UCONN a 5 seed in CBS Bracket, J Palm

[mcs333]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...logy-when-everybody-loses-somebody-has-to-win

Like this bracket, 5 in East.

 

[mcs333]

http://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-tournament/bracketology

UCONN 5 seed in team rankings

 

[Chin Diesel]

Potential UConn, Nova and cuse in the garden for the East Regional.

Yeah, that would be rocking.

 

[SubbaBub]

Sign up right now. UW-GB, Oklahoma, Cuse, Nova then one of (Az, Duke, SDSU, Cincy) in the FF? DO-ABLE!

 

[david]

That would be an awesome bracket. None of those teams scare me, although I don't know much about Oklahoma

 

[tzznandrew]

Sign up right now. UW-GB, Oklahoma, Cuse, Nova then one of (Az, Duke, SDSU, Cincy) in the FF? DO-ABLE!

UW-GB is a scary 12, though. They only lost by 3 at Wisconsin and beat Virginia on the road.

 

[Wise2]

We will end up a 6 seed. We will most likely have two more losses going into the tourney. So, if we finish 24-8 or 25-8, I think that will be a 6. If we win our last 2 and get to the finals of the AAC tourney, we could still hold on to the 5 and if we win it, maybe a 4. However, finishing 1-2. could drop us to a 7 if other teams below us jump up with good Tourney wins

 

[UConNick]

We will end up a 6 seed. We will most likely have two more losses going into the tourney. So, if we finish 24-8 or 25-8, I think that will be a 6. If we win our last 2 and get to the finals of the AAC tourney, we could still hold on to the 5 and if we win it, maybe a 4. However, finishing 1-2. could drop us to a 7 if other teams below us jump up with good Tourney wins

Way to be a negative nancy

I honestly have no clue what seed we end up with, but I'm excited for the next 5 weeks.

 

[Wise2]

Way to be a negative nancy

I honestly have no clue what seed we end up with, but I'm excited for the next 5 weeks.

I'm not being negative, I'm being realistic. I would love to have us walk into the YUM center and hand Louisville, a loss, but its very unlikely. Then we will have to play our first game in the AAC tourney against a top 25 team in their building. While I think we match up better against them, it will be difficult to beat them a third time in their building. Let's just say the odds of us finishing the year 1-2 are 50% and any other scenario the other 50% Can we beat both....Sure, likely to happen. If we were playing great right now, I might have a different opinion and before the Cinci game this board was just as negative on our play. Or guys are not shooting well right now and Bazz is hurting. We will need to bring our A game to both of these contests coming up.

 

[david]

We will end up a 6 seed. We will most likely have two more losses going into the tourney. So, if we finish 24-8 or 25-8, I think that will be a 6. If we win our last 2 and get to the finals of the AAC tourney, we could still hold on to the 5 and if we win it, maybe a 4. However, finishing 1-2. could drop us to a 7 if other teams below us jump up with good Tourney wins

I have an issue with you thinking that we'd be a 5 seed at best if we won against Rutgers and @ Louisville, then reached the finals of the AAC tournament. If we win our last 2 games, we'd be 13-5 giving us a 3 or a 4 seed for the AAC tournament:

If we're a 3 seed we'd most likely play Houston in the tournament, then probably Louisville, then let's say we lose in the final to Cincinatti.

That makes us 27-7 with wins against Florida, Cincinatti, 2x Memphis, 2x Louisville

If we're a 4 seed we'd most likely play Memphis, Cincinatti and then lose to Louisville.

That makes us 27-7 with wins against Florida, 2x Cincinatti, 3x Memphis and Louisville

In either of those situations I'd see us as a strong 4 seed at the very least. If we win the AAC tournament I'd be shocked if we weren't a 3 seed

 

[Bryan Lord]

Lock for a 16 seed at worst, better than last year!

GO HUSKIES

 

[CTBasketball]

I would prefer to play in any other region but the East.

 

[champs99and04]

I would prefer to play in any other region but the East.

Why?

 

[CTBasketball]

Why?

I feel like if we stayed in the East we would doze off a little bit and not be on the top of our game. Plus I don't like the East (George Mason, Laettner, UNC in 98', Marshall's missed FT's). I just have a bad vibe about the East region.

 

[HooperScooper]

I feel like if we stayed in the East we would doze off a little bit and not be on the top of our game. Plus I don't like the East (George Mason, Laettner, UNC in 98', Marshall's missed FT's). I just have a bad vibe about the East region.

Add N.C. State in 2005 to the list.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

Either a 5th or 6th seed. Good with me

 

[B1GEast]

I personally think that Uconn will be in Florida's region. I've noticed that in the past the ncaa likes to add ooc match ups that were played in the regular season. Uconn beat FL at home without their full line up, I'm guessing the committee would like to see these teams play on a neutral court. I don't see Uconn and Duke in the same region. We shall see. March is here, so begins the madness.

 

[White Dwarf]

The 5 seed gets knocked out too often. 4 or 6 please

 

[champs99and04]

I feel like if we stayed in the East we would doze off a little bit and not be on the top of our game. Plus I don't like the East (George Mason, Laettner, UNC in 98', Marshall's missed FT's). I just have a bad vibe about the East region.

It's not like any other year in the East, though. It's MSG. The poetry of us punching a ticket to the Final Four in Madison Square Garden after everything that's happened to us would be so perfect that I almost feel it's destined to happen.

 

[tzznandrew]

The 5 seed gets knocked out too often. 4 or 6 please

6 seeds win at the exact same rate as 5 seeds (67%). 4 seeds, though, do win at a higher clip.

 

[B1GEast]

7 seed or less and I'm happy, 8 or 9 would be terrible.

 

[Walker11]

I'm having a very difficult time seeing Kentucky as a 6 seed. They have 8 losses, including 5 in a SEC that is so weak UGA is in third place. They just lost to a horrendous sub 500 team and have exactly one good win this year (UL). Somehow their RPI is great but I have no idea how.

 

[Calhoun's Court]

I always want to go West but this bracket looks pretty good for us.

 

[jleves]

I always want to go West but this bracket looks pretty good for us.

New Coach, New Region. I have no problem if we start winning from the East. I want to have at least one from every region in the next decade.

 

[Tenspro2002]

6 seeds win at the exact same rate as 5 seeds (67%). 4 seeds, though, do win at a higher clip.

I wonder how that's liable to change with the advent of the play-in games. I think play-in games tend to be 12 seeds, and I would expect battle-tested 12 seeds who have already won a game to perform better than other teams seeded around that same level.

I short, I really want to avoid a play-in winner.