The Selection Show

[skyIdub]

Is beating UNC in Greenville to get to the S16 a successful season?

 

[IlliniFaninHoosierLand]

Now channel 3 just switched over to storm coverage. Which I'm okay with right now.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Committee flat out says the B1G tournament result moved Michigan from #2 overall to #3 overall, and Purdue jumps from 3 seed to 2 seed.

Yep, someone is sort of a conspiracy theorist at this point if he/she says the BTT doesn’t matter.

 

[hiberto]

Satan reallllllly wants to know why auburn was left out

 

[Doogie94]

I hope Peral is never on this show again. This Auburn homerism is awful.

 

[Piotyr]

Committee also flat out said Miami OH in the bracket due to result metrics, and seeded based on predictive metrics. SMU was the last team in the field (if you took the average of all the result metrics, SMU was the last team in the field).

 

[pruman91]

BEWARE THE FIGHTING ILLINI !!!!!!

 

[tcb13]

So if Purdue started on the 11 and moved up to 8 based on the tournament, Illinois had to have been better than 11 going into the BTT, right?

 

[Piotyr]

Satan reallllllly wants to know why auburn was left out

Bruce, Auburn lost 16 games. That's the reason.

(Honestly, if you go by metrics, they should be in...but their record overall just wasn't there).

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

#6 illinois at #3 north carolina

Yep. That's a raw deal.

 

[21ChampaignSt]

I don't have any issues with the job the committee did. Followed the curve I had pretty closely. Biggest surprise to me was Arizona over Michigan for the #2 overall seed. We now have a definitive answer that the conference championship matters.

 

[Piotyr]

So if Purdue started on the 11 and moved up to 8 based on the tournament, Illinois had to have been better than 11 going into the BTT, right?

That is correct. They were listed at #10 in the final bracket.

Which means, if Purdue loses today Illinois goes to St. Louis.

 

[RichAdams]

I want to watch but I don’t want to watch Pearl.

I turned CBS off when the mic went to Pearl!!!

 

[BillyBob1]

If (and it's a big if) Dent and Bilodeau are healthy, I could see UCLA making it to the second weekend.

They have to travel to the eastern time zone.

 

[tcb13]

That is correct. They were listed at #10 in the final bracket.

Which means, if Purdue loses today Illinois goes to St. Louis.

Or if Illinois had not laid an egg...

 

[Hoopster]

Tenn, Texas Tech, Kansas, Iowa St all beat Houston this year, if we can pull our sh** together, no reason why we can't have a shot at a FF

 

[illini510]

Bruce never tell a lie Pearl

He has become even more annoying now that he's on TV than he even was as a coach. What a homer. How anyone can argue for the inclusion of a 16 loss team is beyond me.

 

[STLini25]

1) Easy, favorable draw for Illinois to get to S16.

2) Underwood is not a good enough coach to beat a coach like Sampson in March. Illinois gets to S16 and then gets beat by double digits to Sampson.

 

[Zorak]

Playing Houston in Houston is a death sentence.

 

[illini510]

Is beating UNC in Greenville to get to the S16 a successful season?

100%. There will be great satisfaction in beating UNC

 

[Chase321]

That is correct. They were listed at #10 in the final bracket.

Which means, if Purdue loses today Illinois goes to St. Louis.

Maybe. But we don’t know how much the final today had to do with it. And other factors affect location.

 

[OrangeKrush1981]

Three seed as expected, since yesterday. But what a great bracket for the Illini! Seeding could not have broken better for this Illini team.

 

[madillini4]

Houston getting Houston AS A 2 Seed?! GTFOH.

You still get benefitted if you’re the top ranked 2 seed. 2021 badgers were a 3 seed and played in Milwaukee.

 

[jumpingjack]

You still get benefitted if you’re the top ranked 2 seed. 2021 badgers were a 3 seed and played in Milwaukee.

They benefitted alright.

 

[TheChief4Life]

Is beating UNC in Greenville to get to the S16 a successful season?

Getting to the S16 any year and in any manner is a successful season.