***Official 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread***
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If only there were another option. Maybe someone in the East if you don’t see UCONN repeating. I’ll have to look through the seedlings in that region, maybe there’s some team that’s right below UCONN that could be considered?
I can't see ISU winning either. I mean it would be fun to pick them but I can't see it. I can see them making a final four. I can't see Tennessee winning. Can't see Zona winning.
I'm the same. There's always something for each of these teams that makes me think they won't win it. I think Creighton is in a good spot or sleeper team to win whole thing but then part of thinks that's bracket suicide.
I'm going to have the first perfect bracket and Iowa State is winning it all.
I did 3 brackets. Picked ISU in one because **** it. I got UConn in the other 2, probably should have diversified the champ but I'm having a hard time seeing anyone beat them.
I’ve always found it weird that the play in games are for both a 10 seed (decent chance to advance) and a 16 (virtually no chance to advance). I guess playing as a 16 it’s nice because you have a chance to earn a NCAA tourny win but always struck me as odd that it’s those two seeds.
It's not always a 10 seed, it's been 11 or even 12 in the past, just whatever the lowest at-large teams end up at.
Agreed, I should have specified this season, still always feels very arbitrary to me for some reason.
I’m not sure they’ve ever been as high as 10 seeds before. They’re only that high because we had 5 bid stealers this year.
Pretty crazy to think OU would have been an 11 seed and not in the first 4 before last week started. But they slid all the way to out of the tourney
This is the year Iowa State breaks KenPom’s historical NC criteria (top 25 efficiency, top 37 offense, top 38 defense, top 45 SoS). Ken says only UConn, Houston, Purdue, Az, Tenn, UNC, Creighton, and Marquette can win it. He’s got us at 55th on offense, but can our #1 rated defense overcome?
When this criteria is touted, it always says "at the end of the season". It's never clarified if that means after the regular season, after the conference tournament, or after the NCAA tournament. It's not hard to imagine that winning 6 games in a row against tournament teams would push your numbers into the stratosphere.
Don't forget the potential winner was ID'ed back in December
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Houston might be a little banged up to win it all. I don't trust Arizona. Baylor's path might be too hard.. That leaves Purdue as the only team that was both top 5 in NET on December and top 12 in the Week 6 AP poll that is in a good enough position based on the brackets to win it all.
2023-2024 MBB computer projections thread
ESPN also had an article detailing how the last 19 national champs have been ranked at least 12th or better in the week 6 AP poll. (Insider required for the full article)...
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Houston might be a little banged up to win it all. I don't trust Arizona. Baylor's path might be too hard.. That leaves Purdue as the only team that was both top 5 in NET on December and top 12 in the Week 6 AP poll that is in a good enough position based on the brackets to win it all.
