Congrats to Bucky Badger - but this illustrates the flip side of the committee screwing someone
Somehow Wisconsin and Miami ended up on the same seed line. One just knocked off the #1 overall seed, the other looked like they belonged in the CBI last night. Strong work, Hollis.
He's a quality coach, great weave, great screens. Players have enthusiasm
Wisconsin (and Michigan and Wichita St and...) were UNDER-seeded.
But how does one game prove anything? That's just a snap judgement against Miami.
They may not have deserved their seed, but one game isn't the reason. That is such a short-sided comment.
Just like beating Villanova doesn't validate Wisconsin. No, what they did all year is the reason they should've been higher.
Using your same logic, should MSU been seeded higher? Because everyone on here was bitching about them not being a team in Dayton.
The seeding is terrible because of what teams did throughout the year...not the result of the game they played in the first round.
March 19th, 2017 at 11:34 AM ^
How hard is it to predict the salary of executives?
March 19th, 2017 at 11:27 AM ^
I see you have come out of your fire beilein winter hibernation.
March 19th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
Miami is 29th in the Massey Composite ranking system. Wisconsin is 24th. And that's after the Michigan State / Villanova games. There's not a whole lot of separation there. Miami just had a bad game and Wisconsin had a good one.
Can anyone remember refs blatantly favoring a Big 10 school?
I'm talking about an OOL opponent? We've been screwed plenty in league play.
March 19th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
That part of the bracket suddenly turned into a snooze fest. Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin? WOOF
Virginia vs Wisconsin would be an aesthetic nightmare. A sub-40 winning score would be in play.
Meanwhile, anyone else ready for Duke to go to the Final Four? Wisco haters, in a Duke-Wisconsin Elite Eight game, do you root against someone or just skip it and go straight to boiling yourself in acid?
Duke is to basketball as Notre Dame is to football for me. They're the last teams I'd root for in those sports.
Hollis is a moron. Nuff said.
wisc played an awesome game. impressive how they overcame all the quick whistles to pull that one out.
March 19th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
Stop drinking? I don't understand.
Michigan beat them by 15 less than a week ago.
So, Michigan might be . . . pretty good?
you're right half of the time.
B1G represent!
Nice win over Nova. Hollis should stick to managing his Athletic Department. Seeding for Big 10 teams has been poorly thought out.
The idea that Hollis is flipping through individual B1G teams and personally choosing what bad places to put them, like Mr. Potter designating conscription designations on It's a Wonderful Life, is absurd. The whole committee works together and works from a set of rules that is necessarily very complex. Things happen the way they happen.
Now, was Wisconsin underseeded? Absolutely. Was Minnesota overseeded? The results speak for themselves. But it's not like Hollis or anyone else is just doing this to be spiteful.
Was Michigan underseeded? I hope Louisville fans are disgustedly saying so by about 2pm tomorrow afternoon.
March 18th, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^
alone is worth +1.
March 19th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
about Hollis. Seems like there's a certain core of M fans that are just determined to see a conspiracy against us at every hint of unfair treatment.
But no, results of one game in the tournament do not "speak for themselves". Sometimes upsets are known to happen, and between less well matched teams than Wisconsin and Villanova. 15 seed Middle Tennessee beating 2 seed Michigan State did not mean that Sparty got hosed by being matched with a grossly underseeded team.
Mark Few isn't overrated like Jay Wright.
Wisconsin is a veteran team. Definitely not a #8 seed. They controlled the game tempo and dominated inside, even with Happ and Koenig in foul trouble. This was a nice middle finger to the selection committee.
Also, I'm surrounded by Badger fans who hate Gard. So that's also a nice middle finger to Badger Nation who are clamoring for Bennett to come waltzing back to Madison.
I don't get how you can hate Gard. He has done a great job of picking off from where Ryan left em.