BE, B10, SEC, and B12 tourney champs

[ValleyGuy]

The complaining on here is painful. Everyone said UConn had a cake walk last year to the Championship. The committee was 100% going to stick it to UConn this year. How did none of you see this coming?

Also, who cares? You have to play good teams at some point and you should be up for the challenge. It’s not like you have to beat every single team.

You think all these teams are happy seeing UConn in the bracket. Stop complaining. You should enjoy the competition, not running from it.

Shameful how scared some of you sound.

 

[HCCForever]

The complaining on here is painful. Everyone said UConn had a cake walk last year to the Championship. The committee was 100% going to stick it to UConn this year. How did none of you see this coming?

Also, who cares? You have to play good teams at some point and you should be up for the challenge. It’s not like you have to beat every single team.

You think all these teams are happy seeing UConn in the bracket. Stop complaining. You should enjoy the competition, not running from it.

Shameful how scared some of you sound.

Most people are just highlighting the inferior work of selection committee. It is not just UConn fans but most bracketologists and announcers as well.

Nobody is running from anything.

 

[upstater]

I think people are underestimating the problem with a loaded bracket. You're betting that one of the 6 teams isn't going to get hot one night and cause the same sort of difficulties UConn ran into against Creighton and Seton Hall.

Of course UConn should win all 6.

But when you face FAU and Auburn in games 2 and 3, you're betting these 2 teams won't get hot, and they just might.

In weaker brackets like UNCs, they'll get a couple breathers on the way to the Final 4.

Your chances are increased in a weaker bracket no matter how good you are.

On any given day, most of the top 30 seeds can knock off ANY other team in the tournament.

 

[UConnJim]

Shouldn’t the committee put the 4 highest ranked P6 tournament champions in different regions to allow all 4 to get to the Final 4?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

That was primarily a joke, but the few times I've driven to Brooklyn (from late 1980's to early 1990's) the route (IIRC) was 95 to 287 to Saw Mill to Henry Hudson to West Side highway into Brooklyn.

That's an interesting route that I can fully picture & see how it works, but had never really occurred to me as a driving option from northeast of the city.

You got me to check out what GMaps app recommended, and it provided I-95 to Whitestone Bridge, Whitestone Expressway (678) to BQE (278) into Tillary St (downtown Bklyn) to Flatbush Ave, which is pretty much what I would have thought. But that wasn't offered to make you wrong in any way. Instead, I appreciate your awakening me to going wide-west and through the Battery tunnel.

It could absolutely make sense sometimes, very much akin to when I've chosen to get crosstown eastward to depart Manhattan from a day in Hudson River/west side environs by way of the streets/avenues/roads/bridges that drop me into the Bruckner/I-95 corridor.

And that sparks recollection of my learning from Yankee fan friends that I could shoot up the Major Deegan to get to Westchester to Fairfield County.

It's fascinating that the infrequency of visits by people focused on an arena event can yield unexpected routes that didn't readily occurr to me when I lived within NYC/LI and used the various roads for all kinds of purposes.

Thank you.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That's an interesting route that I can fully picture & see how it works, but had never really occurred to me as a driving option from northeast of the city.

You got me to check out what GMaps app recommended, and it provided I-95 to Whitestone Bridge, Whitestone Expressway (678) to BQE (278) into Tillary St (downtown Bklyn) to Flatbush Ave, which is pretty much what I would have thought. But that wasn't offered to make you wrong in any way. Instead, I appreciate your awakening me to going wide-west and through the Battery tunnel.

It could absolutely make sense sometimes, very much akin to when I've chosen to get crosstown eastward to depart Manhattan from a day in Hudson River/west side environs by way of the streets/avenues/roads/bridges that drop me into the Bruckner/I-95 corridor.

And that sparks recollection of my learning from Yankee fan friends that I could shoot up the Major Deegan to get to Westchester to Fairfield County.

It's fascinating that the infrequency of visits by people focused on an arena event can yield unexpected routes that didn't readily occurr to me when I lived within NYC/LI and used the various roads for all kinds of purposes.

Thank you.

I had a number of friends from Westchester many decades ago, one of whom lived for a number of years in Brooklyn (barely over the bridge) who knew most of the better ways to get around by car from Westchester throughout the boroughs (well, all but Staten Island). From around 1988 through around 1994 this was the best route lower Fairfield County (things may have changed), which included attending his wedding a litttle more than thirty years ago.

 

[Samoo]

This means Auburn has beaten a team of UConn’s quality once in 7 tries this season.

A lot of worrying about a team that hasn’t proven they can win against UConn.

No, this means Auburn has never beaten a team of UConn's quality, and only beaten teams a step down from UConn once in seven tries. Your final sentence only rings truer.

Proposed:

Auburn's ceiling is UConn's C+ game, they usually reach it and beat mediocre to pretty good teams.
If UConn played at C+ level and below all season, they would probably have a record similar to Auburn's. .
UConn rarely plays its C+ level game - maybe 10% of the time (Creighton, Seton Hall,?).

Given a 10% chance UConn is playing badly enough to lose to Auburn; and maybe an 80% chance that Auburn plays well enough to take advantage of that, so I put Auburn's chances at 8% - but wait - they still need to get past Mr. Wolf

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I had a number of friends from Westchester many decades ago, one of whom lived for a number of years in Brooklyn (barely over the bridge) who knew most of the better ways to get around by car from Westchester throughout the boroughs (well, all but Staten Island). From around 1988 through around 1994 this was the best route lower Fairfield County (things may have changed), which included attending his wedding a litttle more than thirty years ago.

I still choose Hutch to Cross County to Saw Mill to HHudson to West Side as my preferred route in from CT. Just never extended it in Brooklyn.

And I don't use Joe DiMaggio, Ed Koch, Hugh Carey, or RFK's names for the West Side, Queensboro (sometimes "59th St"), Battery, or Triboro.

I accepted the shift from Interboro to Jackie Robinson, and conceptually pair it with the later-occurring rotonda & statue at Citi Field that honors a former Brooklyn Dodger in Queens.

And just to complete the record, The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge was an unnecessary and dumb post-naming, whereas the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge represents a petty, unnecessary, and offensive naming. Both iterations were/are the "Tappan Zee Bridge."

OK, one more: "6th Avenue." I got properly bullied into that as a teenage college student visiting during semester breaks & summer vacation by friends who grew up in or near the city. Nobody has ever told me to call it "Avenue of the Americas," though maybe it can apply to the boxy corporate towerred area just west of Rockefeller Center.

 

[Scrutineer]

Oops:

"waist" not "waste"

@Tenspro2002 not "tennspro"

I think you had it right the first time............

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I think you had it right the first time............

I considered that

 

[JungleLobo]

No, this means Auburn has never beaten a team of UConn's quality, and only beaten teams a step down from UConn once in seven tries. Your final sentence only rings truer.

Proposed:

Auburn's ceiling is UConn's C+ game, they usually reach it and beat mediocre to pretty good teams.
If UConn played at C+ level and below all season, they would probably have a record similar to Auburn's. .
UConn rarely plays its C+ level game - maybe 10% of the time (Creighton, Seton Hall,?).

Given a 10% chance UConn is playing badly enough to lose to Auburn; and maybe an 80% chance that Auburn plays well enough to take advantage of that, so I put Auburn's chances at 8% - but wait - they still need to get past Mr. Wolf

Read it again dude. Quad 1A. That’s UConn

 

[freescooter]

Really some people will whine no matter what. Yeah, there are conference champs in our bracket. Big deal. Exactly zero of them are the best teams in their leagues. Conference tournaments are a crapshoot. You have players and teams with variable degrees of motivation, especially if you are already in the tournament. Even Marquette sat their best player, who was reported at least to have been cleared to play, because they wanted to give him extra time to heal for the really important event. Over the years I’ve seen coaches use it to play less used players more minutes to get them used to pressure. Hurley started Diarra last year in the NBE tournament over Newton at least against PC. In the giant scheme of things, unless you are a bubble team it doesn’t really matter if win or don’t. Occasionally a team moves up a spot or down a spot but usually not. I agree that Iowa State is playing very well. But if we meet them in the Elite 8, so what? That is supposed to be a good matchup.