Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

No. Just no. Nobody "destroyed" UVa this season until the ACC tournament. They don't get blown out. Granted, the Wahoos' Achilles heel is teams with great presses, so VCU would have been a very tough game, but if they played a 10-game home-and-home, the Wahoos win at least four. And they have a home-and-home coming up, so we'll get a chance to see how they match up.

As for the rest of your post: a lot of the Wahoos' problem was that Delaware loss, because it kept them from going to MSG for the preseason NIT. If they had won that game, that would replace Lamar and North Texas with two of Michigan, Pitt and Kansas State. And since I'm pointing that out, I'm obligated to correct you on the ODU game - that was at a neutral site, not in Norfolk.

My point is that UVa didn't just line up a bunch of tomato cans. It's on them that they didn't perform in the preseason NIT, but Mason and ODU have been NCAA teams as often as not in recent years. If those two are at their usual strength, add on Wisconsin (on the road), Tennessee and two of the Michigan/Pitt/K-State group (at a neutral site), and that's a perfectly respectable OOC schedule.

 

This. Why people think otherwise is beyond me. The tournament is not meant to be a strict meritocracy. And the vast success of the tournament indicates the NCAA is doing it right. Under Bilas-ism, Gonzage, Butler and VCU wouldn't have had a chance to rise to power status.

 

The Kansas Jayhawks demand a recount.

And Butler, which I do not sell short at all, will be life-and-death to get past Bucknell.

 

First #1 seed to bow out will be.......

 

You think there's going to be multiple?

 

Indiana vs. N.C. State.

 

Yes.

 

Well, three of them have to eventually. My money is on the Hoosiers.

 

I have Wichita St. beating Gonzaga, and Syracuse beating Indiana.

 

On ESPN's selection show, it seemed like most of them had Wisconsin beating them.

I'm just not so sure the Badgers will even beat Ole Miss.

 

Every team in the tournament this season has laid at least one enormous egg. Add tournament pressure to that fact, and I'm not sure of any predictions except I'm not looking for Harvard to upset New Mexico.

 

Ding!....of the second round upsets I have......Ole Miss over Wisky....Belmont over Arizona.....Minnesota over UCLA.....Oregon over Okie St......

Third round...Wichita State over Gonzaga......Memphis over Michigan St......