3 seed is indefensible…shame on selection committee!!

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#201
For all our talk about how we compared to Kentucky and Auburn, as a couple of sharp analysts pointed out today, we got screwed by the committee's decision to make Duke a 2. Vols had MUCH BETTER metrics ACROSS the BOARD than Duke. Much better. As one analyst said, "As soon as I saw Duke as a 2 seed, I knew Tennessee was getting screwed." As I said above, anybody who thinks committee members are sweating out metrics and analyzing teams deeply is naive: It's pretty obvious that most of the committee's brackets are set well before the weekend conference tournaments--and I'd further suggest that guys like Lunardi and others strongly influence the committee's decisions, because whose members are fat cats too lazy to do any real analytical work of their own.
 
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turbovol said:
The myth is that THE COMMITTEE knows anything. They don't. You can't tell me they are relying on that twit Lunardi and other projections. They all get it
into their heads early on who should be where--and then they stop paying attention late in the process (late season, conference tourneys).
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I believe Condolleeezzza Rice is still part of the selection committee.
She has a well-documented history of mishandling information, so this is no surprise, especially if the other committee members are as incompetent as she is.
 
#203
#203
After I got over thinking how stupid the Committee was in our seed...I started looking at who we could have to play. I think if we play out game the Sweet 16 should be definitely in our reach. After that it gets more interesting with strong possibility of Nova in Sweet 16 game. Think we owe them one and I think we are peaking now and can beat them by playing our game. The Elite 8 game likely would be a rematch with Arizona. We beat them once and we want a Natty we may need to beat them again. We can do this just take it one game at a time. Let's Go Vols!!!
 
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Lurker said:
Calipari has suggested that the SEC assist with solving this problem by ending its tournament on Saturday, allowing the committee time to reflect on the results. It makes sense, I guess, to give them more than an hour or so to consider the results, but I am skeptical that it will solve anything.
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Even with this possible scenario, the committee completed ignored that we beat Kentucky on a neutral site on Saturday.
 
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#210
Wait, coach Cal revealed the only reason the Cats lost to the Vols. It was his fault, everything is about him. He told them to skip the shoot around prior to the game. His gut told him this was wrong (making the mistake that cost them the championship OK) but he did it anyway. If not for that mis-calculation the cats would have won and none of this 2 seed stuff would be an issue.

That let me wondering why they also lost the game in Knoxville, no shoot around??? How arrogant.
 
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VOLtaism said:
Wait, coach Cal revealed the only reason the Cats lost to the Vols. It was his fault, everything is about him. He told them to skip the shoot around prior to the game. His gut told him this was wrong (making the mistake that cost them the championship OK) but he did it anyway. If not for that mis-calculation the cats would have won and none of this 2 seed stuff would be an issue.

That let me wondering why they also lost the game in Knoxville, no shoot around??? How arrogant.
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Cal has always been an excuse maker everytime his teams fell short.
 
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Volfansince1980 said:
Doesn't matter. If anything we learned this past weekend, a team's resume only matters up to a point. Blue bloods will always get consideration for higher seeds, even if they are not worthy of them.
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If that was the case, they would already be a #1 seed. They are certainly more of a blue-blood program than Baylor.
 
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ftsandersvol said:
If that was the case, they would already be a #1 seed. They are certainly more of a blue-blood program than Baylor.
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Not sure why you picked Baylor out of a hat. But they have a better record than Kentucky and they are the defending National Champions. More than likely would have got Kansas bumped to the 2-line because Kentucky waffled them on their home court.
 
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Volfansince1980 said:
Not sure why you picked Baylor out of a hat. But they have a better record than Kentucky and they are the defending National Champions. More than likely would have got Kansas bumped to the 2-line because Kentucky waffled them on their home court.
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I picked Baylor because that's the bracket in which Kentucky was placed.
 
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Volfansince1980 said:
Not sure why you picked Baylor out of a hat. But they have a better record than Kentucky and they are the defending National Champions. More than likely would have got Kansas bumped to the 2-line because Kentucky waffled them on their home court.
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I've also moved from being an infectious disease expert to a geopolitical expert to now a sports expert.
 
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