Latest bracketology has Michigan a 4 seed in Salt Lake City
Do not want.
Especially with arizona in the Third Round and it not being in Auburn Hills.
Uhhhhh....I'm not going to an event in a place that frowns on...feel good juice. Yeah, that should be SFW...
I would feel worse if it was Jerry Palm. Lunardi is awful at this, IIRC.
According to JP, Michigan is a 2 seed in Auburn Hills. As much as I would love a 2 seed, I don't see it.
He expects us to finish at a 3, even though we're still a 2 on his bracket.
Jerry Palm's bracket also has the rest of the top of that bracket being Gonzaga and New Mexico. Who do I have to root for to get the BEST BRACKET EVER?
lmao at the thread of people from a few days ago talking about how they already bought tickets to Auburn Hills to watch Michigan play
the way to the bank. Those of us who did buy tickets can sell them to sparty if msu can hold on to a 2 or 3 seed. I will double my money. If we do get to the Palace then its a win-win.
What is the downside?
who think that Lunardi has any influence on the actual seeding.
Yeah, let's totally make fun of other Michigan fans who want to support their team in person! What a laugh riot.
tracked his picks compared to the actual bracket the past two years. The problem is ESPN does not keep his pre-tournament bracket on the website. It can sometimes be found by other outlets picking up the story.
Lunardi is less than 50% accurate. He generates hype until the NCAA announcement then he goes quiet. Marketing 101.
There are people who rank these things and there are a lot of people who do significatly better year after year. The fact people pay attention to him is an example of the marketing genius of the WWL
I should just sell my INDY tickets right now......I'm sure some IU fan will pay good money...
Slight chance Louisville jumps IU (both would get 1's) for Indy if they can win the Big East title tonight.
Think Ohio would get a #1 over indiana if they win the BTT??? Split the season series....As you can see I have a lot of wishful thinking going on.
Lunardi is good about getting the correct teams IN the tournament. Not so good about actual seeding or placements. Im not worried in the slightest.
that 4 seed slot Kansas state is in looks amazing, if we somehow got that draw i think we would make the final 4.
Just a short few years ago we would be going ape shit to be a 4 seed...just sayin.
I logged in to upvote this. Thank you for some perspective.
We didn't have anywhere near the combination of skill and athleticism that we have now.
Please respond to the next person who says "fire Belein" (no really, someone actually said that)
How long did it take you to capitalize the first letter of every word? Is this some subdued form of Internet yelling?
for those of us who never bought into the #1 ranking to begin with. UM fans crazily oscillate between black-hole negativity and lunatic optimism depending on who's gone 4 for 7 from the three on a particular evening. John Beilein may not be the combined incarnation of Adolph Rupp, John Wooden, and Dean Smith, but neither is he Tommy Amaker or Brian Ellerbe.
I don't get how losing to two top 25 teams gets us to a 4 seed when we were a two seed before that.
While I do not feel like Michigan is playing like a worthy 2-3 seed, I do wonder why it seems like Michigan is falling in the brackets for losses to IU and Wisconsin when other teams don't seem to be affected by losses. Indiana has lost 3 games since moving in to #1 seed projections and their projection as a #1 has never changed. If Morgan's tip goes in against them, we have damn similar resume's and a better overall record yet we are a #4 projection and they are a #1. The other one that will piss me off is Syracuse (who Lunardi bumped Michigan out of Auburn Hills for). I am not saying that Michigan is better than Syracuse but watch them lose to Louisville tonight and Lunardi will argue that the loss does no damage and they will stay on the 3 line. Not sure how their loss doesn't cost them when our loss to Indiana costs us. It's b.s. and I hope that Palm or some of the other (usually more accurate braketologists) are right about the #3 seed. I want to see Michigan play with a home court advantage and I have tickets so...let's hope! Go Blue!!!
Jerry Palm's was looking rather good for us, but in his latest - here - we are the #2 in Auburn Hills playing Iona, but then we would get the winner of VCU-California. If we got through that, we would then face the survivor of the pod containing Notre Dame-Wichita State and New Mexico-Arizona.
Bracketography, which is TeamRankings system, also has us staying local, but as #3 and opening against New Mexico State.
Sweet Sixteen or bust.
3 seed in Auburn Hills. JB knows some folks. (I think we would be anyway). That is our seed and it is not changing.
Before you worry about Arizona, let's beat Akron. And Duke? Goodbye Sweet Sixteen. Sorry, I see no reason for optimism in this situation.
Arizona in the third round would be awesome. They are so bad.
Yes, but they have been in a virtual free fall for the second half of the season and are lacking chemistry. I don't see Arizona getting to the sweet 16 no matter what.
according to bracketmatrix.com.
Syracuse and Kansas State could screw that up.
in the end the only thing that matters is to beat the team your playing against, everything else will play itself out
Lunardi may be clueless about placement, but still, I am worried. I don't care if we're a 3 or 4, but we've got to be in Auburn Hills. A lot of things have gone wrong in the last 24 hours. We need some things to break our way.
We're actually 6-5 in our last 11 games. 6-6 in the last 12, though.