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Selection Sunday - General discussion (merged threads)

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bballnut90 said:
South Carolina and UCONN will meet in the Final Four if both advance. If Texas advances to the Final Four they'll play the winner of UCLA's region.
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I thought since both were in Fort Worth they would match up in final four thats why I questioned it
 
nwhoopfan said:
How do they determine who gets stuck w/ the play in games? 2 games pit #16 seeds against each other, those are probably the 4 weakest teams that got auto bids. I thought the other 2 games were always 11 seeds, but not this year. 1 game is 10 seeds. Those can't be the last couple of teams that got in if they ended up a 10 seed can they?
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This question seems to come up every year:
Both Men's and Women's play-in brackets (the "First Four") are comprised of the 4 lowest ranked Automatic Qualifiers (almost always 16-seed placement) and the 4 lowest ranked At-large bids (the "last four in" - typically bubble teams from power conferences). Usually their seed placement ranges from 13 to 11, depending on the quality of the auto-bid (AQ) field. Apparently this year there are more AQ's ranked below these 'Last Four In' to push the seed placements to 10 and 11.
 
oldude said:
I don’t know that they ever had one. It’s a UConn thing, just like never cutting down the nets when they win a Regional Championship.

The Huskies don’t celebrate getting chosen for the Big Dance and they don’t celebrate winning the Regionals. There is just one celebration, when they win the National Championship, which they’ve done 12 times.
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I remember a few parties early on, but they are all choreographed by whoever is broadcasting the NCAAs or ESPN and they are monumentally cheesy and a waste of time for anyone who knows they are going to the Dance. But for whatever reason Conn may be the only school that doesn't do it, but I'm eternally grateful we don't engage in the silliness.
 
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Terrierdog said:
Why don't they have a watch party? I know they haven't in years. Did they ever?
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I tried to find a specific Geno quote on this, but couldn't with a quick search. Geno has said in the past that for many schools, making the big dance and getting their moment on ESPN is a major highlight of their season. UCONN being televised may take some attention away from the rest of the field, particularly if Geno makes himself available for interviews.
 
Massey rates UConn's 1st round opponent UTSA's defense 47th.....110th overall as a team


South Carolina's opponent will either be #237 Southern or #271 Stamford.
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
I remember a few parties early on, but they are all choreographed by whoever is broadcasting the NCAAs or ESPN and they are monumentally cheesy and a waste of time for anyone who knows they are going to the Dance. But for whatever reason Conn may be the only school that doesn't do it, but I'm eternally grateful we don't engage in the silliness.
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Duke under Lawson doesn't do it either.
 
As a UConn fan, I am happy with the draw.

First, getting the number one seed was not a foregone conclusion. It sounded like the Committee awarded it based on the eye test. I think UCLA's bracket is much more difficult, they may have to get by both Ole Miss and LSU. And if Duke beats LSU, it means they are playing very well and could be tough. Not easy.

Unfortunately, the NCAA rules essentially dictated that UConn was going to get Vandy or LSU. If that "same conference" rule didn't apply, it appears that Michigan would have been UConn's number 2 seed. Despite the scare that Michigan gave UConn early in the season, I don't think a rematch would have been close.

Vandy is very good and a match up with them will not be easy, but I would prefer them to LSU. The LSU program is not that far removed from a National Title of their own, and I think that counts for something.

Blakes is a terrific player but this UConn team is better suited to keeping a guard from going wild than any UConn team of recent memory. Case in point Hannah Hidalgo, who scored 16 on 5 for 15 shooting after scoring 29 and 34 the previous two seasons.

Plus, Vandy's last game was a sound defeat to Ole Miss and its full court pressure, and that is also UConn's calling card.

There are no other teams in UConn's bracket that concern me. UConn handled number three seed Ohio State pretty easily earlier this season. Ditto number six seed Notre Dame. Also no team in UConn's bracket is located anywhere near the Fort Worth region.

And it is a good thing that should UConn advance they will not need to play both Texas and UCLA.

BTW, the ESPN selection show was very hard to watch. To many cooks, too much talking and laughing over each other, and if they insist on having all these teams screaming and jumping around on camera, at least fix the tape delay problem so that some of them aren't just sitting there.
 
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Jonathan14 said:
I understand why South Carolina has Iowa as their 2, but they also get TCU as their 3? I'm just not impressed by TCU's resume. They've beaten WVU 2 out of 3 times, and...what else? Wouldn't any team rather see them in their bracket than Duke, Louisville, or tOSU?
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Well, they couldn't place West Virginia and TCU in the same regional as both are Big 12 members. I think TCU was listed as the last of the 3-seeds behind Ohio State, Duke, and Louisville. On S-curve logic, South Carolina would draw the weakest of the 3-seeds which you definitely agree is TCU.
 
I wonder what Kim said about the selections. Especially with them being the best Two Seed playing the second best One Seed. As Geno mentioned in his interview that conference opponents can face themselves in the Elite Eight game.
 
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