there's no way in hell Arizona State was getting in. |
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No matter the intent I think most people internet read "Shows how much you know." as the first line of a reply as being an ass I thought you were pretty pissed off! |
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I don't think it's as clearcut as that, although I agree that Arizona State is not the only bubble team that has the "right" to hate on Georgia. UC San Diego and Temple probably deserve some hate from them, too. Who else? I forget what others might have deprived a spot from the bottom of the at-large pool. ASU's RPI was brought down because of a bad OOC schedule and rightfully, but they did what they were supposed to with that schedule (winning them all), and they also beat Xavier, won several key Pac-10 games, including over current NCAA teams and finished 5th and .500 in the statistical top conference in the NCAA. IMO, I would say that "no way in hell" is a good deal off the mark when describing ASU's chances.
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Heh, okay, if that's how I came off, not what I intended. My reply should have been read with as a semi-derisive "shows how much you know", but with smile on face saying it.
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Yeah, sorry, Lathum, if my response didn't come out as I intended it. Ironically, I usually consider myself to be too liberal with my smilies, such that I feel I have to force myself to cut down.
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Are you certain (have read) that they were behind Duke on the seeding? Because if the committee thought Duke as the worst 2-seed, but Tenn. was the second worst, they would have had to flip them do to the no-teams in the same conference highly ranked in the same bracket preference/hard rule, as the worst 2-seed was going to get UNC.
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I have never agreed with that thinking. When comparing teams across different conferences, what's the point of mentioning in-conference schedules? Neither team plays the other team's complete conference schedule. What should be compared is wins and losses as a whole, strength of schedule, and other subjective reasoning may apply as well, so long as it is a contributing factor to answering the question, "Which is the better team?" Arizona played the toughest schedule in the country, all games included, and won 19 games.
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Hell, after reading that I'm not sure how they ever complete a f'n bracket.
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If you can't go at least .500 during the conference regular season, you probably shouldn't be allowed to go to the dance. I'd be really interested to see the amount of teams that have won more then one game with a losing conference record |
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