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Rocktheworld said:
It’s not paranoia man. We are talking about a committee of densely flawed humans who decide the seeding. Wouldn’t it be great if a conglomerate of KenPom NET and Torvik rankings decided seeding but sadly we deal with a set of morons
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It's absolutely paranoia in this situation. UNC has a neutral court double digit loss to UConn in addition to 2 more losses. 2 of those losses are Q2. As of right now, none of their remaining home games are Q1 (and that includes Clemson, which is close-ish at 37) and they only have two road games against Top 70 NET teams. So they're more or less maxed out at 7 Q1 regular season wins.

UConn already has 8, and 4 out of their last 9 will be Q1 opportunities.

A lot can happen, but there's a gulf here between UConn and UNC aside from the head-to-head beatdown. And they don't have many opportunities to actually improve their resume.
 
tzznandrew said:
It's absolutely paranoia in this situation. UNC has a neutral court double digit loss to UConn in addition to 2 more losses. 2 of those losses are Q2. As of right now, none of their remaining home games are Q1 (and that includes Clemson, which is close-ish at 37) and they only have two road games against Top 70 NET teams. So they're more or less maxed out at 7 Q1 regular season wins.

UConn already has 8, and 4 out of their last 9 will be Q1 opportunities.

A lot can happen, but there's a gulf here between UConn and UNC aside from the head-to-head beatdown. And they don't have many opportunities to actually improve their resume.
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I can’t wait to be wrong
 
AzHusky said:
They were saying during the game that it took J. Wright 4 years to turn Nova around and that the fans should give Neptune more time.
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It only took Neptune 1 year to turn Nova around. Unfortunately in the wrong direction
WhereistheDove? said:
Do they even put that on TV?
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That‘s why there’s espn+
 
Rocktheworld said:
I can’t wait to be wrong
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Don't forget: a 26-8 ACC tournament champion Duke who was on a long win streak got a 5 seed. UConn, who was 25-8 and had neither regular season nor BET titles (not even a title game appearance), got the 4 seed. If you were thinking there was bias either for Duke or against UConn, you would have seen it there.
 
tzznandrew said:
Don't forget: a 26-8 ACC tournament champion Duke who was on a long win streak got a 5 seed. UConn, who was 25-8 and had neither regular season nor BET titles (not even a title game appearance), got the 4 seed. If you were thinking there was bias either for Duke or against UConn, you would have seen it there.
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I think I’m just so scared of the possibility of us not getting Brooklyn and Boston because I can’t imagine a better scenario as a fan, and we’ve been sent to odd regions several times while certain programs seem to get special treatment
 
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We’d have to have both Tennessee and UNC pass us to lose the East right? Or would Tennessee be lined up for Midwest?
 
Rocktheworld said:
I think I’m just so scared of the possibility of us not getting Brooklyn and Boston because I can’t imagine a better scenario as a fan, and we’ve been sent to odd regions several times while certain programs seem to get special treatment
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There's essentially no chance now we won't have a Top 4 protected seed, so Brooklyn is in. We'd have to lose the DePaul and/or Georgetown games and essentially lose everything else to be in danger of falling out of that spot.

Boston is obviously trickier, but I suspect we could be a 1 or 2 seed and get there. If you're breaking down the teams competing for a 1 seed, it looks like this:

Purdue
UConn

Houston

UNC
Kansas
Tennessee

Marquette

I think those are really the only teams that have a shot. Houston has some wiggle room; Purdue and UConn have more. Only UNC would ultimately prefer Boston over other sites.
 
tzznandrew said:
There's essentially no chance now we won't have a Top 4 protected seed, so Brooklyn is in. We'd have to lose the DePaul and/or Georgetown games and essentially lose everything else to be in danger of falling out of that spot.

Boston is obviously trickier, but I suspect we could be a 1 or 2 seed and get there. If you're breaking down the teams competing for a 1 seed, it looks like this:

Purdue
UConn

Houston

UNC
Kansas
Tennessee

Marquette

I think those are really the only teams that have a shot. Houston has some wiggle room; Purdue and UConn have more. Only UNC would ultimately prefer Boston over other sites.
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Yup, as of now it’s looking good.
 
I personally believe that the path (Brooklyn, Boston) has been ours to lose since early January.

I also believe that if we are given a different path (especially if we are slighted in the process) we'll still be able to march through whoever we need to beat to continue our quest.

This team is beginning to show me something that I haven't seen since 1998-1999; a will to win and a determination to find some way to get it done regardless of what they are facing.
 
aceboon said:
Meh, I think that's more of a front Calipari puts on to try to disguise his shortcomings, although now the UK fans aren't buying it anymore
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That's true, it could be a post hoc rationalization for why he isn't winning as much as he should over the last 10 years.
 
Devland said:
PC only had 4 players score in their game. No one from PC scored over 20. I'm not sure I've ever seen that.
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Corey Floyd went 0-4 and scoreless after matching a 2024-high 7 points against us (naturally).

His line was like a Denny's breakfast deal -- 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 2 turnovers, 2 fouls. Pretty putrid production in 21 minutes.

He's like a poor man's Brendan Adams, a guy who Hurley rightfully decided our program had advanced beyond, 3 years ago.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
I think I’m just so scared of the possibility of us not getting Brooklyn and Boston because I can’t imagine a better scenario as a fan, and we’ve been sent to odd regions several times while certain programs seem to get special treatment
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We are a stone cold lock for Brooklyn at this point.

There are no other programs in the region who would deserve it over us, and we would have to fall to a #4 seed or worse to not get that kind of geographic preference overall. It is virtually impossible for us to be leapfrogged by teams like Illinois or Auburn, and you'd need like 6 of those.

Boston there's a little more risk, but we are very firmly entrenched on the #1 line at the moment, and would get preference over UNC unless they basically run the table and/or we lose non-Marquette, non-Creighton games.

The #1 seeds are us, Purdue, Houston/Kansas, and UNC/Tennessee at the moment. And the latter two actually lost this week!

I think you don't quite appreciate how much of a gulf there is between us/Purdue and everyone else.
 
Similar, but at a lesser scale, to Ollie winning with Calhoun's players.

Ollie recruited those players for JC and was Assistant Head Coach so in essence they were his players also. Noticed none of them left even with the tournament probation that JC left the program.
Please stop this ridiculousness.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I think I’m just so scared of the possibility of us not getting Brooklyn and Boston because I can’t imagine a better scenario as a fan, and we’ve been sent to odd regions several times while certain programs seem to get special treatment
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I think UConn has won a few NCs via playing in the Western Regional
 
Tenspro2002 said:
We are a stone cold lock for Brooklyn at this point.

There are no other programs in the region who would deserve it over us, and we would have to fall to a #4 seed or worse to not get that kind of geographic preference overall. It is virtually impossible for us to be leapfrogged by teams like Illinois or Auburn, and you'd need like 6 of those.

Boston there's a little more risk, but we are very firmly entrenched on the #1 line at the moment, and would get preference over UNC unless they basically run the table and/or we lose non-Marquette, non-Creighton games.

The #1 seeds are us, Purdue, Houston/Kansas, and UNC/Tennessee at the moment. And the latter two actually lost this week!

I think you don't quite appreciate how much of a gulf there is between us/Purdue and everyone else.
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I appreciate you guys making me feel better lol
 
tzznandrew said:
It's absolutely paranoia in this situation. UNC has a neutral court double digit loss to UConn in addition to 2 more losses. 2 of those losses are Q2. As of right now, none of their remaining home games are Q1 (and that includes Clemson, which is close-ish at 37) and they only have two road games against Top 70 NET teams. So they're more or less maxed out at 7 Q1 regular season wins.

UConn already has 8, and 4 out of their last 9 will be Q1 opportunities.

A lot can happen, but there's a gulf here between UConn and UNC aside from the head-to-head beatdown. And they don't have many opportunities to actually improve their resume.
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Jeff Borzello agrees with you.

The Huskies get the edge for me at No. 1 because of injury issues in both losses and their consistent dominance over opponents, especially at full strength. But Purdue is the only other team with a case to be ranked No. 1, and there's a sizable drop-off after the Huskies and Boilermakers.

www.espn.com

Men's Power Rankings: UConn is still flexing, and we have some other ups and downs

There were nine losses by teams ranked in the top 10 of last week's Power Rankings, including Wisconsin and Kentucky suffering two defeats each.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
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HooperScooper said:
Jeff Borzello agrees with you.

The Huskies get the edge for me at No. 1 because of injury issues in both losses and their consistent dominance over opponents, especially at full strength. But Purdue is the only other team with a case to be ranked No. 1, and there's a sizable drop-off after the Huskies and Boilermakers.

www.espn.com

Men's Power Rankings: UConn is still flexing, and we have some other ups and downs

There were nine losses by teams ranked in the top 10 of last week's Power Rankings, including Wisconsin and Kentucky suffering two defeats each.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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That's how I see it. 1-2 are more clear than anything else right now. That 3-8 group is more muddled and there's room for teams to move quite a bit. Just when KU wasn't looking good they thumped Houston pretty solidly. I think we will see lots of shifting in that next tier.
 
I don't think either Purdue or UConn has peaked yet- both coaches will be working in bench players when appropriate to be ready for March
 
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