NCAA first seeding reveal

[Plebe]

Looks like the Big East will only have at the MAX 3 teams in the dance. Villanova lost to Butler today, who is ranked #138 by Massey.

No nights off in the Big East!

 

[HuskyNan]

#8 Colorado lost to #22 Utah yesterday and #9 USC lost to #11 Oregon State. Thing will change before the final selections are made

 

[nwhoopfan]

No nights off in the Big East!

If anyone had the foresight to trademark "no nights off," they would be making a fortune of this site.

 

[MilfordHusky]

You aren't a football fan are you? The SEC always protects its projected national championship contenders. (Refs too)

I thought it was an East/West thing in football.

 

[MilfordHusky]

#8 Colorado lost to #22 Utah yesterday and #9 USC lost to #11 Oregon State. Thing will change before the final selections are made

That was #9 UCLA that lost to Oregon State. That game featured 4 baskets in the last 8 seconds, all of which switched the lead.

 

[Cuango]

It will be interesting to see whether UCONN basketball has any competitive edge left at both the coaching and player level; will the Huskies reach to realize the promise of its highly touted recruits (well-above Big East threshold) or resign itself to top-20 satisfaction excused by injury and roster attrition.

I don’t get it! Are you saying the ( healthy) team, as currently constituted is not reaching its promise? As far as I can tell, it’s already playing well above Big East threshold! I mean, it’s undefeated!

 

[Cuango]

Looks like they’re going out of their way to make sure we leave quickly.

Who knew?

 

[Cuango]

Sure, I’d rather not face SC early or at all, but if/whenever we do, it’s difficult to believe we won’t play better than last game! We won’t be on their home court, we’ll have some experience for our younglings to draw from, and Brady, especially, will be better prepared! We’re gonna have to beat at least two really good teams! Let’s hope we play well and they don’t Bring them on!

 

[Audi1954]

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.

So looks like Utah and Colorado were due up for skipping the home and away this year. Not sure how going to play four teams once this year and the Covid year (where they played everyone in the league twice) affected the rotation.

Complicated!

 

[triaddukefan]

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.

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What is thought of as a bad loss? Is Clemson a bad loss?

 

[WLT1717]

I don’t get it! Are you saying the ( healthy) team, as currently constituted is not reaching its promise? As far as I can tell, it’s already playing well above Big East threshold! I mean, it’s undefeated!

I’m saying the team consisted/almost always beats Big East teams against which it has superior talent. It struggles to find another great to compete with more elite competition, even where it is not at a size disadvantage. The ND game stood out in that regard.