Selection Sunday + Bracket Challenge
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I’m not super worried about Cal Baptist but St John’s will beat the daylights outta us. I’d be shocked to see us keep it under 30.
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This is the year we make it out of the first weekend.
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@wissox83 Rick Pitino maybe one of the most underrated coaches in CBB
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Beat Cal Baptist and whatever version of St Johns we will face. St Johns lost to UConn by 30 three weeks ago and last week beat UConn by 20. And then we get Duke it looks like. Will DP be a beast and will Flory get it going.
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Ha typical selection committee. If we win game 1 we face a HOF coach and Zuby. If we win that we play Duke who we've already played this year.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 That's exactly what I was just coming on to post. St John's will show us what physical is. Going to be interesting to see a Flory / Zuby -at least I'm think that's what it will be right ?
I suppose we MIGHT be able to squeak a possible win against them but sure wouldn't want to bet any money on it. I think they got some pretty physical guards too/- -They pressure some and we usually melt against pressure just act totally lost.
Guess we better focus 100 % on our 1st game or they way we have played at times , we won't hace to worry about St Johns because we won't make it .
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@kjayhawks2.0 I loathe that immoral man. I never want to give any credit to him for anything.
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I like our bracket. It's a meat grinder. Let's roll. If we get rematches against Duke and Uconn, I'll be thrilled.
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It will be interesting to see how B12 two seeds fare... I don't expect much out of Iowa State even though they probably have an easier road than Houston
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Hope we don’t miss any game winning dunks like CBU’s opponent yesterday. But hey, if we do I still have a team to root for… I don’t know a thing about their basketball program (besides them being relatively new to Div 1 ball) but the CBU campus is like 3 miles from my house.
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Yikes. St John's is so much better then us
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We should be concerned about Cal Baptist. If this game is close early the crowd will have no issues rallying behind a team that plays 90 minutes away.
Baptist has the 50th ranked defense and they have size to throw at us down low.
They also have the 5th leading scorer in the country.
They play slow, 264th in tempo
This doesn’t look like an easy game especially for our team that has played so inconsistent the last month. They also will wait all day to play and nerves will be tested. Buckle in folks as round 1 is absolutely no cinch. I’d like to think we will rise to the occasion but there are no sure things with this group
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Some positives in the matchup- they don’t shoot a lot of 3’s (321st).
Some other concerning matchup things- they are really at rebounding, offensive rebounding and forcing non-steal turnovers.
They hold opponents to under 30% from 3.The offense will have to show up for once
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@focojayhawk said in Selection Sunday + Bracket Challenge:
Road game in game one
Last night, the CBS sports guys couldn't hold back their discontent about the injustice of 7-seed Miami having to play a 'road' game against 10-seed Missouri in St Louis.
One person pointed out that the committee's 'principles' of protection against disadvantaged locations only apply to the top 4 seeds.
Did anyone mention 4-seed KU being shipped to San Diego to play Cal Baptist of Riverside? No. Not a peep.
It's 100 miles from Cal Baptist to San Diego State where the games are played. 1 hour 30 min drive.
University of Missouri is 130 miles from the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO. 2 hour drive.
Way to go, committee.
Way to wear the ACC & SEC blinders, CBS crew.
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Guess we'll see if we can win a road game. Maybe that was the point.
Rock Chalk!
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@DanR Agreed, outside of Tech who we can't play, St. Johns is the 5 seed I would want to play the most. Duke is probably the 3rd #1 seed with the injuries they have so can't complain about pulling them. Uconn is the weakest 2 seed and while Michigan St. is a good 3 seed, KU can only play one of those two.
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Just fyi, Duke was the #1 overall seed. Arizona was 2, Michigan 3 and Florida 4. Houston (who faces Florida) was the #1 2-seed, etc., etc.
If you follow that, it assures that the top #1 has the most favorable matchup with the weakest #4 (that's KU) and it suggests that the top 5-seed is St. Johns.
They typically do that kind of serpentine kind of seeding until it conflicts with one of their "principles", which they take great care to follow (ahem.)
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https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/oZD2d/8/?utm_source=substack
(So, you're saying there's a chance...)
Nate Silver's model gives Cal Baptist a higher chance of beating us than of us winning the East regional.
Also gives St Johns (5 seed) a higher chance of winning the East than Mich State (3 seed) or us (4 seed).
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Hope DP lets it fly man. #1 draft pick. Just unload the clip. Fuck everyone else, if you defer they're probably gonna brick anyways
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The goal was to try to develop chemistry between DP and the rest of the group during the regular season. Mission failed. Maybe our best chance is for DP to take over and let it fly. On the other hand, we played better without him. Maybe benching him is our best chance. Either way, I don't think this team is it. They looked like they might be special for a while in February, but then they let the wheels come off.
