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synapticwave said:
Been reading through this thread and here's what I think I understand from everyone:

The committee will group teams first by pods of teams and the put the pods in an s-curve with the top pod in the curve guaranteed to play on Thursday - unless the top team in the pod loses their conference tournament championship, in which case the top teams in the top 2 pods will swap places. That means that after ISU won and UNC lost it likely means that ISU will move to a #1 seed but will be last in the s curve pods which means we can't play in Omaha. EXCEPT - with special consideration - a team will play against a former coach which means we need to root for the committee to place Nebraska in Omaha so that we play against Fred in Omaha as a #1 seed.

And - If all that happens then our best bet is that we'll get North Carolina as the top 2 seed in the western north southern regional and if the committee does place UNC as the #5 then that will increase our magic number to 3 which will place ISU and UNC in Los Angeles. UNLESS - Auburn can win the SEC championship then that will reset the Quadrant win percentage and the top 2 pods will be tied and if the seeding points are tied then Jaime, the UNC, Arizona and Marquette ADs will be picked at random to hold a 2 man sack race on Sunday night during the selection show to determine the Top 2 seed in Omaha!
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What did I just read... :explode:
 
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Even people at ESPN (outside of Lunardi and the other talking heads) are thinking ISU's curbstomping of Houston combined with UNC's loss has opened a huge can of worms for the 4th #1 seed.

www.espn.com

Men's March Madness bracket questions before Selection Sunday

Is UConn the overall top seed? Who will be the fourth 1-seed? Where does all the bid stealing leave the final field? We have a lot of questions for the selection committee.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

(it's paid, so sorry if you can't open it)
 
jdoggivjc said:
Even people at ESPN (outside of Lunardi and the other talking heads) are thinking ISU's curbstomping of Houston combined with UNC's loss has opened a huge can of worms for the 4th #1 seed.

www.espn.com

Men's March Madness bracket questions before Selection Sunday

Is UConn the overall top seed? Who will be the fourth 1-seed? Where does all the bid stealing leave the final field? We have a lot of questions for the selection committee.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

(it's paid, so sorry if you can't open it)
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Lol remember when we discussed last night how nc state winning wouldn’t change anything? Holy **** that feels like so long ago
 
dahliaclone said:
www.cbssports.com

2024 NCAA Tournament bracket expert picks: No. 1 seeds predicted before Selection Sunday show

How our CBS Sports college basketball experts would vote if they were on the selection committee
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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Cameron Salerno: UConn should be the No. 1 overall seed over Purdue and Houston based on its resume, which was solidified by winning the Big East Tournament championship in commanding fashion. If Houston or Purdue had won their respective conference tourneys, there would be a strong argument for either being the top overall seed. North Carolina still gets the nod for the final No. 1 despite losing in the ACC Tournament final to NC State. The Tar Heels have a better overall resume than Arizona, Tennessee or Iowa State.

Here's a guy who only looked at the names on the jerseys and assumed UNC has the better resume instead of actually looking at the resumes.
 
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jdoggivjc said:
I think the only fans advocating moving to Vegas are Arizona fans (for obvious reasons) and Utah fans (because they still hate the idea of coming to the Big 12 and want to be a bunch of *******).
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I’m probably gonna watch a lot of the tournament with Arizona fans. At least with my friends they tell me that they take over Vegas and almost nobody else comes, definitely not Utah fans at all. My friends go almost every year (az fans that drive the 5 hours from LA) and tell me it’s 80% Arizona fans. There’s also the fact that before they started having it in Vegas their other locations weren’t great and this was an upgrade for them and was a somewhat neutral but central location. Vegas PAC 12 isn’t like KC where it’s KU/ISU/KSU…it’s just Arizona and a small bit of the other pac schools. Part of the reason Arizona wanted to get into a better conference.

I think their fanbase is going to kind of be like a hybrid of ISU and KU, definitely legit fans…but without the over the top arrogance of bragging that they invented basketball.

If we ever did have it Vegas, I have no doubt ISU and KU fans would outnumber Utah there too. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world do have it there once in a while. The history of KC needs to be honored though as the main location.
 
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