2012-13 College Basketball Running Cordial Discussion

And I'd love for Northwestern State to get the No. 16 seed in that region. That's a show we've seen before ...

 

Pacific beats UC Irvine to take the Big West tourney. Pacific coach Bob Thomason is retiring after this season after 25 years at his alma mater, and just before they flee for the WCC.

 

Sucks that Louisville played itself out of that top seed.

 

Top seeds will still probably be Gonzaga, Louisville, Indiana, and probably Kansas. Two of those have stellar resumes, one is a media darling, and the other is Kansas. But Indiana reaching March without ever learning how to run any semblance of a half-court offense helped the Hoosiers lose Indianapolis today.

 

Schools against teams RPI ranked 1-25 and 26-50 ...

Gonzaga -- 2-1, 6-2
Louisville -- 3-3, 9-4
Indiana -- 7-2, 9-5
Kansas -- 5-1, 12-3

And a few more schools, just in the name of research ...

Duke -- 6-1, 9-2
Miami -- 4-2, 6-2
Ohio State -- 3-5, 6-7
Georgetown -- 5-3, 9-4
New Mexico -- 3-2, 9-3

 

Will be interesting tomorrow ... should Miami win -- and I think they'll win handily against UNC, crowd be damned -- no team that has won both the ACC regular-season and tourney titles has been denied a 1 seed.

 

That's pretty neat-O, fanboy.

I'm not on the committee, but I can guess (likely correctly) that they'll love Louisville's current streak, which will make them No. 1 overall seed. Your beloved Jayhawks' win today probably put them back on the 1 line.

Did love the "Look at my beloved KU's numbers against Nos. 26-50!!!!!" aspect, though.

For so long, it was assumed Duke would get that 1 seed out of the ACC.

Tomorrow could end up with Miami pushing either Gonzaga or Indiana off the top seed line.

And my money would not be on Gonzaga losing its spot.

 

This isn't your father's ACC, but yeah, Miami should be in the conversation.


On a totally buyist fanboi looser note, Kansas is all the sudden getting great play from its bench. If Ellis and Tharpe continue to play the way they have in the Big 12 Tournament I like KU's chances of getting to the Final Four. And now that I've jinxed it I'll go preemptively cry in my bourbon.

 

That's a new one.

 

It's a great day in history for etymology.

 

I wish I could take credit, but I stole it from another board.

 

Actually, I was looking more at the 5-1 against Nos. 1-25, but that's the thing about the selection committee -- there are so many numbers from which to pick, it depends on what they value most. Wins against high-level RPI opponents. Road/neutral wins. Conference championships. Injuries. So many different values, it's tough to guess which way they might go, it's not even worth guessing.

Oh, and if I wanted to go fanboy, I would do so by stating that KU deserves a No. 1 seed. I'm not going there, because I'm not completely sure they do. I believe the Jayhawks should be in the discussion, but whether it's a 1 or a 2, it's almost irrelevant because if KU's the weakest 1, chances are they get paired with the strongest 2 and visa versa. Seems like they would get paired with the same team in the same bracket either way, standard bracket procedure rules aside.