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Tournament (Non-UConn) Thread - 1st Round

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auror said:
They lost twice to App State, which tanked their predictive and resume metrics.
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Lol

That had no bearing on their seed. Have you met this Committee??? They could have won both those games, been 33-1 and it wouldn’t have made one shred of difference. Because UVA deserved a 10 seed.
 
Utah State has a pretty complete group out there and they play well together. A&M is going to have to come up with some magic or some zebra love to get back in the game.
 
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uconnfan68 said:
Edey at 30pts-21rebs with 6 minutes left, Purdue up by over 20.
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Those playing against him were 6-8 inches shorter and 50 lbs. less. He is going to score his points you need to limit the rest of the team
 
uconngb said:
Lol

That had no bearing on their seed. Have you met this Committee??? They could have won both those games, been 33-1 and it wouldn’t have made one shred of difference. Because UVA deserved a 10 seed.
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The don't watch the games.

Eye test used to be a thing.
 
gsmooth said:
Duke better buckle up. JMU will give them everything they can handle.
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The refs will keep it tight as we know because the NCAA loves Duke and the other "blue bloods"
 
Grand Canyon has some serious length
 
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Antelope Jumping GIF

gcu going to the second weekend fellas. im sold.
 
aceboon said:
St Marys caught a bad draw
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St Mary's is getting run off the court. The entire crowd seems to be pulling for Grand Canyon.Maybe it has something to do with the game being in Spokane which is Gonzaga 's hometown and the #1 rival of St Marys. They play such a slow pace but they are going to have to play faster being down double digits
 
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uconnbill said:
Those playing against him were 6-8 inches shorter and 50 lbs. less. He is going to score his points you need to limit the rest of the team
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So what? He had a great game. He’s now 1 of 3 with 30-20 in tournament history in last 50 years.
 
damn the kiss of death. mary's making a run.
 
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NickDanger said:
It doesn’t matter at all if the fans get cocky. Only if the team does.
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It's all part of the same cosmic vibration. Cherry-picking which aspects of the ineffable meet your approval is a facile approach that has undeniable appeal, but reveals compromising inconsistencies upon closer examination

superjohn said:
There's 4 top 10 teams in the same bracket and they all won major conference tournaments.
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To assert that the committee was some combination of biased, corrupt, dishonest, cynical, and lacking motivation to make corrective changes so that this would be less apparent is better argued than that UConn got screwed, a now-stale claim that benefits from simplicity but sounds whiny.

Should UConn prevail through arguably dubious additional challenges, the notion that it got screwed will completely vanish in relevance & applicability whereas the Committee's actions will still fit the descriptions I've offered when viewed through a lens of static history in telling the story after the fact.

I don't like it any more than you do, but the time to highlight the victimhood angle has passed in favor of playing the dealt hand as well as possible.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
As happy as I am that Auburn is donezo it pains me to think that Brown had that team dead and buried last weekend.

Hell of a game for that wing with the Greek name. Auburn remains probably my least favorite team in college basketball, starting with the evil clown on the sidelines.
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Perhaps there's some small consolation in imagining that Brown could have beaten Auburn by 1 point, because it lost to Yale by that margin and Yale beat Auburn by 2.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
It's all part of the same cosmic vibration. Cherry-picking which aspects of the ineffable meet your approval is a facile approach that has undeniable appeal, but reveals compromising inconsistencies upon closer examination


To assert that the committee was some combination of biased, corrupt, dishonest, cynical, and lacking motivation to make corrective changes so that this would be less apparent is better argued than that UConn got screwed, a now-stale claim that benefits from simplicity but sounds whiny.

Should UConn prevail through arguably dubious additional challenges, the notion that it got screwed will completely vanish in relevance & applicability whereas the Committee's actions will still fit the descriptions I've offered when viewed through a lens of static history in telling the story after the fact.

I don't like it any more than you do, but the time to highlight the victimhood angle has passed in favor of playing the dealt hand as well as possible.
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Brother, I think we're going to win the whole thing.

I also think UConn didn't get a bracket that a #1 overall should get and I think the Big East got hosed on # of bids. Our record was gaudy, Marquette and Creighton got their respect and the committee pretended everyone else stunk.

No grand conspiracy, I don't believe it was the two football superpowers doing their thing...Mountain West got 6.
 
tzznandrew said:
Or. Here me out.

You were wrong.
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Leaving aside the overconfidence red flag of your homonym error for a moment, how many times have you invited somebody to give something a closer look, told them point blank, "You were wrong," and gotten a favorable response?

Have you warmly received my comment? That should be your first clue.
 
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