Lankykong
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SEC has 8 teams in this thing. I've got half of them going home in round 1. Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Florida. I have Kentucky, Tennessee, Auburn advancing.
Thats significant...although I dont think Virginias chances of making the elite 8 were great anyways.
To be the top overall seed, the Committee certainly didn't do them any favors putting them in a bracket with Cincinnati, Tennessee, Arizona, and Kentucky. They appear to have the toughest road to the Elite Eight of any 1 seed.
Villanova in particular appears to have a relatively easy path to get to the Elite Eight, although I'm not sure they will get there either. Outside of the year they won it all, Jay Wright only has 2 other Elite Eight appearances and he's been there 18 years.
I hope this isnt off topic.
I watched the LIU Brooklyn-Radford game. These teams do not belong in an NCAA tournament. Regular season conference champions would be better, in my opinion. 71-61 Radford. Radford was much more disciplined and better coached. LIU Brooklyn had a kid named Hernandez who hogged the ball too much and threw up some god-awful looking shots.
Villanova has nothing to worry about. I hope Wright State has similar talent. If so, we have nothing to worry about either.
I think Arizona is the most overrated team in the tournament. I really don't get all they love they're getting. I think Kentucky beats them. Even if they do get to the S16, while they have good matchups against UVA and potentially UC/UT, they're still an inferior team in each on of those matchups IMO. People think they're being clever picking them to come out of that region, or make the elite 8. But their odds of doing that are relatively slim.
5% of all brackets have them winning the tournament. That's more in-line with Purdue or UNC's chances of winning. Not UA. And ~60% of brackets have them going to the S16. I think it's more of a tossup that they get to the S16
Theyve lost 7 games this year - 6 of them to far worse teams than Kentucky. Ayton can be the best player in the game and still lose
Kentucky is playing their best basketball of the year right now. And by all measures is a better team than Arizona - even with Ayton. I don't get the love fest for them all of a sudden.
That doesn't really answer the question though. Teams can have bad games, and they played a couple without their second best player. They had distractions resulting from Sean Miller allegations. That team was top-5 preseason for a reason. And again, UK has no one that can match up with Ayton.
Kentucky is playing their best basketball of the year right now. And by all measures is a better team than Arizona - even with Ayton. I don't get the love fest for them all of a sudden.
I'm talking about the entire year. All of their games. They're a borderline Top 20 team. Let's flip it around and besides having one of the better players in the country (not the best), what have they done that is so impressive? Win a pathetically weak Pac 12? Play at Top 75 SOS with a 27-7 record? By that measure Tennessee is a far better team. Easily.
Wait are you talking about Kentucky or Arizona here? Applies to both
I disagree. I live in Tucson and follow UA basketball closely. They have a legit lineup with 3-4 players who can score in bunches on any given night. (Ayton, Ristic, Trier, and Alkins) They have size and athleticism and a experienced PG who can distribute the ball.
They won the regular season and PAC 12 tourney. They are playing with fire and angry since the ESPN reports and the Trier suspension.
I think they reach the Final 4. All teams who play them for the first time struggle against Ayton bc cant simulate him in practice.
They are built for a Final 4 run. Their glaring weakness is perimeter defense. If the match up is right, a solid 3 point shooting team could beat them.