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Selection Monday

triaddukefan said:
6'3 and 6'2 are injured. We essentially are a team of guards,
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So triad are you going to participate in the Prognosticators Tournament Game 4 Predictions? I take you will have High Point winning correct?
 
jaydee602 said:
What an uneven show! They announced the brackets in confusing order. They highlighted a few teams while totally ignoring other teams. No discussion or debates about seedings or surprise selections.
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Uneven = Poor
 
Lorcan said:
Wait! Is this an option? Can I give Tara 7 days to prepare for Geno and get them out of the way early and then play High Point in the second round?
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No, obviously High Point takes Stanford's spot as the overall #1 seed. Didn't you follow the compelling logic here?

You see, because High Point has a stellar W-L record of 21-6 and 17-3 in conference, they're clearly far more deserving than a Stanford team that didn't get any good OOC wins.
 
I think we have the toughest bracket star player wise . If we can come out this region I like our chances to win the title. The cuse will be a tough out if we get them2nd rd
 
Plebe said:
You seem to be hung up on this. I often hear people throw out this arbitrary criterion. Not sure why arbitrarily pick .500 as the threshold. Why not .550? Or .600?
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Because 500 is 500 not arbitrary, it is absolute mediocrity. Is DePaul in had a better win than either Wake or WS. Am I the only person that brings that up?
 
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Plebe said:
I haven't ventured over there, but would you say some fans were half-wanting the team to be left out? So as to deny the sliver lining to a disappointing season?
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What I gathered is just that they don't wanna have to endure the pain of sitting through any more games.

Some just feel this is the final clincher to a year that will go down in history at our university as a historic embarrassment.
 
Nick Pignatello said:
Because 500 is 500 not arbitrary, it is absolute mediocrity. Is DePaul in had a better win than either Wake or WS. Am I the only person that brings that up?
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Is this a spoof? Please tell me it's a spoof.

Wake beat Maryland.
Wazzu beat UCLA and Arizona.

DePaul beat Kentucky. Is that the win you're thinking of?
 
MSGRET said:
So triad are you going to participate in the Prognosticators Tournament Game 4 Predictions? I take you will have High Point winning correct?
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Actually I participated in a similar contest back during the 2012 tourney... and I nailed the UConn-Penn State final right on the money.. 77-59. Afterwards I figured why not retire with a perfect record.. and I haven't participated in one since. ;)

Plebe said:
No, obviously High Point takes Stanford's spot as the overall #1 seed. Didn't you follow the compelling logic here?

You see, because High Point has a stellar W-L record of 21-6 and 17-3 in conference, they're clearly far more deserving than a Stanford team that didn't get any good OOC wins.
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22-6 ...
 
I missed most of the 340 posts in this thread, so if this has been discussed previously, I apologize (but would still like to know).
1. Is the Women's Tournament going to have "stand by" teams to fill in if a current invitee develops COVID related issues?
2. If 1 above is a Yes, did the committee reveal them and how many are there?
3. Does this prevent the teams selected from being in the WNIT?
 
Lorcan said:
Thing is the other teams lost to people they shouldn't have. Arkansas lost to Ole Miss, Oregon lost to Oregon State, Kentucky lost to Ole Miss and Georgia, Indiana lost to Michigan State. Plenty of movement for West Virginia to move up even though they lost to Baylor.
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But the best win they had all season was an early win against an at the time unranked Tenn at home in OT. Two of those other teams had serious quality wins - Ark beat #2 Uconn and #7 Baylor, KY beat #9 Georgia, TN, and Ark. And they obviously rated Maryland winning convincingly the B10 as stronger than Baylor winning convincingly the B12 so the strength of conference for IU should mean something.
 
I have a strong feeling SC loses in the 2nd round this could be one of the wonkiest final fours we have had since Cal, Lville and Syracuse prettty much handed us the trophy in 2016
 
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Plebe said:
You seem to be hung up on this. I often hear people throw out this arbitrary criterion. Not sure why arbitrarily pick .500 as the threshold. Why not .550? Or .600?
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The NIT uses .500 as a criteria I believe, can't remember the exact rule.
 
A thought.... if it was a regular tournament with the top 4 seeds getting home games.... I would tend to think that HPU would have drawn State instead of UConn and sent A&T to face maybe Maryland.
 
WFFL said:
I have a strong feeling SC loses in the 2nd round this could be one of the wonkiest final fours we have had since Cal, Lville and Syracuse prettty much handed us the trophy in 2016
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Your memory is failing you. You got 1 out of 3 correct. 2016 was Syracuse, Washington and Oregon St.

Cal and Louisville may have been part of another wonky Final 4, but it wasn't 2016.
 
UcMiami said:
The NIT uses .500 as a criteria I believe, can't remember the exact rule.
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No.

In a normal year, both NCAA and WNIT have an eligibility requirement of an overall .500 winning percentage for consideration as an at-large team. Both waived that requirement this year.

Neither has ever had AFAIK a minimum conference record requirement.
 
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SECbbfan24 said:
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Did they get to hang a banner for that?! 😎 Had to be an Unique event to lose to a Caldwell coached UCLA in an NCAA game.
 
Plebe said:
Is this a spoof? Please tell me it's a spoof.

Wake beat Maryland.
Wazzu beat UCLA and Arizona.

DePaul beat Kentucky. Is that the win you're thinking of?
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Wake didn't beat Maryland, is that a spoof?
Unlike the mens bracket discussions there is only one ESPN for women, no disputing the brackets and who should or should not get it. That is what we are doing giving opinions, yours is no more valid than mine.
 
triaddukefan said:
Even though NC Wesleyan is a DIII school........ you have to realize when the Bishops and the Panthers meet up on the court.... anything can happen.
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Ah yes, that's the secret nonconference win that a reasonable committee would have cited in justifying High Point's overall #1 seed.
 
Nick Pignatello said:
Wake didn't beat Maryland, is that a spoof?
Unlike the mens bracket discussions there is only one ESPN for women, no disputing the brackets and who should or should not get it. That is what we are doing giving opinions, yours is no more valid than mine.
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My bad on Wake; but they did beat Missouri State, a team that did beat Maryland. Close enough :)
 
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The Triad got 3 teams in the tourney... each of the 3 largest cities will be represented in the same year for the first time ever. Not sure any other metro can match that this season.
 
Lorcan said:
That's a tough draw for UCLA to be the 3 to Maryland's 2. I'm not sure that Oyenwere can power them through to the Elite 8 -- even if UCLA gets healthy.
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UCLA won in College Park 2-3 years ago. A rematch!
 
Plebe said:
So you're saying Stanford doesn't deserve a 1 seed? Where should they be seeded? Make them a 16 seed and have them play UConn first round?
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No where do you extrapolate questioning a 500 team with no ooc games getting in with the conference champions, A program with an actual recent resume getting a top seed.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Your memory is failing you. You got 1 out of 3 correct. 2016 was Syracuse, Washington and Oregon St.

Cal and Louisville may have been part of another wonky Final 4, but it wasn't 2016.
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2013 and another Uconn win - 5 seed Louisville, 2 seed Cal, and #1 seeds ND and Uconn - Louisville took out #1Baylor and #2 TN and Cal handled #4 Georgia who had taken out #1 Stanford
 
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