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Tourney Results - 1st Round

ed4ourgirls said:
I suspect that the ivies will be a one bid conference next year.
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I was honestly surprised they were more than one bid league. The only notable win among the three was Harvard's OT win over Indy, and all three were ranked lower by Massey than Stanford, which missed the tourney by a long shot, and from my own watching, deserved to. Guess it was a really weak bubble this year?
 
First round? Pretty predictable. Only got one wrong in our group bracket challenge. Thanks Georgia Tech.

No one got a perfect score though. I am sure nationally there are a lot of people with perfect brackets.
 
TheFarmFan said:
I was honestly surprised they were more than one bid league. The only notable win among the three was Harvard's OT win over Indy, and all three were ranked lower by Massey than Stanford, which missed the tourney by a long shot, and from my own watching, deserved to. Guess it was a really weak bubble this year?
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Did you see the other teams in the last four in and first four out? Who was the team that got robbed by Princeton and Columbia getting in?
 
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ed4ourgirls said:
I suspect that the ivies will be a one bid conference next year.
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Why would you say this? Because as 10 or 11 seeds they lost to higher seeded teams? That somehow proves they didn't belong in the tournament?

And if that proves they didn't belong, what does it say about Washington who lost to Columbia? Should we "suspect" that the Big Ten will "only" get 11 teams in next year?
 
Plebe said:
Did you see the other teams in the last four in and first four out? Who was the team that got robbed by Princeton and Columbia getting in?
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TheFarmFan said:
I was honestly surprised they were more than one bid league. The only notable win among the three was Harvard's OT win over Indy, and all three were ranked lower by Massey than Stanford, which missed the tourney by a long shot, and from my own watching, deserved to. Guess it was a really weak bubble this year?
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I guess you didn't read to the bottom of my post?
 
Stagnant said:
Vandy is about to be my first miss on my bracket. I only picked them to win one game. But flaming out in this manner diminishes their season a bit imo. So that’s unfortunate.
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Yes, I was pretty disappointed in the Vandy loss. While it was nice to see them fight back to force OT, in my opinion this was a game they really could have (and maybe should have) won.
 
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Stagnant said:
First round? Pretty predictable. Only got one wrong in our group bracket challenge. Thanks Georgia Tech.

No one got a perfect score though. I am sure nationally there are a lot of people with perfect brackets.
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As of this morning, there are 1811 perfect brackets remaining. Roughly 1000-1800 brackets will be busted with each of these teams today: Duke, ND, SC, Kentucky, TCU, Tennessee, UCLA, Baylor.
 
Just a coda to the Ivy's 3 bids:

If the tournament were still at 64 teams with 32 at-large bids, the Ivy would've been a one-bid league. But this year, with an unprecedented 37 at-large bids after the Pac-12's self-immolation, Columbia was AL team #34 and Princeton was #37.

Perhaps it's a silver lining of the Pac-12's venality and incompetence that they donated their former automatic bid so a non-p4 team could get in as the 37th at-large team.

It was a bit of a perfect storm for the Ivy. Harvard built just enough of a resume in the OOC that they were able to “spread the wealth” and provide quality wins for Columbia and Princeton. The power conferences benefit from this dynamic all the time (the ACC is notorious for it), with teams that do zilch in the OOC and then get a decent win or two in conference to sneak in as a low seed. I'm glad a nonpower conference finally benefited from it this time.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Michigan St. pulled away from Harvard. If not for a 2nd half collapse by my Huskies, the Ivies didn't do much in the Tourney.
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Huh? They were all higher numerical seeds and were expected to lose, so your comment can be applied to your beloved UW team as well, they didn’t do anything either which included losing to an Ivy team. The Ivy League deserved all 3 of their bids but some how you intimate their lack of wins is an indictment on their selection. What exactly is you comment trying to state?
 
TheFarmFan said:
I was honestly surprised they were more than one bid league. The only notable win among the three was Harvard's OT win over Indy, and all three were ranked lower by Massey than Stanford, which missed the tourney by a long shot, and from my own watching, deserved to. Guess it was a really weak bubble this year?
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Wait, the same Stanford team that just lost in the first round of the banana tournament at home where only 1,106 fans attended? This same team that lost 2 times to Clemson, lost to SMU, lost to Indiana who Harvard actually beat? You seem to forget that the committee looks at bad losses as well. You beloved team did not deserve a bid over any of the at large Ivies. What surprises me is you should already know this.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
SDSU 74-68 final. Congratulations your reward is facing UConn.
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Of 32 teams left in tourney, 29 are power 4. The other 3 are:

Richmond - A10 (plays UCLA tonight)

UConn - BigEast vs South Dakota St - Summit League

UConn of course is unique in that it operates as a Power School due history and Geno/Chris.

For sure one of these 3 teams makes Sweet 16.:rolleyes:
 
DefenseBB said:
Huh? They were all higher numerical seeds and were expected to lose, so your comment can be applied to your beloved UW team as well, they didn’t do anything either which included losing to an Ivy team. The Ivy League deserved all 3 of their bids but some how you intimate their lack of wins is an indictment on their selection. What exactly is you comment trying to state?
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They weren't particularly competitive.

I've already voiced my dissatisfaction with Washington's performance. You're conveniently ignoring it.
 
Floridaduck said:
Just a reminder that ESPN had Duke favored at 97% to win. Margin of 15+. Win or lose proud of my Ducks.
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Well that line was before the news on the Duke top offense I’ve threat and ACC Freshman of the year was announced as out. But yeah be proud of how Kelly re organized the team after all the massive defections the past 2 years…
 
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nwhoopfan said:
They weren't particularly competitive.

I've already voiced my dissatisfaction with Washington's performance. You're conveniently ignoring it.
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What? The Harvard game absolutely was competitive as was the Princeton game, only the Columbia game against WVU was not particular close but so what, it was a 6/11 game. Again, youve made some curious comments without any logical support- two of the games were close, and you intimated the Ivies got bids over more deserving teams, which they didn’t.
 
DefenseBB said:
What? The Harvard game absolutely was competitive as was the Princeton game, only the Columbia game against WVU was not particular close but so what, it was a 6/11 game. Again, youve made some curious comments without any logical support- two of the games were close, and you intimated the Ivies got bids over more deserving teams, which they didn’t.
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Maybe the first half. The second half was a slog for them offensively.
 
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