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SMU a 6?

pepband99 said:
Exactly. The committee chair essentially saying that Duke wasn't even considered for a 1 because they were a 4 on Wednesday says it all. They mail this thing in.
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Not at all.
Duke was a #13 on Wednesday. You really think a team can jump 9 spots based on 3 very good wins? In order to move up, the committee compares it to the team above it. Thus, these wins would have to strengthen it so that it now wins the head-to-head resume battle against 9 teams that it didn't beat out just a few days earlier.
 
whaler11 said:
I still watch a ton of games because I just don't care about the NBA or NFL.

College basketball especially has started to feel like pro wrestling.

So I follow it closely because I've had an incredible gambling season. If it wasn't for gambling I'd probably start watching netflix.
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I never gambled on sports besides the occasional bet with buddies so college sports are pretty much out the window for me.

Like you, I don't care about the NBA either.

Pretty much follow the Huskies, Giants and the youth movement the Yanks are on has gotten me hooked again, but I've always followed MLB (call me a dying breed of fantasy baseball junkies).

Side note, not sure if I'm allowed to post this here but riveraveblues.com is an absolutely fantastic site for Yankees baseball.
 
quacktalker said:
SMU got hosed in their seed number but they have a totally winnable path to the Sweet Sixteen. Providence and USC are both pretty bad for bubble teams, and Baylor is easily the worst 3 seed. Plus the games aren't too far away in Tulsa.
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Exactly, they got screwed in numerology only, their path is very reasonable. Lets not forget they were a dropped pass away from going to OT vs ECU on Friday. People just like to complain about everything.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Same for me. College basketball has never been the same since 2013 when a certain league was torn apart.

None of the tournaments have any atmosphere like BET at MSG. No Bilas/Raf/McDonough. No Big East Big Monday. Northeastern schools in different conferences they have no business being in (and ALL being hurt by it). Rivalries ripped apart and now schools with nothing in common are trying to create new ones. Football factories starting to dominate when they could care less about basketball. Blue Bloods like Duke and Kentucky starting to dominate every year with the new one and done rule. And of course UConn having the AAC albatross around it's neck. It's just been awful. My interest is waning with each year.
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That's probably the most succinct way anyone, including myself, could have explained my feelings.

I still love college hoops, but it's just not the same, from national games-perspective and from UConn fan-perspective.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I never gambled on sports besides the occasional bet with buddies so college sports are pretty much out the window for me.

Like you, I don't care about the NBA either.

Pretty much follow the Huskies, Giants and the youth movement the Yanks are on has gotten me hooked again, but I've always followed MLB (call me a dying breed of fantasy baseball junkies).

Side note, not sure if I'm allowed to post this here but riveraveblues.com is an absolutely fantastic site for Yankees baseball.
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Yeah I play in some pretty big money serious fantasy leagues. I'm an Orioles fan I guess - I don't really have any emotional attachment about who wins.

RAB is the best yankees site - I pretty much follow the best site for each AL franchise for fantasy reasons. They fixed that franchise in one trade deadline, they should have left Cashman alone a lot sooner.

I'm also a Giants fan but haven't been down in 3 years and watch Red Zone mostly when I'm given a choice.
 
ASweet3781 said:
It sucks but it's not surprising in the least. It's the new reality and won't change. The Power 5 wants to do to college basketball what it did to college football. And UConn, Memphis, and Temple were ALL down this year so it was not a good year for the league.

It's up to SMU to have a deep run and earn some respect for the league. It's not the seed, it's the path and they have a manageable path with Providence/Baylor. They had a clear path to the Sweet 16 2 years ago and choked away a 7 pt lead with 1:30 left to a UCLA team that shouldn't haven even made it. Sooner or later a team outside of UConn needs to carry the torch.
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With the clearly growing conference status quo and disparity, mixed with our rivals positioning themselves for year to year success while we seem to have little to no semblance of consistency or certainty year to year in our already unpredictable conference landscape just makes me feel like UConn has been moving farther from the 1 seeds we see getting selected today and the general teams considered "contenders".

It almost feels like with the P5 situation and one and dones, UConn is almost playing a different game than our peers (note: peers is not Wake Forest or Cinci, our peers are teams that compete for titles).
 
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whaler11 said:
Yeah I play in some pretty big money serious fantasy leagues. I'm an Orioles fan I guess - I don't really have any emotional attachment about who wins.

RAB is the best yankees site - I pretty much follow the best site for each AL franchise for fantasy reasons. They fixed that franchise in one trade deadline, they should have left Cashman alone a lot sooner.

I'm also a Giants fan but haven't been down in 3 years and watch Red Zone mostly when I'm given a choice.
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What format do you use for your league(s), I may be looking for one if a spot opens up.

My high school league which had been going for 17 seasons is all but done and my UConn league hasn't been the same since one of the guys in the league passed away and we called it quits this season. I love playing but refuse to join a public league for money because of collusion and shady practices.

My league that just ended was roto, 7x7: R, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG, TB and W, NSV, ERA, WHIP, K, KBB, HRA, but I'm down to play whatever depending on the buy in.

Let me know.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
What format do you use for your league(s), I may be looking for one if a spot opens up.

My high school league which had been going for 17 seasons is all but done and my UConn league hasn't been the same since one of the guys in the league passed away and we called it quits this season. I love playing but refuse to join a public league for money because of collusion and shady practices.

My league that just ended was roto, 7x7: R, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG, TB and W, NSV, ERA, WHIP, K, KBB, HRA, but I'm down to play whatever depending on the buy in.

Let me know.
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I'll let you know. Both are just 5x5 roto.

My college league that started in 1994 died in 2013. The better of my current leagues has 6 of the owners from that league. It's 10 teams AL only. Picking an auction date has been worse than a dentist trip.
 
SMU has a chance to prove itself. If they get to the Sweet 16 vs Duke, you know it will be the national game. Beat them with the nation watching, and it will establish SMU as a real power, and do wonders for the league.
 
mauconnfan said:
Cinci got real screwed - winner of K State/Wake Forest isn't an 11 seed - AAC got it in the...

Big East can't lose enough for me, highly overrated.
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I don't understand this thinking from some of our fans. Where does the Big East hate come from? Marinatto was a freaking idiot but the schools did nothing wrong, I still root for the league and northeast basketball.
 
whaler11 said:
I'll let you know. Both are just 5x5 roto.

My college league that started in 1994 died in 2013. The better of my current leagues has 6 of the owners from that league. It's 10 teams AL only. Picking an auction date has been worse than a dentist trip.
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Haha. That's how our home league has been this season. Seems like apathy and busy schedules have led to it.

Truth be told, I'm hopefully going to be going back to school part time, so my days of pouring over fangraphs for hours on end may take a minor hiatus as well. Just can't see myself going cold turkey though.
 
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quacktalker said:
SMU got hosed in their seed number but they have a totally winnable path to the Sweet Sixteen. Providence and USC are both pretty bad for bubble teams, and Baylor is easily the worst 3 seed. Plus the games aren't too far away in Tulsa.
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And the league needs them to make a run. They won't respect this league until we start doing some damage. It was a screw job, but a 6 seed is a good spot to make a run from.
 
The AAC needs UConn as the basketball flagship, and at least 5 other teams - SMU, Cinci, Temple, Memphis and at least 1 of Houston/Tulsa/UCF to start the season decimating opponents in the OOC schedule.

Doesn't make the league necessarily any more desirable, but it makes it noticed.
 
A10 fan said:
SMU has a chance to prove itself. If they get to the Sweet 16 vs Duke, you know it will be the national game. Beat them with the nation watching, and it will establish SMU as a real power, and do wonders for the league.
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Yup.
 
SMU deserved better than what they got. And Xavier has no business in the tournament imo, but if you want o know why the fake BE has the rankings consider a strong Nova and the OOC of teams like Creighton and Butler. They got it done early while the AAC floundered.
 
BUConn10 said:
I felt bad after the terrible game we were forced to endure last night thanks to Hess, but I can't believe how much worse I feel now on Selection Sunday.

SMU getting a 6 seed after having an amazing season, basically sweeping the conference titles and honors, not losing in months (consistency usually gets rewarded huge, unless your Duke) and they get slapped in the face with a 6.

If this future UConn team's front court has you worried about what is coming ahead, I ask you to shift your attention to the mess that is how this conference gets perceived and treated by real people who hold much of this program's fate in their hands. Every day we fall farther from the limelight and relevance, better play is coming ahead they say, but it seems with each passing season our potential as a team is being heavily capped by factors outside of our control.

Seeing SMU as a 6 and Northwestern as an 8 absolutely terrifies me for the future of this program.
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This is exactly the issue.

The only hope this program has in the long run is if the fanbase keeps it relevant long enough to survive whatever happens next.

This is why people need to drag themselves to Rentschler, XL and Gampel. Because unless you are a Neilsen household nobody gives a damn what you are watching on TV.

But if your team stinks and you have a huge loud crowd... that can't be ignored.

Disappearing when the team is down just confirms their assumptions - and it makes your fanbase fungible because everyone is a draw when they win.
 
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Eamon Brennan at ESPN ranked all the field of 68. SMU came in at 19. (Cinci 20). So both are under-seeded. Emphasis added.

In the first season of the post-Larry Brown era (which went exactly as expected, for better and for worse), here's what you need to know about SMU: (1) Semi Ojeleye, a former blue-chip Duke recruit, is 6-foot-7, shoots 43 percent from 3, and is one of the most efficient volume scorers in college hoops; (2) Shake Milton is really good at basketball, but also his name is Shake Milton, so the previous phrase is redundant; (3) Tim Jankovich's Mustangs shoot the lights out, rebound their own misses, don't send opponents to the free throw line, and do pretty much everything else you can do while on a basketball court either well or very well. Relative to seed, no team this side of Wichita State will scare its bracket neighbors so comprehensively.​
 
SMU legitimately should have been a four seed this year but personally, I would rather be a six seed than a five or a four.
 
It's probably going to kill my bracket but I'm going far with SMU and will pick them over Duke should they get there, and if there is any justice in the world they will do us proud.
 
SMU went 2-3 vs Top 50...and is the highest ranking team in RPI (at #13) that has fewer wins than losses in the Top 50.

The question seems to be...Is SMU's 17-1 conference record being discounted? And if too much?

Other Six seeds:

Maryland....4-3 Top 50

Creighton....6-5 Top 50

Cincinnati....3-4 Top 50

SMU's RPI was higher than other 6 seeds.
 
I have them in the final4 in one of my brackets. Watching them a bunch this year they just seem to hit every big shot and get every loose ball. Everyone on their team is so good in every facet of the game. Scary thing for them is being one injury away from disaster.
 
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I have them going down to Baylor. I couldn't bring myself to pick a team that was 4 points away from blowing a game to ECU over a team that was at one point ranked #1 in the country.
 
I would love to have seen SMU against Nova. They're a bigger more physical version of what Nova does. That said, i'll take all of the action for taking usc over Smu. Crazy train pick.
 
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