Selection Show Thread

[IndyLives]

They beat Arizona.

Cant afford to sleepwalk the 1st 10 minutes. Bury them early or by half and give them no hope.

 

[upstater]

And FGC and Temple. They are a shell of last year's team. Everything is on Davis's back.

Bad losses, but look at their wins and their competitiveness. They went toe-to-toe with Texas A&M, Arizona, Illinois. They did well in their conference as well. This is a much better team than their supposed #32 ranking.

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[JungleLobo]

Stetson is undefeated in the tourney.

NCAA stacked the 1st game!

 

[uconngb]

so marquette didn't beat a tournament team in the year 2024.

frauds gonna get run by florida like the good lord intended.

What’s the discussion like over on the Cincy board tonight?? Pissed off about the snub??

 

[DRBackup]

only thing i'd worry about with uconn is kind of like houston in the aac, they've only played one or two real games since conference play started

i still think you should be fine huskie bros, maybe one bad half or so but you'll overcome it.

You're a joke. The Big East is the second toughest conference overall. The idea that UConn wasn't tested playing in the Big East is incredibly dumb

 

[Deepster]

They’re getting universally panned on CBS and ESPN and all over the internet. Not just me, guy. Please tell me how UNC deserved that bracket over UConn.

Posts and comments like yours assume this plays out to chalk. And it never ever ever does. Two days in your bracket will be an abstract art piece of red x’s and this conversation will be even more meaningless than it is right now, guy.

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[bendm]

The NCAA just released their S-curve:

but seriously where is it?

 

[superjohn]

Big East got screwed on bids and UConn got the toughest bracket but Marquette as a 2 seed with 9 losses and a hurt Kolek is fortunate and Creighton with 9 losses as a 3 seed is fortunate.

 

[Ripper32]

Bad losses, but look at their wins and their competitiveness. They went toe-to-toe with Texas A&M, Arizona, Illinois. They did well in their conference as well. This is a much better team than their supposed #32 ranking.

at the beginning of the year. They played poorly in conference, especially late.

 

[auror]

Committee chair cites bracketing principles as why UConn got tough road. I know it's true for Iowa St. I didn't go far enough down to see if it held for having to get Illinois and/or Auburn.

 

[superjohn]

It's about mileage, lolz.

 

[SubbaBub]

Truth is we get one more tough game than we would have had (Auburn) in the S16. As seeded, we should have had Bama or Duke.

Chair just said it was based on distance, LOL.

 

[ScottVib]

They're blaming UConn for choosing the East then them having to slot the seeds by mileage. Parity is within 5 of the other brackets.

 

[CL82]

Are you listening to this bull crap from the selection committee chair? He said Connecticut got to choose its location, and then after that they went strictly by mileage?

 

[SubbaBub]

It's about mileage, lolz.

Cause Bama, Duke, and Auburn are all so close to Boston.

 

[Dove]

Dr McClelland just said UConn's tough bracket is self inflicted because apparently UConn had the choice to pick a region.

 

[CL82]

They're blaming UConn for choosing the East then them having to slot the seeds by mileage. Parity is within 5 of the other brackets.

Yeah but that's adding the sum of the seeds so you can top load a bracket and then bottom loaded as well and still have "parity."

 

[SLY63]

It's about mileage, lolz.

WTF, I never heard that before

 

[nychuskyfan]

Aside from being bad at seeding, sounds like the committee didn’t have a map handy.

 

[TheHorde]

Posts and comments like yours assume this plays out to chalk. And it never ever ever does. Two days in your bracket will be an abstract art piece of red x’s and this conversation will be even more meaningless than it is right now, guy.

You should take it up with Jay bilas and his co hosts on espn. But they probably don’t know anything either. The facts are that ALL of the pundits I’ve seen say UConn has the hardest bracket. Which by definition should not be the case if you’re the overall number 1 seed. Not balanced. Nope.

 

[superjohn]

Are you listening to this bull crap from the selection committee chair? He said Connecticut got to choose its location, and then after that they went strictly by mileage?

Rece should've asked him what the hell he's talking about?

 

[upstater]

WTH is the committee head talking about that they placed the teams in UConn's bracket who were closest to Brooklyn in terms of mileage.

Good god man, find a map.

Iowa St. is not closer than Tennessee
Illinois is not closer than Kentucky
Auburn is not closer than Duke

Find a damn map

 

[IndyLives]

UConn should have the "home" crowd advantage for the 1st 4 games. This is HUGE. UConn plays off of emotion and runs. So, I dont mind the tougher bracket with the HCA.