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easttexastrash said:
I would MUCH rather see UCONN vs Tennessee. That game would draw much better ratings than UCONN vs Notre Dame. How long has it been since these two teams met? DUH!!!!!
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I agree ETT
except for that to happen, UTenn would have to defeat ND.
Possible, but very unlikely (wouldn't you say)?
 
UcMiami said:
Florida (8-8), UGA (7-9), LSU (7-9), and Vanderbilt (7-9) and the ACC bottom feeder Florida St (7-9) gettin in.
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I didn't think Vandy deserved to get in based on their late season collapse -- 2-8 in their last 10.
But then I tried to find a team with a better resume. At quick glance I couldn't fine one, so I think they may actually make it.
 
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msf22b said:
I agree ETT
except for that to happen, UTenn would have to defeat ND.
Possible, but very unlikely (wouldn't you say)?
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I think UT has a very dangerous team with a lot of talent. I think that matchup could go either way. UT certainly has the athletes to compete with ND.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
But anyone who thinks Louisville is a #3 seed is clearly a very bitter Baylor fan. They are rated the top #2 seed by the 4 services overall.
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Where do Sagarin and Massey rate put Louisville?
 
Sagarin has Louisville ninth.

And for those who might wonder if Sagarin has a clue, if you think that a Connecticut location is a home location for a Connecticut, he predicts UConn would beat Louisville by 19. They won by 20. Pretty darn close.
 
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I think the brackets should be arranged so that the semi would be UCONN and UT (if UT makes the semi) and then UCONN and ND in the final. What great bball! The ratings would be very high for both of these games.
 
And Massey has Louisville #4, with their much deplored SOS at #12. The Sagarin SOS is generally more similar to RPI and has the Cards at #68. Massey nailed the UConn-Louisville margin at 20 points exactly in the predictions for Monday.

So Sagarin says Cards at #9, Massey says Cards at #4. Maybe somewhere in the middle. But definitely a high #2 seed.

And Sagarin has the UConn SOS at #52, so it's a useless SOS system. The overall composite ratings for Sagarin are pretty good.
 
Fightin Choke said:
Eric, I'm not sure if it's even possible to move Nebraska to the South Bend bracket, as Nebraska is hosting the Lincoln bracket. When the schools signed these contracts to host the regionals, were they guaranteed to be placed that region (assuming they made the tournament)? And even if they weren't guaranteed, it still makes sense to have Nebraska placed in their own bracket.
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I believe they have been gtd to stay at home
 
Buzzyboy said:
Yes, Notre Dame and UConn. Tennessee is anything but the crème of the crop. They've proven without a doubt that they are a good but not great team while UConn and ND are the only two major unbeaten teams to ever enter the NCAA tournament unbeaten in the same season. Duh!!!!!!!!!
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While a nd uconn championship would be a very compelling matchup, a Tennessee uconn matchup would by far receive the most media coverage and fan interest. There would even be people who normally don't watch wcbb tune in to this game. And just because Tennessee isn't on uconn's level at the moment won't affect that. Tennessee might not be able to beat uconn this year, but they have the talent to be competitive with them.
 
This may sound like a silly question, but does the committee look at the massey and sagarin ratings to help determine seeds and regiinal placements?
 
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Boxerpups4me said:
While a nd uconn championship would be a very compelling matchup, a Tennessee uconn matchup would by far receive the most media coverage and fan interest. There would even be people who normally don't watch wcbb tune in to this game. And just because Tennessee isn't on uconn's level at the moment won't affect that. Tennessee might not be able to beat uconn this year, but they have the talent to be competitive with them.
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But why not both! Semis for one; final for the other?
 
i don't think TN is the weakest 1 seed. that's why we are on ND's side. i think Creme believes Stanford is the weakest of the 1 seeds. the lady vols have played much better down the stretch than Stanford. Stanford had two bad losses at the end of the season and TN won the SEC tourney in a brutal 3 days of play. Creme thinks that makes TN the third #1 seed and Stanford the fourth #1 seed.

can the lady vols beat ND? absolutely. it would be very tough, but TN is peaking at the right time of the season. ND has several great athletes but overall TN is a more athletic squad. anything is possible in March. (please see Baylor's debacle last year)
 
LadyVols9 said:
i don't think TN is the weakest 1 seed. that's why we are on ND's side. i think Creme believes Stanford is the weakest of the 1 seeds.
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Creme"s bracket does NOT include final 4 matchups.
 
Boxerpups4me said:
This may sound like a silly question, but does the committee look at the massey and sagarin ratings to help determine seeds and regiinal placements?
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I am sure the committee members are aware of the ratings.What I do not know, and would like to know, is whether a committee member can bring up such a rating as part of a conversation, or whether they have to pretend the numbers don't exist, and make a separate case for a team highly ranked by one of those measures.
 
Boxerpups4me said:
This may sound like a silly question, but does the committee look at the massey and sagarin ratings to help determine seeds and regiinal placements?
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The committee has many tools available to use, including the Sagarin, Massey, and a few other ratings. To be PC, the committee selection guidelines cannot officially mention any other ratings since only the brain-dead RPI uses just win-loss percentage and its useless SOS. Other services do consider margin of victory, so the committee keeps it vague about how heavily the ratings are used. Past reports from Sagarin and other ratings providers indicate that they have been told the ratings are used pretty strongly. But if the committee chairman is talking evasively and with seeming double-talk after the selections sometimes, it's partly because they don't want to refer to certain tools being used.
 
Phil said:
I am sure the committee members are aware of the ratings.What I do not know, and would like to know, is whether a committee member can bring up such a rating as part of a conversation, or whether they have to pretend the numbers don't exist, and make a separate case for a team highly ranked by one of those measures.
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wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more!;)
 
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Boxerpups4me said:
While a nd uconn championship would be a very compelling matchup, a Tennessee uconn matchup would by far receive the most media coverage and fan interest. There would even be people who normally don't watch wcbb tune in to this game. And just because Tennessee isn't on uconn's level at the moment won't affect that. Tennessee might not be able to beat uconn this year, but they have the talent to be competitive with them.
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I'd much rather watch a UCONN-ND championship game than a UCONN-TN matchup in the final.
 
Looking at todays results did Bowling Greens loss to Ball State, in the MAC Semis, just bump Florida State out of the Tourney?
I think BGSU still makes it with a 27-4 record and a RPI in the high 20's.
Or will they bump someone else out of the dance.
 
UcMiami said:
Brown nosing on this board again?!!!:cool::rolleyes::eek::)
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Never that.... by the way, did i mention Im thinking about buying one of these as my first pet ? :p

baby-huskies-dogs.jpg
 
LadyVols9 said:
i don't think TN is the weakest 1 seed. that's why we are on ND's side. i think Creme believes Stanford is the weakest of the 1 seeds. the lady vols have played much better down the stretch than Stanford. Stanford had two bad losses at the end of the season and TN won the SEC tourney in a brutal 3 days of play. Creme thinks that makes TN the third #1 seed and Stanford the fourth #1 seed.

can the lady vols beat ND? absolutely. it would be very tough, but TN is peaking at the right time of the season. ND has several great athletes but overall TN is a more athletic squad. anything is possible in March. (please see Baylor's debacle last year)
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Gd point- Gd post
 
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