Official Bracketology Thread

#52
#52
MemphisCanes said:
They were the AQ from the SEC though. Is this bracketology predicting that UT wins the SECt?
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No, I think this is a little side tangent about how low a seed an at large might get.

Edit. NM, didn't realize you were already part of the tangent. :)
 
#53
#53
None of the talk, speculation, and worry means squat right now. UT HAS to win Friday and (I think) Sat. to get in. But, I'm not on the NCAA committee. Every year they make a controversial move or 2 where a "deserving" team gets left out.

Working against UT is their RPI. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense (on paper) to have the #2 seed in the SEC with such a low RPI. I hope the committee takes the "post Stokes" Vols into account.
 
#54
#54
zansdad said:
No, I think this is a little side tangent about how low a seed an at large might get.

Edit. NM, didn't realize you were already part of the tangent. :)
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Exactly. No at-large may receive a seed lower than 12, which is exactly why the new play-in games were added for the 12 and 11 seeds.

UGA winning the SECt a few years ago and receiving a 14 seed was basically the committee saying that they had no business being an at-large and if not for winning the tourney, would've been left out.
 
#55
#55
MemphisCanes said:
Exactly. No at-large may receive a seed lower than 12, which is exactly why the new play-in games were added for the 12 and 11 seeds.

UGA winning the SECt a few years ago and receiving a 14 seed was basically the committee saying that they had no business being an at-large and if not for winning the tourney, would've been left out.
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I didn't think the play in games went on the bracket anywhere specific. I thought they were just the 4 lowest at large teams, and they were seeded wherever they fell.

Edit: also, while at large teams seldom slide below a 12 seed, there is no hard fast rule about them not being lower than a 12 seed.
 
#58
#58
I am looking at the matrix The Bracket Project's Bracket Matrix - 2012 since yesterday we have jumped up from a 13.4 average seed to a 12.2 (+1.2). We have gone from being in 7 brackets to 13 (+6). Still in some play-in games.

To me these are significant increases in consideration. I would monitor this as an indication of where we are headed. Still work to be done but movement.
 
#60
#60
I do bracketology for a friend's site, and it's incredibly tough to distinguish which team is less awful as a 10 seed than the other. Tennessee could get in based only on being pretty much one of a small group of teams that has actually played well over the last three weeks.
 
#61
#61
govols120 said:
I do bracketology for a friend's site, and it's incredibly tough to distinguish which team is less awful as a 10 seed than the other. Tennessee could get in based only on being pretty much one of a small group of teams that has actually played well over the last three weeks.
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10 or 11 seed, preferably a 11, is my hope right now.
 
#62
#62
The Matrix is flawed and does not reveal updated results. It should be noted that at present time 53 polls of the 94 were updated 5 March or eariler. Several were last updated on 2 March and have not been updated since. So this will change greatly when they all become current.
 
#64
#64
Sudden Impact said:
The Matrix is flawed and does not reveal updated results. It should be noted that at present time 53 polls of the 94 were updated 5 March or eariler. Several were last updated on 2 March and have not been updated since. So this will change greatly when they all become current.
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that is my biggest problem with the matrix is that not everyone of them is updated atleast 2 or 3 times a week.

80 of the 94 brackets were updated yesterday or today.

the other 14 were either 3/2 or 3/3. would like to see those updated soon.
 
#65
#65
bleedingTNorange said:
that is my biggest problem with the matrix is that not everyone of them is updated atleast 2 or 3 times a week.

80 of the 94 brackets were updated yesterday or today.

the other 14 were either 3/2 or 3/3. would like to see those updated soon.
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Most were updated in the AM. For example, Drexel is in 45 of the 53 outdated polls 3/5 am or eariler.
 
#66
#66
Sudden Impact said:
Most were updated in the AM. Drexel is in 45 of the 53 outdated polls 3/5 am or eariler.
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not much has changed since the early AM. drexel had lost last night around 9pm.

drexel unfortunately will probably remain in most of those brackets.

atleast ntil some other schools wins, like a tennessee or texas, someone like that.
 
#67
#67
My point exactly. So we are in a wait, out. This is a weak field beyond the top 20
 
#69
#69
3 or 4 teams that are currently on the first four in will be in action thursday night.

there is a great chance that heading into fridays game we could be projected as in.
 
#72
#72
What's the deal with the SunBelt? Is MTSU an automatic bid or not? Sorry if this has already been addressed.
 
#73
#73
WesternKyVol said:
What's the deal with the SunBelt? Is MTSU an automatic bid or not? Sorry if this has already been addressed.
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MTSU lost in the conference tournament, putting them in the bubble discussion (I don't think they'll get in). Western Kentucky ended up winning the tournament and getting the auto-bid.
 
#74
#74
GatorsGators said:
MTSU lost in the conference tournament, putting them in the bubble discussion (I don't think they'll get in). Western Kentucky ended up winning the tournament and getting the auto-bid.
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Yeah I knew about my Hilltoppers making it in. Not what I want if it keeps the Vols out.
 
#75
#75
WiseOlVol said:
But do you think it isn't a little (a lot) over the top for a new guy to title his thread "The Official" and to open with "I'm recommending"? Do we pay him a subscription? PS. I like the subject matter of the thread (even though it's way inside-baseball until at least Saturday).
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Or how he ignored the 3 or 4 other bracket/bubble threads that were already created to create his own and call it the "official thread" :lol:
 
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