Given how Oregon St has been playing, their remaining schedule also gives them a lot of opportunity to move up to a #2 seed, if not a #1 seed if they truly run the table and beat UCLA, USC, and Stanford all at home [daunting but far from unfathomable].
I haven't seen anything from the coaches that would indicate they are playing for the NC. I think they are going with option B on your list. They will need a real lucky draw of teams with no length to get to the final weekend this year.
LSU is in the West and SC is in the East. They will however play again in the SEC Tournament if both teams win.
It's not inevitable but if we assume that the committee will try to put UConn in an Albany bracket then the odds are about 50% that it'll be SC's bracket.
You aren't a football fan are you? The SEC always protects its projected national championship contenders. (Refs too)
Yea, but we were talking about this reveal.
The Top 16 wasn’t generated by Charlie Creme, it was by the NCAA committee
This is not an excuse--it's a fact. The Talent that SITS is "almost" equal to those on the floor. Those that can't play, in area's exceeds those on the floor.
It was just how the cookie crumbled this season.
Good point. Interesting too I just heard Dawn Staley complain about their schedule that they will be playing Tennessee again shortly, so close in time, and also maybe in their upcoming tournament. She was knocking their schedulers. You have to wonder why LSU gets a pass for two years. Something doesn’t seem right.
My gut tells me some preferential treatment for Tara the year she’s going to hit some records. Maybe I’m wrong but Tara got the larger of the cookie crumbles.
SEC has 14 teams and plays a 16-game schedule, and each team has one opponent they play twice every year. For LSU that team is Texas A&M. That leaves only 2 out of the other 12 teams that LSU plays twice in a given year, so if the rotation is done evenly they'll play a given opponent twice every 6th season.
Interesting. My gut tells me it's time to eat some brisket, but my brain and my memory tell me that Stanford has had plenty of seasons where they had a tougher-than-average P12 slate. Also, she broke the record on January 21, after taking a loss at Colorado, which tells me the conference schedule wouldn't have made more than a 1 or at most 2 week difference in the timing.
UConn has played all those teams I want to see new matchups!
Yes, as I mentioned earlier, it's probably about 50/50 odds whether we'll be in SC's bracket in Albany or in the other Albany bracket.
Some departure from the S-curve is necessitated by the rule that the top 4 Pac-12 schools have to be in separate regionals. UCLA (#7) could not be with Stanford (#2); they were moved to S. Carolina's bracket instead. That then forced USC (#9), as the 4th Pac-12 team, into Ohio State's bracket as the #3 seed. This in turn meant the only landing spot in Albany for UConn as a #3 seed was SC's bracket.
It's one of the things I hate about big conferences. I prefer the old days when the PAC-12 teams did a home and away, but teams want two more non-conference games. For several years before this year, they didn't play one travel pair twice; this year, two travel pairs didn't play twice. This year UCLA, USC, Colorado, and Utah. Last year, they only played Oregon and Oregon State once. In the 21-22 season, they only played Arizona and Arizona State twice. In 2020 they only played Washington and Washington State once. In 2019 they only played Utah and Colorado once.
In a helluva game on a last second shot.
So much for the all important NET. Anyone still believe that the NET is a major determining factor for the committee? Let's not forget that the committee is made up of human beings. If they were computers there would be no need for a "committee". I don't have too much of a problem with #12 except I think that there are 2 or 3 teams above UConn that are possibly overrated.
NET was never a major determining factor, it’s one of the factors. The discussion about NET started because some UConn fans were upset about polls and others pointed out the polls have nothing to do with seeding and that the NET was more important.
