Selection Show Thread

[HuskyHawk]

ISU should have been a 1 over UNC

A few pages back there is a tweet from Sam Veccine. Says the seeding was all done before conference tournaments. If true that explains Iowa State and Auburn, UNC as #1 and not giving Big East bubble teams credit for tournament play.

 

[Vowelguy]

I will note that everyone on this board was scared of Iona last year, so maybe we are not the best judges of the tournament?

 

[kobe]

Where is Cinny?

real selection show starts at 930, this is just an appetizer.

 

[JungleLobo]

They didn't even go by NET!

Indiana State was top 30.

The Mountain West were all top 30-40 and were slotted 5-10 slots lower than they should have been.

You would have gotten in but the tie breaker was “lateral quickness”

 

[superjohn]

The 4th place BE team didn’t make the tournament. Thats BAD.

The 5th and 6th place teams weren’t even in the discussion.

They don’t view the BE as a power league

I wouldn't read too much into it. The Big East normally does just fine with bids and five or six tournaments ago without UConn in the league the Big East got two #1 seeds.

 

[auror]

Based on... what??? The NCAA's own NET rating has them 5th. The closest thing to validating that number is the idiotic rankings. They're a consensus #7 team based on the Massey compilation. But somehow the committee of big brains finds them all the way down at #15. Insane.

Lack of high end wins, basically. They killed a lot of mediocre teams at home, then just rolled in the tourny (but committee had already slotted them by then).

 

[Tenspro2002]

Based on... what??? The NCAA's own NET rating has them 5th. The closest thing to validating that number is the idiotic rankings. They're a consensus #7 team based on the Massey compilation. But somehow the committee of big brains finds them all the way down at #15. Insane.

Auburn was top 5 in both KenPom and in NET! Before today!

 

[JungleLobo]

It's obvious that the NCAA committee despises UCONN. Why didn't they load up the region more? Maybe thrown the Spurs in there?

I hate you.

Here’s 4 of 6 home games.

 

[my2cents]

Virginia is one of the worst teams I have ever seen. St. Johns and Seton Hall much better.

 

[DaMuttzNutt]

They loaded the east because they don't want us to win #6. They don't, it separates us from Duke and makes us the leading program over the last 30-40 years.

We are champs and we will be champs again. 6 games to go, let's

WIN THE WHOLE F&*#@ING THING

 

[upstater]

God, imagine how Iowa State, Auburn, and Illinois feel. They ran the table at the end, looked extremely impressive, and get rewarded with shots at each other, and then us.

Let's not forget that UConn ended the season strong last year, ranked 7 in the AP, and somehow we ended up a 4 seed.

 

[Deepster]

It's obvious that the NCAA committee despises UCONN. Why didn't they load up the region more? Maybe thrown the Spurs in there?

Good lord. I am gonna need a lot of rope this week.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Jay Williams also thinks this is bull____.

 

[Jimdish255]

I don't really understand this stuff at all. It's so weird to me to force two teams who are good enough to be given 10 seeds to survive a play-in game against each other. Wouldn't it make sense for 15 or 16 seeds to be a play-in game instead of making two teams that are better than them have a play-in.

How is Michigan State in at all?
How are they a 9 need after Colorado runs the table and gets stuck in a play in. And CU had injuries in a couple of their losses. Do they pay attention to anything?

 

[CL82]

only thing i'd worry about with uconn is kind of like houston in the aac, they've only played one or two real games since conference play started

You don't follow college basketball, do you?

 

[storrsroars]

Torvik has Iowa St 4, Auburn 5.
And St John's 21.

 

[REB1094]

Did teams miss out on March Madness because their school doesn't play football?

 

[Doctor Hoop]

ISU should have been a 1 over UNC

Or at worst the 1st or 2nd 2 seed. It looks like the committee had the bracket set a week ago and only adjusted for conference tournament upsets

 

[storrsroars]

But still bad for the BE and its pocketbook.

Basically have to get all three teams into the Elite Eight to equal the $$ going to MWC and ACC.

 

[housekeys]

This years participation trophy goes to: the team that beats UConn.

 

[Brochacho]

I can’t believe people are complaining about our bracket. You have to play good teams to win a championship and we got very favorable matchups metrics be damned. BYU and Northwestern are the only schools that concern me.

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

To be honest, this is the best thing that can happen for Danny and the Kids. Feel we got screwed and create yet another chip on our shoulder! Bring it on!

 

[Gurleyman]

They had Auburn as the 15th team so the 3rd 4-seed, which in their mind was giving us a break.

Leaving aside the seed feeling too low, for a team that’s 5 in KenPom, 7 in the NET and 12 in the poll, Alabama is their 16, and the 1 should get the 16. There are lots of reasons to flip - but these are two teams in the same league with identical travel.

 

[jorge34]

Hurley will use the bogus bracket AND the snubbing Big East as major motivators.

They did them a favor

 

[HuskyHawk]

Did teams miss out on March Madness because their school doesn't play football?

That’s the hidden message. Mountain West gets 6. Why? Well next year it’s the PAC. We need to get out of here if we can.