BET seeding

[Get a Job]

It's never too early, in my opinion, to start talking about the final regular season conference standings. Here is the bracket tool in case you're inclined to play around with scenarios. mred's Big East MBB Tournament Seeding Tiebreaker

@navery12 , do you happen to know if that guy who makes spreadsheets showing the probabilities of all the outcomes has begun releasing them yet?

 

[AntG168]

We have 9 conference games left

St Johns2)
Creighton(1)
Marquette(1)
Nova(1)
SH(2)
Gtown(1)
PC(1)

We need to go 5-0 against pc,GTown, sh, nova

And 2-2 against Samson Johnson, Marquette, Creighton. Pretty much win the home games.

That’d make us 23-8(15-5)

 

[UConNick]

That’d make us 23-8(15-5)

If we can get the Net/KP up some ten spots, I think this would have us in competitive position for a 4 seed and Providence. Although St. John’s is emerging as a potential rival for that site.

 

[TheDude]

If we can get the Net/KP up some ten spots, I think this would have us in competitive position for a 4 seed and Providence. Although St. John’s is emerging as a potential rival for that site.

If we win BET we may be a 2 seed

 

[3rdbass]

We have 9 conference games left

St Johns2)
Creighton(1)
Marquette(1)
Nova(1)
SH(2)
Gtown(1)
PC(1)

We need to go 5-0 against pc,GTown, sh, nova

And 2-2 against Samson Johnson, Marquette, Creighton. Pretty much win the home games.

That’d make us 23-8(15-5)

Why are we playing against our own player(Samson Johson)? We should beat him handily right? No handle. Just pressure him and shoot lots of 3's to avoid getting blocked. LOL!

 

[freescooter]

Truly if iI didn’t enjoy going down to New York, catching a couple of games and going to dinner with some old friends every year, I’d say I don’t much care how we do in the New Big East Tournament. I just want them to be playing the day I’m there and preferably in an earlier game.

If it started today, and I were the coach I’d sit Diarra, Karaban, and McNeeley to let them heal. It means nothing. To put it in perspective, who won the Big East Tournament in 2023? And when you finish googling it, would you trade places with them? I have heard people say they would rather win the Big East than the National Championship. I laugh and ask what do they hate UConn basketball. It is a made for tv event that ultimately is completely meaningless. I realize I’m only speaking for myself but if the Devil offered me a deal of never winning another NBE title but he would not interfere in any national championship tournament, I’d sign on in a heartbeat.

 

[auror]

If we can get the Net/KP up some ten spots, I think this would have us in competitive position for a 4 seed and Providence. Although St. John’s is emerging as a potential rival for that site.

We can both be top 4 seeds in Providence and be placed into different regions, if there aren't other teams that want the Northeast. I haven't looked at the distributions of top seeds yet.

 

[AllHusky]

Ever hear of having it and eating it too? My choice.

 

[7774]

Truly if iI didn’t enjoy going down to New York, catching a couple of games and going to dinner with some old friends every year, I’d say I don’t much care how we do in the New Big East Tournament. I just want them to be playing the day I’m there and preferably in an earlier game.

If it started today, and I were the coach I’d sit Diarra, Karaban, and McNeeley to let them heal. It means nothing. To put it in perspective, who won the Big East Tournament in 2023? And when you finish googling it, would you trade places with them? I have heard people say they would rather win the Big East than the National Championship. I laugh and ask what do they hate UConn basketball. It is a made for tv event that ultimately is completely meaningless. I realize I’m only speaking for myself but if the Devil offered me a deal of never winning another NBE title but he would not interfere in any national championship tournament, I’d sign on in a heartbeat.

Wow basically every aspect of this is a disaster. Hilarious you don’t think people remember that Marquette won the regular season and tournament a whole TWO years ago. You might want to get a MRI. And what does “interfere in any national championship tournament“ even mean? That is an incredibly odd way to phrase something, even excluding the fact that you’re bringing make believe into it.

 

[UConNick]

We can both be top 4 seeds in Providence and be placed into different regions, if there aren't other teams that want the Northeast. I haven't looked at the distributions of top seeds yet.

Of course, but I’m concerned there will be an SEC team like UK or Tennessee that could be a 3/4 seed and get stuck in Providence due to their more geographically advantageous sites already getting filled.

It’ll come down to positioning on the s-curve.

I usually do 2-3 personal bracketologies in the lead-up to the Madness. Perhaps it’s time for my first exercise!

 

[Jaydumo20]

We can both be top 4 seeds in Providence and be placed into different regions, if there aren't other teams that want the Northeast. I haven't looked at the distributions of top seeds yet.

Of course it'd be great to be close to home. But, i say this half seriously, I like this team better on the road in a hostile environment so far this year better than some of the limp games they played for the husky faithful at home.

 

[AntG168]

Why are we playing against our own player(Samson Johson)? We should beat him handily right? No handle. Just pressure him and shoot lots of 3's to avoid getting blocked. LOL!

The boneyard making all S J’s Samson Johnson snuck up on me

 

[navery12]

It's never too early, in my opinion, to start talking about the final regular season conference standings. Here is the bracket tool in case you're inclined to play around with scenarios. mred's Big East MBB Tournament Seeding Tiebreaker

@navery12 , do you happen to know if that guy who makes spreadsheets showing the probabilities of all the outcomes has begun releasing them yet?

This is pre Marquette but the most recent update

 

[REB1094]

This is pre Marquette but the most recent update

I really want to see the 1 simulation where UConn finished 9th

 

[superjohn]

Wow basically every aspect of this is a disaster. Hilarious you don’t think people remember that Marquette won the regular season and tournament a whole TWO years ago. You might want to get a MRI. And what does “interfere in any national championship tournament“ even mean? That is an incredibly odd way to phrase something, even excluding the fact that you’re bringing make believe into it.

He's senile, be easy on him.

 

[bendm]

We can both be top 4 seeds in Providence and be placed into different regions, if there aren't other teams that want the Northeast. I haven't looked at the distributions of top seeds yet.

I wasn’t sure if that was possible but this is best case scenario I think. Gimme the 3 or 4 seed in providence but NOT in the east region with Duke or south with Auburn. I’ll take Midwest.

 

[UConNick]

I usually do 2-3 personal bracketologies in the lead-up to the Madness. Perhaps it’s time for my first exercise!

Just did my first one! Landed UConn in a pretty tough spot. 5 seed (19th on S-curve, very generous to UConn if Bracketmatrix is any indication of current trends, but I never said I didn’t have biases) in the East region (yes, Duke as the 1) playing first two rounds in Denver with a pod that looks like this:

5. UConn (19)
12. George Mason (48)
4. Kentucky (13)
13. Grand Canyon (52)

Here’s how I broke down the top 16 seeds and opening weekend sites - the aggrandizing of the B1G and the SEC has made this whole thing pretty damn hard:

South

1. Auburn (1) - Lexington
4. Texas Tech (14) - Denver
3. Texas A&M (9) - Wichita
2. Purdue (8) - Cleveland

East

1. Duke (2) - Raleigh
4. Kentucky (13) - Denver
3. Kansas (10) - Milwaukee
2. Florida (7) - Cleveland

Midwest

1. Houston (3) - Wichita
4. St. John’s (15) - Seattle
3. Michigan State (11) - Providence
2. Tennessee (6) - Raleigh

West

1. Alabama (4) - Lexington
4. Wisconsin (16) - Seattle
3. Marquette (12) - Providence
2. Iowa State (5) - Milwaukee

Couple of short notes from going through this:

- what I fear could play out did play out here, where teams from the gluttonous “mega conferences” snapped up Providence before a local team (St. John’s in this case) even came up on the S-curve. Screwed Marquette out of Cleveland or Wichita, too - I assume they’d pick Providence over Denver.

- the sites are real bad this year. Nothing south of Raleigh/Lexington when we’ve got so many good SEC teams that could use a Dallas/Bham/Orlando type location. Unless Oregon pushes hard, 15/16 on the s-curve are all but guaranteed to land in Seattle.

- there is definitely room to move up for UConn, but our metrics aren’t doing us any favors. I was surprised to also see St. John’s and Marquette lagging in those departments. Short of something insane like winning out, it’s hard for me to see us getting above a 4, even with only 2ish more losses the rest of the way.

- I’ll say straight now what I said between the lines a couple times above: effffff these oversized conferences that are just getting high on their own supply. It impacted the top 16 pretty heavily and all the way down the bracket. My full projection had two instances of 2 SEC teams in the same pod, and it took some gymnastics to avoid one situation of it with the B1G. Thank god the 18-team ACC is so bad they aren’t factoring into these issues, too.

 

[freescooter]

He's senile, be easy on him.

So you’d trade our 2023 with Marquette’s. Figures.

 

[87Xfer]

I have heard people say they would rather win the Big East than the National Championship.

Show us where you've "heard" this, please.

 

[HooperScooper]

Show us where you've "heard" this, please.

Those were probably just the voices in his head.