3/14-3/16 Bracketology
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Zorak
- Naperville
This is where I've settled. Feels like Illinois deserves a 6, so get ready for a 7-10 slugfest.
Nothing new. Palm had us as an 8 seed yesterday morning before the Maryland game. This was talked about all morning yesterday. History shows this is a good sign for us because Palm as a "bracketologist" is trash.
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http://www.bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html
Don't worry just look at Palms rankings over the years. 164th out of 179.
Palm’s bracket stinks. Bracket matrix has us as the last 6 seed right now. A 6 or 7 should be expected tomorrow guys.
If the head of the committee, who is speaking right now, means what he said about taking in-season injuries and availability into consideration..... we're in good shape. That's a HUGE if.
Will be glad when the brackets come out so we don't have to mention Palm for a while.
15-16 seed is what we deserve with 2 spectacular 40 point losses
So here's what I got:
Teams that will certainly/almost certainly be seeded higher:
Duke, Houston, Texas Tech, BYU, Arizona, Iowa State, St Johns, Michigan State, MD, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oregon, Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Kentucky.
Teams that might or might not be seeded higher:
Memphis, Louisville, Clemson, Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, Kansas, UConn, Creighton, Marquette, Purdue, UCLA, Missouri, Ole Miss, Mississippi State.
Thoughts?
Teams that will certainly/almost certainly be seeded higher:
Duke, Houston, Texas Tech, BYU, Arizona, Iowa State, St Johns, Michigan State, MD, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oregon, Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Kentucky.
Teams that might or might not be seeded higher:
Memphis, Louisville, Clemson, Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, Kansas, UConn, Creighton, Marquette, Purdue, UCLA, Missouri, Ole Miss, Mississippi State.
Thoughts?
The teams in bold no way. The rest will be a 5 or 6. Which leaves 2 spots left for a 6. So maybe us and UCLA for the other 6s. I don't think any team from the Big East outside of St. Johns and the mid major teams should be ahead of us. We beat Missouri. Miss. St, Kansas no way.
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Still would like Memphis to lose today. If they win, committee might be tempted to look their way for the 6 final seed instead of us
Don't see it. They play in a very weak conference, 1 bid league, NET ranking 48. They aren't going to get rewarded for that.
BillyBob1
- Champaign
Memphis 48 in net and also have 2 quad 3 losses.
Let’s not play Akron…. We’ll probably play gross….. 
Yea, Mich beats the cocky Turdles and their even cockier coach,
Totally bailed out today by the zebras. It's a team that wouldn't be in the field had they been in a respectable conference.
Have you seen their OOC Wins against Mizzou, Michigan St, Clemson, Uconn, Mississippi? Metrics aren't great but they are between Northwestern, Indiana, and Nebraska on Torvik. Any of those teams would be comfortably in with those OOC results.
What about their losses to Arkansas St., Temple and Wichita St?
It's their only respectable team. AAC refs ain't gonna let that happen.
Mississippi State ZERO chance
Yeah. Haven't really seen a bracket (to my knowledge) that has either of these teams Miss state or Memphis ranked ahead of us at this moment (unless it's the one coming out tomorrow).
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The schedule depends on the location, not the seed.
Weird. I thought there were reports last year that they were the 17th overall seed but had to be a 6 because the 4 and 5s play on Friday/Sunday.
They did have to move down because of the Sunday games. But it was because it just happened to work out that every 1 seed was awarded a Fri/Sun location.
This year Lexington is a Thu/Sat site, and will most likely be where Auburn plays so BYU could get put there.
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