NCAA 2023 - 24 NCAA Thread

[John Price]

Vriginia made it in !

lol they hyping up samford over kansas. thinking emoji

 

[John Price]

Wake and Pitt didn't make it in. ACC was weak this year.

wow indiana state out

 

[HisIceness]

I guess every year there's a "snub" but I'm seeing a lot of dislike for Virginia and Michigan State getting in over Indiana State and Seton Hall.

 

[End of Line]

I guess every year there's a "snub" but I'm seeing a lot of dislike for Virginia and Michigan State getting in over Indiana State and Seton Hall.

Sparty was shit this year. Feels like an Izzo participation trophy.

Also, giving Diebler a 5yr deal seems incredibly short sighted. Not a fan at all.

 

[hockey20000]

my jayhawks dont look great this year but would love a kansas gonzaga 2nd round match up

 

[Elvis P]

I guess every year there's a "snub" but I'm seeing a lot of dislike for Virginia and Michigan State getting in over Indiana State and Seton Hall.

Seton Hall should have got in over VA.

 

[John Price]

 

[CupofOil]

A couple of things really stood out to me.

Not only Iowa State as a 2 seed but as the lowest 2 seed is totally bogus. They put so much stock into a non-conference schedule that happened 4-5 months ago and ignored that this team (which was already a 2 seed on most brackets coming into Championship week) decimated Baylor and Houston while North Carolina who plays in a joke of a conference and lost to an average NC State team in the tournament gets a 1 seed. I know the whole body of work should be taken into account but when two teams are fairly closely bunched and one team has a MUCH better conference champ week than the other and it doesn't make a difference, that's a problem.

UConn gets the top overall seed and deservedly so since they are the best team in the country yet they get saddled with the toughest bracket with Big 12 Champ Iowa State as the 2, Big 10 Champ Illinois as the 3, SEC Champ Auburn (who got hosed as a 4) and the runner up last season San Diego St. as a 5. Make that make sense.

North Carolina, Kentucky and Michigan St. were all seeded too high. Notice a pattern with those 3 teams? All bluebloods. No bias there, right?
Virginia getting in at all with 2 Quad 1 wins while a bunch of Mountain West teams with clearly better resumes barely getting in and New Mexico getting an 11 as Conference Champ in one of the tougher conferences in the league is just more bias towards the big schools.


There's always beefs every year but this year seemed especially egregious.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Feeling good about Illinois's placement for at least two rounds, so the Illini should get to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2005. Will be pretty damn bitter if the team ****s the bed in March, comma, again.

Getting past that is a damn tall order that I'm not expecting, though.

 

[John Price]

@Tony Romo

 

[Tony Romo]

@Tony Romo

Lost a top 5 player in the country and still got a 1 seed. Incredible coach. Will probably win one at Texas.

 

[Cush]

 

[John Price]

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Think long, think wrong.

Creighton over Arizona.

I'll get neither right.

 

[GKJ]

 

[John Price]

Izzo working again.

 

[Blue and Green]

Izzo working again.

Michigan St played a tough schedule with a bunch of very competitive losses to highly ranked teams. On purely predictive numbers they would've been a 5 or 6 seed.

 

[John Price]

Wow Duquesne.

 

[John Price]

is peyton a ghostbuster now lol

 

[John Price]

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Illini have been starting out damn slow as of late. While I'm sure it'll eventually bite us, maybe even today, but I'll take being up by one at half given the team's tendency to turn it on in the second.

 

[Elvis P]

IL is too big, strong, and athletic to lose to these guys. It's men vs boys. I picked Samford over KS in my bracket. The women have all the star power this year.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Even as a counterpunching team, hot damn did the Illini turn on the afterburners.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Wait, that was only the tenth triple double in tourney history? I have no clue how many I would've guessed had happened, but it definitely wouldn't have been single digits.

 

[John Price]

wtf nevada