The false narrative of NET manipulation apparently carried water. It’s so dumb when they have refused to do a similar thing for the SEC in football for years.
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The false narrative of NET manipulation apparently carried water. It’s so dumb when they have refused to do a similar thing for the SEC in football for years.
Other pro sports are going to load management. The elite conference stacking up its non conf schedule flies against that trend in terms of taking care of your pro assets.
Big 12 programs can't get duped into playing the #1 non conf and also the #1 by far regular Power One conference schedule.
The minute we do that they'll just look at total wins and ignore all SOS.
Eventually Duke and UNC will be in P2s and the ACC will be in survival mode. At that point I could see 1-12 in the top three conferences earning automatic bids. The rest at large bids and AQs. At that point those 3 conferences would be near 24 members giving half automatic bids.
Drake off. Eff. 21. Def. Eff. 77
Wash st off. Eff. 71 Def. Eff. 43
Isu off. Eff 56 Def. Eff. 2
According to teamrankings.com
I'd rather see a team that can't score I think.
AP has us at number #4. IMO, we have two 1 seeds in the East playing for the Final 4. Let's go Iowa State!
It comes from a less-than-intelligent thinking selection committee that wasn't willing to put forth the real effort of properly seeding the teams...(yes, including you Jamie...sry) and we ended up with a 68 team field with lots of weirdness to it.
The NCAA's seeding of Houston, Iowa State, and Kansas made it painfully clear the Big 12 tournament results were not even a small factor in the selection committee's considerations.
So what's the point of this tournament, other than generating millions more in revenue (mainly from Cyclone fans)? What happened this year will only incentivize more Big 12 teams who finish near the top of the conference standings to 'pull a Kansas' and sit out their star players. Then the Big 12 tournament will become the equivalent of today's bowl games.
So what's the point of this tournament, other than generating millions more in revenue (mainly from Cyclone fans)? What happened this year will only incentivize more Big 12 teams who finish near the top of the conference standings to 'pull a Kansas' and sit out their star players. Then the Big 12 tournament will become the equivalent of today's bowl games.
Washington state is really really big. So it will be really interesting to see how the match up. Enright's has to be a big factor for them.
THIS^^^
If there's one thing that I've learned after watching Cyclone basketball for 40 years, it's that half the fun is winning. The other half is the dreaming of possibilities you get to do when the team is really good. Right now, this team has given us all the reason to dream big. Really big.
In a few weeks, one team will be left standing and all others will have lost. Heartbreak all around, except for one fanbase and one team. No matter the end result, this will be a year and a team to be remembered.
demoncore1031
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I'm ok with playing UCONN because.....
1. It means we are in the Elite 8.
2. We can beat UCONN if we bring our A game.
Of course it's not limited to the Big 12 tournament. Nobody said it was.
The point is that if the selection committee does not factor in the conference tournament results into their decisions, then the teams who are already safely in the tournament will start 'pulling a Kansas' and the conference tournaments will become college basketball's version of bowl games (meaningless exhibitions).
Drake isn't making it past Wazzu. Too many people on here are expecting Drake to win their first game. I'm guessing the fact that they're in the same state as is leads to a much higher percentage on here believing they'll win against the national average.
I agree. The tournaments mean nothing, unless you are a bubble/out team. I haven’t researched it, but has the committee ever put much stock into the conference tournaments?
Not sure, but if teams A and B are competing for a 1 seed, and team A (UNC) loses it's last conference tournament game to a team seeded 10th in their conference, and team B (ISU) wins it's last tournament game by beating the #1 team in the nation by 28 points, seems like a no brainer to me.
Maybe, but based on things the chairman said, the committee seemed to already have its top 6 seeds decided going into Saturday. Maybe the order of the teams was different.
I think you mean they had their storylines all lined up and weren't budging.
Right. Honestly, I think the committee has run its course. Too many biases, subconscious or otherwise, cloud peoples judgement.
Bring back the BCS/Computers to do it all for basketball and football.
The only issue with the BCS, IMO, was that it was limited to 2 teams. It would work great with automatic qualifiers combined with 12/14 teams.
I’m sure there were other issues, but removing people from their biases/storylines and being able to be swayed by coaches making a stink should be removed from the selection process.
