Bracketology thread for the next few weeks.
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We complain about the brackets, but I was just reading about the 8 team womens hockey tournament. The idea there is to save teams travel money so this is how the 8 team tournament works out. 1 seed Clarkson playing unranked 8 seed Mercyhurst. 2 seed Wisconsin playing 5 seed Minnesota. 3 seed Colgate gets 9th ranked Northeastern. 4 seed Boston College vs. 6 seed Ohio State.
So a 3 seed gets an easier game than the 2 seed. The 2 seed has to play a highly ranked bitter rival while a 4th seed plays an easier team than the 2 seed. Pretty crazy that the NCAA, pockets full of cash, can’t help teams travel to a tournament game so they screw teams over in the brackets to save money. Imagine if they ran the mens basketball tourney this way!
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@wissox Are there more than 8 women’s hockey teams?
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@wissox @dylans I don’t think there are 351 women’s hockey teams. Men’s Hockey is pretty cool I wish KU had a team.
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@dylans Good question! I had to look it up, there’s 35, so you win a national title, and well, it’s an accomplishment, but not as much as in other sports.
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Can CBS/TBS mess this up. Yes they can!
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wissox said:
@dylans Good question! I had to look it up, there’s 35, so you win a national title, and well, it’s an accomplishment, but not as much as in other sports.
Coincidentally, only 35 schools have won the NCAA Men’s bb tournament in 79 years. 15 schools have won multiple titles totalling 59, and 20 have won 1.
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@BeddieKU23 Well, at least no commercial breaks during the first half while they announce the brackets.
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@BeddieKU23 Interesting about the new format. We shall see how that works out.
I do know one thing. Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith annoy me a great deal during the Selection show. I watch tons of college basketball all year long and always find it insulting when these two are all of the sudden thrown into the mix come March when they essentially have not called any games or analyzed any games for the entire season.
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mayjay said:
@BeddieKU23 Well, at least no commercial breaks during the first half while they announce the brackets.
I’m a fan of that. Always hated waiting through 3-4 minute commercials for them to do one region.
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joeloveshawks said:
@BeddieKU23 Interesting about the new format. We shall see how that works out.
I do know one thing. Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith annoy me a great deal during the Selection show. I watch tons of college basketball all year long and always find it insulting when these two are all of the sudden thrown into the mix come March when they essentially have not called any games or analyzed any games for the entire season.
I agree, this what you get though when you combine networks. There’s a sort of entertainment value they are trying to project. They could do better but they won’t!
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The last few years, the brackets were leaking on twitter before the show. So it was a waste of time anyways.
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Louisville crushing Florida St at the half
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@BeddieKU23 One of the prices we pay for being able to watch 3 or 4 games simultaneously.
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mayjay said:
@BeddieKU23 One of the prices we pay for being able to watch 3 or 4 games simultaneously.
Yupp, I’m fine with it. This year the NCAA App has added a feature where they will pop in and out of all the games going on at the same time- sort of in the mold of Red Zone for Football
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@BeddieKU23 I hope that can get casted to a TV
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BeddieKU23 I hope that can get casted to a TV
If you have a smart tv you might even be able to download the app right to it!
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Louisville held for the victory. Sets up a big game for them with Virginia. Win they are safely in. Lose they sweat it out
Boston College up 14 at half on NC St. NC St can ill afford to lose to a non-dancing team.
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Tad Boyle and Colorado may have ended Arizona States chances by spanking them in the PAC 12 tournament today.
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Doke our for the conference tourney. Should be back though for next week. Still not great. Only benefit I see would be it let’s Silvio get serious minutes and we can see what he’s capable of. If we make the finals without Doke, have to think we guaranteed ourselves the 1 seed.
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Not that it matters much anymore but oklahoma st up 11 on OU at half
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Round 3 of Oklahoma st tomm. Sad they get gifted another win
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@BeddieKU23 I hope you don’t watch
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Notre Dame comes charging back from 20 down with 13 minutes left to top Virginia Tech. They are making a strong case for an at large bid.
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Stick a fork in OU. Maybe the ball hog will figure out why he didn’t win CPOY when he’s playing in the NIT.
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@kjayhawks I will be disappointed if they don’t make it.
Grayson has looked like a legit NBA PG prospect so far this game though. I hate to say that too. But damn, a lot of teams look like they could do worse at backup PG than Allen.
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Although, Duvall looks like one too… This Duke team is stupid talented. And K has coached them well this year. Would be hard to bet against them right now.
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@Kcmatt7 Zero defense in this game but yeah Duke is extremely talented. I was hoping we’d have a shot with Bagley but swoosh.
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this has a zillion brackets listed:
[http://www.bracketmatrix.com/](http://www.bracketmatrix.com/)
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The plot thickens, OSU lost, Texas lost, ND lost and Middle Tennessee loses, which will give conference USA 2 teams instead of one. OU lost early yesterday and Baylor is in a must win shortly against WV. Looks like OU, OSU, Texas and Baylor are all on the bubble, it will be interesting to see who gets in because they all finished the B12 8-10 and have similar records, ratings.
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The official criteria for #1 seeds: 1. Best team in the nation 2. 2nd best team in the nation 3. 3rd best team in the nation 4. Winner of the ACC Tournament
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Xavier losing helps KUs chances at a number 1 seed, if Dook loses I’d say we have a fairly good shot at a 1 regardless of tomorrow’s outcome.
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@BShark genius
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Dwight Coleby and Western Kentucky will battle Marshall for the conference USA crown tomorrow and a trip to the dance. I hope that they can pull off the win and get in for Coleby to have another shot to play in the tournament. I just hope they don’t play us lol, they are a good enough team, I wouldn’t sleep on them.
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UCLA has too much talent to have double digit losses in the Pac.
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BShark said:
The official criteria for #1 seeds: 1. Best team in the nation 2. 2nd best team in the nation 3. 3rd best team in the nation 4. Winner of the ACC Tournament
I thought #4 seed was: 4. Team with Trae Young
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I think if KU wins today that gives KU the 1 in the Midwest. Today is actually important, as much as I hate to say that about a Big Xii tournament game.
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@Kcmatt7 KU probably already gas the 1 seed in the Midwest now with Xavier’s semifinal loss and Duke’s loss to UNC. As long as KU doesn’t get blown out today, I think they’ll be the 1 seed in Omaha.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I just don’t think that is a guarantee if we lose.
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Be careful what you wish for…
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@KUSTEVE Not that we’d get past Wichita State for it to matter as they would win by 20+ but MSU and Duke on our 2/3 line would suck.
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@BShark while Xavier is out there with auburn and purdue. I’m not afraid of the shlockers at all.
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@KUSTEVE They’d hang a hundred or more on this KU defense.
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@BShark You’re overrating them- you must live in Kansas.
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If that is the case, I rather go West, but Lunardi is not the best so I am not worried…yet…
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@KUSTEVE I’ve seen them play. They would have won the Big 12.
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@BShark They wouldn’t have finished top 3. I think they would’ve finished with a winning record, though. I’ve watched 6 or 7 of their games this year, and I like them. Good team.
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@BShark if we have a paper thin D, idk what to call WSU’s. They have like the 97th worst defense lol. Our shooters would light them up.
WSU is overrated even at the 4 imo.
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WSU has some very good players and depth, lots of depth, something KU does not.
