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Not sure where a good place would be to post this, but this seems as good a place as any. John Gasaway (aka Big Ten Wonk) announced yesterday that his last BTW blog post is going to be next Tuesday at the end of the tournament, and that he's going to be moving on to write on college basketball in general, somewhere else. http://bigtenwonk.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-news-bad-news.html
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Only fitting that the Illini choke away a big lead down the stretch to end the season, as that's the only thing they've really been good at offensively this year. Just poor decision making, nobody to go to late in the game, nobody that wants to shoot the ball, and nobody that can create their own shot.
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Illinois is just terrible offensively. Just awful.
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Or, maybe they were just livid about an obvious foul that wasn't called just prior to that.
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Good Lord, this team is frustrating to watch. They are just so bad offensively it's unconscionable.
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It's an odd tournament, in that all the better teams (in terms of team efficiency) actually won their games yesterday, save 1. Even then, it was the closest game of the night. If that is to continue holding to form, there will be quite a few more seed upsets today. - Georgia Tech is a more efficient team than UNLV. - Purdue is a more efficient team than Arizona. - Illinois is a more efficient team than Virginia Tech (about 99.99% of this is their defense). - Arkansas is a more efficient team than USC. - Creighton is a more efficient team than Nevada. Closest matchups of the day are Illinois-VT, Arkansas-USC, Purdue-Arizona, and Kentucky-Villanova
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GW was horribly overseeded, probably based only on name. They were not a good team this year, even in the A-10.
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Every single expert has Florida in the Final Four. Here are the 22 "expert" picks, courtesy of Ken Pomeroy: West: UCLA 11, Kansas 10, Virginia Tech 1 South: Texas A&M 11, Ohio St. 8, Memphis 2, Virginia 1 East: Georgetown 11, UNC 9, Texas 2 Midwest: Florida 22 Oddly enough, Florida is statistically (via log5) the least likely 1 seed to make the Final Four, and yet they are the only favored 1 seed among the experts. My picks depend on the day, but for now I have Maryland, UCLA, Texas, and Ohio State, with UCLA beating Ohio State for the championship.
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Pete Rose admits to betting on Reds
bukie replied to Butterscup1679666578's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Ken Pomeroy has a good writeup on log5 odds to advance in the Midwest and West brackets today: http://www.kenpom.com/blog/ Some things that jump out at me: - Maybe ND and GT are better than I give them credit for. - Maybe taking Illinois to the sweet 16 isn't as crazy an idea as I initially thought.
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Oh, my other upset pick is ND over Winthrop. ;)
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My first-round upsets are Albany over Virginia, Illinois over Virginia Tech, VCU over Duke, Texas Tech over BC, ODU over Butler and Creighton over Nevada.
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Entered my picks. It seems that all my upsets involve either ACC or Big Ten teams.
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Well, at least Illinois' spot in the tourney should end all the whining about their schedule and how they never went to play in Columbus... ...as they are going to play in Columbus this Friday. :)
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I'm not sure anyone would be wise to argue that the ACC got somehow screwed with this bracket.
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Purdue won at home against Illinois. Ok, we get it. Purdue also lost at Minnesota. Of course, there is no need for an argument whether Purdue OR Illinois deserved 1 bid, as they are both in.
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Bilas, Syracuse plays in the Big East. That is why their schedule is better. Syracuse didn't play a single game outside New York in the non-conference. Xavier won their league. They deserve a bid.
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Man, Virginia gets a 4 seed with an RPI of 55. That just seems insane to me. I guess the committee really did ignore VA's non-conference slate.
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The committee takes a lot of flack, but I really think they got it right this year. Maybe some ACC teams are a bit higher than I would've thought, but overall a nice bracket.
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Really, if you look at Syracuse's profile, it's not that impressive. Very unimpressive non-conference, and would've had a hard time putting them in before Drexel, and Drexel got left out. And Illinois shouldn't have been in because Wisconsin beat them? That doesn't make any sense.
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Yep, Stanford in, Drexel out. 64 of 65 teams correct in NSBB bracket. Good work, guys.
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If Drexel is that last team, we got them all.
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So, 60 of 60 so far...
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So, A&M, Memphis, Louisville, Tennessee, Virginia, Xavier, BYU in last bracket.
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Wow, 50 out of 50 so far.
