College Basketball 2010-11

[snoodmonger]

Capel fired

 

billy gillespie?

[Sosa21MVP]

Tom Crean is going to be an analyst for CBS and TBS during the tournament. I'm sure you guys are all thrilled! =D>

[Old Style]

Capel fired

 

billy gillespie?

Supposedly Doug Gottleib said last week that Billy had been telling people that he was getting that job. Everyone in Lubbock would be crushed.

[snoodmonger]

be good to add another good coach to the league. i think BCG could do good work in Norman. It's a place that has proven it can win at a fairly high level, but it doesn't have the insane expectations of UK.

[SouthSideRyan]

Tom Crean is going to be an analyst for CBS and TBS during the tournament. I'm sure you guys are all thrilled! =D>

 

=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

 

*Diet Coke*

 

=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

[SouthSideRyan]

GIS of Gillispie reveals one photo after another of somebody looking like he just finished off a case of high life.

[Old Style]

Gottleib now saying that his source says no way OU hires Gillispie.

[hawkeyecub]

Texas newspaper is reporting that Arkansas has had a face-to-face meeting with Tubby Smith in the last week and is close to hiring him.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Texas newspaper is reporting that Arkansas has had a face-to-face meeting with Tubby Smith in the last week and is close to hiring him.

Wasn't Tubby close to being hired somewhere else at this exact time last year?

[hawkeyecub]

Texas newspaper is reporting that Arkansas has had a face-to-face meeting with Tubby Smith in the last week and is close to hiring him.

Wasn't Tubby close to being hired somewhere else at this exact time last year?

 

Yeah I don't know how far it got but I think a national outlet (maybe Fox sports) was saying he would take the Auburn job.

[snoodmonger]

Gottleib now saying that his source says no way OU hires Gillispie.

 

some chatter that Gillispie will be coaching Texas Tech

[bukie]

24 hours later, all I feel for sure is that the 4 seeds are unusually strong this year.

 

Looking at Pomeroy ratings, here are the matchups where the lower seed is higher rated:

- Marquette over Xavier

- Illinois over UNLV

- Florida State over Texas A&M

- Old Dominion over Butler

- Utah State over Kansas State

- Gonzaga over St. John's

- Michigan State over UCLA

 

Here are other matchups where the ratings are a lot closer than the seed matchups:

- Wisconsin-Belmont

- Georgetown-USC

- Vanderbilt-Richmond

- Temple-Penn State

- Cincy-Missouri

- West Virginia-Clemson

 

Here are matchups where the seed matchups are a lot closer than the ratings:

- Clemson over UAB

- Kentucky over Princeton

- Washington over Georgia

- Arizona over Memphis

- Texas over Oakland

- Louisville over Morehead State

- USC over VCU

- Michigan over Tennessee

[Formerly Snayke]

Texas newspaper is reporting that Arkansas has had a face-to-face meeting with Tubby Smith in the last week and is close to hiring him.

 

Well that's going to piss off the Mizzou fans who have lost faith in Mike Anderson. Oh well they'll feel better when Otto Porter arrives on campus.

[bukie]

Also, here are the closest matchups of the first round:

 

Diff  Matchup
1     Temple-PSU
2     G Mason-Villanova
2     UNLV-Illinois
2     Butler-Old Dominion
3     Texas A&M-Florida State
3     West Virginia-Clemson
4     Xavier-Marquette
8     St. John's-Gonzaga

[Flames24Rulz]

24 hours later, all I feel for sure is that the 4 seeds are unusually strong this year.

 

Now I'm a little nervous. I don't have any 4 seeds advancing past the first weekend. This is going to be an ugly bracket.

[bukie]

24 hours later, all I feel for sure is that the 4 seeds are unusually strong this year.

 

Now I'm a little nervous. I don't have any 4 seeds advancing past the first weekend. This is going to be an ugly bracket.

How? The 4 seeds are all underseeded (Louisville is the closest), and the 5 seeds are all overseeded (WVU the closest to being correct). Other than that, Utah State is by far the best of the 12 seeds and hasn't won a tournament game since the Truman administration, Clemson is easily the second best 12 seed and has to win a game just to play the toughest 5, and Belmont, the best 13 seed, is a team I'd take against any 5, but not these 4s.

 

EDIT: The most plausible non-4 winning pod I see is Wisconsin-Belmont-KSU-Utah State, and that's because the moronic committee gave Utah State a huge geographical advantage.

[bukie]

To be honest, this is probably the most top-heavy bracket in years, as the quality of the teams really tails off after the 4's. In my opinion, there are only four vulnerable top 4 seeds at the pod level:

1) Florida, who's playing in Tampa and would have a second-round matchup against severely underachieving MSU or a completely inconsistent UCLA team.

 

2) North Carolina, who's playing in Charlotte, but would have a really tough second-round matchup

 

3) UConn, who probably got overseeded thanks to their tournament run, but were a worse team over the course of the season than their likely second round opponent, Cincinnati, and don't really have much of a geographical advantage.

 

4) BYU, playing slightly worse without Davies, but playing in Denver against the weakest 6 seed (and the strongest 11).

 

Granted, there are always upsets that don't follow any line of logic or reason (see: Kansas vs. Northern Iowa), and I'm really tempted to just pick Belmont anyway, but I only have two teams of the top 4's not making the sweet 16 this year.

[Derwood]

log5 for the tourney is up: http://www.basketballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=673

 

Utah State is 60% to make the Round of 32 as a 12 seed.

 

One of the few upsets. I filled out a bracket using this page, and the Sweet 16 was entirely 1-4 seeds in all regions. The Elite 8 had four 1 seeds, three 3 seeds and one 2 seed, and the Final Four was all 1 seeds

[cubweiser03]

Im in bracket where you get bonus points for upsets. I really wanted to pick Belmont over wisky and the UNC/Wash second rounder is a tough pick.

[CubInOK]

I'm in a local radio station bracket promo, and I drew Illinois. Can they really get past UNLV?

[Careless]

People in Wisconsin are going to be pissed. Marquette and Wisconsin both play on TruTv which is not available in HD on local cable channels. I think the only people around here that can get the game in HD are those with Dish Network.

Uverse has it too, but I'm sure almost no one in WI is even able to get it

[Exile on Waveland]

24 hours later, all I feel for sure is that the 4 seeds are unusually strong this year.

 

Now I'm a little nervous. I don't have any 4 seeds advancing past the first weekend. This is going to be an ugly bracket.

How? The 4 seeds are all underseeded (Louisville is the closest), and the 5 seeds are all overseeded (WVU the closest to being correct). Other than that, Utah State is by far the best of the 12 seeds and hasn't won a tournament game since the Truman administration, Clemson is easily the second best 12 seed and has to win a game just to play the toughest 5, and Belmont, the best 13 seed, is a team I'd take against any 5, but not these 4s.

 

EDIT: The most plausible non-4 winning pod I see is Wisconsin-Belmont-KSU-Utah State, and that's because the moronic committee gave Utah State a huge geographical advantage.

 

I very possibly will have two No. 4's in the Final Four. But I might also have one No. 4 out in the first round. I also don't really like any of the No. 5's, except maybe K-State.

 

I think the bottom half of the Southeast has the best potential to go haywire, followed perhaps by the bottom half of the West and maybe Washington over UNC. My preliminary bracket has thirteen top-4 seeds in the Sweet Sixteen.

[Guest]

Im in bracket where you get bonus points for upsets. I really wanted to pick Belmont over wisky and the UNC/Wash second rounder is a tough pick.

 

www.poologic.com

[cubweiser03]

Im in bracket where you get bonus points for upsets. I really wanted to pick Belmont over wisky and the UNC/Wash second rounder is a tough pick.

 

http://www.poologic.com

 

Whoa. Belmont in the Final Four. I dont know if my balls are that big. Wash in the 8 is more palatable.

[snoodmonger]

Im in bracket where you get bonus points for upsets. I really wanted to pick Belmont over wisky and the UNC/Wash second rounder is a tough pick.

 

http://www.poologic.com

 

Whoa. Belmont in the Final Four. I dont know if my balls are that big. Wash in the 8 is more palatable.

 

So did anyone else read the name of that link as "Poo Logic"? I think they should have brainstormed a better name.