If not "play in"....

[JellyBean]

If it's not the play in, why can a person pick brackets until Thursday @ 1 PM for the real games tip???

 

[stormchaser2014]

For the 11/12 games you probably would rather wait to see who wins so you can decide your pick for the next round

 

[pourcyne]

It's not a "play-in". It's a "mercy bid".

Keeps 'em off the streets and out of the NIT.

rolleyes:

 

[Cyclonepride]

You can't pick the winner in the brackets I've done. You just pick the loser that advances.

 

[dualthreat]

I wish they would call our round Round One, not Round Two. Round One starts Thursday

 

[carvers4math]

Wish Albany would have had a play-in when they picked uniforms.

 

[CycloneErik]

I wish they skipped this for teams that qualified and stuck the teams like Iowa and Tennessee in all four of these games. Let them be the "well, you're sort of close, but you can't get the job done, so here's one more try while the teams who did there job move along."

 

[Erik4Cy]

Wish Albany would have had a play-in when they picked uniforms.

Those shorts are really terrible as is putting "UALBANY" on the front of jersey.

 

[carvers4math]

Those shorts are really terrible as is putting "UALBANY" on the front of jersey.

The answer to "Do these shorts make the butt look big?" is yes.

 

[Ciclone]

I wish they would call our round Round One, not Round Two. Round One starts Thursday

I agree. It's not a full round. When you announce to the whole bar that you're buying a round you're not just giving a few of your buddies a beer, right?

 

[capitalcityguy]

The answer to "Do these shorts make the butt look big?" is yes.

Which I'm sure is horrifying to that tall girl they have playing with them.

 

[WIBadger]

I wish they skipped this for teams that qualified and stuck the teams like Iowa and Tennessee in all four of these games. Let them be the "well, you're sort of close, but you can't get the job done, so here's one more try while the teams who did there job move along."

This would be a great idea. The committee already knows who the last teams in are, so they could just make them play those games. Since they're all at large teams you could probably market it so more people watched.

 

[Erik4Cy]

Mt. St. Mary's doing its best ISU impression. They were down 21-2 and shooting like 1-14 from field. Now leading 28-27.

 

[VikesFan22]

At my work, they're counting these games in our brackets.

 

[capitalcityguy]

At my work, they're counting these games in our brackets.

Rookies!

 

[JellyBean]

What's so ironic... during the first play in game - NCAA ran a spot reminding people to pick their brackets by Thursday at 1!

 

[bluestarcyclone]

I wish they skipped this for teams that qualified and stuck the teams like Iowa and Tennessee in all four of these games. Let them be the "well, you're sort of close, but you can't get the job done, so here's one more try while the teams who did there job move along."

I would disagree though. I think it should be all the 16 seeds. The 16 seeds 'qualified' by winning 3-4 games in a tournament against ****** teams. Big deal. The 11/12 seeds, though they are clearly the bottom of the pile of the at larges, usually have resumes that blow away the resumes of the 16 seeds.

The only reason its not the 16 seeds is because the NCAA wants to draw some viewing interest for the tues\weds games.

 

[LindenCy]

I'd just like to go back to 64 teams. Looking at the play in games this year, I think we would have been fine.

 

[CycloneErik]

I would disagree though. I think it should be all the 16 seeds. The 16 seeds 'qualified' by winning 3-4 games in a tournament against ****** teams. Big deal. The 11/12 seeds, though they are clearly the bottom of the pile of the at larges, usually have resumes that blow away the resumes of the 16 seeds.

The only reason its not the 16 seeds is because the NCAA wants to draw some viewing interest for the tues\weds games.

But those at-large teams from major conferences have already proven that they can't beat good teams, so they don't belong anyway.

I'm not watching to see mediocre failures like Iowa. I'm watching to see good teams take their shot at the title, and teams that don't get that opportunity finally get one. If the mediocre major conference teams don't like that, they can go ahead and get some more wins.

 

[H8fkr]

I agree, go back to 64 and have fun in the NIT to the last 4 at large teams.