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Basically thinks that someone should review the selections after the committee finalizes the bracket. Not a terrible idea, but he shouldn't be the one complaining. If this came from Greg Marshall at Wichita St. I'd understand.I can't watch the video, can you summarize his points?
It just seems like dook's first two game in the NCAAs are in the state of North Carolina every year. I tried to do some research to confirm this, but could only find game and round outcomes for them without listing the location of the game. Anyone know of a site that would list he locations of their NCAA tourney games?
It just seems like dook's first two game in the NCAAs are in the state of North Carolina every year. I tried to do some research to confirm this, but could only find game and round outcomes for them without listing the location of the game. Anyone know of a site that would list he locations of their NCAA tourney games?
He has absolutely no right to complain for his own seeding, Duke shouldn't have even gotten a 3.
That said, this year the seeding was really...weird and bad.
Wichita State got completely bitch-slapped. If they'd have known their draw at the time they'd have thrown the conference championship game to get knocked down to a 2 or 3 seed to give themselves a legitimate chance.
On the opposite end, we get underseeded and it resulted in a pretty good draw.
Yes, our draw was much easier than Wichita State's. Villanova was weaker than Kentucky, Iowa State weaker than Louisville. We just had a tougher first round in St Joe's.
Committee was horrific this year.
Double checking the process this year would have taken their home game.
Agree completely. It's easy to talk about incorrect seeding with the benefit of hindsight but before the Wichita St. game Kentucky's two best performances this year were beating Lville and losing to Florida in the SEC championship game. Sometimes uber talent but underperformance garners a seed similar to Kentucky's and it happens to be incredibly appropriate - looking at you Oklahoma St (not quite the level of talent but definitely better wins). And yes, our path might be "easier" but that's more hindsight bias and unfortunate luck. Nova was a good team, and we shouldn't sell our performance short. ISU won the Big XII and will be a hugely tough match up for us regardless of the fact that one of their best players is hurt.But you can only seed Kentucky based on what they DID during the regular season, not what they COULD'VE or SHOULD'VE done. I, for one, would've been screaming bloody murder if UK had gotten a higher seed bc they didn't deserve a higher seed based on their play. Just so happens that they played their best game of the year when it really counted.
Duke was a 4 seed, IMO, by resume. In fact, their resume looked roughly like ours (other than basic RPI), yet we got a 7.Am I misremembering or did Duke's rank increase after losses this year? The Committee had more than 1 ACC representative on it and gave Duke a seed they probably didn't deserve as well as a favorable 1st round match up in friendly waters. Mercer is a member of a conference who prior to 2013 NEVER won an NCAA Tourney game. I think Coach K is pretty out of line on this one.