Well they were better than the ACC. Fourth or fifth best conference this year.
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#11 seeds are 4-4 vs. #1 seeds. The 0.500 winning percentage is the best winning percentage by any seed against #1 seeds.
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Gonzaga is 38-22 in the NCAA Tournament Gonzaga is in the Final Four for the 1st time since 2017 and the 2nd time overall. They are 1-0 in ...
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no vcu was the first 10 years ago with shaka
21 years and counting since last B1G national title. What a shame...
Lived in LA for a brief amount of time as a child, so always been a bit of a closet Bruin fan. Happy to see them win.
Their prize? Gonzaga. Good luck.
Their prize? Gonzaga. Good luck.
I would be fine with any of these 4 teams winning. No Big 10, No ACC.
The Baylor-Houston game will be the 3,500th all-time NCAA Tournament game.
And that title was given to them because of BS seeding on our end and a totally unfair advantage in the elite 8. Hopefully the basketball gods will continue to forever make sure the cost of that title is that they won't see one for a long time to come.
#11 seeds are 4-4 vs. #1 seeds. The 0.500 winning percentage is the best winning percentage by any seed against #1 seeds.
Elite Eight - Tuesday - Tournament Tidbits
Gonzaga is 38-22 in the NCAA Tournament Gonzaga is in the Final Four for the 1st time since 2017 and the 2nd time overall. They are 1-0 in ...
I predict it to be 4-5 after next Saturday. UCLA has had scoring slumps in every game. They will not survive a scoring slump against Gonzaga.
UCLA is the second team to defeat Michigan and Michigan State in the same tournament. The other one was 2019 Texas Tech.
Now that there aren't any Big 10 teams left, Baylor can go ahead and lose
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I'm saying it's MIND BLOWINGLY dumb to slobber all over a team that was an incredibly non-amazing 12-8 in conference.
Oregon was 14-4 in conference. A conference that looks a lot stronger than the Big Ten.
Since this was "such a different year" the thing to do would have been to not assume one conference was a billion times better than the others. Turns out that league was nothing special.
Continue telling me why we need 12-8 teams as top eight seeds when they already have 3 teams as 1s and 2s from the same league. There's no good reason at all other than some people just love status quo in every aspect of life and supporting whatever system is in place. Anybody with a brain could have glanced at the top 8 seeds and said "yeah there's a 0% chance the Big Ten actually has half of the elite teams in college basketball". If the system leads to stupid stuff like that, it's probably a stupid system.
Why stop at four, next year why not champion having all four one seeds and all four two seeds from the Big Ten. It's not that far of a stretch from this year.
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ACC and Big East might have done better if you gave half their conference 1 and 2 seeds.
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First Final Four in history that there are no teams east of the Mississippi River.
First Final Four in history that there are no teams east of the Mississippi River.
Here's how the P6 did over/underperforming seeds:
Our Big 12:
Baylor : even
Texas -2
WVU -1
OKSt -1
KU -1
Tech : even
OU : even
Total: -5
Big Ten:
Michigan -1
Illinois -3
Ohio State -3
Iowa -2
Purdue -2
Wisconsin +1
Rutgers +1
MSU : even
Maryland +1
Total: -8
Pac 12:
UCLA +4
USC +2
Oregon +1
Oregon St +2
Colorado : even
Total: +9 (I add these up most years and can't remember a + number that high)
SEC:
Mizzou : even
Arkansas +1
Tennessee -1
Alabama -1
LSU : even
Florida : even
Total: -1
ACC:
UVA -2
UNC -1
FSU : even
VT: even
GT: even
Syracuse +2
Clemson -1
Total: -2
Big East:
Creighton +1
Nova +1
Uconn -1
Georgetown : even
Total +1
Our Big 12:
Baylor : even
Texas -2
WVU -1
OKSt -1
KU -1
Tech : even
OU : even
Total: -5
Big Ten:
Michigan -1
Illinois -3
Ohio State -3
Iowa -2
Purdue -2
Wisconsin +1
Rutgers +1
MSU : even
Maryland +1
Total: -8
Pac 12:
UCLA +4
USC +2
Oregon +1
Oregon St +2
Colorado : even
Total: +9 (I add these up most years and can't remember a + number that high)
SEC:
Mizzou : even
Arkansas +1
Tennessee -1
Alabama -1
LSU : even
Florida : even
Total: -1
ACC:
UVA -2
UNC -1
FSU : even
VT: even
GT: even
Syracuse +2
Clemson -1
Total: -2
Big East:
Creighton +1
Nova +1
Uconn -1
Georgetown : even
Total +1
I feel like the -2 or greater are the real underperformances. Missing by 1 round isnt really *that* much of an underperformance especially if you're down near the bottom of that tier.
That's where the big 10 really sucked it up with 4 teams managing that, and where the pac 12 really shined.
That's a good point. Not just an 11 seed, an 11 seed that had to play to get into the round of 64.
Maybe not surprising it would be a school with such a storied history that could make a run with such a low seed, the PIG if you will.
I actually heard local people cheering for sports in LA tonight for the first time in 7 years living here other than the Lakers. The Dodgers WS moved the needle surprisingly little and Rams in the Superbowl had practically zero local buzz because many people didn't even realize there was a team. My wife was asking me why people were cheering tonight when we were walking around the neighborhood, it's very unusual and rare.
