Dangerous position of bracket seeding

[tzznandrew]

of course it matters. why wouldnt you want to avoid an elite team until the second weekend if possible? people count sweet 16 appearances

Yeah, it's entirely possible you don't have to beat a 1 seed to win a title. The ideal is to be far away from dangerous teams and hope they lose along the way. My ideal FF is UConn and 3 16-seeds.

 

[HuskyHawk]

of course it matters. why wouldnt you want to avoid an elite team until the second weekend if possible? people count sweet 16 appearances

This year more than ever. I am pretty sure Gonzaga, Baylor and Michigan are good. I'm not really sure that anybody else is. Every other team has lost several games. The seeding is going to be wildly wrong. I want to avoid those 3 teams. Don't much care about playing anybody else.

 

[AdamaNation]

Gonzaga has way too many tall white kids

Our bane

 

[XLCenterFan]

We could beat Gonzaga if we play our best basketball.

(wait what who said that)

Gonzaga has been playing Pepperdine and San Francisco for months. They don't want this . At all.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I would LOVE to watch us play Illinois as scary as it seems it would be a great test for our program and a Sanogo/Whaley vs Kofi coupled with Bouk vs Dosunmu would be a great sight to see for college hoops.

I don't want to see Illinois at all. They are crazy good. Kofi is a beast and their PG has 2 triple doubles - think about that. We don't have anyone that could triple double. They just crushed Michigan and also beat Wiscy without him.

 

[gmc1055]

UCONN wins a few they move up lose they move down. As well as they are playing they would be a dangerous team for a number 1. I would like our chances against Illinois.

 

[SubbaBub]

We could beat Gonzaga if we play our best basketball.

(wait what who said that)

Gonzaga isn't going undefeated for the same reason they never win it all. Lack of consistent competition. There are no unbeatable 1's this year.

Would I rather avoid the 1 in the second round, of course but, none of them want to see UConn in the second round either.

 

[SubbaBub]

We could absoloutely match his physicality

Foul trouble would be the concern. Sanogo would pick up 2 fouls in less than a minute. You'd probably use 20 between Whaley, Sanogo, Carlton, Jackson and Akok.

Tough to win a game like that.

 

[JohnFSilver]

A 1 seed should be nervous seeing UConn as a 8/9. Fear no one!

If I am an 8/9 seed, that is loading the bracket. Not very fair for a 1 seed to have to play against a player who is a top 10 NBA draft pick in the second round and whose team has only lost two games when he is in the lineup. They gotta take that into account.

The issue with Bracketologists is they just go by numbers only. I think the committee will have UConn one seed higher than their metrics at the end of the year. So, if they are ~30 in NET, they will be a 6/7 seed. Not an 8/9.

The ceiling is probably a 5 seed if they sweep out. Worst case? Lose to G-Town and in first round? They probably get put in the 8/9 game. LOL. I don't think we are going to see UConn as a 10. Third place in Big East, Bouknight factor, it doesn't make logical sense.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm clearly suffering from some irrational exuberance. We're going to win the next two and I think today, we are the best team in the Big East. Everybody is on board and playing well, we have a star. What beats us is if a team goes crazy from 3.