Bracketology 2024
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Cyclonepride
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Six games, not three (three sessions, two games per session). I also got the all session tickets. I purchased them between the WV and OU games at the end of February. Should be fun!
No. I think he means locked into the top 7. The top 30 are locks to make the tournament at this point.
Also. It’s just some dudes opinion so it doesn’t really matter.
No, the non con essentially gets counted twice and yes this absolutely happens.
Most overrated conference is Big East.
Creighton & Marquette have a lot of Quad 1 wins, but most of those teams are barely Quad 1 quality.
Creighton & Marquette have a lot of Quad 1 wins, but most of those teams are barely Quad 1 quality.
Context clues. Why would he talk about teams 1-7 (7 teams) being safe, teams 8, 9 and 10 (3 teams) needing one more win to feel safe and then every other comment is about a team trying to just get in.
He was saying all 1-7 seeds (28 teams) are safe and that all 8-10 seeds (12 teams) need one more win.
your right about one man's opinion.
Find me 1 example where a team with a clearly better overall resume got seeded lower because of a bad non-con SOS. Not a case where 2 equal teams got seeded based on non-con SOS, but a case where non-con SOS was valued more than overall resume.
If its so common, it shouldn't be hard for you to find an example.
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
I'm just out here jonesing for Selection Sunday. Third favorite day of the year behind the first round game days. Just seeing ISU pop up sets off several days of analysis, anticipation and dreams of how it might all unfold. Cannot wait
Take the first word out of that sentence and tell me how the meaning changed.
I'm actually interpreting this that Purdue is likely overseeded and more ripe for an "upset", than say Houston, UConn, and that teams like Arizona or Iowa State are more likely to "exceed their seed" and you'd rather not face them.
I interpreted this to mean they rate Houston as correctly seeded and most likely to back it up.
Exactly; who cares if you played a hard a schedule if (hypothetically) you lost to all those good teams? Other metrics already reward you for losing to a good team by less than the metrics expected.
SOR >>> SOS
We're currently #5 in SOR vs. Marquette's #9.
- Jan 26, 2019
- 1,150
- 1,756
- 113
- 34
Teams like BYU are our kryptonite and their is 1 team that I want to avoid at all cost that could be on the 6/7 line for the 2nd round....St. Mary's.
I think that’s what he meant by things never change.
I will go on record without seeing a bracket that Purdue will make the Final Four this year. I said it yesterday, I think people are underestimating them.
And we beat Kansas and Houston and were a half second away from getting Baylor on the road. That's pretty parallel to Kansas and they did that in November, what have they done lately?
Had some time this afternoon to put out an updated bracket after last night's games. Usually, I wait for Thursday games but it's mostly Pac-12 tonight so shouldn't affect things too much.
- I moved ISU up to #7, Baylor up to #8, and Kansas up to #9 over Marquette. Maybe I'm overreacting and perhaps the committee will place less weight on last two Marquette losses without Kolek, but their computer metrics have dipped a bit. 17th in KPI, 9th in SOR. 14th in both BPI and Kenpom.
- ISU rooting interests for the weekend should be Texas Tech to beat Baylor, Villanova to beat Creighton, Xavier to beat Marquette, and then whomever wins Duke/UNC, we want the other one (or someone else entirely) to win the ACC Tourney. If Duke beats UNC and wins ACC Tourney, I could see them passing us. If UNC wins both, no chance of us catching them (I'm not sure there is anyway to be honest). If we had to pick one to win both, it's UNC.
- I won't tell anyone how to root in KU vs. Houston as far as weighing seeding vs. conference title share. That's a "to each their own" situation.
- Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and TCU are all hovering around that 7-8-9-10 seed line. Might create for some complicated bracketing if Big 12 has one 1-seed in Houston and two 2-seeds.
- Sunday could very well decide if state of Iowa gets 3 teams into the field or just 1 with MVC final and Iowa hosting Illinois. I don't know how Big 10 tournament bracket is looking as far as opening round matchups, but if I'm Iowa, I'd want a challenging first game (think Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern). Chance to get a good win or no chance for a bad loss.
