NCAA Tournament Bracketology (NCAA.com)

[Drew]

Katz has 4 AAC teams in right now. Seems like we might get some real opportunities in the conference for NCAA resume boosting wins. Just got to avoid losing to Tulane/USF/ECU

 

[AntG168]

How is a cuse team we beat in and we’re not at this point?

 

[huskiesouth]

How is a cuse team we beat in and we’re not at this point?

Because they're cuse and we're not?

 

[BFieldHusky]

I know this is silly because this is December, but the love affair some people have with UCF so far is mind blowing to me. They lost to a bad Florida Atlantic team at home, and what is their best win? Alabama or Western Kentucky? UConn has a better profile than them so far.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

I'm telling Andy Katz I want my couch back that I sold him after leaving us out of the field.

 

[awfuldan]

At this point, I have a hard time believing 4 AAC teams get in and UConn isn't one of them.

Really curious to see how we do in conference play this year. It's been a struggle in years past but I'm hoping things will be better under Hurley.

Another big OOC win sure would help too.

 

[Guapo]

I’ve watched all the UConn games this year (obviously) and a significant amount of the other “top” AAC teams.

Y’all, I think we can do some damage in conference play.

*knocks on wood*

 

[yukonfan4]

that's a dumber bracket than the one on espn.

how is iowa only a 10 seed??? they have 2 ranked losses and just smacked iowa state, yet isu (also 2 Ls) gets a 5 seed

 

[tzznandrew]

I know this is silly because this is December, but the love affair some people have with UCF so far is mind blowing to me. They lost to a bad Florida Atlantic team at home, and what is their best win? Alabama or Western Kentucky? UConn has a better profile than them so far.

Especially since UConn's NET is better (56 vs. 71) in addition to having a better win and no bad losses.

 

[Guapo]

I’ve watched all the UConn games this year (obviously) and a significant amount of the other “top” AAC teams.

Y’all, I think we can do some damage in conference play.

*knocks on wood*

We can’t forget that UConn has more pure talent on its roster than any other team in the AAC.

The issue in the past was that we were outcoached and outhustled.

That’s not going to happen anymore.

 

[LIUCHusky]

We can’t forget that UConn has more pure talent on its roster than any other team in the AAC.

The issue in the past was that we were outcoached and outhustled.

That’s not going to happen anymore.

On what basis do you feel UCONN has more talent than any other AAC school? I feel we have by far the weakest front court in the league. I base my feeling on how poorly our front court defense is.

 

[Guapo]

On what basis do you feel UCONN has more talent than any other AAC school? I feel we have by far the weakest front court in the league. I base my feeling on how poorly our front court defense is.

I know this is fraught, but recruiting rankings mostly.

 

[Drew]

I'm not really going to get upset over having teams like UCF Cincinnati etc in these positions right now. It helps the perception of UConn when we sweep the series with UCF

 

[tzznandrew]

On what basis do you feel UCONN has more talent than any other AAC school? I feel we have by far the weakest front court in the league. I base my feeling on how poorly our front court defense is.

Our frontcourt is pretty much, ranking-wise, on par or better than the frontcourt of pretty much every other AAC.

 

[HawkHusky]

Especially since UConn's NET is better (56 vs. 71) in addition to having a better win and no bad losses.

Ya, but UCF feasted on tastier cupcakes like Northern Kentucky and Rider. It's all about the cupcakes.

 

[auror]

UCF is about 40 spots higher in KenPom. I'm guessing they are putting more weight into that than NET at this point in the season.

 

[Ajs120102]

UCF is about 40 spots higher in KenPom. I'm guessing they are putting more weight into that than NET at this point in the season.

NET isn’t really dependable this early in the season. In terms of a statistic. Beyond me why they realeased it so early

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is awful and must be based heavily on pre-season rankings. UConn would be in based on resume to date.
Lots of things, beside UConn, don't add up here.

 

[auror]

This is awful and must be based heavily on pre-season rankings. UConn would be in based on resume to date.
Lots of things, beside UConn, don't add up here.

If you're looking at resume, UConn would be hard pressed based on strength of schedule and only having 1 top 200 win. 1 total.

 

[Ajs120102]

I think we just have to wait til late January when Kenpom gets rid of last years data

 

[Huskyfan4evr]

Just Win. That bracket will take care of itself.

 

[businesslawyer]

A second big OOC win would help.

I have no problem with the number of games we play OOC with teams outside the top 100, but they can't all be well past 200.

 

[Slasher]

This thread is perfect timing. I do bracketology every year, and I just updated my completely automated bracketology to switch from using RPI to NET and have uploaded the 12/5 NET rankings, KenPom rankings, and quadrant wins, etc. I'm going to list 1-100 from the rankings. It's not considering who gets in/out based on auto bids or anything like that yet. This is just a ranking based on committee criteria. This is the result so far:

1 Wisconsin B1G
2 Duke ACC
3 Michigan B1G
4 Kansas Big 12
5 Gonzaga WCC
6 Michigan St. B1G
7 Virginia ACC
8 North Carolina ACC
9 Auburn SEC
10 Tennessee SEC
11 Oklahoma Big 12
12 Texas Tech Big 12
13 Nevada MWC
14 Virginia Tech ACC
15 Iowa St. Big 12
16 Ohio St. B1G
17 Florida St. ACC
18 Nebraska B1G
19 Buffalo MAC
20 Arizona Pac-12
21 Purdue B1G
22 Indiana B1G
23 Arizona St. Pac-12
24 North Carolina St. ACC
25 Kentucky SEC
26 Villanova Big East
27 Louisville ACC
28 Mississippi St. SEC
29 Kansas St. Big 12
30 Syracuse ACC
31 Marquette Big East
32 Butler Big East
33 Creighton Big East
34 Texas Big 12
35 Maryland B1G
36 Houston AAC
37 Utah St. MWC
38 Iowa B1G
39 St. John's Big East
40 Florida SEC
41 Cincinnati AAC
42 Arkansas SEC
43 UCLA Pac-12
44 LSU SEC
45 San Francisco WCC
46 Oregon Pac-12
47 Clemson ACC
48 Oklahoma St. Big 12
49 Penn St. B1G
50 Washington Pac-12
51 San Diego St. MWC
52 Notre Dame ACC
53 Colorado Pac-12
54 Belmont OVC
55 Northwestern B1G
56 UNC Greensboro SoCon
57 Xavier Big East
58 Minnesota B1G
59 Mississippi SEC
60 Liberty Big South
61 Wofford SoCon
62 Lipscomb ASUN
63 Saint Louis A-10
64 Connecticut AAC
65 UCF AAC
66 Furman SoCon
67 Dayton A-10
68 Vanderbilt SEC
69 Providence Big East
70 Temple AAC
71 TCU Big 12
72 Oregon St. Pac-12
73 Georgetown Big East
74 Rutgers B1G
75 Seton Hall Big East
76 Saint Mary's WCC
77 Davidson A-10
78 Loyola Marymount WCC
79 Georgia Tech ACC
80 Miami FL ACC
81 San Diego WCC
82 Missouri SEC
83 West Virginia Big 12
84 Stanford Pac-12
85 Fresno St. MWC
86 Ball St. MAC
87 Radford Big South
88 North Texas C-USA
89 DePaul Big East
90 Loyola Chicago MVC
91 Boston College ACC
92 VCU A-10
93 New Mexico St. WAC
94 East Tennessee St. SoCon
95 USC Pac-12
96 Alabama SEC
97 Montana Big Sky
98 Pittsburgh ACC
99 Indiana St. MVC
100 Harvard Ivy

 

[Slasher]

Also with my rankings, take into account, KenPom uses some previous season data. So as the KenPom ratings stop using that data, my bracketology will automatically adjust as well. This is really way too early to look at bracketology, I just wanted to get my automated process fixed. I don't usually start doing this until January.

 

[auror]

Also with my rankings, take into account, KenPom uses some previous season data. So as the KenPom ratings stop using that data, my bracketology will automatically adjust as well. This is really way too early to look at bracketology, I just wanted to get my automated process fixed. I don't usually start doing this until January.

What's the weight of the different metrics?