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...
NAME: MGoBlog Community PASSWORD: WeOn!
Click this link to search for the MGoBlog group name above... http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/groupfind
Password not working for me, I put in "We On!", "We On !", "we on!," "We On", and "we on." Has it been changed or anything? Anyone else have this problem?
Please respond
It's WeOn! with no space between "we" and "on".
Thanks, 'ppreciate it
Man, we could be really good at defense if we could bear hug the opponent.
Once I bear hugged my opponent who was a bear, he seemed to enjoy it and then we became friends
Watching Wisconsin play Buckyball, and seeing Ohio State win at Buckyball, rank just behind Bolivia and nuclear war on the list of things I despise.
Call that a flagrant one.
OSU gets a 1 seed....Lville-IU-Kansas-Gonz,Miami would be next ahead of OSU
is gonna be excruciating after this BTT game is finished, unless there is an overtime somehow. You never know when Wisc is involved.
If game ends in a couple of minutes, there's gonna be over a 1/2 hour more of gibberish being discussed, i wish they would go directly to the selection show.
http://twitter.com/YahooForde/statuses/313399988594024449
"For the first time since Oden, I think Ohio State has a viable shot at winning it all."
Lolno
Tom Crean on TV
Would rather pull for Crean even though he is a jackass over OSU
Fuck I hate Ohio State so much
and.....he still looks and acts like a huge douche, man I hate that guy
Even when we were seeded eighth two years ago when we thought we were on the bubble?
The UCLA/Duke wins were 4 years ago. That was the year we were 1-8 in conference before the Aneurysm of Leadership. And then we caught fire, swept State, what not. But were still thought to be on the bubble. And then the committee bumped pretty much every Big Ten team up 2/3 seeds from where we expected.
You can't have been that upset in '93 when we were a #1 seed.
Other ones since then:
1994 - #3 (21-7 record)
1995 - #9 (17-13)
1996 - #7 (20-11)
1998 - #3 (24-8)
2009 - #10 (20-13)
2011 - #8 (20-13)
2012 - #4 (24-9)
When did we get screwed? They all look pretty fair to me and '95 and '11 seem overly generous.
I've been reading the experts on this blog and from I can gather M must be on the bubble. Going to be exciting once again to see if they get in the tourney.
If M doesn't get in, it's because of Coach B's lack of D the last 30 years, coupled with Coach ignorantly refusing to play zone D
Why do people get all worked up over the suggestion we should play more zone? I dont get it. It's not like we're a finely-tuned defensive machine or anything but for reasons that escape me there is a significant (not just you Gordie) board contingent that gets VERY upset at the mere mention of a change in defensive sets. The funny thing is that if you watched the games over the past couple of days we saw a LOT of teams flip from man to man to zone (and vice versa) when things weren't working so it's not like its a radical concept.
I thought that's what a sports blog was kinda for.....
Jerry Palm updated his bracket one more tim and moved us to the #3 seed in Auburn Hills playing Northwestern State and then the winner of Wichita State / Colorado State. Surviving that, we would then potentially face either Oregon, Iowa State, Georgetown or Iona in the newest projection.
Looking at the Big Ten on a conference level, we are projected to send seven teams per TeamRankings, with 4 of them (Michigan included) as a top 4 seed in various regions. Wisconsin comes in as a potential #5 in their algorithm, then Minnesota as a #8 seed and Illinois at #10.
Charles Barkley needs to stop smoking pot before going on the air.
Busting the Bracket.com (listed above by a poster above as the #6 most reliable bracket predictor has both Michigan and MSU as 3 seeds...so who would end up in Auburn Hills if this happened?
Both teams would.
Back when the tournament was on CBS, they wouldn't have NBA clowns trying to chime in about how the MWC was better than the B1G. I know you can watch all the games with Turner / CBS, but there are some negatives to the deal. And one of the negatives, unfortunately, is having Charles Barkley appear on TV and make these dumb comments like the MWC being stronger than the Big 10. Go cover the NBA.
I can't decide if I want to watch this on CBS or ESPN, i need two tvs dammit
Sparty playing Valparaiso.
STAEE would beat Duke. Fuck Duke.
So Sparty is in with Duke and Louisville. Enjoy that sparty.
He's probably screaming at Big Ten officials about it right now and they are trying to explain they have no power over this.
