Selection Sunday thread

Maybe Akron quietly rejected consideration? Because there was the faintest of NCAA at-large hopes for them, so I can't imagine why they wouldn't get at least a 6 in the NIT.

 

This is ridiculous. Arkansas' league wins were over Vandy (twice, a No. 6 seed in this tournament), Alabama (twice, a 20-win team), Mississippi State (twice, 18 wins), Auburn (17 wins), LSU (17 wins).
Sorry, but South Florida, Cincinnati and Seton Hall do not stack up to that.

 

Yes, you're missing something. The NIT announced it was cutting to 32 this year because it considered the 40-team bracket to be unwieldy.

 

I still say Kansas State > Arkansas, based on wins at No. 4 seed Texas and No. 5 seed USC, plus that 21-point victory against Texas Tech to make the Big 12 Tournament semis.

 

I understand you point. But teams like Xavier getting in? Come on. Illinois? Stanford?

Syracuse is certainly better than a Xavier or an Arkansas.

 

Farmer, this is why Xavier is in the tournament.

 

So let's see how I did:

Correctly picked teams -- 63 (Syracuse and Drexel sted Arkansas and Stanford)
Worst call -- Virginia 8 (4)

Eh, could be worse

 

Ark went 7-9 in the lesser of two SEC divisions.
Syracuse went 10-6 in the Big East.

You spoke of the Ark wins, but only one of those teams is dancing. Syracuse has 3 league wins over NCAA tourney teams.

Care to look at the losses?

 

Xavier defeated Illinois, Villanova, K-State and VCU, plus went 13-3 in its league. None of those wins was at the Cintas Center, Xavier's homecourt. What did Syracuse do that was better than that? Of course -- it lost to Drexel, Wichita State and St. John's.

 

I'm still waiting, for what it's worth, for someone to point out what mid-majors not named Drexel that got fucked over by the selection committee. Having six mid-major at-large selections is supposedly some damning statement about the committee and Billy Packer and God and Jesus and all, but nobody's yet to make the case that a mid-major that didn't make it should have (outside Drexel and to a far lesser degree Missouri State).

 

Twoback: Illinois and K-State happened in Cincinnati, though admittedly not at the XU home court.

 

Syracuse: 3-6 vs. RPI top 50, 8-8 top 100.
Arkansas: 5-5 vs. RPI top 50, 11-11 top 100.

Syracuse: Worst loss to No. 133 St. John's
Arkansas: Worst loss to No. 113 Auburn

Arkansas away: won at Vandy, at Alabama, neutral court over SIU, WVU.
Syracuse away: won at Marquette, at Providence, neutral court over UConn.

Where's your case, Lead?