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Everything posted by bukie
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You know, if A&M wins, the West bracket comes down to A&M, WKU, San Diego, West Virginia and Xavier...
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Still only missing two sweet 16 teams. Was going to take Villanova, too, but I had already taken Siena and I thought two lower seeds winning at the same location was a real long shot.
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Bracket still in good shape, as the only sweet 16 team I lost so far lost on a buzzer beater in OT.
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Butler absolutely blasting South Alabama.
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Crap, 15 of 16. Stupid Arizona.
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Yep, Wisconsin is even frustrating to watch when you're rooting for them. They don't really blow teams out, they just methodically take control of the game, but very slowly. Even in the Big Ten championship game against Illinois, as an Illini fan you never felt out of it, but you never really felt like you had the game under control...ever.
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Yeah, I've been sticking up for Wisconsin, it'd be in poor form for them to let me down. However, I only have them in the Sweet 16. As much as I don't think K-State can beat them, I don't think Wisconsin can beat Georgetown. Now if Davidson/Gonzaga upsets Georgetown... UCLA/Wisconsin is my final game. It would just figure that the first game I get wrong is a team that gets to my championship game. And yes, I have G-town losing to Davidson.
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OK, now Wisconsin really needs to win to avoid blowing my bracket completely up. EDIT: And UCLA, but it doesn't look as if they'll have an issue with the worst tourney team in history.
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Neat, 12 of 12 so far. Need some help from Arizona to go 16-16.
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Man, why did I put Duke in the Elite Eight...Any other situation and I root for Belmont, but until I actually lose a matchup, gotta root for the bracket.
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Both USC and Kansas State are among the 20 most inconsistent teams in college basketball. Who knows what is going to happen in that game. I have K-State, but that's my least confident first round pick. And I have SIena beating Vandy.
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Cornell-Stanford...a matchup of two of the most academically qualified teams in the field, for sure. Cornell likely overrated even as a 14 seed, though.
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So, 9 of the 53 brackets in the pool went chalk for the first 7 games. Only one of the 53 brackets has lost an elite 8 team so far (Baylor).
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Kent State trying to make the final score respectable, down 13 with 40 seconds to play.
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Baylor's performance this afternoon has me concerned with my faith in the Big 12 for tonight's games.
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On the bright side, that combination would set you a record for the fastest complete implosion of the bracket. It was dead before the games even started.
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Crawford playing absolutely out of his mind today to keep Kentucky in it.
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That's not so much moving the seed line as an entirely different bracket, which was likely ready well ahead of time just in case. The committee likely had to have 4 separate brackets ready depending on the results of Sunday's games (one with Illinois/Georgia both losing, one with Illinois/Georgia both winning, one with Illinois winning/Georgia losing, and one with Illinois losing/Georgia winning). That affects the S-curve itself, not the individual seed-line moves. More often than not, there are very few seed-line moves, only used in cases where a conference team HAS to move to the other half of a bracket (i.e. Marquette this year). The only conferences where seed-line moves would have been forced to come into play would be the Big East with 8 teams, and the Pac 10 and Big 12 with 6 teams each. More often, the committee will move teams along the same seed line to a different matchup within the same seed-line (for example, say Notre Dame and Villanova were matched up with each other on the S-curve...easy enough to shift Villanova over to another 5-12 matchup and move a small conference team into that slot with ND). This is why I am inclined to believe the seed difference is at least as significant as it looks. The closest matchups are things like the worst 2 seed against the best 3 seed (and so-on down with 4-5 and 8-9 matchups).
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3/20 Cubs ( Hill ) @ Rockies ( Morales ) 3:05 CST
bukie replied to PrimeTime's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
That is awful. I hope Hill is working on some pitch he has never thrown before. A strike? (kidding) -
Teams get moved by seed line, yes, but often to account for conference conflicts. So, obviously teams don't get moved from the 8 line to the 9 line, or vice versa, since that doesn't do anything. Same with 4 to 5 and 2 to 3, which are the only other seed lines that are consecutively expected to be played. 1 seeds are never moved off the 1 seed line (since the whole bracket is built around those 1 seeds). If anything, the gap between a 2 and 3, a 4 and 5, or an 8 and 9 is smaller than it should be as the result of teams moving seed lines. The only team this year which obviously appeared to be moved down a line was Marquette (since there were already 4 BE teams in the 4/5/12/13 bracket in Pitt, UConn, ND and Villanova).
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Why the .5's? The way I see it: Purdue - 6 seed - 1 win Michigan State - 5 seed - 1 win Wisconsin - 3 seed - 2 wins Indiana - 8 seed - 1 win Which comes out to 5 expected wins. Despite how consecutive-seed games may seem like toss-ups, the higher seed is still the expected favorite.
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CL 3/19 A's @ Cubs (SS) 2:05 CST, Cubs (SS) @ SF 9:05 CST
bukie replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
This morning I got this: Hey, he apologized and promised to correct it on the air. That's much more than I'd expect of any broadcaster, especially one of an opposing team. -
Actually, the only lower seeds I have winning in games today are Kansas State, Arizona and Texas A&M (I'm high on the Big 12 and Pac-10 this year...).
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I have chalk in all 4 of these games too, with Marquette the strongest 6 seed and Kentucky arguably the weakest 11 seed. Actually, the game I am most concerned about is Pitt/ORU, because I'm worried Pitt spent all their mojo/karma/good luck on the BE tourney.
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That was a bit of a non-sequitur...
