NCAA Mock Tourney Selection 2012

[bukie]

I disagree on the B1G champ ousting Kansas as a 1 seed, but being outvoted is being outvoted.

 

I'd agree completely if the B1G championship wasn't between those two teams. Since it is, and Kansas lost before the finals, the resumes were overall close enough to me to bump them. Either way, they'd be out west with the B1G champ, so it doesn't matter a whole lot in the long run.

[Guest]

Let me preface this by saying that I know the goal wasn't to match what the actual bracket is or Lunardi's projections, etc. But for fun here is our S-curve with Lunardi's ranking in parenthesis

 

FWIW, Lunardi is consistently near the bottom when it comes to scoring brackets for correct teams and for seed placement.

[Andy]

Let me preface this by saying that I know the goal wasn't to match what the actual bracket is or Lunardi's projections, etc. But for fun here is our S-curve with Lunardi's ranking in parenthesis

 

FWIW, Lunardi is consistently near the bottom when it comes to scoring brackets for correct teams and for seed placement.

Who actually is good usually? Palm I feel like has a good rep, but he inexplicably has Northwestern in the field right now. Glockner is a guy I like but I have no idea how his brackets tend to stack up.

[bukie]

Let me preface this by saying that I know the goal wasn't to match what the actual bracket is or Lunardi's projections, etc. But for fun here is our S-curve with Lunardi's ranking in parenthesis

 

FWIW, Lunardi is consistently near the bottom when it comes to scoring brackets for correct teams and for seed placement.

Who actually is good usually? Palm I feel like has a good rep, but he inexplicably has Northwestern in the field right now. Glockner is a guy I like but I have no idea how his brackets tend to stack up.

Palm is one of the few "stats guys" that swears by RPI and nothing else.

[Vanilla Ice]

I really like our bracket this year.

 

I'll say that if there is one team that gets included out of nowhere that it will be Marshall

[Guest]

Let me preface this by saying that I know the goal wasn't to match what the actual bracket is or Lunardi's projections, etc. But for fun here is our S-curve with Lunardi's ranking in parenthesis

 

FWIW, Lunardi is consistently near the bottom when it comes to scoring brackets for correct teams and for seed placement.

Who actually is good usually? Palm I feel like has a good rep, but he inexplicably has Northwestern in the field right now. Glockner is a guy I like but I have no idea how his brackets tend to stack up.

 

Besides us? There's no one that immediately jumps to mind as being consistently good, although I'm sure there's a couple bloggers that do well(Dobbertrean from SBNation/Blogging the Bracket comes to mind). I remember Lunardi(and Palm too) not scoring very well because we spend so much time looking at their predictions until March, when better prognosticators can be bothered to do it right.

[bukie]

Michigan State wins:

 

http://i.imgur.com/b809n.png

 

S-Curve:

 

1. Kentucky

2. Syracuse

3. North Carolina

4. Michigan State (Big Ten)

5. Kansas

6. Ohio State

7. Missouri (Big 12)

8. Duke

9. Marquette

10. Baylor

11. Michigan

12. Wisconsin

13. Indiana

14. Georgetown

15. Wichita State

16. Louisville (Big East)

17. Florida State (ACC)

18. Temple

19. UNLV

20. Creighton (MVC)

21. Florida

22. Vanderbilt (SEC)

23. Murray State (OVC)

24. St Mary's (WCC)

25. Kansas State

26. Cincinnati

27. Memphis (C-USA)

28. Iowa State

29. Gonzaga

30. New Mexico (MWC)

31. Purdue

32. St Louis

33. Notre Dame

34. San Diego State

35. Alabama

36. Connecticut

37. Virginia

38. Texas

39. California

40. Southern Miss

41. West Virginia

42. Harvard (Ivy)

43. Colorado State

44. Long Beach State (Big West)

45. Xavier

46. Miami

47. VCU (CAA)

48. NC State

49. South Florida

50. BYU

51. Colorado (Pac-12)

52. St. Bonaventure (A-10)

53. Belmont (Atlantic Sun)

54. Davidson (Southern)

55. South Dakota State (Summit)

56. New Mexico State (WAC)

57. Ohio (MAC)

58. Montana (Big Sky)

59. Lehigh (Patriot)

60. Loyola MD (MAAC)

61. Detroit (Horizon)

62. Lamar (Southland)

63. UNC Asheville (Big South)

64. Long Island (NEC)

65. Western Kentucky (Sun Belt)

66. Vermont (America East)

67. Norfolk State (MEAC)

68. Mississippi Valley State (SWAC)

 

Edited March 11, 2012 by bukie

[Andy]

It's pretty obvious Nantz was tipped off that MSU got a 1 seed at the end of that game.

[CubInOK]

John Thompson is talking to the media like Georgetown is on the bubble.

[bukie]

Hey, we got the #1 seeds right and in the right order and the right regions.

[UMFan83]

Interesting if Michigan plays their first weekend in Columbus. That might as well be a road game, as OSU fans will surely attend just to boo UM.

[bukie]

Haha, we got the play-in matchup right too.

[bukie]

So far, ND is the only team more than a seed off in our bracket.

[UMFan83]

bukie, just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work in organizing and putting together this thing. First time I've done it and I enjoyed it and feel more into the selection process than I've ever been.

[bukie]

So maybe we weren't off by much on Memphis.

 

St. Louis was about right, though.

[bukie]

New Mexico, though...

[UMFan83]

Wow maybe SSR was right on Memphis. They got an 8 seed

[bukie]

4 losses in the MAAC? GOOD ENOUGH.

[UMFan83]

Iona was Lunardi's 4th team out

[bukie]

I'm actually not bothered by it a ton. Back of the bubble really sucks, and I don't have a problem with rewarding a smaller conference team that had a great regular season.

 

I mean, as long as it's costing Miami/NC State/S Florida/Seton Hall, that is.

[bukie]

Yay, we predicted the Vandy/Harvard matchup, and the Syracuse-Asheville matchup.

[Guest]

Yay, we predicted the Vandy/Harvard matchup, and the Syracuse-Asheville matchup.

 

With Wisconsin getting a four, you had almost that whole pod right, just with the wrong seeds (you had it as the 3-6 pod).

[bukie]

Low on New Mexico, high on Creighton.

[Formerly Snayke]

Oof. Creighton got it rough.

[bukie]

Cal in the play-in with South Florida. To me that says either Miami or NC State missed.