Seedings that make me scratch my head...
EAST
#9 Villanova
#10 Georgia
WEST
#3 UConn
#8 Michigan
#10 Penn State
SOUTHWEST (WTF? NO MIDWEST ANYMORE?)
#9 Illinois
#11 VCU or USC
SOUTHEAST (WTF? THEY GOT RID OF THIS FOR THE SOUTH)
#10 Michigan State
#12 Utah State
#13 Belmont
I see none of the B1G teams were on the bubble. That's nice. They were CLEARLY better than the other "bubble" teams. tOSU AD chaired this thing, huh? Hmmm....
Georgia as a 10 boggles the mind. Boggles it. VCU and USC get mentioned because they both got in before Colorado. Also, I think Richmond is better than both and I think Utah State is better than both. Boggled.
I note Utah State and Belmont because both are top 20 teams in KenPom and Utah State is ahead of Kansas State their opponent in the first round.
There isn't criteria anymore. There are so many things that contradict one another in the seedings, I don't think you can credibly take what the committee says.
Also, can we quit seeding mid-majors in the 8-9 games? I have zero doubt they get seeded in those games so they have to play a major power in the 2nd round. Northern Iowa won last year, so that backfired but ODU-Butler takes one of the good mids out and GMU gets the #1 overall if they beat Villanova. This goes back quite some time. In '96, UWGB got an 8 seed when many thought they were way better than that (Sure, they lost to VA Tech and Ace Custis but you get the drift) and a win meant a 2nd round game against the #1 that year, Kentucky.
And of course, it won't matter and the teams that should win will and the teams we feel overseeded will probably win and the underseeded teams we feel strongly about will crap their pants so big whippty fizz. I'm just cheering harder than usual against the criminal Buckeyes now since their AD is obviously a spineless sycophant.
3 comments:
the bracket matrix has over 80 bracket projections, you were the only one to have nova below a 10 seed. You really don't know what you are doing. Give it up.
Maybe he should sell liquor because he is drinking something. In my bracket matrix (over 162 projections), I had Nova a 8. He must not like schools in Philly.
Villanova's early season was pretty awesome. Brian thought of them as a riser and I looked at them as a Final 4 sleeper until the wheels came off. They deserve to be in but as they move into the tournament, I think it's fair to ask if that 9 seed is warranted considering how they finished. Hell, one might argue they'd have been better off in a lower seed anyway getting out of facing a 1 seed in round 2 should they advance. Thanks for reading!
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