Bracket talk

[bendm]

8 teams that can win it all. No surprises.

Yup all The projected 1&2 seeds

 

[SubbaBub]

Like in 2023/2024, we play our game and have everyone available, we beat anyone.

The difference in 2026 is that we won't always have the best player on the court or multiple mismatches. 2026 will require a 2011/2014 run of excellence and execution.

Duke, Michigan, and Arizona are the best in class this year but all are beatable.

There are also a number of studs on other teams that can cause huge problems, but we have been able to beat single player teams.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

If they even get there

Exactly. I'd be fine with Houston. We'll worry for weeks and then they'll lose to a hot 10 seed

 

[RuffRuff]

Like in 2023/2024, we play our game and have everyone available, we beat anyone.

The difference in 2026 is that we won't always have the best player on the court or multiple mismatches. 2026 will require a 2011/2014 run of excellence and execution.

Duke, Michigan, and Arizona are the best in class this year but all are beatable.

There are also a number of studs on other teams that can cause huge problems, but we have been able to beat single player teams.

Is is a FAR different landscape this year. The top 1 seed that year was Bama, which was a soft, up tempo team lead by Brandon Miller, that we trounced in the early season. That was a downy soft field.

This years field has 4 bullies leading the way and stock full of big bodies and dudes. Thing is, we won't have to see them until late if we get there, anything can happen along the way and anything can happen in a one game format. All I'd like is playing teams we haven't seen before, which I think is always our advantage. So give me Houston, Michigan, Duke on the way in if someone doesn't knock them out first.

 

[superjohn]

Is is a FAR different landscape this year. The top 1 seed that year was Bama, which was a soft, up tempo team lead by Brandon Miller, that we trounced in the early season. That was a downy soft field.

This years field has 4 bullies leading the way and stock full of big bodies and dudes. Thing is, we won't have to see them until late if we get there, anything can happen along the way and anything can happen in a one game format. All I'd like is playing teams we haven't seen before, which I think is always our advantage. So give me Houston, Michigan, Duke on the way in if someone doesn't knock them out first.

Bama was loaded and you would've been saying the same thing you're saying this year that we beat them in the beginning of the season and they're not the same team/they've gotten a lot better so that win doesn't mean much.

 

[JakeTheDog]

Bama was loaded and you would've been saying the same thing you're saying this year that we beat them in the beginning of the season and they're not the same team/they've gotten a lot better so that win doesn't mean much.

In the name of objectivity he just casually dismisses everything UConn has ever accomplished. I try not to ignore posters but he’s making it so hard.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Lunardi's bracket has us potentially facing:

• Miami
• Arkansas
• Florida or Purdue

All teams that we have very recent NCAA Tournament history with. Not saying this is good, bad, or even likely, just interesting.

 

[Inyatkin]

Bama was loaded and you would've been saying the same thing you're saying this year that we beat them in the beginning of the season and they're not the same team/they've gotten a lot better so that win doesn't mean much.

That is indeed exactly what he would be saying. Glad he wasn’t posting for the Zion Duke team because the insufferability of it all would have been off the charts. You remember, the team that almost lost to Tacko Fall in round two and didn’t make the Final Four?

 

[RuffRuff]

Bama was loaded and you would've been saying the same thing you're saying this year that we beat them in the beginning of the season and they're not the same team/they've gotten a lot better so that win doesn't mean much.

2023 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

A 27 in KP in a weak field - that team might not be top 15 this year. Look at the roster, look at that draft after Wemby.

Rather than constantly call things names, just back up a counter argument. I have not come across more defensive humans than a handful of posters in this place.

 

[80shusky]

I just assume that unless UConn is unmistakably dominant the committee will do whatever it can to drop them and give the better seed to someone else. If UConn doesn't win out and FL does or loses 1 game to a "better" team they'll give them the 1. I'm of the opinion that we are fine until we hit a top 10 team late and even then I like the possibilities.

 

[superjohn]

2023 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

A 27 in KP in a weak field - that team might not be top 15 this year. Look at the roster, look at that draft after Wemby.

Rather than constantly call things names, just back up a counter argument. I have not come across more defensive humans than a handful of posters in this place.

I know the roster, that's why I said they were loaded. I know how you've been dismissing UConn's early season out of conference wins throughout the Big East season, that's why I said what I said.

 

[superjohn]

That is indeed exactly what he would be saying. Glad he wasn’t posting for the Zion Duke team because the insufferability of it all would have been off the charts. You remember, the team that almost lost to Tacko Fall in round two and didn’t make the Final Four?

He's so transparent.

 

[Lafayette]

Makes no sense why the top 2 seed would get sent out West w/AZ.

They cannot be in the #1 bracket, nor should they get a better home court advantage than the 1 in their bracket. West makes it easy if Florida or even Houston.

 

[lonsharkin51]

Who cares? We beat a 16 or we beat a 15, and then it’s like Danny said: “And the thing about UConn is, once we get out of that first round, we think we're supposed to win it.”