Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

But again, how do you know how a team that didn't make the tournament would do?

 

If they didn't make the tournament, they are no better than the 50th-best team in the country. They aren't winning it. The lowest seed to win is an 8.

 

When you make your schedule you are just praying the teams on it end up ranked RPI top 150, or at the very least you don't have opponents oustide the top 200. Yet if No. 149 and No. 201 played ten times they'd probably win five each.

I don't know if there is a better way than RPI, but there are some serious flaws with it. You could play No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and still have an awful strength of schedule if some of your other games also happen to include a few opponents +300.

 

So Kentucky or Alabama couldn't beat Liberty?

 

Your logic skills are so inept ... Kentucky and Alabama could not win the championship, therefore who cares whether they are in the field. I would say the same thing about Liberty if they were left out.

 

I disagree about Kentucky. I hate that team and its coach, but they have enough pure talent that things could click and they could go on a run. Talent is not Kentucky's problem...they have enough to win it. This season Kentucky lost by just three points at Louisville, a team a lot of people are picking to win it all. The Wildcats smoked Ole Miss, a tournament team, by over 10 as well as beating Missouri and Florida a little over a week ago.

While Kentucky has some awful losses, there is no way you can say, with any certainty, they would have had no shot at winning the title if they would have made the field. You just can't.

 

If memory serves, the last time UConn won it was likely on the outside heading into the Big East Tournament, right?

 

I doubt that very much, unless those five days were enough to jump them from NIT to a 3 seed.

 

You're remembering right, but it's pretty clear they were not in a must-win situation.

 

UConn was 9-9 Big East, 21-9 overall, ranked in the top 25 going into the conference tourney.

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/connecticut/2011-schedule.html

They were in no danger of missing the NCAA tourney.

 

I shoulda looked it up, I didn't remember them being a 3. I just remembered they finished ninth in the Big East.