*** Official March Madness NCAA Tournament Thread 2023 ***
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But Jamie D didn't have the big hole that Frannie had to deal with...
Yeah. Had Gonzaga -5.5. Glad I didn't stay up for that one.
Marquette lost but they are going to be even better next year. They return everyone.
UCLA Gonzaga is going to be a fun one. Completely opposite styles.
UCLA Gonzaga is going to be a fun one. Completely opposite styles.
Big East - 27% of their teams still alive
SEC - 21% of their teams still alive
Big 12 - 20% of their teams still alive.
PAC - 8%
Big 10 - 7%
ACC - 7%
Still a lot left to go, but Big 12 probably isn’t going to end up performing as well as the last few years. Meanwhile the Big 10 continues its annual tradition of being hot garbage in the tournament.
I would say the Big 12 just beat up on each other but that's a super lame excuse. Several teams were just more vulnerable and inconsistent.
I've enjoyed watching the Big East this year and thought they had several real athletic, physical teams.
Sweet 16 teams by conference....
SEC -3
Big East -3
Big 12 - 2
ACC - 1
Big 10 -1
American-1
Pac 12 - 1
Ivy -1
Conference USA -1
WCC -1
MWC -1
SEC -3
Big East -3
Big 12 - 2
ACC - 1
Big 10 -1
American-1
Pac 12 - 1
Ivy -1
Conference USA -1
WCC -1
MWC -1
Big East actually has 60% of teams still alive. 3 of 5.
Big 12 has 28% still alive. 2 of 7.
SEC has 38% still alive. 3 of 8.
Big Ten has 12% still alive. 1 of 8
Or am I just really wrong with math.
EDIT: I think you're using total number of teams in the conference not teams that made the tourney.
In our family pool, one of my sons has only one possible win left - Xavier to the Elite 8. After that he has no more teams. What's sad is that we always do a "coin toss" bracket and a "top seed" bracket for comparison purposes. The coin toss bracket still has two viable teams for the final four, and six for the elite 8, and it's already 10 pts ahead of my son. I'm thinking he would have been better off flipping a coin...Nice! I should have thown darts for my picks.I do still have five Elite 8 and three Final Four Teams left though. The Marquette bracket is all shot to hell.
Big 12 was the best conference but doesn't have the teams with the best shot at winning a title. KU and Texas had the best chances but their bracket and Self not coaching pretty much ended that possibility. Texas has the next best shot at getting to the Final Four and winning a title. KSU is in for a tough one against MSU but even if they can get by them I just don't see them beating Tennessee.
Michigan State is +1200 to get to the final 4. They would need to beat K-State and likely Tennessee; I threw a few bucks down on them as that seems like it has a decent shot. Miami had really bad odds and I was going to bet on them, but then realized its because they play Houston.
If KState gets to the Final 4 and Texas doesn't, the "Tang to Texas" chant will begin....@Surly
He changed his style of play. Unfortunately he didn't do that until he went to Creighton. He tried to run his slow grind out possession offense he ran at UNI and we didn't have the players for that scheme.
It's easy to hate on the Zags when they basically get two months off prior to the tournament. They can win 90% of their WCC games just by showing up.
