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Meat-Chicken vs. Duke on neutral court is a pretty big game, this week. Also, anyone know if our team is planning to stay in Utah for the duration of both games? Can't see flying out and back twice makes sense; but on the other hand, being stuck in Utah for a handful of days isn't ideal, either.
 
Kettes said:
Meat-Chicken vs. Duke on neutral court is a pretty big game, this week. Also, anyone know if our team is planning to stay in Utah for the duration of both games? Can't see flying out and back twice makes sense; but on the other hand, being stuck in Utah for a handful of days isn't ideal, either.
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Pretty sure all teams except Colorado that travel for the Arizona and Utah trips on Saturday/Mid week stay out there in between games.
 
crs8975 said:
When the Clones were in Denver in 2015 or 16? I purchased tickets through the smaller schools in that bracket once the teams were announced. I'd imagine this was just a luck of the draw thing, but it worked out!
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I also have gone through the ticket office of low-ranked teams, such as Iona and Vermont to get first round tickets. Then, like in Denver, we got second round tickets by camping out at the Ticket Office to get some of the few they released after the first round. But that was before the era of digital tickets, so it may all be done online now.
 
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What 7 to 8 projected seeds if things hold do you and others want to avoid?
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The only current 7 seed on BracketMatrix I would rather not face is Kentucky. They haven't had a great season and we could beat them for sure, but their talent is still crazy good. I would rather avoid them. The other three (Clemson, Villanova, Wisconsin) don't worry me too much.

Current 8 seeds are Utah State, Iowa, NC State, and Miami (FL). None of those are overly concerning other than the in-state rival angle but I think a rematch goes ISU's way if that happened.
 
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1st bracket reveal is Saturday. Feels later than past years but will give us an idea on the committee’s thoughts.
Having the national game wins vs KU and UH going in can’t hurt.

 
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LLCoolCY said:
1st bracket reveal is Saturday. Feels later than past years but will give us an idea on the committee’s thoughts.
Having the national game wins vs KU and UH going in can’t hurt.

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I'm really wanting UCONN to lose on Saturday to Nova and then at home to SJU as well. Knock them down to a 3 seed and have Florida keep winning to get a 2 seed. I don't want to face Florida until as late as possible.
 
If we are the #5 overall seed, why would we get paired with the #1 overall seed?
 
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1UNI2ISU said:
Saint Louis. Schertz is an offensive wizard and they shoot the heck out of the ball.
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Pretty crazy to Average 90 points a game and leading scorer averages 12.7 points a game. Having not seen them that kinda balance would worry me
 
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dahliaclone said:
The only current 7 seed on BracketMatrix I would rather not face is Kentucky. They haven't had a great season and we could beat them for sure, but their talent is still crazy good. I would rather avoid them. The other three (Clemson, Villanova, Wisconsin) don't worry me too much.

Current 8 seeds are Utah State, Iowa, NC State, and Miami (FL). None of those are overly concerning other than the in-state rival angle but I think a rematch goes ISU's way if that happened.
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iowastatefan1929 said:
St Louis in St Louis and Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin is very hot and cold team. They along with Texas Tech have best win in college basketball right now.

I don't see any big worries on 8 line either
 
CoachHines3 said:
If we are the #5 overall seed, why would we get paired with the #1 overall seed?
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No. The committee tries to use an S curve. So the overall #1 would be in the same bracket as the last #2 (#8). If we are the highest #2 seed (#5), we would be in the lowest #1 seed bracket (#4).

But there are a lot of factors (conference teams not running into each other, BYU not playing on Sundays, travel considerations, etc) that cause tweaking. So you don't get an exact S curve.

Fo example, I would not be surprised at all if a #2 seed ISU was placed in the same bracket as a #3 Nebraska, irrespective of S curve considerations. They just love to do drama stuff like that.
 
RonBurgundy said:
No. The committee tries to use an S curve. So the overall #1 would be in the same bracket as the last #2 (#8). If we are the highest #2 seed (#5), we would be in the lowest #1 seed bracket (#4).

But there are a lot of factors (conference teams not running into each other, BYU not playing on Sundays, travel considerations, etc) that cause tweaking. So you don't get an exact S curve.

Fo example, I would not be surprised at all if a #2 seed ISU was placed in the same bracket as a #3 Nebraska, irrespective of S curve considerations. They just love to do drama stuff like that.
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A computer does all the bracketing and places in locations. There are way too many rules and considerations for the committee to get a bracket out in a timely manner if they did it by hand.

The committee can go back and slightly tweak things if need be (i.e. one region is much better/worse than the others) but the 'they create storylines' thing is WAY overblown. There are so many bracketing rules that it would be almost impossible to do that and it's only gotten harder as conferences get bigger.
 
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