*** Official Selection Sunday Thread ***

Exhibit A for why Lunardi is a terrible bracketologist. Here are his designations of Top 2 seeds in each region:

San JoseHoustonChicagoWash DC
1ArizonaFloridaMichiganDuke
2Michigan StHoustonUconnIowa State

I would love to hear his rationale for putting Iowa State in the East and UConn in the MIdwest. I suspect that he just plugs in overall rankings and lets his computer generate the brackets without much sophistication, such as attention to geography (which I thought was supposed to be a more important factor this year).
If Duke is #1 and UConn is #5, they can't be in the same region per rules.

Lunardi is an idiot for thinking UConn is #5, though
 
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Is this a place to post predictions? We will be #2 in the Midwest and start in St. Louis on the way to Chicago . . . on the way to Indy.

San JoseHoustonChicagoWash DC
1ArizonaFloridaMichiganDuke
2Michigan StHoustonIowa StateUconn
My fear is Michigan State (or Illinois) gets the Midwest and we get San Jose. I do think Houston and Florida could be flipped in this as well.
 
The only one I'm sure of is WAB is one of the three they're favoring.
For getting teams in the field. They have never said they are favoring it for seeding.

I am guessing a lot of the bracket predictions are overweighting it for seeding.

UConn behind Iowa State in the first bracket reveal shows that. Iowa States WAB was not very good
 
uconn and msu were already ahead of isu. how does isu jump them by also not winning their conference tourney?
How about Uconn getting pisspounded by 20. MSU going out in the quarter finals but haven't had the metrics of us all yr.
 
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CBS's brackets are laughable almost every year, but it feels like they're just ragebaiting this year.
Palm was terrible. He retired, providing hope that Cobb would be better. He looks just as bad.
 
Thanks Rulzzz! well we will know by 6 what reality is. No matter what, I know if this team plays as well as we did in KC, there aren't many teams that want to see us. This is one of our better teams in a long time. Each yr TJ's teams just keep getting more balanced it is fun to watch.
 
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Looking at the teamsheets I'm curious does the committee value resume or predictive metrics more.

If they weight resume more then UConn, Virginia, and Vanderbilt might get the node

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If they weight predictive metrics more then Iowa State, Illinois, and Purdue win out. This also matches up with NET a lot more

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I'll be annoyed if its a mix of UConn, Virginia, and Michigan State or something like that which would have zero consistency but I would not put that past the committee.

Average of the resume and quality (not a metric the committe would use but I was curious):

UConn - 7.8
Purdue - 8.8
Iowa State - 9.5
Vanderbilt - 9.85
Virginia - 11.7
Illinois - 12.2
 
Looking at the teamsheets I'm curious does the committee value resume or predictive metrics more.

If they weight resume more then UConn, Virginia, and Vanderbilt might get the node

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If they weight predictive metrics more then Iowa State, Illinois, and Purdue win out. This also matches up with NET a lot more

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I'll be annoyed if its a mix of UConn, Virginia, and Michigan State or something like that which would have zero consistency but I would not put that past the committee.

Average of the resume and quality (not a metric the committe would use but I was curious):

UConn - 7.8
Purdue - 8.8
Iowa State - 9.5
Vanderbilt - 9.85
Virginia - 11.7
Illinois - 12.2
Traditionally, resume metrics are used for selection and predictives are used for seeding.
 
Glad we have this thread, it's hard to know which thread to post in sometimes with multiple general college basketball threads.

In any event, I have a question for you guys. Who do you think should get in? A Miami Ohio team that won all their games except one but had one of the easiest schedules in the country or Auburn who basically went .500 against one of the toughest schedules in the country.

I'm sure the committee is having a sleepless night over this one. I think the logistics look bad if they don't take a team that was undefeated going into their conference tournament in a mid level not low level league and will have them in due to that but who do you guys think SHOULD be in. Don't say neither, pick one.

I'd say Miami because I'd like to see the little guy get a chance and there's something to be said for winning all your games.
 
Traditionally, resume metrics are used for selection and predictives are used for seeding.
That could be but I can't understand how Bracket Matrix has UConn and Michigan state on the 2 line?? http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

Normally BM is pretty good at this and things can still shift but that would not line up with predictive rankings at all.
 
Glad we have this thread, it's hard to know which thread to post in sometimes with multiple general college basketball threads.

In any event, I have a question for you guys. Who do you think should get in? A Miami Ohio team that won all their games except one but had one of the easiest schedules in the country or Auburn who basically went .500 against one of the toughest schedules in the country.

I'm sure the committee is having a sleepless night over this one. I think the logistics look bad if they don't take a team that was undefeated going into their conference tournament in a mid level not low level league and will have them in due to that but who do you guys think SHOULD be in. Don't say neither, pick one.

I'd say Miami because I'd like to see the little guy get a chance and there's something to be said for winning all your games.
Definitely is a diametric comparison.

There's a possibility both get in, but you present is either/or, so I won't sway from that. I think Miami is more likely of the two to get in, but Auburn getting it wouldn't shock me.

I guess that's still waffling. :D
 
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Glad we have this thread, it's hard to know which thread to post in sometimes with multiple general college basketball threads.

In any event, I have a question for you guys. Who do you think should get in? A Miami Ohio team that won all their games except one but had one of the easiest schedules in the country or Auburn who basically went .500 against one of the toughest schedules in the country.

I'm sure the committee is having a sleepless night over this one. I think the logistics look bad if they don't take a team that was undefeated going into their conference tournament in a mid level not low level league and will have them in due to that but who do you guys think SHOULD be in. Don't say neither, pick one.

I'd say Miami because I'd like to see the little guy get a chance and there's something to be said for winning all your games.
Miami. Auburn has already shown over and over that they cannot win enough games.
 
Definitely is a diametric comparison.

There's a possibility both get in, but you present is either/or, so I won't sway from that. I think Miami is more likely of the two to get in, but Auburn getting it wouldn't shock me.

I guess that's still waffling. :D
Thanks for the answer smh lol

Jk, I tend to agree. I'd rather reward the team that won all its games in the regular season rather than reward the ultimate mediocrity even if the schedule was a lot tougher.
 
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If Duke is #1 and UConn is #5, they can't be in the same region per rules.

Lunardi is an idiot for thinking UConn is #5, though
His updated sheet has them as a 6, but still in the Midwest. Have to think ISU and UConn swap regions. Not sure on his rationale for that.

 
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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.
It's The Tournament, every team scares me. Survive and advance.
 
For getting teams in the field. They have never said they are favoring it for seeding.

I am guessing a lot of the bracket predictions are overweighting it for seeding.

UConn behind Iowa State in the first bracket reveal shows that. Iowa States WAB was not very good

I agree. I only said it was a metric they were using heavily. Even I'm of the opinion it only has limited uses for higher seeds.
 

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