***Official 2021 NCAA Tournament Thread***
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pretty much every bowl season and every ncaa tourney you can bet the spread against the "best major conference" and for the "worst major conference" and make a killing.
The Pac seems to be doing just fine so far...although admittedly they have sucked pretty bad in some recent years.
The Pac seems to be doing just fine so far...although admittedly they have sucked pretty bad in some recent years.
Georgetown is getting smacked. Their biggest loss in tournament history is 24 points. They are down 25 right now.
Still a ways to go in this game, but I just didn't understand the hype train around Georgetown that so many were talking about. Many bracket pools I am in were all about how hot Georgetown was, and that's just a dangerous game to play (people really over-fantasize that Kemba UConn run, which was such an outlier). I think I read a stat that until the Big East Tournament run the longest winning streak they had during the season was 2. Plus if anyone actually had watched Colorado this year they are a very talented team. I have them in them in the Sweet 16 in my bracket.
Georgetown finished 8th in an 11-team Big East and were 9-12 before the Big East Tournament.
Yessir. Just more to add to the whole "I don't understand the Georgetown love" thoughts leading up to the tip-off of the game. Georgetown is one of those nostalgia schools for the national media and people that are over 50, but truthfully they haven't really been relevant in quite some time, and this team just happened to string a few days together. But they are not a good basketball team.
ISU seems to pretty much play to their seed. I'd expect a larger distribution for any school in the tournament as much as ISU has been. It sort of makes the Syracuse numbers a little confounding.
Yeah, if you take out Hampton and UAB, we have pretty much played to our seed historically.
A good sign for the future when they're the number one overall seed then.
Here is the chart excluding the two "bad" games:
| Seed Group | Tournaments | Avg Diff |
| 1 to 2 | 1 | 0.63 |
| 3 to 4 | 2 | 0.30 |
| 5 to 8 | 8 | 0.05 |
| 9+ | 6 | -0.04 |
| Grand Total | 17 | 0.08 |
