If that happens after the Committee told us that they don't take much in account from conference tournaments I'm going to get a bunch of bags of flaming poo.
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Metric wise I could argue UConn as a 3 lol
Vandy is a 4 on bracket matrix. Their schedule was weak, and a tournament run shouldn't jump them from a 5 to a 2, especially in a cakewalk conference.CBS updated this morning dropping ISU to a 3 seed in the Midwest with Vandy as a 2. Purdue also a 2.
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Here goes nothing. We will see where this lands:
West: 1.) Zona 2.) Purdue 3.) Gonzaga 4.) Nebraska
Midwest: 1.) Michigan 2.) Iowa State 3.) Virginia 4.) Vandy
East: 1.) Duke 2.) Uconn 3.) Michigan State 4.) Alabama
South: 1.) Florida 2.) Houston 3.) Illinois 4.) St Johns
***Hate that 3 seed assignment of Virginia for Iowa State if it were to happen. Have been pulling for Nebraska or Gonzaga for some time now.
West: 1.) Zona 2.) Purdue 3.) Gonzaga 4.) Nebraska
Midwest: 1.) Michigan 2.) Iowa State 3.) Virginia 4.) Vandy
East: 1.) Duke 2.) Uconn 3.) Michigan State 4.) Alabama
South: 1.) Florida 2.) Houston 3.) Illinois 4.) St Johns
***Hate that 3 seed assignment of Virginia for Iowa State if it were to happen. Have been pulling for Nebraska or Gonzaga for some time now.
Of those I want Illinois the least - they are an ELITE offensive team, I believe they still have the highest offensive efficiency ever in Kenpom.
All three of them have story lines, with revenge games against Illinois or MSU, and of course potentially our first game ever against a Hoiberg coached team (right?).
But analytically, Nebraska is nowhere as good as the other two.
Especially when “conference tournaments don’t matter”
How the hell does anyone have UConn ahead of us? We have more Q1 wins and they have a Q2 and a Q3 loss!! They should be a 3-seed at best.
Any hope of a #1 seed died when we lost at home to Tech and at Arizona back-to-back. If we had won either of those games the outside shot would be alive, and had we won both we'd definitely be the final #1, but losing both killed any hope at it.
Yea - some folks are way overreacting to 2 days of basketball when we’ve had a whole season to show who you really are. Conference tournaments are just more like tie breakers IMO for teams that may be very close on resumes. Committee also seem to have taken this approach historically. Purdue is a great example, they’ve been getting spanked at home by any good team that they play and now all of a sudden people (looking at you CBS), think that they are one of the top 2 seeds? Give me a break.
It feels like most of it is trying to push a narrative, instead of analysis. Gotta keep the rich rich.
CBS updated this morning dropping ISU to a 3 seed in the Midwest with Vandy as a 2. Purdue also a 2.
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CBS's brackets are laughable almost every year, but it feels like they're just ragebaiting this year.
The committee said they use seven metrics and favor three. Looks like SOS is not used so that should help our metrics.
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IL doesn't scare me near as much as their group two years ago that had so much length on the perimeter.
The only team that might have scared me was Michigan... until 1. they started sleepwalking and living dangerously during their Big 10 schedule, and 2. lost key players to injury. Now there's nobody in the Big 10 that scares me. And while Purdue has turned out to be a disappointment, what we did on their home floor still resonates with me.
