Jeff Goodman ESPN tweets
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This is what I have been saying. I think we are a 2 seed. Not a guarantee, but our resume is ridiculous.
I agree. The more that I look at it, I think KU has the best case for a #1 seed. However, the 9 losses and no Embiid is going to make it very hard for them to get the #1 seed. It would be 2 more losses than any former #1 seed in history.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.... Nobody here wants that!!!
Oh the fun we could have with twocoach if that happened.
Team in first has an injury derate and other teams played in inferior conferences and/or had weaker non-conference.
Twocoach would be so irate he would probably drink a glass of his own urine and smoke a cig out of his bum bum.
Dropping one line meant playing in Minneapolis and Auburn Hills instead of Tucson and Albuquerque.
On he ESPN show, the guy that was formally on the selection committee showed that Lunardi had us #11 on the seeding list. Clearly we're a 3 seed then and not even the top two of that seed line.
Locations are assigned after top 4 seeds in each regional are decided. They are not pre-set. The start at the top of the s-curve and each team gets the closest location left. So if KU and WSU are above us in the S-Curve, they will get St. Louis. If we are above KU in S-Curve, we get St. Louis. It doesn't have anything to do with what region we end up in or what seed we ultimately get.
Lunardi is not on the selection committee. That is too low based on our resume.
Lunardi is just average at getting seeds right. All he does well is getting the 68 right. And that a lot of people do well.
This is according to a media member and somebody who has absolutely no vote on who gets seeded where.
I don't think we'll get a 1 seed (obviously) but those two guys are right that our compared to the other candidates for the 1 seed, our resume is equal or better in a lot of ways. The only one that I think might have a step over us, is Michigan because they won the conference. I also think that if you put our resume with Duke or Kansas's name on it, there wouldn't be a question that they'd get a 1 seed.
All of that being said, it is darn cool to even have teams mention us for that. It's really great that we'll get at least a 3 seed and we have an outside shot at a 2 seed.
It has been a pretty great weekend!
All of that being said, it is darn cool to even have teams mention us for that. It's really great that we'll get at least a 3 seed and we have an outside shot at a 2 seed.
It has been a pretty great weekend!
The media was late to the party on that team. The 2000 team wasn't even ranked until halfway through the season with a record of 18-3, with losses to Drake in the second game of the year, #1 Cincy, 2OT at OU, and a win over#12 KU. Then they showed up in the polls at #20. Then we went 6-1 (24-4 overall with wins over #24 KU, #14 UT and #10 OSU, loss in OT at Colorado) before we got into the top 10 at #10. That was one week before the conference tourney. Had that team been ranked earlier in the season like this year's team was, they certainly would have had a shot at a one seed. By the time the nets were being cut down, everyone realized they had undervalued that team. That being said, I don't think this team is a 1 seed though they are certainly capable of winning the damn thing :smile:
http://www.cyclones.com/pdf9/2534267.pdf?SPSID=46661&SPID=4252&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=10700
The 2000 season is on page 13 of the linked PDF.
