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Selection Sunday Thread

Today at 6pm is the Men's Selection Sunday event.  I thought I'd make a thread about it now because they have already started their bracketology session on ESPN.  This thread is to discuss what seed and where Michigan will be playing and to talk about all other teams in or on the bubble.

I believe that Michigan will be 4 seed out west or a 3 seed in Auburn Hills if the selection committee understands that we only have one bad loss.  

 

here is what ESPN thinks as of today (I don't know what I think about this since they have Wisconsin trending down even though they just beat Michigan and Indiana back to back)... http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Here is what a writer on yahoo thinks the seeds with be... http://sports.yahoo.com/featured/ncaab/bigboard

What seed does everyone else think Michigan will end up as??

 

EDIT: The mgoblog ESPN Tournament pick'em information...

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Click this link to search for the MGoBlog group name above... http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/groupfind

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March 17th, 2013 at 3:23 PM | Do we have any type of a (Score:2)
ixcuincle
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Do we have any type of a bracket or pool established for this event

March 17th, 2013 at 3:24 PM | I think there is, if I can (Score:3 Normal)
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I think there is, if I can find it I will edit into the thread...

Lloyd Brady is my homeboy...for real he is!

March 17th, 2013 at 3:26 PM | I think Michigan will get a 4 (Score:0 Normal)
March 17th, 2013 at 3:30 PM | I expect a three seed (seems (Score:3 Normal)
cheesheadwolverine
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I expect a three seed (seems like most people have us as a three and Lunardi isn't anything special, mostly a PR-machine creation).  As a DC resident am hoping against hope that we will be in the East (in which case I am starting to feel the flu coming on this Thursday).  But mostly I just want to be in Auburn Hills.  This team seems to have a big home/away discrepency and if we aren't in SE Michigan, I am not confident we will escape the first weekend.

"I just hope Tressel doesn't fire me"

-Gordon Gee

March 17th, 2013 at 3:37 PM | If we end up in DC, (Score:3 Normal)
State Street
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If we end up in DC, Louisville is probably the 1 and Duke is almost certainly the 2.

Do not want.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:38 PM | Louisville should be the (Score:2)
Laser Wolf
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Louisville should be the overall #1 and be sent to Indy.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:36 PM | Florida shitting the bed in (Score:-1 Overrated)
March 17th, 2013 at 3:37 PM | lunardi has KSU ahead of us (Score:5 Normal)
TheFrigz
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lunardi has KSU ahead of us despite us having a better RPI, more top 50 wins, less top 50 losses, and WE BEAT THEM BY 14 AT A NEUTRAL COURT

hopefully the committee is smarter than lunardi

March 17th, 2013 at 5:32 PM | With the exception of the (Score:5 Normal)
M-Dog
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With the exception of the guys that take pictures of kate Upton, Lunardi has the bset job in the world.  You only do it for 3 months, nobody pays attention to it unit the last month, and you don't even have to be right.

At 6:01 EST, he is basically done working for the year.

M'Dog

March 17th, 2013 at 5:38 PM | Better- (Score:3 Normal)
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The guy who puts the paint on Kate Upton.

"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk

March 17th, 2013 at 3:39 PM | Florida losing (Score:1)
wsnc2012
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It seems as though Florida losing would help us with a three seed.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:40 PM | Lunardi still has Florida as (Score:3 Normal)
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Lunardi still has Florida as a 2 seed? Not sure if serious.....

Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:41 PM | Lunardi is a joke.  When all (Score:4 Normal)
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Lunardi is a joke.  When all of the other guys have us as a 3, I'm sure that's where we'll be.

903 wins most in college football

March 17th, 2013 at 3:41 PM | What time tonight does all the actual selecting happen? (Score:2)
NorCalGoBloo
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I've never really watched it the night of before...is it anything like the bowl selection show? Do they announce by region, or seed, or what?

You can't win it all back if you don't push more into the middle...

March 17th, 2013 at 3:49 PM | Has any other casual sports (Score:5 Normal)
State Street
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Has any other casual sports fan in history never, ever watched the selection show one single time?

March 17th, 2013 at 4:46 PM | I haven't (Score:2)
TIMMMAAY
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And I'm definitely more than a "casual" fan.

not just "douchey" MGoBlog user, but now TRUSTED MGoBlog user

March 17th, 2013 at 5:40 PM | Not a casual sports fan? (Score:2)
M-Wolverine
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Or not a casual fan of college basketball? Because, really...

"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk

March 17th, 2013 at 5:41 PM | I watched in 2008 (Score:2)
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We were "on the bubble" and it was our chance to get back to the tourney for the first time in 10000 years

I do it for my love of the Streets

March 17th, 2013 at 4:17 PM | Region.  They'll do a region, (Score:4 Informative)
enlightenedbum
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Region.  They'll do a region, talk about it for a little bit, go to commercial, maybe interview a coach who was on the bubble or a very high seed, then do the next region.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:24 PM | Thanks (Score:2)
NorCalGoBloo
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Thanks

You can't win it all back if you don't push more into the middle...

March 17th, 2013 at 4:46 PM | It's like the bowl selection (Score:2)
snarling wolverine
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It's like the bowl selection show, but way cooler.

 

March 17th, 2013 at 5:56 PM | Yeah, you don't already know (Score:2)
M-Dog
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Yeah, you don't already know all the results two weeks in advance.

 

M'Dog

March 17th, 2013 at 3:42 PM | Lunardi is always horrible at (Score:2 Normal)
DKohn81
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Lunardi is always horrible at guessing seeding.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:43 PM | Lunardi is smoking rocks. (Score:4 Normal)
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Lunardi is smoking rocks. Overall though, this might be the first year I can recall where the 1 seeds are less feared (I'm looking at you Gonzaga and Miami) than 3/4 seeds.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:45 PM | 4 (Score:2 Normal)
Felix.M.Blue
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I think Michigan slides to a 4. I like the Bracketology bracket right now. #4 seed in the Gonzaga bracket.

Michigan has no reason to bitch about anything.

"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx

March 17th, 2013 at 3:49 PM | Carolina (Score:1)
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and Saint Louis are two lower seeds that I REALLY don't want to play against in later rounds.

2013 will be the year.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:51 PM | Seeding (Score:2)
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As much as I think it would help Michigan to be in Auburn Hills, if some of the brackets I've seen is accurate it would be awful to have to both Duke and Louisville as the 2 and the 1. If that were the case I would almost rather be out West as a 4 with possibly New Mexico and Gonzago as a 2 and a 1.

Of course if they don't pick up the effort and focus, it may not matter very much who the Sweet 16 and beyond matchups are. But I still have confidence in their talent and think they can put it together and make a run depending on the matchups.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:06 PM | The pods decoupled from the (Score:2)
jcgold
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The pods decoupled from the regions a while back. We can play first/second round at the palace and be in the west region.

"Michigan isn't going to lose a game" - Fielding Yost, 1901

March 17th, 2013 at 4:10 PM | Thanks (Score:2)
J.Madrox
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Good to know thanks. That explains why I just looked and they were still in Auburn Hills but this time in a region with Kansas (1) and Georgetown (2). Not that I think thats much of an improvement if any.

March 17th, 2013 at 3:52 PM | I still feel like a 4 seed. (Score:0 Overrated)
March 17th, 2013 at 3:59 PM | I think it'd be cool to see (Score:2 Normal)
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I think it'd be cool to see the recruits have a tournament going.  Anyone know if Shane or Ferns is doing anything?  Either that or they should get involved in a bracket with the Michigan Football department or with the fans, it'd be cool to get a little competition going.

~Herm

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March 17th, 2013 at 4:36 PM | I'd have to imagine the guys (Score:2)
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I'd have to imagine the guys who've already enrolled are not allowed to do anything like that and the other commits have probably been advised to stay away from that as well.  I don't know how much different the rules are in this area for student athletes vs athletic dept. employees, but one of my friends who works in the AD (not basketball) has been told the NCAA explicitly forbids them to so much as fill out a bracket.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:56 PM | Well there's really no point (Score:1 Trolling)
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Well there's really no point to filling out a bracket if you don't have money on the games anyways.  What other reason is there for you to root for random teams?  It's a shame the NCAA is so randomly harsh.  I'd hope the guys have some money riding, it makes it an actual competition.  Ferns could donate one of his T-Shirts to a fan who won and vice versa.

~Herm

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March 17th, 2013 at 5:00 PM | And here I would have assumed (Score:3 Funny)
snarling wolverine
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And here I would have assumed Herm would be appalled by the marriage of sporting competition and gambling.

 

March 17th, 2013 at 3:59 PM | Not surprising (Score:2)
Felix.M.Blue
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Would not surprise me if Michigan

A) Gets a 4 seed, everyone is excited and thinking Michigan has a real good shot to get to the Elite 8. And they lose in the first round.

B) They get in a tough bracket, everyone predicts doom and they put a few wins together.

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March 17th, 2013 at 4:05 PM | Also BTT final thread? (Score:1)
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I find that I do not hate Buckeye basketball so much. This weekend I realize that I prefer them to Wisconsin, MSU and Indiana other things being equal. My preference is not helping at the moment.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:06 PM | It's three hours away. (Score:0 Trolling)
March 17th, 2013 at 4:06 PM | Ranking Bracketologists (Score:5 Normal)
chatster
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The Bracket Project ranks the Bracketologists*, based on their long-term ability to predict teams and seeds in the final bracket. As of the 2012 rankings, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi was ranked 36th, two behind Jerry Palm of CBS and six ahead of Sports Illustrated’s Andy Glockner. http://bracketproject.50webs.com/rankings.html

Busting The Bracket (ranked 6th as of last year) puts a final bracket up at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.http://www.bustingthebracket.com/

Shawn Siegel of College Hoops Net (ranked 9th as of last year) used to be pretty accurate, but last night, in what might’ve been his first projection of the year, he spoiled his image by projecting UCONN as a 12 seed. http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/bracketology-saturday-night-ncaa-tournament-projection-170139

*OT: Do Bracketologists have a convention like Beatlefest or those Star Trek conventions? 

March 17th, 2013 at 4:06 PM | Last week if we would held on (Score:1)
Wolverine41
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Last week if we would held on versus Indiana we were talking possible one seed now four seed? what the fuck man

March 17th, 2013 at 4:07 PM | 3 Seed (Score:1)
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The brackets I've seen that have us at a 4 have either K.St or Wis at a 3.I think we should be seeded higher than either of those 2 (an OSU win would help)                                                

Goblueman-Wayne,Mich

March 17th, 2013 at 4:14 PM | Michigan (3) vs. Harvard (14) - ? (Score:2 Normal)
chatster
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Wonder whether any members of the Committee are contemplating this matchup for the round of 64. . . . Beilein vs. His Predecessor . . .  "Michigan of the West" vs. "Michigan of the East"?

March 17th, 2013 at 5:33 PM | I was thinking the same thing. (Score:2)
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I don't know if there's a decent "backstory game" every year because that's what you'll get when you randomly throw opponents together 30+ times, or if it's by design.  I guess whatever the selection committee says, I'll believe the opposite because I don't trust the NCAA.

I think we end up as a 3 seed in Auburn Hills.  Fingers crossed.

"Coach, if you need one yard, I'll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I'll get you three yards." -Leroy Hoard

March 17th, 2013 at 4:20 PM | Can we please end the charade (Score:3 Normal)
State Street
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Can we please end the charade of end-of-half coach interviews?  Did anybody see that hard hitting analysis Tracy Wolfson gloriously failed to prod out of Bo Ryan?

These interviews give us no insight whatsoever and they are beyond uncomfortable for the viewer.

Tracy: "So...how do you...how do you adjust..."

Bo: "Stop them from making shots."

Tracy: "Ok."

March 17th, 2013 at 4:22 PM | Instead, let's shoot Bo Ryan (Score:4 Normal)
enlightenedbum
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Instead, let's shoot Bo Ryan into the sun.  He's such a dick, in addition to everything else terrible about him.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:25 PM | Every reporter that starts off (Score:1)
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Their interviews with "How important was it...." To a question that couldn't be answered any other way than "Oh, very important" needs to be fired.

I'm waiting for anyone to respond with, "It wasn't important".

March 17th, 2013 at 4:37 PM | Best Sideline/Halftime Interviews (Score:2 Normal)
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1.A drunken Joe Namath tries to kiss Suzy Kolber                                                                    2.A crazed John L. Smith rants incoherently about a botched MSU fg attempt @ Ohio,'we got outcoached'                                                                                                                                  3.Lloyd Carr's "Why would you ask me that Todd?" After being asked why he sat on the ball in the last series of a half.

Goblueman-Wayne,Mich

March 17th, 2013 at 4:22 PM | Pick'em is full damn it, screwing those of us who (Score:1)
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Pick'em is full damn it, screwing those of us who procrastinate.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:29 PM | Edit: I could be wrong because I'm now added to (Score:2 Normal)
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Edit: I could be wrong because I'm now added to the bracket.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:32 PM | Ban Wisconsin (Score:1)
DirkMcGurk
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And teams like them. Playing shit slow boring basketball should be banned. If you are constantly involved in games that are in the 20's at half you need not play anymore.

March 17th, 2013 at 4:32 PM | I still think we will be a 3, (Score:5 Normal)
jcgold
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I still think we will be a 3, we'll likely end up in Auburn Hills.

But isn't it nice to not have to worry about bubble stuff for the second consecutive year? As a basketball fan who really came of watching age from the late 90s forward, I'm just appreciative that I'm not a total nervous wreck right now.

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