Official March Madness Thread

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#1,255
govols120 said:
The A-Sun had as many teams in the Sweet Sixteen as the SEC did. Let's not even start with defending this year's edition of SEC hoops.
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That's ok. According to the UK trolls, Kentucky has already won the 2014 national championship

S-E-C!

S-E-C!
 
#1,256
#1,256
govols120 said:
The A-Sun had as many teams in the Sweet Sixteen as the SEC did. Let's not even start with defending this year's edition of SEC hoops.
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If anything, I would say that the piss poor seeding of this year's tournament field played a major factor. While K-State absolutely choked, Oklahoma State, as a 4-seed, was "rewarded" with playing the PAC-12 tournament champion, and a 25-win team in a major conference? That is a tough out and you cannot convince me that heading into the tournament it was reasonable to believe that Oregon was worse than St. Mary's, Cincinnati, Belmont, NC State, Bucknell, or Oklahoma (all seeded at better than a #12).

I think plenty of such examples can be found throughout this field; and, usually, what appear to any reasonable observer as better big conference teams were seeded lower in order to give a small-conference team a higher seed. Of course, it makes for great entertainment, thus more money, and the NCAA Tournament is all about money (hence, 68-teams being included in a postseason tournament to pick the best team in the country...something that really only requires, at most, 16 teams).
 
#1,259
#1,259
The selection committee's issue isn't selection anymore (well, mostly, anyway), it's seeding. Oregon as a 12 may be the worst seeding fail I've ever seen.
 
#1,262
#1,262
Interested to see who Michigan puts on Murphy. I'd assume they put McGary on Young and throw GR3 or someone a bit more athletic/better at perimeter defense at him.
 
#1,263
#1,263
Gulf Coast got off to a nice start then played like a 15 seed. They could do nothing after the first half of the first half, which made it a fairly boring game. Michigan State-Duke was also boring--the spartans were utterly hapless on offense in the second half. Kansas-michigan was great, but there was a lot of bad basketball in the other games.
 
#1,264
#1,264
Well, I've got 5 of elite 8 teams, 2 final 4, and one championship game contenders left w Louisville winning. 5th in my pool
 
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#1,265
508mikey said:
Congrats to the selection committee FAIL for picking frauds from the Big 12 and LAC 12 --- 3 SEC teams yeah OK
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The PAC-12 had 3 teams advance to the 2nd round and 2 advance to the sweet 16, and Zona was a game winning shot away from the Elite 8. SEC champ loses to a 13 seed last 4 in team, and Mizzou loses by double digits in the first round. Only UF has carried the torch. Not quite sure I see your point.
 
#1,268
#1,268
I live a little over three hours from Atlanta. If Michigan wins tomorrow it will take some extreme circumstances to keep me out of the Dome next Saturday
 
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#1,269
bowlinggreenvol said:
The PAC-12 had 3 teams advance to the 2nd round and 2 advance to the sweet 16, and Zona was a game winning shot away from the Elite 8. SEC champ loses to a 13 seed last 4 in team, and Mizzou loses by double digits in the first round. Only UF has carried the torch. Not quite sure I see your point.
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If their confs were so strong they would have at least 1 team each left --- UF is the real SEC champ -- conf tournaments are just about making extra money.
 
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#1,270
A lot of bad offense in this tourney...You expect to see some good defense, but there have been a lot of ugly offensive performances.
 
#1,271
#1,271
If Michigan gets to play Syracuse there would be few things I would relish more than to knock Boeheim and their fans out of the tourney.
 
#1,272
#1,272
Three weeks ago today Syracuse scored 39 points in their season finale. Now they're in the Final Four. What an unreal season of basketball.
 
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