Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

In one region the little guys dominated. How is that "almost too good.?"

Michigan is a 3 seed. 1 Kansas vs 2 Duke
1 Villanova vs 3 Tex Tech
some of the smaller schools played very well, but how is that almost too good?

 

Middle Tennessee also was hurt by the fact that some of the P5 teams it did beat (Vanderbilt, Ole Miss) proceeded to shit the bed the rest of the season, and by the end were no better wins than some of their conference opponents.

 

Maybe expand to 8 play-in games and make it a P5 team vs a mid-major. Az St shouldn't have even been in the first 4,
but they should've played Radford or LIU. Syracuse should've played the other. If the mid-majors are always getting screwed,
maybe make it 8 play-in games, with 8 mid-major or smaller schools and 8 schools from the big conferences.

 

There's something of an attitude that every small school win steals NCAA credit money that rightfully should be going to Enormous State U/The Big Boy Conference. Maybe I'm more sensitive to it as a small school guy. Maybe my whole attitude on it is somewhat unreasonable. That said, also I'm kinda conditioned by being a UAB fan. We have more than once observed that it's better for us when all is well at UA, because when things go bad there, they tend to get bad for us as well. We refer to it as "kicking the dog".

I suspect that some of it is my running on the number of "upsets" rather than seeding, as well. Lots of upsets, but when it's a 7 or a 9, it's not the same. Nevada at 7 was a team a lot of people felt was a bit underseeded. K St. at 9 is still a Big 12 team. Hell, even Loyola at 11 is a big underdog, but it's not like they were seeded lower.

Crap, cj, you ruined a perfectly good bitch and rant session. Why you wanna go and bring logic into it? >grin<

 

That's true as far as it goes. Lost to Auburn by 6, USC by 5, and Miami by 3, and any one of those might have been enough to put them in. The tournament loss to Southern Miss was an absolute boat anchor, too. Put all that together and they just couldn't get in. Tough year for them.

 

LOL

 

Three losses to teams who won a combined 1 game in the NCAA tourney. Syracuse, who some thought only got in because they are in a P5 conference, won 62-55 at Miami.
USC was 24-12. The Pac-12 pretty much sucked this year. Auburn was pretty good, but the SEC also wasn't that great. Big 12, Big Ten, ACC and Big East were better.
Even if Midd Ten went 2-1 against those 3 teams would that have been very impressive? Going 0-3 should mean they needed to win their conference to get in.

 

Everyone needs to cool it on this particular favorite "gotcha" around here.

There is an enormous difference between: (1) Discussing the media's usage in ways that may mislead or introduce inaccuracies and bias into stories; and (2) Obvious hyperbole for effect. I'm not Captain Serious like Alma or Ragu. I jest at times. That's not a contradiction.

 

Captain Obvious sounds like a cool kid.

Can we call him Corporal Stern?

 

Loyola also has the all-time best winning percentage in tournament history ahead of North Carolina and Duke. #facactastat?

 

For a brief second I thought he was wrong on Cincy and based on the rounds where they lost, it looked like they had won five games. That is until I remembered that the NCAA tried to rebrand the play-in games as the first round.