Bracket Reveal chat. Sneak preview
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So glad Syracuse didn’t get in this year. They didn’t deserve it last year either and really didn’t deserve it this year.
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@BeddieKU23 Only team that I thought was kind of snubbed is Illinois St.
Syracuse has 14 losses. I’m going to enjoy listening to boeheim whine.
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All I got to say is we better show up to play games 1-6. No taking anyone lightly. Rock Chalk.
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If Illinois st hadn’t been dominated by Wichita in the last 2 meetings it would have made a difference. Tough for the mid major when they don’t play enough big teams
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Just looked at 19-15 Vanderbilts schedule. What a joke of a selection! 15 freaking losses. 8 in the pitiful SEC. 1 loss to Bucknell. Lose by 23 to Middle Tennessee. Don’t know who should have gotten in instead, but there’s no way they should be in.
Arizona deserved a 1 seed more than UNC.
And again, because I follow that other team, to give them an 8 seed and Minnesota a 5 is just totally headscratching. Pitino provide some companions for the committee? UW beat minny twice, finished ahead of them in the regular season, went further in the conference tourney. I know you all don’t care but the Badgers have to play a tough 9 seed and then probably the overall #1. I wasn’t expecting much for them the way this season ended, but they should have been treated better than that.
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I didn’t think the brackets were being released until 530? What did I miss?
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@Blown You missed it all! My best advice now is to look it up!
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@wissox wtf, was it 530 Eastern I guess?
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@Blown sorry dude. Forgot to change your clock maybe? No worries really.
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@Blown said:
@wissox wtf, was it 530 Eastern I guess?
Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?
Time Zones and DST.
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So by my count:
9 ACC (60%) 7 Big East (70%) 7 Big 10 (50%) 6 Big 12 (60%) 5 SEC (36%) 4 PAC 12 (33%)
Committee obviously didn’t think much of the PAC12. Arizona could have been a 1 seed, they are a 2. Oregon could have been a 2 seed they are a 3. UCLA is a 3. Cal got left out.
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I cant find a bracket on line yet. DId KSU Get in>
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Yes. Playing Wake Forest.
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@Blown Yes, KState has a play in game if you count that as being in.
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FOund one.
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@Blown KSU is playing Danny Manning’s Wake Forest Tuesday night in a First Four game.
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Louisville is 2 seed? Wow.
Iowa State in our grouping. Stupid.
Potential Second game vs. MichSt. Ouch.
Like our chances if we can get to the Regionals.
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@Blown So you missed all the instant commentary!
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@mayjay Yes. Been working on some Continuing Ed thinking this all started at 530 today. Oh well!
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Not a fan of this one. Possibly playing a perennial Final Four team in the second round, or a team that’s beat UNC, Duke, and Florida State. Then the possibility of playing ISU in KC…
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@Blown It did start at 5:30, if you lived in the Eastern time zone.
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UNC Gets a cakewalk into the elite 8.
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So…Is the rule that you can play someone in your conference prior to Elite 8 if you only played them twice? I thought it was once. Surprised we might play ISU in the S16. I think I would rather see the bad match up with Purdue and their 2 big guys…ISU floods KC. Also…MSU (and Izzo)…if they get past Miami…tough 2nd round matchup.
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Positive of facing Michigan St is at least its a team this team won’t have a problem getting up for.
I’m going to order my tickets now.
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@MoonwalkMafia I get it, but at the end of the day, we’re a 1 seed…that means we should be able to beat all comers…and have to anyway to win a NC.
#JustBringIt
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@wissox but to hear the talking heads, both UNC & Duke should be 1 seeds.
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michigan st will lose in the 1st round
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This pretty much sums up what a lot of us have said.
Gary Parrish on our being No. 1 seed:
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Looking at all 4 regions, I kind of wish we had fallen to a #2 seed and been shipped West, which looks to be easiest bracket overall by far. Toughest is the South, although almost all of the strength is the bottom half. UNC and Duke seem to have easy paths to the E8; no surprise there.
Midwest presents some challenges, but if we’re playing well is manageable. I don’t like the potential of ISU in the Sweet 16 game, but we both have to get there first…
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@RockChalkinTexas of course, Gary is one that had us bumped from a 1 seed.
Perhaps that would give us more of chip?
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I like this draw. Miami can’t score, they have one good road win against fellow offensively challenged Virginia while Virginia was cratering. Michigan St. can’t win outside of East Lansing this year. Purdue is not a great team, it took a record setting shooting performance for ISU to beat Kansas. Louisville doesn’t have a good road/neutral court win outside of Wichita St. Oregon lost their best big man. I really wouldn’t be surprised to see Michigan emerge from that half of the bracket with the way they’re playing right now.
KU really does have one of their easier draws for a path to the Final Four and I think KU has the weakest 2 and 3 seeds at this point considering injuries.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 this is a pretty tough bracket. Defense, of course, will be the key.
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Well a girl picks us to go to the final 4
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@HawkChamp Midwest is the 2nd easiest draw after the west and has a lot of offensively challenged teams in it.
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Bilas was commenting on how inconsistent the NCAA is and how they arbitrarily change criteria from year to year. There is no reason KU should be playing ISU in the Sweet 16 and makes Cronin correct saying that they want to sell tickets. If KU and ISU meet in KC, no doubt it will be a sellout. Hopefully ISU used up its 3 point good luck and they don’t come out on fire; of course they need to get past Purdue.
I personally believe that Wichita State got, once again, grossly underseeded. They are #8 according to Pomeroy and 2 spots above KU and they get a #10 seed? Un-effin’ believable. Having said that, I hope Dayton, my undergrad Alma Mater, beats them like drum.
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I hope we get the Clones in the Sweet 16. That would be a gift.
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I’m a little bit worried about a sweet sixteen matchup with Iowa St, but Iowa St would probably have to beat Purdue in order for that to happen. And Purdue is a bad matchup for Iowa St. Purdue has a 6’10 forward who is averaging 18.5 points and 12.6 rebounds per game named Caleb Swanigan. He’s a legit NPOY candidate and Iowa State doesn’t have anyone who can match up with him. Purdue is also a pretty good rebounding team and Iowa State is not. I don’t think ISU is getting by Purdue.
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Sometimes I wonder what the committee uses to pick the last teams in. Can’t be RPI with Illinois State 20 spots higher than KSU and USC 3 spots higher.
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@KUSTEVE Clones are playing really well. I would not consider it a gift at all. The last time we faced them…well, sure you remember us blowing that one ?
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I am going to the Sunday game in Tulsa. If anybody else is going, hit me up.
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In the “the Selection Committee is officially a bunch of morons” category, how can it be that Wisconsin is an #8 seed - behind Maryland and Minnesota and on the same line with Northwestern? Finished tied for second in the conference regular season and got to the title game, which none of the other 3 did. Truly defies explanation…
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Vegas:
Duke 5-1
UNC 6-1
KU 8-1
UK 8-1
Nova 8-1
Zags 10-1
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Both play in crappy conferences. Most prediction had the PAC 12 sending only 3 teams, albeit 3 very good teams.
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@Blown More importantly, does our team remember blowing a home game against an inferior opponent because they went through the motions the 2nd half?It’s a gift.
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@BeddieKU23 Missouri valley is terrible
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Seth Greenberg looks like Uncle Fester from The Addams Family…
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@KUSTEVE they also just blew out TCU…and easily handled WVU. They have been on an uptick the last month. I would have preferred to see any of the other 5 seeds in our bracket.
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And, at risk of going down the @jaybate-2.0 rabbit hole on East Coast bias and the whole thing is engineered is anyway, the ACC was clearly handed gift seeds and match-ups. Easy paths for UNC and Duke. Notre Dame was given the only easy 5-12 match-up. FSU as the overall 10th ranked team???
As much as I wish it were otherwise, I do think the ACC is the strongest conference, especially over the top 5 or 6 in the conference, but this is ridiculous…
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@Blown yeah I wouldn’t want to play them. I think they can beat Purdue.
