Huh, I don't remember either of ISUs games being particularly late that round. Didn't they both start mid to late afternoon?
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Only game starts I can remember with clarity are 2015 first round game (first game of the tournament) and 2019 (last game of the first round).
Well, there is one really late start that stands out in my mind, but I don't care to speak the details of that one.
First round was at night. ISU was supposed to be at 6ish I think and didn't tip until after 7 I think.
Wisconsin fans had the Milwaukee tickets bought up as soon as they were available for the public in the pre-season. If I remember right, the session that had Wisconsin and ISU were probably one of the more expensive tickets available in the secondary market after the seedings were announced. ISU fans did the same thing when Des Moines hosted a couple of years ago... the only downside to that is that we weren't rewarded with home crowd seeding.
It wasn't terribly late, but I think it was the last set of games for Milwaukee that evening.
Kansas so good they are seeded twice by the wizard Lunardi?
I was watching Florida-Kentucky over the weekend and they already started the "Joe Lunardi has X amount of SEC teams in the tournament".
It has to be written into their contracts to talk about it as much as possible.
I mean…wild that they would talk about the SEC during the marquee SEC game of the weekend? Also wild when we played Colorado they talked about how strong top to the bottom the big 12 is…repeatedly.
We don’t have to be soft about everything.
I mean, you can at least justify that by the fact that the metrics absolutely love Houston and have them above us.
I checked page and it still hasn't been updated.
I guess the logic is, KU isn't a contender for 1 or 2 seed, but an exceptionally strong 3 seed!
Jetting the team between sites like Phil Collins for Live Aid.
I could understand that if ISU and UH were on same seed line, but it's a 1 and a 4, so he got lazy w/ the aq, in a snapshot bracketology. Sure it could happen in actuality (4 seed winning the conference tournament) but projection isn't designed that way.
He also has Michigan State as Big Ten aq and 5 seed, but both Illinois and Oregon as a 3 seed.
I think the intern updating the algorithm pressed the wrong buttons or something.
On Bracket Matrix, the 48 brackets combined have Houston on 10 different seed lines -- every seed from 1 to 11, except 9. No one knows yet what to do with them.
Who said anything about being soft?
I'm simply pointing out how ridiculous it sounds on January 3rd to be talking about Joe Lunardi's Brackets. It's even more ridiculous becuase half those SEC teams that are 11-2 right now will probably finish under .500 in the SEC and won't be anywhere near the field of 68.
There losses were to good teams, must be A hack like Lunardi or Palm that has them as an 11.
No team that’s 3rd in KenPom will be lower than a 3 seed. Anyone with Houston lower than that is just dumb.
Lunardi has UH as 4, Palm as 7 (Matrix shows CBS w/ Houston at 10, but that was prior to recent update).
Not that I'm vouching for their general accuracy, but other bracketeers have it all over the map.
It could happen.
They’d just have to have a historic collapse starting just about now until the end of the regular season.
