Bracketology 2024

I get that drawing the last #3 would be controversial with us, but I'd like our chances against the others in that region if that's how it turned out.
What's this Mock BB deal? Is it an official NCAA thing? And yes give me the 3 seed over the 2 seed that Kansas has, I don't want any part of a 7 seed Gonzaga
 
In Gilbert’s defense we had some success getting their bigs to commit which lead to the guards dishing it off for an easy basket. The problem is UCF adjusted and he did not. This game is a total outlier for him, I’m not worried about it.
Theres a big difference between "he had a bad game" and "he sucks". Id put KG under the former vs UCF. And he still made a key key play in crunch time.

Also, KGs has an important role on offense - when no one can get open or hit a shot or do anything... KG has to become LEEEEROOOOY JENKINS! And in this role he makes some insane plays, but also ends up making some horrible mistakes too.

Im more worried about Lipsey. He just doesnt quite look right the last several games. Idk if hurt or pressing or what. Would love to see him just play a crisp calm game vs BYU.
 
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I think we'd still get Omaha if we're at the 1/2 level, but didn't something similar happen in 2000? We got the 2 seed and Minneapolis the first weekend, but was it worth having to go to Detroit?

In the pre-pods era, where all of the 1st/2nd round sites were predetermined which regionals they were set to funnel into.

West: Salt Lake and Tucson funneled to Albuquerque
Midwest: Cleveland and Minneapolis funneled to Auburn Hills
East: Winston-Salem and Buffalo funneled to Syracuse
South: Birmingham and Nashville funneled to Austin
 
Maybe that's why I'm not thinking about this right. But if you have Houston, Purdue, UConn, and ISU as 1 seeds then the sites would be:

Memphis-Houston
Indianapolis-Purdue
Brooklyn-Uconn
Omaha-ISU

You are telling me that the committee wouldn't put a 1 seed in the Western time zone?
The first round sites are not based on region. Iowa State would likely be in the West region, but their first and 2nd round games would be in Omaha.
 
I get that drawing the last #3 would be controversial with us, but I'd like our chances against the others in that region if that's how it turned out.
Yeah. I’d be fine with that draw. We’d still get Omaha because Baylor is seeded higher than Bama so they’d go to Memphis.

EDIT: actually looking at that again, that is a preferable draw to me than Kansas. Kansas gets UConn in Boston. Although Arizona in LA wouldn’t be a cakewalk, but AZ is very inconsistent
 
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This bracketologist is one of the best. If people are wondering where Iowa might stand 'on the bubble' this guys says Kansas State is actually ahead of Iowa in terms of who are the ones 'out'.

 
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I like this guy but curious about this bracket. Isn't it not possible for us to be placed in Omaha against (possibly) Nebraska? Something along the lines of protecting the top 16 seeds so we aren't basically playing a road game? Maybe I'm wrong.

No, it’s not impossible, just unlikely. Case in point, Duke had to play South Carolina in Greenville, SC, in 2017 when Duke was a “2” seed and SC was a “7“ seed. The committee tries to avoid such situations. However, if the matchup is unavoidable due to other seeding criteria, the committee won’t protect the higher seed.
 
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This bracketologist is one of the best. If people are wondering where Iowa might stand 'on the bubble' this guys says Kansas State is actually ahead of Iowa in terms of who are the ones 'out'.

I'd love that bracket for us
 
heres a fun one for bubble watch: Now I will say just for context, the first one is Gonzaga and their numbers are high because of the nonconf, I'm guessing. But the Q1-Q2 records compared to the two other teams is interesting.

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This bracketologist is one of the best. If people are wondering where Iowa might stand 'on the bubble' this guys says Kansas State is actually ahead of Iowa in terms of who are the ones 'out'.

We can keep K State out.
 
Alabama is a little scary to get to the E8. Stylistically they are our mirror.
They are a little scary, but I doubt they've seen a defense like ours, and they give up a lot of points. I figure the Sweet Sixteen game is going to be tough in any case, so give me our great defense against their great offense, and our good offense against their bad defense.
 
It's come out by reliable sources (Blum) that ISU was in discussion for the 4th #1 or 1st #2 in 2000. 1 seed was out west not sure where the first 2 rounds would have been played or 2 seed Midwest with 1st 2 rounds in Minneapolis. ISU administration pushed for the 2 seed to get the Minneapolis games. Horrible mistake in hindsight but understandable at the time
But wasn't MSU the overall #1? Maybe I'm mis-remembering that. If we were the top 2-seed, we shouldn't have been in the same region as MSU in that scenario.
 
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Alabama is a little scary to get to the E8. Stylistically they are our mirror.

Bama seems like the type of team that defensively we could really speed up. Offensively I think we could slow the game down on them in the half court and really take the flow out of them.
 
This bracketologist is one of the best. If people are wondering where Iowa might stand 'on the bubble' this guys says Kansas State is actually ahead of Iowa in terms of who are the ones 'out'.


Interesting. I think Iowa has a decent shot and KState is pretty much cooked.

KState needs to split the week and win 2 in KC. That would most likely involve beating us twice in 6 days.
 
But wasn't MSU the overall #1? Maybe I'm mis-remembering that. If we were the top 2-seed, we shouldn't have been in the same region as MSU in that scenario.
Yes they were, the tournament didn't do the S curve back then.