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They weren't a protected seed so bad luck? Sure, but maybe they should have won more games to avoid this.
 
LStudfellow said:
But seriously... for all of you gloating about PC losing tonight (and I don't like 'em, either)... are you kidding me? How does the last at-large team get 3... count 'em 3!!! de-facto home games? Fact is, they would have lost Tuesday night if that wasn't a home game.

If that was us and not PC, there would be a multi-hundred post thread bitching up a storm all day and night. and we would be totally right to do so. You can say PC played like crap (they did, for the most part) but that game was still close with less than 5 minutes left. What happens if the game is on a neutral court?

Letting an 11 seed have 3 home games is an absolute disgrace. Over and over and over again these committees under the guise of the NCAA make decisions that a 10-year old would do better.

ARROGANT MORONS!!!

P.S. I also give you credit Friar J for showing up after the loss. Good luck next year
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I think Dayton is getting rewarded by the committee for their fan support of the First Four round. Those are Dayton fans that are showing up in huge numbers to support those games being played in Dayton between teams that fans in Dayton could care less about, except for this year since their own team played there. I'm not saying it's right, just that they're getting rewarded for their support at those games in Dayton.
 
This committee was one of the worst and this is just another sampling of what they were thinking, if they were at all.

Having said that PC was supposed to be better and they're best players played as if they had never been there before. Fact is they need to play well and neither Dunn or Henton played well at all. Tough one but Dayton deserved the W no matter where it was played.
 
huskiesnyc said:
Please look up our history of getting screwed and playing road games against REAL teams like UCLA, North Carolina and even freaking George Mason. Give me a break. If PC was good they would've made some shots and won. Totally the bed after talking trash about how great they were all season. Mean while Cooley has been a head coach for about 10 years and never won a single NCAA game.
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Don't forget the biggest road game of them all-against Michigan State in Detroit in the 2009 Finial Four.
Obviously the site is predetermined but still a huge advantage for MSU.
 
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FriarJ said:
We have not won a NCAA game in 18 years. There is some perspective. On to next year!
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When you put it that way, the program's suckitude becomes frighteningly clear. Especially when you mention it on the board of a team that has won 41 NCAA tourney games over the same span. You are definitely the antithesis of the fair weather fan.
 
Not too many years ago, the committee sent Pitt to play Wisconsin in Milwaukee during the first weekend, and Pitt was a 3 seed, so they've done worse.
 
Any complaints fall on deaf ears when you consider that the committee screwed Dayton in general even more than they screwed PC. At least PC was given a seed that made sense.
 
TRest said:
No one can accuse you of failing to show up after a loss. Although you could have waited a few minutes.
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No, he couldn't. You just know he was watching his team getting waxed by a lower seed thinking "they are going to kill me on the Boneyard!"
 
I shed no tears for PC. They made the tourney, they had a chance. We had St Joe's, Nova, ISI, MSU, UF and Kentucky last year. That was one of the most difficult routes in history. We won.
 
DogMania said:
I'm far from a Providence sympathizer, but for the committee to have Dayton at this site facing a higher seed in the first round is flat out unbelievably unfair.

You can't always avoid this sort of thing in one of the later rounds, but in the first round...this is a joke. And to compound thing, the ref T-ing up Cooley for tossing his chair while in the huddle was just adding insult to injury.
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"Seems PC got screwed in so many ways.", sounds like a title to a wonderful poem. Author! Author!
 
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For the most part Friar J isn't bad, something that cannot be said about most PC fans. For the bulk of PC fans, from what I remember of them, they will spend their time crowing about how superior they now are to us (based solely on the past few months) and view that as a victory. We measure our success in tournament wins and national titles. They measure their success in their ability to claim any moments in time that they may have outperformed us.
 
As many have mentioned, Dayton was screwed far more than PC. I'm sick of the extra play-in games that are referred to as "Round 1". There is no reason that Dayton should have had to beat a pretty good Boise team, followed by a game against PC 2 days later. Return the field to 64. Stop screwing over the small-conference champions so that you can cheat your way into having UCLA into the final 32...
 
LStudfellow said:
But seriously... for all of you gloating about PC losing tonight (and I don't like 'em, either)... are you kidding me? How does the last at-large team get 3... count 'em 3!!! de-facto home games? Fact is, they would have lost Tuesday night if that wasn't a home game.

If that was us and not PC, there would be a multi-hundred post thread bitching up a storm all day and night. and we would be totally right to do so. You can say PC played like crap (they did, for the most part) but that game was still close with less than 5 minutes left. What happens if the game is on a neutral court?

Letting an 11 seed have 3 home games is an absolute disgrace. Over and over and over again these committees under the guise of the NCAA make decisions that a 10-year old would do better.

ARROGANT MORONS!!!

P.S. I also give you credit Friar J for showing up after the loss. Good luck next year
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There is always a little juggling with locations and seedings. Every year there is a bit of horse trading or attempts to make things fair or give that appearance.

What I find interesting is that no one has made any attempt to argue that the committee gave a virtual home game to a mid major. Seems the conspiracy animals have crawled into a hole regarding this point.
 
huskiesnyc said:
If anyone's looking for cheap entertainment it's worth browsing their board.
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I get all the entertainment, and aggravation, I need from this forum. Every fanatical fan base is just a variation with a different perspective from this one.
 
Palatine said:
I shed no tears for PC. They made the tourney, they had a chance. We had St Joe's, Nova, ISI, MSU, UF and Kentucky last year. That was one of the most difficult routes in history. We won.
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And they got waxed by a team UConn beat.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
For the most part Friar J isn't bad, something that cannot be said about most PC fans. For the bulk of PC fans, from what I remember of them, they will spend their time crowing about how superior they now are to us (based solely on the past few months) and view that as a victory. We measure our success in tournament wins and national titles. They measure their success in their ability to claim any moments in time that they may have outperformed us.
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Well, when PC fans find a reason to dump on us, our response will be PC hasn't won a ncaa tourney game in nearly 20 years.
 
To be fair, if they played this game in Boston Dayton may have outnumbered PC fans. Those fans travel.

The road tournament games complaint is a popular one among us Uconn fans. Yes, we've had some bad breaks, but after witnessing 2011 and 2014, tough teams will win those road games. We beat San Diego St and Arizona in 2011, and those were huge home crowds for each team. In both 2011 and 2014, we played Kentucky, where they probably had 60k or more fans in those huge football stadiums. The bottom line is if you're good enough, you'll win.
 
"If we beat this 11 seed we would have run the table........"

Just want to make sure I understand the argument. Lol
 
Yonick said:
Well, when PC fans find a reason to dump on us, our response will be PC hasn't won a ncaa tourney game in nearly 20 years.
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They don't bother me all that much but I don't go looking for them anyway. I keep wondering why Waylon is so obsessed with having our program return playing Seton hall, St John's and PC regularly. I know that two of the three (St John's, PC) haven't won a tournament game this millennium and it is possible the third (SH) hasn't either, I'm just too lazy to look it up and don't know off the top of my head.
 
DogMania said:
I'm far from a Providence sympathizer, but for the committee to have Dayton at this site facing a higher seed in the first round is flat out unbelievably unfair.

You can't always avoid this sort of thing in one of the later rounds, but in the first round...this is a joke. And to compound thing, the ref T-ing up Cooley for tossing his chair while in the huddle was just adding insult to injury.
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You must have felt bad for Iowa state and Michigan state last year too at MSG huh?
 
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mauconnfan said:
We had to win 2 in Buffalo to get there though. A little different but I get the point.
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And we were seeded a 7...so the committee thought Villanova, theoretically, would be in the Garden rather than us.
 
Mots010 said:
To be fair, if they played this game in Boston Dayton may have outnumbered PC fans. Those fans travel.

The road tournament games complaint is a popular one among us Uconn fans. Yes, we've had some bad breaks, but after witnessing 2011 and 2014, tough teams will win those road games. We beat San Diego St and Arizona in 2011, and those were huge home crowds for each team. In both 2011 and 2014, we played Kentucky, where they probably had 60k or more fans in those huge football stadiums. The bottom line is if you're good enough, you'll win.
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This is true. Dayton had almost as many fans as Syracuse last year at that game in Buffalo. My sense of Dayton is that they have 9,000 hard core fans who will travel to see them anywhere, and 10,000 fans overall.

They also have the a great fight song that the fans go crazy for: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dayton FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-ers.
 
This is the Basketball Gods pushing back a little. There's no way Dayton was the last team in the field and there's no way Providence was a 6 seed. This should have been an 8/9 game with Providence avoiding the road game. In fairness to Dayton, they had to beat a top 40 team 24 hours earlier.

Even though I may not sympathize with Providence, I can relate. UConn has on occasion been awarded so-called "advantages" that are often laden with hurdles.
 
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