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Cuba, Japan, Chinese Taipei, and the Netherlands advanced to round 2. Two of those teams will advance to the semifinals. If those two teams aren't Cuba and Japan it'd be an enormous upset.
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No conference favorites lost yesterday, since neither favorite had to play in the first round. Closest thing to an upset was Coastal Carolina getting blown out on their home floor to a very inferior team (18.1% chance of victory). Today, five other conference tourneys begin: -- Atlantic Sun (KP #130 Mercer is a 56.4% favorite) -- NEC (KP #128 Robert Morris is a 46.9% favorite) -- Patriot (KP #57 Bucknell is a 69.8% favorite) -- OVC (KP #38 Belmont is a 76.6% favorite) -- WCC (KP #4 Gonzaga is a 67.8% favorite) Also, lest I forget, since the Ivy League doesn't have a tournament, KP #81 Princeton is 1 game up in the loss column on KP #99 Harvard with 3 to play, all on the road. Odds are that both teams finish tied at 11-3, at which point they'd have a one game playoff at a neutral site.
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Didn't remember that, but it makes more sense coming from them than some dude on the Avs. The Avs are the only team that hasn't seen the Blackhawks first hand this year. Yeah, and now the teams play 3 times in the space of 2 weeks. And then never again this season.
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Didn't remember that, but it makes more sense coming from them than some dude on the Avs. The Avs are the only team that hasn't seen the Blackhawks first hand this year.
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Nobody's arguing that the RPI isn't dumb and completely gameable. What is true about the RPI is it's what the committee actually uses in their comparison software.
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Two conference tournaments start tonight: - Big South (KP #171 Charleston Southern is a 31.6% favorite) - Horizon (KP #66 Valparaiso is a 60.4% favorite)
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The teams' profiles are fairly similar according to Pomeroy, but not as much in comparison to the RPI. Iowa's basically got to hope the committee chair's comments about always using Pomeroy and Sagarin actually mean something for the committee's selections.
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There is as much distance in the standings between the Hawks and third as there is in the East between first and last.
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@kenpomeroy D.J. Byrd having best day for a D.J. since D.J. from Full House got asked to the prom.
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Illinois really pisses me off when they play with such low energy. Sitting behind the 3 point line and jacking up 3's and just expecting things to go well without effort.
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This is the Blackhawks thread. There is an NHL thread. He also talks about the Blackhawks, and Detroit plays the Hawks Sunday.
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They evidently can't handle presses. IU's press pretty much destroyed them late in that game--and IU isn't a pressing team (of course, one wonders why the press wasn't used more that game, but I digress). They're a lot closer to a bubble team than many think right now. VCU is a quality team, though. This is more your forte than mine, but wins over Indiana and Gonzaga pretty much have to be trump cards, right? (Add to that Marquette and North Carolina.) But since beating Gonzaga the only team they've beaten worth a damn is Temple (6-5 since beating Gonzaga). They'll still probably make it, but they failed to win any of the four games they played against the quality A-10 teams, and took a terrible home loss to Charlotte in the process.
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Looks like people figured out team E is Indiana. As for the rest of them...
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They evidently can't handle presses. IU's press pretty much destroyed them late in that game--and IU isn't a pressing team (of course, one wonders why the press wasn't used more that game, but I digress). They're a lot closer to a bubble team than many think right now. VCU is a quality team, though.
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Random assortment of top 16 teams...rank em! Note, the top seeds will likely come out of this group unless crazy sets in somewhere. Tm 1-25 26-50 51-100 101-200 201+ R/N Top W Top L A 4-2 3-1 6-1 9-0 2-0 10-4 G,K H,O B 4-2 2-1 3-2 6-0 7-0 9-5 P C 3-3 4-0 5-0 4-1 6-0 8-3 G,N E,M D 3-0 3-1 6-1 7-0 8-0 14-1 L E 6-2 2-1 3-1 6-0 7-0 8-3 C,I,J,J,K P F 2-2 9-1 4-0 3-0 6-1 10-3 K,L J,L G 3-3 3-1 4-1 10-0 3-0 10-4 M A,C,N H 3-1 3-0 6-1 9-2 2-0 10-4 A,J,O I 3-4 5-0 2-0 7-1 5-0 7-5 K,M E,J,K,P J 5-5 2-1 3-0 8-0 3-0 7-5 F,I,K,P E,E,H,K K 4-6 1-1 2-0 9-0 5-0 6-5 J,P A,E,F,I,J,P L 1-2 5-3 2-0 4-1 9-0 8-4 F D,F M 2-4 2-2 5-0 5-1 8-0 7-4 C,N G,I N 1-3 3-1 7-2 6-0 5-0 6-5 G C,M O 2-1 2-1 4-2 6-3 6-1 3-7 A,P H P 4-7 3-1 2-0 5-0 6-0 5-6 E,I,K B,J,K,O
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Isn't lunardi pretty awful at this though? I mean he gets most of the teams right, but he's not all that accurate. He's awful. We destroy him every year and our work consists of some PM's and like 4 hours of research per committee member for a week. :(
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Chuck just picked Peavy. Did he pay yet?
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It's allegedly Chuck's turn now, if he hasn't paid does he get the full 40 hours to get his payment in and make his selection?
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The draft already started. Deven is on the clock.
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They have to be. Right? It's March now. #1 in the polls is meaningless. At this point, it's all about whether Gonzaga deserves a 1 seed in the tourney.
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Oh yeah, why is the most recognizable Catholic school in the country not going to play in this conference? Because they already agreed to join the ACC?
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Xavier and Butler are going to join the new Big East (the one with the catholic 7). Creighton rumored to be the 10th team for the conference, which would begin play next season.
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Ohhhh, that Jackson. Well, it would be kind of nice to get our own Dave Duncan type thing going on.
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I don't think it can be overstated just how terrible the organizational development was under the past regime. Just an average developmental organization should be able to produce some more positive results overall, they don't have to be supercoaches to be an improvement.
