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Both these teams stink and should be nowhere near the tournament. UNC has to be the worst shooting team in the country and all Syracuse can do is shoot.
 
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superjohn said:
Both these teams stink and should be nowhere near the tournament. UNC has to be the worst shooting team in the country and all Syracuse can do is shoot.boeheim Boeh
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superjohn said:
Both these teams stink and should be nowhere near the tournament. UNC has to be the worst shooting team in the country and all Syracuse can do is shoot.
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It's like they're playing in a big empty 747 hangar.
 
Unc-cuse looks like a low major game based on the quality of play. Just terrible to watch.
 
Boeheim can’t recruit. That is why Syracuse is a brutal team. Williams can’t coach which is why UNC is failing. Both should retire, but I actually think Williams has had the worse year. Boeheim kind of met expectations of his brutal recruiting. Williams has shown no ability to develop top level recruits
 
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Dooooooomed said:
Rutgers down 30 now. LOL.
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Every projection I’m seeing from the top bracketologists historically (not Lunardi) has us somewhere between a 10-11 right now, occasionally a 12 seed, but not many in the last 4 in which is good. The way we are playing and I confidently believe we will continue to play, we are going to end up an 8-9 seed, unless we get to the big east championship, in which case I think we have a shot at a 6 seed if we win, and shot at a 7 just for getting there. All these teams losing ahead of us will help our cause. Lots of projected 5-9 seeds losing the last few days, bad losses too.
 
Turned on UNC vs Syracuse. Two not so good teams. UNC has no idea how to attack the zone. Roy ain't no genius.
 
ucp990411 said:
Turned on UNC vs Syracuse. Two not so good teams. UNC has no idea how to attack the zone. Roy ain't no genius.
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If Roy has an NBA point guard that can run the show and create, he is a genius. If not, he clueless. What Calhoun would have done with the talent on the floor. There is no comparison between Roy and other legendary coaches
 
UConnRock said:
If Roy has an NBA point guard that can run the show and create, he is a genius. If not, he clueless. What Calhoun would have done with the talent on the floor. There is no comparison between Roy and other legendary coaches
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he had cole anthony last year and still did nothing!

that being said, 'cuse is really struggling to close this one out...
 
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straight-up meltdown now. up 10 with a minute to go, now a 2 point lead with 20 seconds.
 
The bracketology this year is a popularity contest rather than a meritocracy. At the end of each year I like to go back to the preseason top 25 projections and informally see how accurate they were. This year the preseason top 25 has been self perpetuating the charade that is the Big 10. Rutgers should be fighting to get in. We should be a 5-7 seed if we sweep to the BE finals. It seems that will actually get us to the 8-9 game with Big 10 teams in the 5-7 slots with double digit losses? How can they defend brackets like that with a straight face?
 
Ricker said:
The bracketology this year is a popularity contest rather than a meritocracy. At the end of each year I like to go back to the preseason top 25 projections and informally see how accurate they were. This year the preseason top 25 has been self perpetuating the charade that is the Big 10. Rutgers should be fighting to get in. We should be a 5-7 seed if we sweep to the BE finals. It seems that will actually get us to the 8-9 game with Big 10 teams in the 5-7 slots with double digit losses? How can they defend brackets like that with a straight face?
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If we sweep to the Big East finals we're definitely higher than 8-9.
 
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tzznandrew said:
I'm genuinely interested as to why Rutgers is a lock in most people's eyes. A home win against Illinois and a few wins against bubble teams?
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Two words rhymes with “wallet tea bosses”
 
superjohn said:
If we sweep to the Big East finals we're definitely higher than 8-9.
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Last night John Fanta opined that we wouldn't be higher than an 8 even if we we won the BE tournament. I think that's crazy, but that is even coming from a knowledgeable UConn advocate. I heard that elsewhere channel flipping, so I wouldn't be so fast to say that just reaching the final 'definitely' makes us a better seed than 8. Keep in mind my own opinion is that we should be a 6 winning this week and being a finalist, and maybe even a 5 if we win and other 5's and 6's struggle.
 
Ricker said:
Last night John Fanta opined that we wouldn't be higher than an 8 even if we we won the BE tournament. I think that's crazy, but that is even coming from a knowledgeable UConn advocate. I heard that elsewhere channel flipping, so I wouldn't be so fast to say that just reaching the final 'definitely' makes us a better seed than 8. Keep in mind my own opinion is that we should be a 6 winning this week and being a finalist, and maybe even a 5 if we win and other 5's and 6's struggle.
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That's only true if you know what all the other schools will do in the same time period. And -in reality- no one does.
 
Ricker said:
Last night John Fanta opined that we wouldn't be higher than an 8 even if we we won the BE tournament. I think that's crazy, but that is even coming from a knowledgeable UConn advocate. I heard that elsewhere channel flipping, so I wouldn't be so fast to say that just reaching the final 'definitely' makes us a better seed than 8. Keep in mind my own opinion is that we should be a 6 winning this week and being a finalist, and maybe even a 5 if we win and other 5's and 6's struggle.
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I may be crazy, but I do think people are looking at the UConn team and the BE in general in a vacuum and that just looking around a bit you have to imagine a hypothetical 3rd place BE team that won the BET and whose record is shaped by 8 games without it's all american candidate would do much better than an 8 seed. Again, in that scenario they'd have beaten Creighton and Villanova at neutral sites. That's minimally a 6 seed to me, and probably a 4/5. Again, when you compare it to other resumes, they're full of holes too, and often more glaring ones.

This assumes we beat Seton Hall and Georgetown. If they don't all bets are off.
 
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