CBS - Re-seeding the tourney
We . . . moved down a seed?
They have us as the 9th-best team, which would make us the top #3 seed. Tennessee is ranked one spot above us.
The writeup:
9. Michigan: Things opened up a bit for the Wolverines in the bottom half of the Midwest Region with Duke losing, but Tennessee could pose an issue. They cruised past Wofford and Texas, but will they be able to handle the Vols' bigs?
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24…
Let's hope everyone overlooks us, starting with Tennessee being worried about their upcoming Kentucky game.
And let's hope Kentucky-Louisville is their weekend Super Bowl and they don't think too much about the next game.
We were the popular pick to lose or be upset in every game last tournament but maybe Florida and then we finally gained respect against Louisville. People picked us to lose to SDSU, to be wrecked by HAVOC(TM), to lose to Kansas, and to be completely unable to score on the UNBEATABLE TWO THREE ZONE.
We seem to play well as the 'underdog'
That's an insult to asses.
I had to mute the TV during the MSU-Harvard game. He doesn't even try to be an impartial announcer. All he did was rave about "how good" the Spartans are.
is a troll. That is all.
Someone should create an mgo account for Gottlieb just so they can send him to Bolivia.
had Michigan as 8 overall. I guess winning your 2 games against the best competition available easily doesn't account for much.
And it's doubtful beating Tennessee would be impressive to either group as well. Oh well.
They aren't saying that this is how the teams should be re-seeded. They're just ranking them based on how good they think the teams are right now. From the original article:
"This is not a ranking based on resumes -- that stuff is irrelevant now. It is simply a ranking of all 68 teams in the field, based on eye test, efficiency metrics, and how teams perform on the court. Essentially, if each team played the other 67 teams once, this is how I think the standings might turn out."
You are correct. The original ranking had us #10. One could argue that it's too low, but it didn't move us down. It moved us up one.
how could they believe MSU is playing better than Michigan after squeaking past Harvard?
and it's not going to stop till they lose now. If Michigan had beaten MSU in the BTT final, MSU would be a popular upset pick. Amazing how short term everyone's memory is. This is the team that lost to Illinois at home like 2 weeks ago
And Michigan is a team that squesked by Illionois one week ago on a missed 3-foot jumper.
I'm not sure if that makes me feel better.
- Florida
- Arizona
- Louisville
- Virginia
- Tennessee
- Wisconsin
- Michigan State
- Michigan
- Kentucky
- UCLA
- San Diego State
- Connecticut
- Iowa State
- Baylor
- Stanford
- Dayton
Clearly we suck. Don't trust your lying eyes boys - we were lucky to beat Wofford and even luckier to sneak past fearsome Texas. I just hope....No I just PRAY that Coach Beilein can somehow coax five players to take the floor against mighty, mighty Tennessee knowing the complete and total ass-kicking that awaits us.
#9thseedmyass
According to Sparty fans, we "barely" got by Wofford, "should have been dominated" by Texas, and Tennessee "is the better team and will give scUM fits." It's amazing how much they try to rationalize why Michigan will lose its next game. They have been doing it all year and time after time, Michigan has proved them wrong.
Hilarious.
What do they say about falling behind Harvard late and having to rally to beat an Ivy League School? Izzo was going easy on his buddy Ammaker?
They can't hear you!
Is that YOU?!?
ESPN keeps us at two. Why do people care about this anyway?
They're just taking pre-tournament bias and using it to re-rate the teams how they want. If this was actual reseeding, there's no way MSU jumps to #4 overall by beating a #13 seed and struggling with a #12 seed, (by the way with 25 turnovers in those 2 games.)
the finals as a 3 seed last year. Who cares what those talking heads have to say anymore.
We were a four, actually.
You are right sir. I stand corrected. Thats what i get for being lazy.
for a team that won the nations toughest conference by 3 games, beat 3 top 5 teams in ONE week (two on the road) Michigan is getting very little respect this year..From the time the brackets were announced MANY talking heads predicted M getting bounced...Many picked Texas to upset Michigan and if they made it to the sweet 16 SURELY Duke would beat them....NOW everyones on the Tennessee Bandwagon and are what seems to be the FAVORITE in this game....GOOD!!!!! Lets hope this make us mad and determined!
I love it when so many people pick Michigan to lose because when they win, it's that much sweeter. The silence from the haters after a win is like cheesecake for me...and I love cheesecake.
is the FInal Four win over Syracuse and the 2011 Frozen Four win over North Dakota. In the week leading up to the games, we were subjected to endless talk of how glorious the other team was and how they would dominate, Those wins were so so...so so so so sweet
March 24th, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
To be fair, Nodak did dominate. That was the 45 minute PK game, right?
But keep in mind that MSU would have beaten U-M by double digits if it hadn't been for ApplingMorris the whole team having a hang nail a cold sore vagina all of those injuries.
Looks like Bacari will have plenty of amunition this week to keep Morgan fired up........
Let's be honest, Bacari's pregame motivational speeches are fun to watch, but not necessarily because they are truly motivational, but because they remind everyone of the coach in this commercial:
We should have ranked teams that won their tournament games higher.
I completely agree with MGrowOld, and would go further. If BA uses this to fire up the team, awesome. More than that, several on the team (Morgan, Robinson, Stauskas) are already irritated. Witness how Morgan felt about endless questions about how he would defend Texas. Beilein would never show it, but he also is irked. This is a huge motivational tool that HELPS Michigan.
So often, coaches on both the Pro and College level look hard for ways to manufacture being "disrespected" or "overlooked" or "unappreciated," etc., etc., etc. CBS has handed great bulletin board material to Michigan on a silver platter. Michigan has thrived on being an underdog, and this only helps.
Three years ago, people ranked Tennessee highly against Michigan. The Vols didn't know what hit them. Deja vu . . . I could easily see it happening again.
Actually, I'm delighted at how the brackets are lining up. I would love to play and beat the following:
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- Virginia
- Michigan State (or Arizona)
I really want to see Michigan beat all these teams, but especially Kentucky and Michigan State, head to head. There are only two things I think that can cripple Michigan:
- Morford (especially Morgan) get called for a ton of blocking fouls.
- Two thirds of our sharpshooters (Stauskas, Walton, LeVert, Robinson, Spike, and Irvin) go very cold from beyond the three point line.
If Morgan continues to play strong and within himself, and we continue to hit 40% from three point range, we should win the whole thing.
It's not legal. There are a lot of teams potentially in our path that I would love to see us knock off. Lousville, Arizona (or Wisconsin) and Iowa St would make a nice revenge tour.
I laughed.
Ah yes, one of the few higher seed teams that had no trouble whatsoever in the 2 games so far this tourney deserves to be demoted because they're going up against an overlooked team that made it to the sweet 16 against grossly overrated/overseeded competition and will rightfully put up an admirable fight....
and it was a F-ing Tennessee LOVE FEST...apparently Michigan has ZERO chance of winning
Doug Gottlieb is an ass. He sounded as if he was crying last year when we were beating Syracuse.
I'm not in the boat that thinks this is the same Michigan State team from February, but this is ridiculous. Over the course of two games Michigan State has not shown anything to warrant flying past Michigan, and Michigan cruised through two games (yes, actually cruised. It's amazing contrasting the Detroit media's comments against USA Today's on how that Wofford game went. 17 points). And my goodness, Tennessee managed to beat Iowa in overtime. Can I jump on that bandwagon twice?
Finally, Louisville blows. Russ Smith can waste all the time he wants trying to jump the inbounds pass against us, we're blowing them out of the water regardless if they even manage to get past Kentucky.
EDIT: Apparently the SEC is now the crowning jewel of college basketball. Even more of a kneejerk reaction than MSU becoming the consensus favorite.