Bracketology (merged threads)

[Plebe]

Very surprised if two Ivy's make it. Their overall resumes are not that good. They shouldnt benefit because other teams lost in conference tournaments when the Ivey's dont have one.

In the case of Villanova, a potential Ivy at-large bid would benefit from the fact that Villanova is clearly not the same good team without its best player.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Penn and Princeton play each other on Tuesday. The winner gets the automatic bid, and
the loser, with another loss on their record, probably doesn't get in.

 

[JavaMan]

 

[StarMan]

Charlie Creme's Bracketology has been updated as of March 7th, 2016 at 12:25 am. UCLA is listed as the #2 in UConn's region.

 

[UcMiami]

Charlie Creme's Bracketology has been updated as of March 7th, 2016 at 12:25 am. UCLA is listed as the #2 in UConn's region.

I think MSU has a better claim to the last 4 seed over TAMU with TAMU losing to KY (OK) and TN (bad) in their last two games v. MSU upsetting OSU on the way to the conference final - better RPI, better record and equivalent wins - TAMU maybe has better losses, but ...

 

[EricSD]

And Tennessee up to a 6 seed? Good grief.

 

[baggerbob]

Either Michigan St, or Mississippi St should be ahead of Texas A& M. On the Men's side they take into account how you are playing at the end of the year.

 

[Plebe]

Either Michigan St, or Mississippi St should be ahead of Texas A& M. On the Men's side they take into account how you are playing at the end of the year.

I think that would be overreacting. Texas A&M has 6 top-50 wins and a top-10 strength of schedule. Michigan State played a decent schedule but only has 3 top-50 wins. Mississippi State has 5 top-50 wins but played an atrociously weak nonconference schedule.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

The new bracket might mean another date with DePaul and their frenetic, trapping style.

 

[SCGamecock]

I doubt DePaul gives UCONN the same game they gave the Huskies earlier in the season. They've looked very shaky lately, especially in that conference tourney loss.

 

[Nuyoika]

DePaul played really well that game but I also think our defense has gotten better since then.

 

[StarMan]

Charlie Creme's Bracketology has been updated as of March 8th, 2016 at 10:00am. It's mostly some fine tuning.

 

[Vowelguy]

Need to do more research, but my current thoughts:

 

[Aluminny69]

Personally, I think any team that agreed to play UConn this year should be rewarded by NOT being placed in UConn's bracket. This includes Maryland, Ohio State, USF, etc. Force the teams that ducked UConn to have to endure the beating they deserve. ( Not that I'm vindictive or anything.)

 

[UcMiami]

Personally, I think any team that agreed to play UConn this year should be rewarded by NOT being placed in UConn's bracket. This includes Maryland, Ohio State, USF, etc. Force the teams that ducked UConn to have to endure the beating they deserve. ( Not that I'm vindictive or anything.)

I think that is a fine rule! In fact, I would carry it further, any P5 team that did not play a single ranked team OOC cannot receive anything higher than a 5 seed regardless of conference schedule, and any team that didn't play a top fifteen team OOC or a ranked team away cannot receive higher than a 3 seed.

And my proposal from a few years ago that has yet to receive an up or down vote from the full NCAA membership - if you cannot play better than .500 in conference games, you should be looking at maybe getting a WNIT bid, because you do not deserve an NCAA bid.