I viewed Arizona as the best team we played all year closely followed by Purdue. Houston beat Arizona hands down. No way should they had been a 5 seed. You dont beat 1 and 4 seed by double digits and control the game like they do as a 5 seed
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chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
Haha man, looks a lot like my bracket, sans Michigan
Ignatius Shang
5th year PhD, school of Information Sciences
- Champaign, IL
Houston is a very strong candidate for the title. They are so tough.
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
Houston never trailed
...against a 1-seed.
...against a 1-seed.
Houston with the defense and guard play that you need in the tourney. People should feel a little better about our loss now. Made one of the best teams in the country look the same way
Ope, no love just between Mathurin and Moore. Moore chirped at him as time expired and Mathurin made a hard pivot to come back.
Thought that was gonna be ugly.
The matchup with Nova will be really interesting but Houston has also played against two teams with seriously banged up point guards. Horses for courses.
Thought that was gonna be ugly.
The matchup with Nova will be really interesting but Houston has also played against two teams with seriously banged up point guards. Horses for courses.
Man, why do we keep getting paired with a horrendously underseeded team in the round of 32?
It literally made no sense. Their net ranking was 3.... they won their conference and the tournament. If the ncaa wanted us to have a tough bracket then just give us a lower seed.
Also, has there ever been a season where all four 1 seeds get eliminated before the Elite 8? That could very well happen if KU loses tomorrow.
sacraig
- The desert
Given tonight's events, I think I might have figured out why we have underperformed in the last two tournaments. Could you perhaps start rooting for someone other than the Illini?
Dook is going to get every close call from here on out, aren’t they?
Didn’t the committee say they don’t really use the NET ranking? Houston had zero quad 1 wins. That’s why they were a 5.
Probably. The network executives and the NCAA must be drooling at the thought of Duke vs UNC in the Final Four, followed by Coach K winning a national championship in his final game.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
and zona wasnt able to come back and tie..unlike us where we tied it 2/3 times in the second half before taking a punch we coudlnt recover from
frozenrope9190
- Aurora, IL
All those media prognosticators who had the trendy Final 4 of Gonzaga, Arizona. Kentucky and Iowa are going to be silent the rest of the tourney, right?
Yeah, they use the NET to rank the quality of your wins and losses, so your opponents' NET matters more than your own. Houston did end up with one Quad 1 win, but still a bad Quad 1 record (1-4). They did also go 10-1 in Quad 2, with no Quad 3 or 4 losses. Based on the Quad 2 record I do think they could have been seeded higher. I also think it's probably time for the selection committee to add efficiency based ratings into the equation (not as the whole equation, but certainly as a part of it).
OUCH! 0fer on Thursday.
Using a zone against an average to poor 3-point shooting team (I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 35%) that apparently doesn’t see much zone defense really aided Duke. Obviously, Coach K isn’t a Big Ten caliber coach.
We're evidently the NCAA canary in the coalmine.
Lol. What's up with the "you"? YOU have no idea what you are talking about. Have some respect. I am a UofI grad. And a fan. Probably before you were born. Crawl back under your rock.
And that is why except for an annual NCAA tourney pool, I don’t bet on sports. Well at least now I can cheer for whatever teams I want and not those I picked.
It’s the problem with non power 5 conferences. If you miss your opportunity in the non conference you are not going to get it later on. My biggest issue with quad 1 wins is it doesn’t take into account if you beat a team if they were hot or injured.
For example our RU win earlier in the season was before they figured things out. But our win at the end of the season against Iowa Was one of our best
There is no easy solution but I think when you look at the computer systems it was clear Houston was good but didn’t have the resume to prove it
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
I disliked AZ as much as some of our B1G rivals ( scUM, Idiots and loosiers ).............................AZ had an aura about them that made it easy for me to dislike .....
Players acted like entitled juveniles on an unchaperoned class trip with anything goes mentality ........Glad they got bounced , but rest assured , I do NOT want
Cellphone Scamscum to win a natty .....................ever...................
JMHO
Players acted like entitled juveniles on an unchaperoned class trip with anything goes mentality ........Glad they got bounced , but rest assured , I do NOT want
Cellphone Scamscum to win a natty .....................ever...................
JMHO
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