Race for 1 Seed (2/5)

[businesslawyer]

Nope. I’m not over it. Here was the scenario.

UNC was the overall #1 seed without question. The next four could really be put in any order depending on how you wanted to weight the criteria. And then there was a gap between that group of four and the next tier of teams. UConn was given a two seed. No problem with that UNLESS UConn as the clear best 2 seed has to play UNC as the best 1 seed. And that’s what the committee did. They screwed UConn and the insult to injury was having the regional final in NC.

When the committee head came on to talk about the brackets right after the reveal the FIRST thing he started with was that they were “happy they could “reward” UConn” by leaving them in the East. Are you kidding?!? That was no reward. He was just trying to get ahead of any criticism in my opinion.

And that year some first and second round games were in Hartford. UNC was at the Civic Center and taken into OT by UNC Charlotte in the 1/8 game. The crowd was big 49er (I think their star was Diego Guavera or something close to that and he was terrific) fans that day but the Jameson/Vince Carter UNC team won.

That was over 25 years ago. I’m not justifying what happened, but back then the Committee paid much more attention to geography and lessnto the S curve than they do over a generation later.

 

[FreeDogs]

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Correct. I find that BECG to be so late in the process, its unlikely to change much. It always feels like they have most of it penciled in by then.

The significant games to be played:

StJ/UConn - Wed
Houston/Kansas - Tonight
Iowa St/AZ - next week
UM/Illinois - this weekend

I'd say if we lost to StJ and any one of Houston/ISU/Illinois wins these games, while also generally winning out, they could be in line to snatch that last 1. Houston loses tonight, I think you can officially put a line through them as a 1 seed given the lack of quality high level wins.

Concur my friend. Houston losing tonight and a win of Wednesday gets us a #1 seed.

I mean, we lost to a 13-13 Creighton team AT HOME and only slipped one spot in the rankings. The #1 seed is ours for the taking.