*** Official Selection Sunday Thread ***
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So that puts us in the same region as the overall #1 25% of the time, which is spot on.
Npw I've always felt like we have ended up in the same region as the eventual champion more than random chance would predict. Is that north of 25%?
CycloneErik
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Park in the wrong spot. It's not very difficult.
This in spades, dude takes a beating every game and just keeps bringing it. I can't remember a tougher Cyclone.
Iowa State currently a 14 point favorite over Lipscomb
Get that man a headband, the final wig from Joe Dirt and have him shave the stash and the think he could pass as Keshon to those of us outside of ISU fans.
Cycsk, I appreciate your like. My response to your post here just doesn't seem like something I would comment on though. I don't remember making it. I think I'm losing it.
I hope people finally have it in their heads that these conference tournaments have a minimal impact on how teams are seeded in the tournament. I don’t know how many times I got called an idiot for saying this… but ISU throwing the Big 12 tournament literally had zero impact on our seeding - not only did we stay a 3, we were the #2 3-seed. On top of that, Wisconsin didn’t get to play in Milwaukee despite making it to the Big 10 final… and, in all likelihood winning it wouldn’t have gotten them there, either.
I don’t want to say conference teams mean nothing, but in terms of NCAA seeding, it has a minimal impact.
I don’t want to say conference teams mean nothing, but in terms of NCAA seeding, it has a minimal impact.
I'd have to wonder with injuries and exhaustion to other players/teams if teams start to shut down their players for conference tourneys at some point, or if for nothing else, rest.
WI and MI both looked really tired yesterday, and I think Izzo said something about getting a good break before the NCAAs.
and I need to be clear that I’m not saying conference tournaments have zero impact on the NCAA Tournament - someone winning a conference tournament nobody saw coming is obviously going to throw a wrench in things, and UNC and Texas apparently doing enough in their tournaments got them in, while WV played their way out by losing to Colorado. So for teams trying to fight their way in it matters a lot. But when the committee has the 1s and 2s set by late Friday and the 3s, 4s, and maybe even 5s and 6s set by early Saturday, what happens in a conference tournament, unless it happens really early, isn’t going to change much of anything. Let’s hyperbolize a bit and assume ISU stayed healthy the entire year and was somewhere on the 4/5 true seed line (in other words, fighting for a 1-seed), and was a 1 or 2 in the Big 12 Tournament - they wouldn’t play their first game until Thursday, and the 1s and 2s are being locked in place by Friday. Unless ISU gets smoked by a near last place team in the round of 8, the committee really has nothing to go on by that game. As such, as long as that doesn’t happen, what happens in the rest of the Big 12 Tournament has no bearing because we’d already be locked in place by Friday.
They end up being 1-2 last quality wins losses for bubble teams but not much more.
I don't think VCU, Colorado State and Drake as two seeds would fly very well...
Working out the details. Limit to top conferences. The main point is that they have to do something to make the conference tournaments more significant or they will start to fade.
