What is up with all the confusion on locations? Don’t they teach geometry in school anymore?As mentioned by someone else awhile ago. Chicago is closer to Auburn than San Antonio. Cartography is mind melting stuff I guess, lol.
What is up with all the confusion on locations? Don’t they teach geometry in school anymore?As mentioned by someone else awhile ago. Chicago is closer to Auburn than San Antonio. Cartography is mind melting stuff I guess, lol.
We've been the favorite in like 90% of our games this season, so it probably feels like we crumble under the weight of being favorites when we lose but in fact we win the vast majority of games we're favored. We've just had so many more opportunities to lose games we're favored in than to win games we're underdogs in. The only one I can think of where we were clear underdogs was @ Purdue, and we definitely did not rise to the challenge that day.I think we play better as an underdog. It seems that we crumble when we are the favorite. I'll take it.
Geometry yes. Geography? So so.What is up with all the confusion on locations? Don’t they teach geometry in school anymore?
Chattanooga. Yikes. Flashbacks to my time in Champaign.View attachment 16183
Likely any one of these 6 teams if we end up as a 4.
Agree about true road games, but neutral site games haven't had the same success.We also seem to always play better in a road environment.
That was posted on selection sunday. He always changes his brackets the day of selection because he gets inside information. Lets see where he puts us tomorrow. lol'Joey Brackets' breaks down Selection Sunday winners and losers
Bracketologist Joe Lunardi breaks down which teams made out better than expected and which were unpleasantly surprised by the NCAA tournament selection committee's decisions.www.espn.com
Best I could do in a very basic research but it looks like just last year, numerous examples from where he saw teams should be seeded vs. where they ended up.
I just called the SEC tip lineThat was posted on selection sunday. He always changes his brackets the day of selection because he gets inside information. Lets see where he puts us tomorrow. lol
The SEC? I thought it was the ACC.I just called the SEC tip line
I think that at worst our loss yesterday affects where we play, but not how we're seeded. Even if we had won this I'm not sure it would have been enough to raise our seed, and after looking at Sagarin and Pomeroy I'm not convinced that the loss will drop our seed. Although the NCAA has their own methodology they aren't that different from the analytics of Sagarin and Pomeroy. Although losing wasn't the result we wanted you shouldn't look at Indiana like they're chopped liver. Their Sagarin rating is 29th, and Pomeroy has them 40th. And the way things are looking right now they may take down Iowa too.The Selection Show
Sunday, March 13th
5:00pm CT
CBS
As of the morning of March 12th-
Illinois a 4 seed in the Bracket Matrix
http://www.bracketmatrix.com/
Illinois #15 in the NET rankingsEven if we had won this I'm not sure it would have been enough to raise our seed, and after looking at Sagarin and Pomeroy I'm not convinced that the loss will drop our seed. Although the NCAA has their own methodology they aren't that different from the analytics of Sagarin and Pomeroy. Although losing wasn't the result we wanted you shouldn't look at Indiana like they're chopped liver. Their Sagarin rating is 29th, and Pomeroy has them 40th.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings
I would say yesSo Texas AM wins over Baylor and Arkansas get them in?
Lunardi says noI would say yes
We will prepare, and we will fricking dominate Vermont ... if that is how it turns out.Vermont just punched a ticket and are projected to be a 13 seed. Illinois might be playing them, and that would be a tough matchup.
Lol I get anything can happen in the tourney and being cocky is foolish, but when their 6’8” center looks at our roster and sees 7’0” 285lb there will be an audibly loud *gulp* noise to be heardVermont just punched a ticket and are projected to be a 13 seed. Illinois might be playing them, and that would be a tough matchup.
I thought that was before today's win.Lunardi says no
Enjoy your breakdowns - just confused on why Tennessee would be more likely to want to go to Milwaukee instead of Pittsburgh or Greenville. And for Arkansas, they look much closer to Fort Worth. I can't imagine Arkansas or Tennessee sending many fans to Milwaukee. But I also am not sure of all the seeding rules for where teams can go.Whether we get Indy/Milwaukee is going to be entirely about how the committee treats Tennessee and Arkansas. Kentucky, Purdue, and Wisconsin are already locks for 3 of the 4 top seeds in those two pods. By all right, Tennessee should be placed as the 4th top seed in that pod. However, if the committee were to drop either us or Arkansas to a 5 seed, there would be more of an incentive to move Tennessee to Pittsburgh and then move us and Arkansas to Milwaukee where we'd play against each other in the same pod, instead of moving both us and Arkansas to Buffalo/Pittsburgh.
Overall, out of the 8 pod locations, 5 locations will be completely locked prior to our seeding due to higher seeds getting that placement (Portland, San Diego, Greenville, Ft. Worth, and 1 of Indy or Milwaukee). That means that we will be placed in one of the following three seed locations: Buffalo, Pittsburgh, or Indy/Milwaukee.
Now one quirk of the bracket seeds this year is that if Tennessee were placed in Indy/Milwaukee, that would mean that three 4 seeds would be placed in Buffalo/Pittsburgh, so 6 of the 8 4 and 5 seeds would be forced to play out East (UCLA and St. Mary's are the other 2 4/5 seeds and they're locked out West). So it would make sense for the bracket committee to "screw" Tennessee and send them to Pitt simply so they can open up Midwest as a location to place two 4/5 seeds such that Buffalo/Pittsburgh will only hold 4 of the 8 4/5 seeds. This would thereby allow two of Arkansas, Illinois, Houston, LSU, USC, or Iowa to not travel as far.