OT: Who is your Tourney Kryptonite?

[Jaydumo20]

Upper classman, size, depth, teams with at least two quality scorers, quality season wins, a solid head coach. I used to track all of that, now I just mainly watch and just fill out a bracket based only on emotion.

It's March madness and trends don't matter as much as heart. If Uconn doesn't advance, then I want the craziest things to happen.

True. No matter how much we know about the game it rarely factors in.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Vanderbilt.

10-15 years ago they were routinely a #4 or 5 seed and got upset in the first round 3 times.

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Wow. This is noteworthy. I'm curious to see which other teams may have had similar troubles in the past 20 years. I doubt many as glaring as this. Poor Vandy. I live in Nashville and the poor guys get nary a nod from the community. For All Sports

 

[Hoops91]

Any team that slows the ball down and forces UCONN to run a half court offense for 4 quarters. There is no question at all they are better when they run, everything frees up for their offense when this happens.

 

[August_West]

Taking Syracuse to lose in the first round. Pluck, grit and an over reliance on the 2-3 zone carries that crappy team to wins in the post season that they don’t deserve.

Fortunately I, in all likelihood, won’t get sucked into it this year.

Actually if you made me choose yes or no today, they will be in tourney. Watch.

 

[Hungryhusky99]

Actually if you made me choose yes or no today, they will be in tourney. Watch.

No chance with Edwards out for the year.

 

[August_West]

No chance with Edwards out for the year.

Boewhine blamed him for every loss. Lol

 

[uconnfan68]

Any team that slows the ball down and forces UCONN to run a half court offense for 4 quarters. There is no question at all they are better when they run, everything frees up for their offense when this happens.

Props for that avatar.

 

[UCLJ0211]

I am too addicted to the 12 over 5.

Statistically12s beat 5s more than 35% of the time. There is a good chance that at least two 12 seeds will win each year.

 

[navery12]

I could be wrong but I thought I read statistically 12s beat 5s more than 50%. If not, it’s pretty close to that number.

12 seeds are are 54-110 all time in the 5 v 12 game, so they win just about 33% of the time

 

[UCLJ0211]

12 seeds are are 54-110 all time in the 5 v 12 game, so they win just about 33% of the time

Edited my post after I googled it!

 

[M.S.G.]

Purdue absolutely terrifies me

 

[imno1]

Pretty much any B10 team that makes the tournament

But this year may be different with either Purdue or Illinois making at least the final four. And watch they will both exit early and I'll be like see kryptonite

 

[Jaydumo20]

Pretty much any B10 team that makes the tournament

But this year may be different with either Purdue or Illinois making at least the final four. And watch they will both exit early and I'll be like see kryptonite

A dominant big is always so enticing.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

There’s a rationale behind the 5-12. 12s are typically the best mid majors and 5s tend to be so-so power conference teams.

 

[gsmooth]

There’s a rationale behind the 5-12. 12s are typically the best mid majors and 5s tend to be so-so power conference teams.

100%- it sure as hell ain't some magic spell of March or some other hocus pocus BS that sports announcers want you to believe. I think some of the 5 seeds tend to be public teams that they were highly enamored with during the season as they were Final Four hopefuls or in the Top 10 at some point and the public continues to hold onto that during the NCAAT not realizing they are overrating them. In addition to that, the #5 is from a power conference and looks mightier than the #12 from a "measly" mid major by comparison that no would ever imagine going to the Sweet 16 in the middle of the regular season, well for the most part.

33% of the time according to navery12's post, IMO, is a high amount. I do wonder about winning % of 6-11, 7-10, 4-13, and 3-14 matchups in comparison to the 5-12 matchup. I will Google it later

 

[UofCT]

I always seem to pick Duke the years they get eliminated early

 

[gsmooth]

As for my kryptonite, it's when there is more parity than I would like to admit and that the seeds don't matter as much as they should.

 

[Jaydumo20]

100%- it sure as hell ain't some magic spell of March or some other hocus pocus BS that sports announcers want you to believe. I think some of the 5 seeds tend to be public teams that they were highly enamored with during the season as they were Final Four hopefuls or in the Top 10 at some point and the public continues to hold onto that during the NCAAT not realizing they are overrating them. In addition to that, the #5 is from a power conference and looks mightier than the #12 from a "measly" mid major by comparison that no would ever imagine going to the Sweet 16 in the middle of the regular season, well for the most part.

33% of the time according to navery12's post, IMO, is a high amount. I do wonder about winning % of 6-11, 7-10, 4-13, and 3-14 matchups in comparison to the 5-12 matchup. I will Google it later

I'm really interested in the 7-10 percentages. If you find it, post please. I always lose those games

 

[Jaydumo20]

There’s a rationale behind the 5-12. 12s are typically the best mid majors and 5s tend to be so-so power conference teams.

There are also those seed #s that I just associate with certain teams for whatever reason. Kansas state and Missou always seem to be an 8 or 9 seed, I always associate Wiscy with a 3 , mich.state 2, and Marquette 10. I also think Cincy has been in 80% of the 8-9 games since the tourney began.

 

[navery12]

I'm really interested in the 7-10 percentages. If you find it, post please. I always lose those games

7 seeds are 101-67, all listed here

mcubed.net : Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament : : Records By Seed

mcubed.net

 

[UCfor3]

Never know what to do with Wisconsin. All or nothing kind of team to me where matchup matters. Always struggle with BYU in first round games too. Never see them a lot and they are always in closely seeded games.

 

[Deepster]

Never know what to do with Wisconsin. All or nothing kind of team to me where matchup matters. Always struggle with BYU in first round games too. Never see them a lot and they are always in closely seeded games.

Agreed on both. Especially when Wisconsin has a good record by winning games 51-49 in rockfights all year.

 

[AntG168]

Some system team that slows pace, runs 5 out and shoots a bunch of threes.

Providence

 

[Husky Alien]

Arizona and Gonzaga

 

[CL82]

Actually if you made me choose yes or no today, they will be in tourney. Watch.

Shaking my head. I have to say, I really don’t like those ass hats. I do enjoy playing them though and, like you, I’ve had a lot of fun interaction with them at games. I’ve never followed one of them into the bathroom though, so I tip my cap to you there.