Jerry Palm: Brackets Finalized, Michigan will get 4th 1-seed. Edit: So much for that.
The bracket is final...even if Michigan loses, I'm sticking with them as the 4th No. 1. The committee could rightly disagree, but not w/UVa
— Jerry Palm (@jppalmCBS) March 16, 2014
So despite the mess that is this game, I guess we have that going for us.
This is excellent news and I am not quite so likely to break my television.
Well...who needs a one seed? lets be a 3 seed. or something like that. Anything but that.
I thought they didn't like rematches?
and I don't think Syracuse sounds like the worst possible thing anyway. Today showed how vulnerable we are against good aggressive man to man. The Illinois zone move worked as an unexpected gimmick, that is all. I would welcome a game against a 2-3 zone that this team was aware of and expected. In a way, Syracuse is a really good match up for us because we at least can control the pace of the game, like last year. I would rather this team avoid Duke and Witchita Stae. I am fine with Syracuse.
that is welcome news.
Not a chance in Hell. Sorry.
Do you know something Lunardi and Palm don't?
I'll be here for the selection thread. No way does an 8 loss Michigan team - that just got fucking drilled - is going to be a one seed.
We don't deserve it right now. Finished poorly plus eight losses. NFW, unless the selection committee has medical marijuana in the back room.
Also, we just got CREAMED.
in a row prior to tonight. Does Wisconsin get bumped to an 8 seed for their loss?
I'll agree that it's about 50/50, but saying no chance in hell?
not make too much out of this loss. Michigan State is very good and also had a motivational advantage that could not be off-set. Anybody paying attention knew this was an ass-kicking that Michigan had coming. You're right, we should not be a one seed, but not because of that game. I actually just hope that our players took it for what it was and really just let it go emotionally. Kind of a shitty game to have to play actually.
i would bet lance armstrong's remaining nut that the committee made two brackets; one with UM and the other with VA as the #1 depending on the BIG title outcome.
like a 1 seed today. I think UVA has the best case for the 1
They've got one quality win on the road. They don't deserve it.
Maybe this is what we needed, an eye oppening game before the tourney.
and OSU games?
- hope you're right.
I look at this as more of a PSU game from last year than a showing we are weak.
UM may play a lot of close games but they win. and that's the name of the game. they have a lot of top 25 wins.
His record is worse than Lunardi's.
Big difference between Bracketology and this. He's reporting news here, not predicting the bracket.
means predicting the committee's bracket.
http://www.bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html
That's Jerry Palm down at #38. Just because CBS gives him a megaphone doesn't mean he's any good at it.
Honestly we don't deserve a 1 seed after this abomination
Just a few years ago, when some of these players were freshmen, we were thrilled with just making the tournament. Hail Beilein!
Not just a few. Jordan Morgan was a freshman 1,300 years ago. Just kidding. Hail Beilein indeed.
Jesus, I hope they don't play this bad during the tourney. They won't be able to beat anyone if they shoot less than 30% and go almost the entire game without so much as a rebound!!
MSU knows us better than anyone in the country. No team will be this well prepared for us with a short prep time. Couple that with the fact that once again it feels like we're not getting much respect relative to our accomplishments and we might sneak up on some good teams. And yes, there's no way we shoot 30% again.
Being a 1 seed in a bracket with Kansas and Syracuse would not be good. I'd rather be the 2 seed with Witchita and whoever else honestly.
DISAGREE.
As the one, we would only have to beat either Syracuse or Kansas. plus whoever they have as a four seed (please OSU - won't happen, but still, please?). Both have current problems, and Syracuse is looking horrible right now.
(ignoring any comment about us looking horrible today, obv.)
That would be great.
I love how UM loses for the first time in 8 games and everyone is acting like they're a 12 seed. They lost a game to a motivated team. Congrats to MSU, but that shouldn't diminish what UM has done. And honestly, who else is a #1 seed outside of maybe UVa?
we said we're not a ONE seed, and we're NOT. We may be a two.
In Lunardi's bracket.
I'm fine with that...Michigan is 2-seed in the East with UVA.
Meh. Tired legs, foul trouble early, yada yada. Congrats to MSU, they played a hell of a game, and shot worse than we did from 3. We don't have the horses to compete down low with a dominant rebounding team, especially without Morgan and/or Horford down there.
Let's get some teams like VCU, etc. in our region and make some noise. Bonus that we won't have to play three games in three days again!
Well, they also hit 10 more 2-point shots. That's really was the difference in the game. MSU shot 50% with 10 more rebounds, mostly because they could get to the rim with UM's bigs in foul trouble. They played well enough to win. Congrats to them. But this is still the same MSU team that limped into the BTT, and I definitely think that they are one bad shooting night away from being knocked out as well. Their defense isn't really that spectacular; UM just had a horrible shooting night.
March 17th, 2014 at 12:11 PM ^
Well, that's part of the reason they scored 10 mores baskets. And they rebounded better. Nobody is arguing that. I do think it helped that none of UM's bigs could stay on the court because of foul trouble.
And we don't know if MSU is better healthy because UM isn't fully healthy either. It's an academic argument regardless; if UM meets MSU in the tournament we'll have to revisit it.
stauskus looked totally gassed to me today. he stumbled and fumbled so many times at the top of the O today. i think that was tired legs. tired legs leads to missed jump shots.
despite todays game, i think the ncaa is built for beilein's teams; grabbing and holding on screens are actually called fouls in the tourny which bodes well for us.