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***Official 2026 NCAA Tournament Thread***

bluestarcyclone said:
I don't feel bad about it.

Its worth noting you don't get a 16 seed by simply playing in a bad conference and winning. You get there by being in a bad conference *and* picking up some bad losses.

UMBC had 3 losses to quad 4 teams, lost its single q3 game, and went 0-4 in quad 1\2, including a 25 point loss to net 45 USF and a nearly 40 point loss to net 91 george washington

Howard went 1-4 against q1/2 including a 20 point loss to northwestern and a 37 point loss to duke, and also picked up 6 quad 4 losses including losses to NET 351, 352, and 356

The schools in these play-in games also benefit financially by receiving NCAA credits for these games, and this also gives them a game they can be competitive in.

There's also some evidence there's actually a little advantage to these games, getting the first game of the tournament jitters out of the way
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I don't care about any of the numbers. The tournament starts Thursday and if you win your conference, that is the earliest you should play. One of these teams isn't playing in "the tournament". I agree with the poster earlier who said let the play-in teams be non AQ.
 
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bluestarcyclone said:
I don't feel bad about it.

Its worth noting you don't get a 16 seed by simply playing in a bad conference and winning. You get there by being in a bad conference *and* picking up some bad losses.

UMBC had 3 losses to quad 4 teams, lost its single q3 game, and went 0-4 in quad 1\2, including a 25 point loss to net 45 USF and a nearly 40 point loss to net 91 george washington

Howard went 1-4 against q1/2 including a 20 point loss to northwestern and a 37 point loss to duke, and also picked up 6 quad 4 losses including losses to NET 351, 352, and 356

The schools in these play-in games also benefit financially by receiving NCAA credits for these games, and this also gives them a game they can be competitive in.

There's also some evidence there's actually a little advantage to these games, getting the first game of the tournament jitters out of the way
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Plus, the winner gets an NCAA Tournament Victory. So, for the winner, it is aces, but for the loser a real downer.
 
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there are some ballers on the floor in this first four game. do any of them have eligibility next year?
 
These ****** announcers, lol. UMBC down by 2 with 7.5s remaining. Howard inbounding:

"Jim, you got to imagine UMBC will try to foul as quickly as possible here."

"They'll probably go to the line, I'd guess, unless they get a steal."

Incredible stuff.
 
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I think I've seen about 5 seconds of Texas this year and I want to see them get smoked badly.
 
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AgronAlum said:
UMBC against 1 Seeds: 1-0
UMBC against 16 Seeds: 0-1
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Man, that one also reminds me of how much bracket luck Kansas State was gifted that tournament.

9 seed.
The 1 and 4 seeds were knocked out the opening day. The 2 and 3 seeds were knocked out the second round. Only had to beat a 5 seed to get to the elite 8 and could have had a final 4 if they'd beaten the 11 seed Loyola. Could have made a final 4 without beating a single top 4 seed.

Someday I want us to have that kind of path open up ahead of us.
 
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