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We are NOT an 8 seed

XLCenterFan said:
If Bouk doesn't go down we are a top 10 team in the nation.

Show me a team that wants to play us in the tourney. I'll wait.
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I read this a future projection and clutched my pearls
 
We won it all in 2014 as a 7 seed. Think we were the first team to do that?
 
XLCenterFan said:
If Bouk doesn't go down we are a top 10 team in the nation.

Show me a team that wants to play us in the tourney. I'll wait.
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But because he went down, our record doesn’t show how good we are now 😉
 
XLCenterFan said:
By above do you mean lower, as in 7/6/5? If we win the BE we absolutely can be lower than an 8.
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I think that was sarcasm to a certain poster.
 
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Let’s make the hype not buy it. Fine line between confidence and believing all you need to do is show up. They need keep the pedal to the metal. No let up. No complacency. Play like they have something to prove.
 
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I'll take a 6 or 7 seed over being a 4/5. We can stand toe to toe with any of the 2s or 3s. Give the 1 seed a couple chances to trip and open a path for us. Elite 8 is very possible for us from the 2/3 side of the bracket, then you dig deep for the mojo and just maybe ......
 
g_smith said:
We won it all in 2014 as a 7 seed. Think we were the first team to do that?
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Yes. We were. The first and only.

There was 1 8 seed before us and 1 six seed before us. And both were in the 1980s in the first 4 years of the seedings.

That's rare. To win a title, you want to be a 1-3 seed, as they've won 31 of the 35 post expansion titles.
 
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ScuderiaDiU said:
How about the team you saw in the second half?
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Did you think we were going to out score them by 27 again and win by 50? Yeah they outscored us by 11 but also hit a bunch of circus threes and we clearly let up. Despite their scoring we kept it in the 20-24 point range until the last like minute
 
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The math used by the bracket experts appears to broken. Probably not enough games for it to work well. More specifically, not enough out of conference games.

The math based bracket experts say we are an 8 seed. Maybe a 7.

The opinion based experts are starting to rate us as 7, 6 and sometimes 5. I kinda feel like the only reason they are not consistently discussing us as a 4 and a 5 is they cannot get past the math that still says we are an 8.

I'm very curious how this tournament shakes out. Could be epic fail by the prediction experts.
 
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the Q said:
Recent bias is not supposed to be considered, nor is how they looked without bouk.

I want to be a 6. I read that the Bottom half of the bracket is statistically more likely to have a longer Cinderella run since they avoid that killer one seed the longest
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Yes it is. In seeding, not in the in vs not in decision. There is a long history of considering both in seeding.
 
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I think the biggest issue with seeding UConn is that the team on paper and what we have seen on the floor is significantly better than what the resume supports. Hoping for that 6 seed though.
 
One thing that would have helped our resume is more wins. One way to get more wins is to play more games.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Did you think we were going to out score them by 27 again and win by 50? Yeah they outscored us by 11 but also hit a bunch of circus threes and we clearly let up. Despite their scoring we kept it in the 20-24 point range until the last like minute
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There is a chasm between +27 and -11. I don't like to see a team let up THAT much. If you do that against a better team, you lose. Excellence is a habit. If you don't want to do it against a good team, don't do it against a crappy team
 
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