What ESPN said was that they would televise the Final Four, so I would guess not. I do not know if Clone Zone is possible or not.
All the matches were streamed online for free last year.
What ESPN said was that they would televise the Final Four, so I would guess not. I do not know if Clone Zone is possible or not.
All the matches were streamed online for free last year.
Just turns out Tex at #2, ISU #7 and NU #10 - all fall into one part of the bracket. A&M is lumped in there most likely for Geographic reasons. It bites... but does make a certain amound of sense.
Couldn't the committee have swapped us with them pretty easily? I assume they are given leeway to move a team up or down a seed to make scheduling happen more easily. Swap us with Washington or Texas with FSU, and the scheduling doesn't look so bad.
Tournament committees "play" with seeds all the time to get match-ups they want. ISU could just as easily been a #5 seed and Washington a #4. Those two could have fought it out in Minneapolis for a spot in the Final Four. Or, as I mentioned before, give us a #8 and UCLA a #7, send us to Gainesville and the Bruins to Omaha. Anything to break up this Big 12 log jam.
As it appears to me, Washington's #6 overall seed was really a #3. They have a much easier road to Tampa than the Big 12 schools...
How do tickets work for these games? Will a student CyPass still get me in?
How do tickets work for these games? Will a student CyPass still get me in?
Now that I've had the chance to look at the bracket - it makes a certain amount of sense.
The top 16 are spread across the bracket in normal form, just like Tornado Man stated. And the pairing pretty closely mimic final rankings and RPI numbers (at least before yesterday).
What needs to be asked is how Texas is #1 in the RP with 1 loss, and PSU is 2 and undefeated.
It's a combo, as I said. They're reversed in the coaches poll.
We need to be questioning the Washington seeding. That's about it.
Did I count right 6 Big 12 Teams made it and 4 in the same region....?
Just my .02, but putting both Washington and Texas at Nebraska is just as ridiculous as what we have now.
As I said earlier, from a fairness standpoint to ISU, they should have been swapped with UCLA or even Illinois out west.
My hunch: the Qwest Center gave the NCAA a big $$$ bid, and the committee wanted to make sure that 17,000 seats were mostly filled to return the favor. Of the #2 seed posssiblities, they knew ISU would travel over to fill it up, to go along with all those Husker fans...
They had no idea of the Iowa game here.
Did I count right 6 Big 12 Teams made it and 4 in the same region....?
Welcome to Omaha, site of the Big 12 Tournament.
Yep.....
Thanks I should have read the Thread 1st...sorry...:wink: