Michigan To Face Tulsa In NCAA Tournament Play-In Game
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.
If Brian can't afford to buy a new server, we should launch a Kickstarter campaign for one. I'd happily contribute.
Everybody would. That's what makes this so baffling.
Don't know about majority, but count me in the camp agreeing with Stu. This site needs to be better.
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.
What, Brian doesn't fix the site purely out of spite? Yeah, that buys a "fuck you" from me.
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.
March 13th, 2016 at 11:19 PM ^
One is there are many who wish the site was more stable, maybe not the majority I guess. That brings me to my second thought which is the majority can be right or wrong.
So make like a tree and leave
It's free so it should not work when it's important to
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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).
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?
Is it just me, or is the idea of a play-in game for the 11-seed utterly idiotic?
If you win your tournament, you should get to bypass those play-in games. They would play Thurs/Fri under the old system.
I was thinking the same thing. Could someone explain the idea behind having play-in games for this tournament at all? I don't get why they don't just start with the top 64 teams. But yeah, a play in game for 11 seed is particularly mystifying. (I don't follow this stuff that closely and I may be an idiot.)
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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Yes, the 11 / 12 seeds are typically the last At-Large teams.
Not just you. I don't always agree with you, Bando, but when I do, I agree 100%.
They should honestly just extend the tournament by a couple weeks and have an all-D1 tournament. That would be some awesome viewing. 83 games on the first day? Sign me up.
for the Shavodrick Beaver debacle. . .
We will get revenge for being stuck with Denard Robinson!
Wait . . . No . . . Nevermind, that worked out pretty well . . . Just beat them for the normal reasons.
(I get that you were joking. I'm just tyring to play along.)
Well played
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When will t he start time be announced?
I think all the first four and first round start times get announced later. If CBS stayed on an extra hour, they could probably announce the times while Charles plays with technology thingies.
It actually can be quite a while before we get times for the first round games, but the First Four are set. M plays at roughly 9:10 ET, 30 minutes after Southern/Holy Cross finishes.
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!
GO BLUE!! They are going to come out high, and get a little bit higher, then they are just going to catch on FIRE!!!!
How did Tulsa seriously get in this field. Not that I'm complaining, but still...baffling decision by the comittee
Syracuse more baffling
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ACC bias!
Also surprising, but not more baffling than Tulsa.
Tulsa got 5 quality wins. SMU, UConn, Cincinnati, Temple and Wichita State. Both Michigan and Tulsa quality wins got them in
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Michigan Notre Dame could be interesting... Really hoping we beat Tulsa to get there
To hell with Notre Dame!
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).
How did such a terribly coached team get a #2 seed?
Just bought my tickets!! My first time seeing Michigan basketball.
Are you by any chance in Winchester, KY?
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We are in the weakest set of 8.
Good opportunities.
Yes. We have a great chance if our 3s are falling.
You just explained the gateway for most of their wins.
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Yeah but our 3's havent been falling since the first PSU game, or so it seems at least.
Doug Gottlieb is hardly endearing.
saying we don't deserve to be in at all and it was baffling? I don't pay any attention to names of talking heads.
and then cut to the video of the team right after hearing on national TV that they were worthless.
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
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.
Pretty solid for a team that lost Caris and Spile.
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.
Oh come on. Not this BS again.
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