Michigan To Face Tulsa In NCAA Tournament Play-In Game Comment Count

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YES WE KAM

An official Internet Hero by the name of Sarcastic Prick leaked the news partway through CBS's interminable selection show, but we waited until it was officially official: Michigan will face Tulsa on Wednesday in Dayton in an East region 11-seed play-in game; the winner will play six-seed Notre Dame in Brooklyn on Friday.

Wednesday's game will tip off at around 9:10 pm on TruTV. Friday's game, should Michigan make it, is set for a 9:40-ish start on CBS.

The full bracket [click to embiggen]:

Tulsa, a surprise inclusion in the field, is two spots below Michigan on KenPom at #58. The Golden Hurricane have two common opponents with the Wolverines: they split their season series against both UConn and SMU, two teams that defeated Michigan in non-conference play.

If Michigan advances into the field of 64, they'll take on an exaggerated version of themselves. Notre Dame boasts the tenth-most efficient offense in the country according to KenPom—and the #172 defense.

Much more coverage coming this week, obviously.

Comments

MichiganTeacher

March 13th, 2016 at 8:02 PM ^

Wow. You're saying the majority of users are satisfied with the functionality of this site? I suppose, actually, now that I think about it, that could be right. I guess the vast majority are non-posters who just read stuff, so yeah, could be.

Regardless, Stu is also right to complain. It's embarrassing. It's completely baffling to me why Brian doesn't fix it. It's not expensive in terms of dollars or time. I assume at this point the reason is psychological.

But it's ridiculous. And yes, I'm complaining on the internet, and you can't stop me. Nanny nanny boo boo.

 

Stu Daco

March 13th, 2016 at 8:18 PM ^

Well what's your theory?  He's been offered money about a thousand times.  He's been offered tech help about a thousand times.  This has been going on forever, and everybody wants to see improvement.  So what's the problem? Let's get it done.

jmblue

March 13th, 2016 at 9:30 PM ^

I don't understand the defensiveness here.  Brian runs a great site, but the server errors whenever something important happens are a major downside.  It's at the point where I don't even try to visit the site when news breaks - I know I'm just going to have to hit the refresh button a million times before the Drupal demons allow me in (and only temporarily, before they act up again).

uminks

March 14th, 2016 at 2:16 AM ^

of Michigan computer engineering students who could fix or upgrade the server for free. If everyone gave $20.00 the site could be more stable. I miss having live blogs of football games on this site. I'm not sure if it was cancelled last season because of potential server problems? Or a lack of live blog monitors?

pdxblue

March 13th, 2016 at 7:07 PM ^

They added the play in games when the # of conferences with auto bids went from 28 to 32. They did want to reduce the total amount of at-large bids - so they just added more spots. The 11 seeds are play-ins because those 4 11 seeds are usually the "last 4" that squeaked in. Almost everything worse than an 11 was a poorly ranked auto-bid.




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UMinSF

March 13th, 2016 at 7:00 PM ^

We knew it was going to be close.  Sure, the committee made some strange decisions, but at least we're in.

I haven't seen Tulsa play, but I like our chances against ND if we get to them. 

Being in the tournament is fun!

Michigan4Harbaugh

March 13th, 2016 at 7:02 PM ^

GO BLUE!! They are going to come out high, and get a little bit higher, then they are just going to catch on FIRE!!!!

NittanyFan

March 13th, 2016 at 7:05 PM ^

I heard that stat a few times on Cincinnati broadcasts (Tulsa plays in the Bearcats' conference).  

I wasn't overly impressed the couple times I saw them.  They play rather ugly and not necessarily smart ball.  Just a terrible terrible loss to Memphis (!!!) by 20 on Friday night.    Plus, they are coached by Frank Haith.  That's edge Beilien BIG TIME.  Haith doesn't coach fundamentals at all.  A few years ago, of course, he was at Missouri and they lost as a #2 seed to Norfolk State.

Anyway, I think it is edge U-M.  I have tickets for Dayton --- for Tuesday though.  So I'm seeing the other play-in game (Wichita St/Vanderbilt).

BlueIsland

March 14th, 2016 at 9:17 AM ^

Clark Kellogg - For obvious reasons

Seth Greenberg - Dukie during Fab Five years, always threw shade at Michigan

Doug Gottlieb - Still pissed Fisher didn't send him a letter

 

 

UMgradMSUdad

March 14th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^

There's a sports radio blowhard here in OKC, Jim Traber, who has been agitating for Oklahoma State to fire Travis Ford and hire Gottlieb as head basketball coach.  Now it seems as though the school might be ready to fire Ford.  Gottleib has zero experience coaching, and I would laugh my ass off if he gets hired.  It would get him off the radio airwaves and put in a position where he's almost sure to fall on his face.

marc27

March 13th, 2016 at 7:32 PM ^

someday, we may find out that Levert has a break or tear or something relatively serious that kept him from playing basically the whole important Big Ten season - but until I hear that, I remain of the opinion that he refused to play through something some others might have, and help his team this year.  I wish I didn't feel that way, but I do.  Someday, if proven wrong, I'd happily apologize.  I think he was more worried about jeopardizing his NBA status, whatever it may be at this stage.  His loss was huge - AGAIN.  They truly never had a guy to go to when they absolutely needed a big hoop, or even help get a stop on defense.