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The FiveThirtyEight predictions turned out pretty well. They ranked the bubble teams and eight of the top nine made it in. The lone miss: Illinois State.
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Lesson:
Put 2 or 3 truly quality opponents on your schedule. Better to lose those and win 24 games than beat Little Sisters of the Poor and win 27.
Let the real tournament begin...the big one is overrated
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It looks like the Illini would likely play Valpo or Akron.
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Lol, Calipari might be drunk.
He must have just gotten back from dinner with some Illini boosters about the Illinois job :thumb:
Yup. Gotta be a good feeling for those guys.
Below are the overseeds and underseeds based on KenPom ranking, excluding variations by one. I ordered the teams in the tournament by ranking then split them into groups of four (six if "11" or "16" seeds). Positive is overseeded, negative is underseeded.
+5 Maryland
+4 Minnesota
+3 Arizona
+3 Butler
+2 Arkansas
+2 Dayton
+2 Florida St.
+2 Kansas
+2 Northwestern
+2 Notre Dame
+2 Seton Hall
+2 UCLA
+2 Virginia Tech
-2 Rhode Island
-2 West Virginia
-2 Wisconsin
-3 Kansas St.
-3 Marquette
-3 Saint Mary's
-3 SMU
-3 Virginia
-3 Wake Forest
-4 Oklahoma St.
-8 Wichita St.
Big Ten only:
+5 Maryland
+4 Minnesota
+2 Northwestern
+1 Michigan St.
0 Purdue
-1 Michigan
-2 Wisconsin
+5 Maryland
+4 Minnesota
+3 Arizona
+3 Butler
+2 Arkansas
+2 Dayton
+2 Florida St.
+2 Kansas
+2 Northwestern
+2 Notre Dame
+2 Seton Hall
+2 UCLA
+2 Virginia Tech
-2 Rhode Island
-2 West Virginia
-2 Wisconsin
-3 Kansas St.
-3 Marquette
-3 Saint Mary's
-3 SMU
-3 Virginia
-3 Wake Forest
-4 Oklahoma St.
-8 Wichita St.
Big Ten only:
+5 Maryland
+4 Minnesota
+2 Northwestern
+1 Michigan St.
0 Purdue
-1 Michigan
-2 Wisconsin
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What do you expect? It's a huge broadcasting school and the majority of the talking heads in Bristol probably went there. Didn't deserve to get in though.
Honestly, with how far off the bubble it appears we were, I don't think a win at Rutgers would have been enough to put us in. I think we would have needed to beat Michigan as well.
Looks that way. A ScUM win maybe, might have needed to beat Purdue as well.
No chance they'd put us opposite another Big Ten team. It's looking like a potential ISU matchup.
Heh, Roger in the 1st round and we'll get beat by our future coach in the 2nd round.
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