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Aside from being bad at seeding, sounds like the committee didn’t have a map handy.
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.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.
Rece should've asked him what the hell he's talking about?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?
That’s a separate problem but a problem nonetheless. Shouldn’t a game played this weekend count as much if not MORE than games played in November, December, and January?Because we were #3 when they did it. They're calling us #1 but didn't change anything
Cripes. North Carolina got Arizona, Baylor and Alabama as their 2-4.
Baylor lost 10 games. Alabama lost 11. Both lost by double digits in the conference tourney. Arizona limped home and lost to a not-even-on-the-bubble Oregon team in the PAC 12.
Seems crazy that the worst 1 by a mile has the softest regional.
Why is committee even needed? Computers are really good taking inputs, running algorithms and producing unbiased results. We’re doomed.What a pathetic performance from the committee. We don't need an expanded tournament we need competent people who watch basketball involved in the selections.
second toughest? looks more like 7th to me.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
Dr. Dre could've come up with a better bracket than this clown.Dr McClelland just said UConn's tough bracket is self inflicted because apparently UConn had the choice to pick a region.
i didnt understand a single thing that goober tried to explain. what does parity w/in 5 pts mean?Parity is within 5 of the other brackets.
They make a "true seedlist". Basically a ranking of the teams in this set of 4 seeds (1 seeds - 4 seeds).i didnt understand a single thing that goober tried to explain. what does parity w/in 5 pts mean?
Purdue has trouble getting to a 2nd weekend regardless of the drawsDon't look at Purdue's bracket.
so the S curve is a fiction? it's this seed list that matters?#1 + #8 + #12 + #15. = 36.
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.
Now that all being said, the problem with this is that it's based on their seedlist. if they underseed several teams in your region, you can get screwed. If they have Iowa State as the last 2 instead of the best 2 and Auburn as the 3rd 4 instead of the best 4 because they ignore the last 2 days of results, you then are off by 6 parity points from reality.They make a "true seedlist". Basically a ranking of the teams in this set of 4 seeds (1 seeds - 4 seeds).
Then they slot the teams into regions based on geography (and avoiding conference duplicates in each region where able for the first few teams from each conference within top 4 seedlines so no Marquette or Creighton in UConn's bracket for example) going in order of the seedlist. So #1 team "picks" their region, then #2 "picks" etc. On though #16.
Then they re-check how the regions fare by adding up the "true seedlist" of the top 4 seeds. So we have #1 + #8 + #12 + #15. = 36.
All the other regions have to be within 5 of 36 for them to consider it fair.
It's not true for Iowa St. Iowa St. isn't closer to Brooklyn than Tennessee.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.
Agree to disagree.And I guarantee you if you went back to last years selection show they were wrong about 99% of what they said.
Again. You are being blinded by chalk. And you really know nothing about the actual process. You’re punching in the dark.
Duke is closer than Auburn tho, Tennessee is closer than Iowa St, Kentucky is closer than Illinois.Cause Bama, Duke, and Auburn are all so close to Boston.