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The "Discuss our seeding and path to the Final Four" Thread

When do the game times come out, and where is the place to search for them?
 
This bracket has 4 of the Kenpom top 9 and 5 of the top 11 -- in that sense it's a very tough region -- but UCLA and Gonzaga won't both be able to play us, and Kansas is not the scariest of the 1 seeds. It will be a challenging bracket with no gimmes, but Iona is a Seton Hall caliber team and we should beat them, Saint Mary's is competitive but beatable, then we're in the Sweet 16 and each game will be a toss-up.
 
Interesting coaching match up. Who keeps their cool and keeps their team focused? March Madness separates the good from the great.
 
At least we get the first two games at home. If we can’t beat Iona what’s the difference. Actually could have been worse. Could have been better as well the west has the strongest field when adding combined overall seeds among top four in each region. UCLA has an injured player and Kansas is beatable. It’s amazing they put Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s both in the west 3 and 5 lines. Using that same line of thinking we could have been the 4 seed in east even though Marquette was 2 seed. Every year we gave to overcome this bs Midwest favoritism. Maybe they just gave us the chip we need on our shoulder to break through the ceiling.
 
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For those curious, this is one of the bracket principles:

Each of the first four teams selected from a conference shall be placed in different regions if they are seeded on the first four lines.
www.ncaa.com

How the field of 68 DI men’s teams is picked for March Madness

The NCAA’s guide to how the 68 teams are chosen, seeded and bracketed for the Division I men's basketball tournament every season.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com

Marquette was last 2 so forced into East. This forced us out of East.
 
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Doctor Hoop said:
At least we’ve got time to prepare for Iona ;)

BTW, they got any lights-out 3 point shooters?
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Also, kinda tongue in cheek here. As I wrote in another thread, just treat every game as ‘must win,’ be connected and play your A game. That’ll get ‘er done.
 
auror said:
For those curious, this is one of the bracket principles:

Each of the first four teams selected from a conference shall be placed in different regions if they are seeded on the first four lines.
www.ncaa.com

How the field of 68 DI men’s teams is picked for March Madness

The NCAA’s guide to how the 68 teams are chosen, seeded and bracketed for the Division I men's basketball tournament every season.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com

Marquette was last 2 so forced into East. This forced us out of East.
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But that should have put them in the South with Alabama
 
Instead we most likely lose to Iona. Very strange how they happens.
 
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Danny v HOF coach....this will be interesting

Boy did we get shafted....Guess those 2 losses to Xavier really mattered.

Not having a strong BE presence on the committee reaping results
 
Stainmaster said:
But they have the better coach.



Be honest, did you believe it when people said that? Or do you think that we are the team that lost to SHU, lost to St. John's at home, and blew a 26 point lead to Providence on our "third homecourt?"
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I’m sticking with us making the S16 because we have to. Based on our BE performance, it’s gonna be a battle
 
auror said:
For those curious, this is one of the bracket principles:

Each of the first four teams selected from a conference shall be placed in different regions if they are seeded on the first four lines.
www.ncaa.com

How the field of 68 DI men’s teams is picked for March Madness

The NCAA’s guide to how the 68 teams are chosen, seeded and bracketed for the Division I men's basketball tournament every season.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com

Marquette was last 2 so forced into East. This forced us out of East.
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Why is this an important principle? Hilarious that the committee has these intricate principles designed to make the process look objective — and then every year the Committee Chair gets on TV and spouts nonsense about how they actually made their decisions. This year it was dinging Kansas bc Bill Self was in the hospital.
 
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Looking way ahead at Kansas a little more, they really are the second best team in the nation. They are loaded. A couple guys shoot 40% 3s, one is 6-8, and their top scorer at 20 ppg is not one of the 2 top 3 pt shooters. Good luck whoever plays them.
 
That Guy said:
We got shafted, no other way to put it. Kansas, UCLA, and Gonzaga is brutal. Having to play Iona is not going to be fun, and if we beat them we have a very good TCU team waiting. Not happy.
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no st mary's first
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Xavier with a #3 seed over us and neutering our home court advantage in the first round are pretty egregious.
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I'm not sure about that. We lost to Xavier twice and they made it to the conference tournament final. If we handled our business this wouldn't be an issue to discuss on this board.

If we are what coach Danny Hurley likes to say we are then we should be fine. This is the opportunity to back up all the talk. There is an opportunity here to exceed expectations and slay some demons . There are no more excuses. It's their legacy to stamp and it would be nice to over achieve for once.
 
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