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EnochRoot said:
Purdue is not a good basketball team. Auburn, Houston, ISU? Fine. But UConn should run Purdue out of the gym.
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Two of the keys to beating UConn are pretty clearly foul trouble on the bigs and three point shooting. Purdue does both of those well. I think UConn wins 6-7/10 of that matchup but Purdue can absolutely beat us.
 
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Houston's defense, UNC with a hot RJ Davis and Creighton can beat us on a B plus off night. Noone else can if we play at least that well without hitting a fluke number of 3s.

MU just played a monater defensive game and still lost by 16. Kolek doesn't change that. It's going to take an outlying good efforr by them or an outlying bad effort by us.

We are 2004 good.
 
Slappy said:
Admittedly I haven’t watched Houston, Tennessee, some others. Who might we have trouble with?
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If we play even our B game we likely beat every teams A game. For us to lose we have to beat ourselves. If we play defense like we did against St. Johns and offense like we played the first half of the championship game we will lose.
 
No fear, but rather teams you'd like to avoid. All of those teams will be set up to meet in F4 at the earliest. past elite 8, no caring as to who they play, it's on.
 
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Slappy said:
Admittedly I haven’t watched Houston, Tennessee, some others. Who might we have trouble with?
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No one.

If you want an actual answer, any random team that gets hot from three. But, mostly no one.
 
Hi-Low said:
Prediction...our region will be toughest. IA State as 2 seed wouldn't be thrilled with at #5 in Kenpom
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assuming we're 1 overall ISU shouldnt be paired w/ us as the weakest 2 seed. they just crushed houston by 30. zona is easily the weakest 2 (other than marqutte) and they should not get rewarded w/ being placed in the west with unc.
 
bendm said:
assuming we're 1 overall ISU shouldnt be paired w/ us as the weakest 2 seed. they just crushed houston by 30. zona is easily the weakest 2 (other than marqutte) and they should not get rewarded w/ being placed in the west with unc.
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Zona will be 2 in West pretty sure and Marquette won't be our 2. Only options are Tenn and IA St
 
Hi-Low said:
Zona will be 2 in West pretty sure and Marquette won't be our 2. Only options are Tenn and IA St
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but why should zona get the 2 in the west?? that's a disadvantage to the 1 seed in the west and to whichever 2 seed gets stuck with us. tenn and ISU are both better and more deserving than zona and would prefer to be sent out west than matched with us (and so would I)
 
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In all candor, I don't think we'd stand a chance against the Nuggets or the Celtics.

I'll go further and say there are another twenty NBA teams that could beat us by as much as they wanted to beat us by and I really don't see us standing much of a chance against the test of the NBA.

After that, I don't see anyone who can scare us. Can someone beat us if everything fell correctly for them? Of course. That doesn't mean we should fear them.
 
I fear The Bad Pizza Man:

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xclamations said:
The Wagner seahawks :rolleyes:
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Unless you're talking about the Bobby Wagner Seahawks of 2013-14, I'm not seeing it.

Seriously, though, they shouldn't pair us with Wagner. They're based in Staten Island, and it would be like a home game for them in Brooklyn. We've earned the right not to play in front of someone else's fans, no matter how big a mismatch it seems to be on paper.
 
Iowa St. (they destroy ball screens), Arizona (Boswell and Love can win games), Auburn (just very deep and they have multiples who shoot the three), Florida (One of the deepest collection of tall frontcourt players)
 
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bendm said:
how much does geography factor in for the 2 seeds b/c the four projected 2's all have a clear preference:

east- uconn / tenn
midwest- purdue / marquette
south- houston / isu
west- unc / zona

but that would disadvantage us b/c tenn is not the weakest 2 seed and it would disadvantage the 1 seed in the west relative to zona. so it should be:

east- uconn / zona
midwest- purdue / marq
south- houston / tenn
west- unc / isu
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Based on KenPom and NET rankings, with UNC losing tonight, Auburn might actually sneak in as the last one seed if they win the SEC tourney tomorrow. That might make your 2-seeds UNC, Tennessee, ISU and Arizona. Marquette might be pushed to the 3-line.
 
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