Bracketology thread for the next few weeks.
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@BeddieKU23 I felt like SDSU would be a bad matchup for a poor offensive team. KU absolutely beat their pants off just because we could shoot AND were more athletic than them. I think they would be scary to play if you struggled to score because they ARE going to score some points.
But I guess that’s what makes it so hard to predict the tourney
Literally couldn’t have more opposite opinions lol.
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@mayjay Of course it happens in college football a lot which is also just plain stupid. But those big time conferences have to preserve their traditional non conference games which fans are clamoring to see, such as Wisconsin-Wofford, or Nebraska-Louisiana Monroe, or Alabama-Citadel.
This is a little off topic, but I would love to see a college conference say, well this is just stupid so we’re going to make sure that each team in the league plays each other. You might have to do away with the league championship game, but the fans would love it.
College basketball conferences could do it too. The Big 10 would need 26 conference games to pull it off. So they play a few patsies to get up to the required 32-34 games, so what, that would be a great schedule in any of the power conferences. It might hurt KU because we already play a round robin schedule and would have a struggle to find non-conf games if the SEC is playing 26 league games. Not even sure how many teams are in the ACC, 16 I think, so there, might be kind of tough, but so what! Do it anyways. Do it for the fans who would much rather see their team play a conference team twice than a patsy once.
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LIU Brooklyn looked like a team you don’t want to play, for what it’s worth. They are better than their record. They have size and can rebound. If they come out hot, like they did last night, they are a good team. I’m pretty sure all 5 starters hit a 3 for them last night. That was the type of night they were having. Wagner went 6-32 from 3 or something close to that.
It was an entertaining game though that really came down to the last minute.
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mayjay said:
@BeddieKU23 Shoot, I was enjoying thinking the ACC’s organization was even stupider than I had thought!
Me tooo
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BeddieKU23 I felt like SDSU would be a bad matchup for a poor offensive team. KU absolutely beat their pants off just because we could shoot AND were more athletic than them. I think they would be scary to play if you struggled to score because they ARE going to score some points.
But I guess that’s what makes it so hard to predict the tourney
Literally couldn’t have more opposite opinions lol.
It was just my first thought that if they got matched up with a bad defensive team that maybe a team couldn’t stop them from scoring and it becomes a shootout which they like to play. But I see a bad offensive team being a good matchup for them as well. To me one of the three likely teams to win a first round game with UNC Greensboro & potentially Vermont
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@BeddieKU23 I absolutely would not want to play SDSU again. Daum is a legit nightmare matchup. PTSD kicking in already. Nightmares of UNI already coming back just thinking about it. Must. Stop.
Bracketville (best 5 year average) has them as a 12 seed. So naturally they will be a sexy pick to win.
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I don’t think the committee would want to rematch us against a team we already played non-con. Plus yeah they aren’t a 15 or 16 seed.
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My sleeper FF team is definitely Florida if they stay hot out of the SEC tourney. Seem to be back to their beginning of the season form once White basically forced Allen to start shooting the ball more.
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I can see Florida winning a few games. They lack size though so its going to be matchup dependent for them as they play 4 guards primarily with a 6’8 type. Jalen Hudson will be the key with Allen in whatever run they may make. They can shoot themselves in and out of games almost simultaneously
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@BShark Oh I know. I was just thinking about it in a “what if scenario”.
I Just feel bad for whatever 5 or 4 does end up playing them.
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BeddieKU23 I absolutely would not want to play SDSU again. Daum is a legit nightmare matchup. PTSD kicking in already. Nightmares of UNI already coming back just thinking about it. Must. Stop.
Bracketville (best 5 year average) has them as a 12 seed. So naturally they will be a sexy pick to win.
It’s still the same non-athletic team we played in Allen. Self had a good game plan for Daum who’s just a good College Player and doesn’t have the physical abilities that often tortue KU. The freshman guard however has improved a ton for them and would be a difficult matchup for us as they have become more of a 2 man team instead of 1
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@BeddieKU23 Who besides Duke and Purdue are good teams with size? Like to the point it is an advantage. This seems like a really small-ball year. But I’m sure I’m forgetting a couple of teams.
Also, potential nightmare matchup for Duke in round 1. I know TAMU has been hit or miss, and mostly miss. But I think they could actually crush Duke’s zone with rebounding and would be able to keep them off the boards on both ends.
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BeddieKU23 Who besides Duke and Purdue are good teams with size? Like to the point it is an advantage. This seems like a really small-ball year. But I’m sure I’m forgetting a couple of teams.
Also, potential nightmare matchup for Duke in round 1. I know TAMU has been hit or miss, and mostly miss. But I think they could actually crush Duke’s zone with rebounding and would be able to keep them off the boards on both ends.
Your right it has been a small ball year. Cincinnati and Michigan St were the only others I could think of. Even Kentucky went more small ball once Vanderbilt came back from injury.
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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
