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Have you seen the lineup? Yes, this lineup is going to struggle enough to score without giving away outs for free with the leading hitter on the team. -
All of a sudden, Washington is coming back to the pack as well. The Washington game is really important Friday, because I believe if the Bulls win that game, they win any tiebreaker situation among those 5 teams. The Sixers lose all tiebreakers. Edit: My mistake, Milwaukee wins all tiebreakers. Bulls are second if they win.
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'06 Predictions Contest / HR Derby: Discussion & Updates
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I was actually wondering if I should wait on that bonus pick until near the end...nobody else had thought of it before then :) -
I'd be more inclined to argue that Pedro Martinez might be the best pitcher ever. At least at his peak. However, it's yet to be known how long he'll hold up.
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8 seed and a sweep by Detroit, mid-first round pick along with a top 3 pick.
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Maybe it's just the homer in me, but Illinois and North Carolina last year would be able to wipe the floor with any of the teams this year. No team is close to the level that those two were at last year.
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Group A: Alex Rodriguez Group B: Albert Pujols, Travis Hafner Group C: Bobby Abreu, Jason Bay, Lance Berkman Group D: Grady Sizemore, Michael Young, Todd Helton, Wily Mo Pena Bonus: Jim Thome
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However, their past performance has no bearing on their tournament seeding for this year. It simply is stated repeatedly by the committee. Sure, Gerry McNamara was still playing this year, but Carmelo Anthony wasn't, so it's illogical to say "you know, Syracuse won a championship 2 years ago, they deserve to be in this tournament over a team that hasn't won a championship". Just like with Illinois' run last year, it's illogical to say "Illinois went to the championship game last year, so they deserve to be seeded 1 or 2". That is the point I am trying to make. Past performance has no bearing for the committee in terms of selecting teams or seeding teams. Cincinnati, Michigan, Seton Hall, and Louisville's past tournament performance have no bearing this year on their selection or seeding, and shouldn't.
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And once again you completely miss the point. Nobody is saying the MVC is just as good as the ACC, Big Ten, Big East, SEC, even this year, and especially historically. You've made the argument that the MVC shouldn't get as many bids as those conferences because they aren't as good. That argument is baseless, because the number of bids a league gets has nothing to do with relative strength of the league. That the history of a conference should dictate how many bids those leagues get. However, bids aren't given out by league, they are given out on a team-by-team basis, aside from the automatic bid. Counting the number of bids for each league is something done by media outlets as a baseless form of comparison. Just as performance in the tournament says more about individual teams than about leagues. Yes, Wichita State's presence in the sweet 16 says a lot about Wichita State this year. They are a quality team. Just like Syracuse's title 2 years ago said a lot about Syracuse that year. However, a championship for Syracuse 2 years ago should have little to do with not only Syracuse's seeding for this year, but especially the number of bids the Big East should get. Just like Illinois' championship game appearance last year should and does have no bearing on their seeding for this year, and especially their performance this year. To extrapolate that appearance to the entire conference's seeding/performance this year would be incredibly ignorant.
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What version of the standings do you look at where Seton Hall finished 10th? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/standings That's a ridiculous argument, too. Nobody is arguing that the MVC gets bids over the first place Big East/Big Ten/ACC teams. They are arguing that their top 6 are just as good or better than the 5th-6th-7th best teams in these conferences, and should get those bids. Maybe the Big West should get at-large teams every year, since UNLV won a championship in 1990 and made the Final Four undefeated in 1991. Or maybe the A-10 should get guaranteed at-large bids every year since UMass made the Final Four in the mid-90's with Calipari. What a conference has done in the past has no bearing on bids in the future, and shouldn't. The MVC got 4 bids this year, easily deserved, and perhaps they deserved more.
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Granted, but I was speaking more to the justification for them getting into the tournament, as their resume was no more impressive than that of a Michigan, or a Cincinnati, or a Missouri State.
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I had Alabama as one of those teams that inexplicably was considered a lock, despite playing nobody in the non-conference season. They had 3 good home victories against Florida, LSU, and Tennessee, but just one decent road victory (Kentucky), and a bad home loss to Ole Miss, and finished 17-12 overall. Plus they looked horrible in their conference quarters against Kentucky.
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To be fair, those were the 3 worst teams from the Big East that are finished. Good point. Barring upsets, the record will be 5-3 at the end of today. Still, "barring upsets", they should've gone 7-1 in the first round. Right now, the Big East has lost 2 games they shouldn't have, the Big Ten one, the Big 12 one, the SEC one, the ACC won with a 1 seed and a 4 seed in double OT, and the Pac-10 has performed as they should have so far. Also, the SEC has won a game they shouldn't have, and the Big 12 has won one they shouldn't have.
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Sigh, I don't care how low percentage you think the shot is. You just can't let them have it from there. Air Force shooting almost 60% from 3-point range, they can and will make it tonight.
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Bah, seems like every game the Illini go on a run, and then expect the other team to simply give up. Then it gets close again. However, if they could hit some kind of shot that wasn't a layup or dunk, it would be a safe distance again. Even though they are shooting probably better than 50% yet. Lots of layups and dunks.
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Going with "I'm trying to win the pool" until that option stops being realistic.
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Players need something to drive around in out there...
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Not sure which is more disheartening as an Illinois fan. Not having a single expert take Illinois to the final four, or having just Brent Musberger taking Illinois to the final four.
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I have 2 sets of picks: rooting interests and reality check. Rooting interest final four: Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio State Reality check final four: Texas, Kansas, UConn, Ohio State If UConn were to lose before the final four, it would screw up a ton of brackets. So...go Albany!
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So am I. But that includes Memphis, and that's why I picked Raisin's Bruins to go to the title game. That could be the most difficult region to pick, because there is no dominant team. Considering the options, I went with Kansas, actually. Now they'll go and lose to Bradley.
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To me, I hope the mid-major teams have a good showing (except Air Force...sorry boys). I think the teams with the best shot of advancing to the sweet 16 are San Diego State (IU probably overseeded at 6, and Gonzaga has looked vulnerable for weeks), Wichita State (Seton Hall one of the weakest profiles of teams in the bracket, and Tennessee is the weakest 2 seed), Nevada (hey, they are a 5 seed! playing the weakest 12 seed, and a BC team that was considered inconsistent until they played a good ACC tournament) and Wisconsin-Milwaukee (shaky Oklahoma, and has Florida ever played up to their seed?)
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Bracket breakdown by efficiency: Ken Pomeroy Every single expert bracket has UConn in the Final Four. Every last one.
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Jim Nantz...who else in the ACC was worthy of a bid? Seriously. The # of bids per league have nothing to do with the relative strength of a league. Evaluation is on a team-by-team basis. Honestly, I think teams like Alabama, Cal, and NC State don't have resume's worthy of making it either over several other teams that got left out.
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Cincy out. Hofstra out. Missouri State out.
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Wow. Seton Hall, Utah State, AND Air Force all in, in the same bracket. Illinois down to a 4 seed.
