*** Official Selection Sunday Thread ***
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I have the metric that settles the #1 debate. After today, we will have 2 wins over conference champs, a big 0 for North Carolina.
The above assumes VCU wins today. That scrappy, tough out Gambling team was our other win.
The above assumes VCU wins today. That scrappy, tough out Gambling team was our other win.
Nope. I took a chance and bought session 1 tickets after BYU game but might have to buy session 2 as well.
Holy crap.CBS' latest...
Bracketology: Iowa State jumps North Carolina for fourth No. 1, UConn takes overall top seed from Purdue
The Tar Heels stay on the top line of the NCAA Tournament projected bracket was short with Cyclones earning a No. 1 seedwww.cbssports.com
Why is Indiana State more deserving? They got blown out by Bama, giving up over 100 pts and lost by double digits to Michigan State. Other than that the best team they beat was Drake, who they also lost to twice.
Because wins have to count for somenting at some point. Playing good teams and losing, then beating up on a bunch of terrible Big 10 teams doesn't do much for me but go ahead and support them I guess.
Even as a dad, you should be embarrassed.
I want the #1 because this team deserves it. Don't care where we go because at this point I'm not worrying about who we play. They can worry seeing ISU in their brackets.
What's the 5th bid stealer? It's unfortunate for those teams but if you want to avoid being left out then do better than 19-14 in a major conference.
I think teams like Indiana State and South Florida are more deserving but i bet they get shafted tonight. I'm glad Drake won because I think they would have gotten sent to the NIT if they lost.
That bid has already been stolen. Dayton was the only AL in that league. Same with the AAC though I'm not as convinced that FAU is as safe as some people do.
Agree. Wins against bad competition compared to really bad? What's the difference? We'd easily beat teams in the 100-200 range as we would the 300's. Hope they look at results against competition.
My only hope for Indiana State is that their best rebounder and defender missed the SIU and Illinois State games that they lost.
Especially if we both get put in the west. That would make the fan aspect of the site moot.
We would destroy Nebby. They’re the epitome of a Fred team. Great offense as long as they’re not being guarded tightly. No defense to speak of. Once Illinois put the clamps on Nebraska couldn’t do anything right yesterday.Jerry Palm has Iowa State as the 1 seed, however, has Nebraska as the 9 seed in Omaha. There is no way you can have a 9 seed playing a home game in Omaha?
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Iowa state just does not get the respect nationally for me to think they would give us a 1 seed. I hope im wrong though
Yep it's a bad metric, and even from the perspective of it supposedly being a goal of the NCAA to encourage better non-conference matchups, it doesn't really achieve that stated purpose. Buy games are buy games and those are bad teams for everyone. Most of the actual strength in most teams non-conference schedules comes from neutral site tournaments scheduled years in advance and determined in large part based on prestige. Programs have little to no control over this portion of their schedule, and even when they do it's unpredictable. Texas a&m was supposed to be good. Virginia tech was considered a possible tournament team. Iowa and the Big East challenge should have added two more power five games, but Iowa underperformed compared to where they have the last several years and we were given garbage by the Big East. How exactly is overvaluing this crappy metric supposed to change any of that?
