Inside the Selection Process. (Tourney special on B1G network)
#2 was an unnecessary dig. Morgan is shooting 68% from the floor.
I think it's obvious that our team is playing better than we were back then. I wonder if Arizona can say the same about their team.
Arizona just blew out Stanford a couple days ago. It'd be a good game.
I'll have to catch this at 2am (CST). Sounds pretty interesting.
Agree, pretty well done. I took notes! I may make up a diary; for the die-hards, most of it isn't necessarily news but the rule changes at least are pretty interesting.
if you do. Just saying. I would probably even pos it. No /s.
I'm ok either with a 2 seed in the west or a 3 seed in the Midwest.
Wisconsin probably first team in line for Milwaukee. 2nd team up in air imo. Creighton close enough to pass Michigan in seeding and I think Milwaukee would be their closest site as I am assuming WSU and Kansas will go to St Louis. Plus when I look at maps Buffalo is closer to Ann Arbor than Milwaukee. Buffalo I assume is about a lock for Syracuse. Then Villanova would be next but if Michigan is seeded higher than Villanova I think Buffalo becomes a possibility for Michigan.
I would rather deal with Syracuse fans than Wisconsin fans for the neutral court. Buffalo is a shorter drive from Ann Arbor if you have a passport and about as close as you can get to Stauskas' hometown in Canada without actually playing in Canada.
behind Wisky getting their seed in the midwest and UM being sent out west? I didn't start watching till they iust ended their thoughts on the midwest.
The mock committee was torn between Wisconsin and Syracuse for the last 1-seed. They gave it to Syracuse based on fewer losses (the mock committee really didn't like Wisconsin's horrible January run). That made Wisconsin the overall #5, the highest ranked 2-seed. Michigan IIRC was the last 2-seed, overall #8. So Wisconsin got placed in its nearest regional before Michigan did.
Two interesting takeaways from the show for me: One was a mention that the status of a team’s roster could be a factor in determining seeding. The other was that, because of the unbalanced schedules in most conferences, a team's place in its final conference standings is not as important as its overall resume.
A team like Syracuse that started the season 25-0, mostly using an eight-man rotation, but (a) lost one of their three big men, DaJuan Coleman, to a season-ending injury, (b) has forward Jerami Grant nursing a back injury that his limited his playing time in recent games, (c) is 1-3 in its last four games, and (d) has been reduced to a six-man rotation, unless rarely-used freshman forward Tyler Roberson finally gets significant playing time, might slip a line or two in seeding, especially if it does not win a game in the ACC Tournament.
The panelists also mentioned that Virginia, the ACC regular season champion, still might not be seeded as high as another ACC team, because the Cavaliers have played each of the next four teams in the ACC standings (Syracuse, North Carolina, Duke and Pittsburgh) only once during this regular season.
This will be the first time in decades when Syracuse has not played its conference tournament games in the friendly confines of New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Based on the discussions on BTN’s Inside The Selection Process Show, if Wisconsin manages to beat Penn State at home and Nebraska on the road to end the regular season, and then does well in the conference tournament, it might be hard to deny the Badgers a one seed.
Although the BTN show gave Michigan the final two seed, most Bracketolgists have been putting the Wolverines on the three line lately. Besides having the chance to win the Big Ten regular seaosn championship outright, wins in Michigan's next two games will have considerable benefit on its seeding for the NCAA Tournament.
Brackets will ALWAYS be flawed because it doesn't take the BEST 68 teams in the country. It gives 36 of those spots to teams that win their conference tournaments whether they are one of the best 68 teams in the country or not. I'd be willing to bet that if the bracket consisted of the 68 best teams, the 1 vs 16 matchup would a hell of a lot more interesting.