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Would you rather face Florida or Houston as a potential 2 seed in the South (Houston) Region?

  • Florida

    Votes: 29 48.3%
  • Houston

    Votes: 31 51.7%

  • Total voters
    60
I can’t believe what I’m reading. don’t see anyway that playing Houston at HOME would be preferable to playing Florida on a neutral court. They’d both be deserving 2 seeds. Florida is not that much better than Houston so as to make up for the latter’s home court advantage.
If they even get there. Tickets will be allocated and while they have a crowd advantage, it wouldn't quite be a home game. Meanwhile, both teams would be in Pods the first weekend. Even then Houston would need to win a sweet 16 game to face UConn. It's not worth worrying about.
 
I love this "before Florida hit their stride" nonsense. Same is true of UConn. Reed missed the 2 previous games and wasn't 100%. Mullins was still coming back from injury and this was only his 4th game overall.
The last paragraph is nonsense and reveals the biased opinion of whoever wrote that. It implies that the UConn win was an upset, by the way, so it shouldn’t be considered as relevant.
 
8 teams that can win it all. No surprises.

UConn has one of the best two-way point guards in the country in Silas Demary Jr. In Alex Karaban, Solo Ball and Braylon Mullins, the Huskies have a shotmaking trio matched by very few teams. There's plenty of depth. And Hurley has a top-10 defense, one that was among the very best in America for the first three months of the season.

Don't discount UConn's championship pedigree, either. The Huskies have a coaching staff and multiple players who have done it before -- twice. That matters in March.


 
I love this "before Florida hit their stride" nonsense. Same is true of UConn. Reed missed the 2 previous games and wasn't 100%. Mullins was still coming back from injury and this was only his 4th game overall.
It's so hard to synchronize UConn from who was hurt, who wasn't there. You'd think if all that mattered that much, they'd have dominated the BE. It's a very weird team/season so far, whereas we'll likely see what they really are over the next couple weeks. They're like a box of chocolates right now, I'm hoping we get the caramel nugget in March.
 
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8 teams that can win it all. No surprises.

UConn has one of the best two-way point guards in the country in Silas Demary Jr. In Alex Karaban, Solo Ball and Braylon Mullins, the Huskies have a shotmaking trio matched by very few teams. There's plenty of depth. And Hurley has a top-10 defense, one that was among the very best in America for the first three months of the season.

Don't discount UConn's championship pedigree, either. The Huskies have a coaching staff and multiple players who have done it before -- twice. That matters in March.


Well, one player who's done it before twice, but I like the sentiment.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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?
 
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.

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 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.
 

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.
 
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.
 

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