Bracketology thread for the next few weeks.
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@BShark I am starting to really like the idea of having the Conference Tourney in December to kick off the year. And then giving NCAA automatic bids to conference regular season winners.
Or be like the Big 10 and have the Conference Tourney early so you can rest up for the Big Dance. They start tomorrow.
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@Kcmatt7 I don’t think that would work. I really dislike the conference tournament though.
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@BShark a lot of beat up teams
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TTU learned the hard way what it is like to be at the top and have a bull’s eye on your back with all teams gunning for you. KU is used to it, in fact it seems to thrive in it.
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JayHawkFanToo said:
TTU learned the hard way what it is like to be at the top and have a bull’s eye on your back with all teams gunning for you. KU is used to it, in fact it seems to thrive in it.
Tech definitely felt the pressure. The perfect storm though occurred with Evans getting injured and having some road games that exposed them just a bit. 17 of their 22 wins at home is something to keep in mind as we fill out our brackets.
The good thing for is we’ve proven to be the same team no matter the venue.There have been many years where KU is so dominate at home and good enough on the road/neutral that we see different versions of the team depending on where the game is played. Outside of a great shooting game in Allen Fieldhouse Tech has been a below average away from Lubbock. I’m hoping our success away from home is something these guys can continue to fuel a championship run
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@BeddieKU23 nice new avatar
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KU has played well on the road which is encouraging considering there are no more home games left and must win on the road to advance.
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@JayHawkFanToo OU and Young are finding out what it is like to have a target on their back. Getting blown out at halftime. Still may get in the Dance because of all the fuss over Young.
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Several upsets in the making. UNC trailing Miami by 7, Auburn trailing Arkansas by 9, Rhode Island losing to St. Joseph by 30.
In the conference Baylor destroying OU by 25, OSU beat ISU to keep some hope alive and KSU and TCU in a tight game with seeding implications.
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There’s no way OU should be in right now. I think a couple missed Doke fts may be the only reason they are still in right now… minus Trae. Even with that if they lose one more game they should be out no questions asked in my opinion
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@cragarhawk I agree, Trae young team, isu and KSU all have looked really awful! Baylor and Osu, 'cept for next game have looked better, lately.
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And yet when I looked on ESPN site early this morning there was NOT even one article or mention of OU’s loss last night.
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@RockChalkinTexas maybe it was filed under Trae young?
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St Marys is going to be a 10 seed or so which is incredibly stupid.
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Who wants to bet that somehow, some way, we are set up to meet MU in the 2nd round – 1 vs. 8/9, 2 vs. 7/10? Seems like the easiest bracketology prediction we could make.
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BShark said:
St Marys is going to be a 10 seed or so which is incredibly stupid.
St Mary’s is a legitimate top 25 or even top 20 team, a 10 seed would be ridiculous.
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JayHawkFanToo said:
BShark said:
St Marys is going to be a 10 seed or so which is incredibly stupid.
St Mary’s is a legitimate top 25 or even top 20 team, a 10 seed would be ridiculous.
Agree! They should be a 5-6 seed. Current projection is a 10 however…
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HighEliteMajor said:
Who wants to bet that somehow, some way, we are set up to meet MU in the 2nd round – 1 vs. 8/9, 2 vs. 7/10? Seems like the easiest bracketology prediction we could make. I agree. I fully expect that if we win one game and Mizzou wins one…we will play them.
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@Hawk8086 I agree. I fully expect to play Mizzou assuming they win one game.
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HighEliteMajor said:
Who wants to bet that somehow, some way, we are set up to meet MU in the 2nd round – 1 vs. 8/9, 2 vs. 7/10? Seems like the easiest bracketology prediction we could make.
If I still had a farm, I’d bet it on this.
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@BShark I predict Mizzou as our 8/9 seed to get the border war back. Kentucky as our 4/5 seed to give the Blue Bloods another shot at one another this year. North Carolina as our 2 seed for the always juicy former coach matchup.
I wouldn’t bet the farm but if KU is a 1 seed I bet 2 of these 3 pan out.
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Of course Mizzou would choke away their opportunity to play us. They have a current 3 game 1st round losing streak including of course the loss as a 2 seed!
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7 losses, still #1 seed? I just don’t see it.
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@BShark putting Saint Mary’s as a 10 seed is almost as dumb as putting a 3 loss #23 ranked UNI team as a 10 seed. Bilas said something today that I really agree with about how some of theses mid majors that are on the bubble with 24 or 25 wins are at huge disadvantage because they don’t play top 50 or even top 100 teams in their conference tournament. I personally think a team like Old Dominion deserves to be in more than a team like OSU. They are giving a ton of respect to the big east with both Nova and Xavier as one seeds.
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HighEliteMajor said:
Who wants to bet that somehow, some way, we are set up to meet MU in the 2nd round – 1 vs. 8/9, 2 vs. 7/10? Seems like the easiest bracketology prediction we could make.
NCAA had a chance to do this in 2013 when both Missouri and Wichita St. played in different regions in the 8/9 game. The committee instead gave KU UNC/Villanova as their 8/9 seed. If the committee didn’t set up a potential Border War game that season (Missouri’s 1st in the SEC), Then I don’t see them putting Missouri in a potential match up with Kansas this year either.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 The main difference I see there is the passage of time without renewal of the rivalry. But you never know what the tourney folks are thinking.
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Nebraska might have the dubious distinction of winning 13 league games and not making it to the dance.
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@kjayhawks I agree. The committee has a history of this kind of stupidity.
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wissox said:
7 losses, still #1 seed? I just don’t see it.
I agree. That does not compute.
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@HighEliteMajor Welp as of this morning your right. -at least one of them. - -ESPN and Lunardi has Missouri as a # 9 in our region which means if we were to win and them beat Butler they would be a 2nd round matchup
Jerry Palm from CBS has V/Tech vs St Marys as a 8/9 matchup in our Region. -And of course the talk is Micheal Porter will play - talking about really good chances of him playing in the SEC tourney - -so there you go - - - go figure. - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@jayballer73 Top 20 team in the country by any measure St Marys. Unreal that they won’t be a 4/5 seed.
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@jayballer73 I just feel it coming …
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Just a note. - - -Radford becomes the 1st team in the dance. - - Big South Champs - - -22-12
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Loyola of Chicago is now in. Great story. 1st bid since 1985. Their chaplain is a 98 year old nun who prays before the game and throws in a scouting report into her prayer. I.E “We pray we’ll have success boxing out #42 who grabs 5 offensive rebounds every game”. After games she emails the coach and players what they did well and what they need to improve upon.
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wissox said:
Loyola of Chicago is now in. Great story. 1st bid since 1985. Their chaplain is a 98 year old nun who prays before the game and throws in a scouting report into her prayer. I.E “We pray we’ll have success boxing out #42 who grabs 5 offensive rebounds every game”. After games she emails the coach and players what they did well and what they need to improve upon.
Surely that is against some NCAA rules. Is she payed? Are they over the limits on assistant coaches? Maybe Yahoo will break the story.
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jayballer73 said:
Just a note. - - -Radford becomes the 1st team in the dance. - - Big South Champs - - -22-12
Murray St. got in first
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Libscomb tops Joe Dooley and FGCU to get to the dance. I watched this one and FGCU flatout didn’t show up till the last 15 minutes, they were down 29 at he half and by as many as 32 in the second. They got it down to 5 points on a few occasions but didn’t have enough stops in the end to pull off what would’ve been the biggest come back in NCAA history.
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kjayhawks said:
Libscomb tops Joe Dooley and FGCU to get to the dance. I watched this one and FGCU flatout didn’t show up till the last 15 minutes, they were down 29 at he half and by as many as 32 in the second. They got it down to 5 points on a few occasions but didn’t have enough stops in the end to pull off what would’ve been the biggest come back in NCAA history.
Wouldn’t have even been the biggest this season. Drexel came back from 34 down a couple of weeks ago.
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Lots of 13 win teams don’t make it to the dance. Considering how weak the Big 10 is this year and that it does not have a true round robin so many of theirs wins are against the weaker team they played twice but played MSU, Purdue and OSU only once and lost. Their RPI is #64.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 - - lmao - - ok, ok, glad you jumped on that wouldn’t want to rock the boat roflmfao. - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@Texas-Hawk-10 MERCY we are on a roll today - - just quick as quick can be -dam must be nice to be so correct lmao - -oh ya baby – -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY – - -
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JayHawkFanToo said:
Lots of 13 win teams don’t make it to the dance. Considering how weak the Big 10 is this year and that it does not have a true round robin so many of theirs wins are against the weaker team they played twice but played MSU, Purdue and OSU only once and lost. Their RPI is #64.
You also don’t really ever see 13 win teams from major conferences miss the NCAA tournament so this might be unprecedented for a power conference team.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 correction biggest 2nd half comeback
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@jayballer73 there is always one hard a**, just kidding @Texas-Hawk-10 lmao
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Would like to see FGCU make it. They could upset someone…
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@Gorilla72 FGCU is going to the NIT this year.
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Surely Dooley can death stare them into the NCAAT!
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The last 8 wins for Nebraska we’re against unranked teams in the very weak Big 10. Only 2 of its wins have been against ranked team teams including the 3rd game of conference play against Minnesota which since then has fallen on hard times and has not been ranked for awhile and finished the season 4-14 in conference play and the other against then #23 Michigan which just returned the favor in the last game beating Nebraska by 19 points. Not the record of a solid candidate.
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They did win the regular season conference title by 2 full games.
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It’s going to be funny seeing what the Selection Committee does with the Pac-12 & SEC. Two conferences that have been mediocre at best again. Some good teams from smaller leagues will again get the shaft as they do every year.
What team other then Arizona from the Pac-12 is even going to be favored to win a game? Find one.
Seems like 7 will get in from the SEC. Auburn has been solid but lost a key player. Tennessee has had a very good year and is playing well. Who else? A up and down Kentucky team likely to have 11 losses going into the tourney? A&M likely to have 12 losses? Arkansas 11, Missouri 12.
