Selection Show Thread

[auror]

All 3 of the CBS analysts picked us to win it all. If we've ever been doomed, we're doooooooooooooomed.

 

[husky8273]

they all picked UConn, doomed!!!!!

 

[aburks41]

The entire CBS crew just picked up to win it...unreal

 

[auror]

Rick, your NET/KenPom rating was the main reason you were even on the bubble.

 

[Waquoit]

The entire CBS crew just picked up to win it...unreal

Who else you gonna pick?

 

[Henry]

ESPN says the East is the toughest region

 

[alphasigko]

3 Final Picks to win it all... DOOMED!

 

[LStudfellow]

Also. Can the rest of the BE not named UConn, Marquette and Creighton stop pooping the bed in the OOC?! It’s hurting the league

This is true also. All of the BE bubble teams did themselves no favors in the OOC this year. St. John's got beaten handily by a Michigan team that ended up the worst in the Big Ten... Seton Hall lost to USC, Iowa and Rutgers, Providence lost to Kansas St. and got boatraced by Oklahoma. Villanova got beaten by everyone in the Big 5, including by a god-awful Penn team and non-descript Drexel and St. Joe's teams. Unfortunately the OOC of our bubble teams bit the conference hard this year. They have to do better in November and December...

 

[HuskyHawk]

ESPN crew says the East is the toughest region

 

[Tenspro2002]

They didn't even go by NET!

Indiana State was top 30.

The Mountain West were all top 30-40 and were slotted 5-10 slots lower than they should have been.

 

[Mr. French]

Has anyone who's actually watched Illinois play worried about them?

I watch them a lot, they’re like a lot of teams: good scoring, a few guys who can light it up, average big man presence.

We’re better than every team, top to bottom, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be snipped.

 

[housekeys]

Every one of the fan bases will also pick UConn. Not because they think we are the best, but just to jinx us. Reverse mojo? Dark matter? IDK.

 

[jorge34]

ESPN says the East is the toughest region

It is by far

It’s a joke of a bracket, but who cares

Just win it all and shove it up their ass

 

[Scoe]

Just soft wanted Pitino to go all Nicky Santoro on the committee.

 

[alphasigko]

IAST beat Houston and Kansas so they are a legit 2 but I'd rather have them than an improved UNC with a bonafide star player. Not worried about Hurley v Pearl though it's a bit early for that matchup.

We should have drawn Tennessee/Arizona if the S-curve meant anything. I expect Kansas to take our Purdue if that matchup happens. I'm selling the entire B1G and the entire ACC outside of UNC Buying the top teams in the B12 and think Arizona is going to make a run because the pundits don't think it will happen and the West is going to be the weak region.

ISU should have been a 1 over UNC

 

[uconnfan68]

Davis, Wright, and Kellogg just picked us to repeat.

 

[kobe]

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.

 

[TheHorde]

ISU should have been a 1 over UNC

Or at the very least the 2 with UNC.

 

[gsmooth]

Stan Everett of ESPN is ripping the committee for the East bracket

 

[JMick]

Have to wonder how much of the appeasement to the bigger brands is to keep them happy so they don't threaten to have their own tournament. It's going to come up eventually and will probably happen. The NCAA just wants to make them happy as long as possible so they can keep milking the tournament while it lasts

 

[Tenspro2002]

God, imagine how Iowa State, Auburn, and Illinois feel. They ran the table at the end, looked extremely impressive, and get rewarded with shots at each other, and then us.

 

[DRBackup]

They had Auburn as the 15th team so the 3rd 4-seed, which in their mind was giving us a break.

Based on... what??? The NCAA's own NET rating has them 5th. The closest thing to validating that number is the idiotic rankings. They're a consensus #7 team based on the Massey compilation. But somehow the committee of big brains finds them all the way down at #15. Insane.

 

[uconnfan68]

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.

Where is Cinny?

 

[Ripper32]

It's obvious that the NCAA committee despises UCONN. Why didn't they load up the region more? Maybe thrown the Spurs in there?

 

[auror]

They didn't even go by NET!

Indiana State was top 30.

The Mountain West were all top 30-40 and were slotted 5-10 slots lower than they should have been.

Yeah, I've been trying to tell people that NET doesn't matter for your own selection.