Andy
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On their way to an epic collapse.
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I have WVU in the Elite 8 but if there's one reason to root against this its so Gus has one good game to call. I have West Virginia as the runner-up. Gus's great game can wait until UNI/Michigan State next week as far as I'm concerned.
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Ohio State pulled away. Your turn, West Virginia.
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Hey, they almost did there at the end of that shot clock.
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He's been doing that for 2 straight weeks now.
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This is a good time to mention that Wes Johnson said he would've voted for Andy Rautins as Big East player of the year. That guy's a weapon. And the #1 reason that my pick of KSU to the Final Four is making me nervous right now.
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The performance relative to expectations is a cruel game for multi-bid leagues. The Big 12 has performed admirably in the tournament - 2 teams already in the Sweet 16, 2 more with a chance to play for it. And yet they're at -2 because of Texas and Kansas.
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Ohio State and WVU can either make me happy or destroy my bracket today. A&M will be important too since I have the Aggies in the Elite 8.
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Georgetown was a relatively unprecedented case. They played the best schedule in the country, the toughest Big East schedule, and racked up a ton of good wins with only one really bad loss (@Rutgers). They weren't a run of the mill middle-of-the-road team. I doubt we'll ever see anything like that again. Pittsburgh and Nova would be better examples of overseeded Big East teams than the Hoyas. And of course, they got blasted by the #9 seed in the MAC. They make no sense.
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You take these things very seriously. Yep. Just call me the Erik of college sports, I guess.
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Rick Jackson's 3rd foul should've helped them out a lot. Whoops.
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Anyway, with that, I give. Pound away. Whatever. I would've thought if anyone understood how annoying it is to see your league dismissed because of a tiny sample size of postseason performance, it'd be Big Ten football fans. Apparently I was way off.
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More information I already knew. Look, this performance blows. I've said it before, I'll say it again even if Cuse, Pitt and WVU all make the Elite Eight and even if Cuse and WVU make the title game. That doesn't invalidate an entire season's worth of data that made pretty clear that the top 3 leagues in America were the Big 12 first, and then the ACC and Big East 2nd and 3rd in some order. Unless you're a moron.
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So shut up about it then. Feel free to follow your own advice.
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Good God. If BS means pointing out facts, then go [expletive] right ahead and keep calling it BS. I [expletive] told you all that the Big East was overseeded. You saw me in the college hoops thread practically beating it down your throats that ND and Marquette were spectacularly overseeded. You are all trying to tell me things I already know and act like it's new information. It's not. That's why I keep correcting you. You'll notice that not once have I played the stupid "the league beats you down" card, because that would be a stupid argument. The Big 12 was a better league and as I see it now, 2 teams from that league are in the Sweet 16 already, with 2 more having a chance to get into it today, so obviously playing in a good league isn't going to hurt you come tournament time. I say this every single damn year, that evaluating an entire conference - and ignoring a season's worth of data - is stupid based on the tiny sample size the NCAA tournament provides. And every single damn year, that point is blatantly ignored.
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Big East = 8 out of 16 teams in = 50 percent Big 12 = 7 out of 12 teams in = 58 percent ACC = 6 out of 12 teams in = 50 percent BTW, the ACC could easily also be done by the Sweet 16 (certainly more likely than the Big East). The Big East has the same fraction of teams in the dance as the ACC does, and LESS than the Big 12. Way to completely ignore the overseeding point. If you guys would [expletive] pay attention to me, I've been among the first to tell you that ND and Marquette were overseeded (I'm the one who bracketed those two teams into our selection committee bracket as 7 seeds). But you're all so excited to jump all over the Big East for losing a couple of games that you're willfully ignoring that. Also, in my OWN S-curve for that bracket, I had ND slotted as a 10 seed. If you're trying to beat down someone who thought the Big East was a freaking superconference, you've got the wrong person.
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Big East = 8 out of 16 teams in = 50 percent Big 12 = 7 out of 12 teams in = 58 percent ACC = 6 out of 12 teams in = 50 percent BTW, the ACC could easily also be done by the Sweet 16 (certainly more likely than the Big East). The Big East has the same fraction of teams in the dance as the ACC does, and LESS than the Big 12. Not saying any of those teams were undeserving, but apparently you think the Big East wasn't deserving of 8. If the Big East didn't deserve 8, then kick Georgia Tech and Florida State out too because they were less deserving than the 8th Big East team.
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Well, 3-5 today, but I doubt all that many people did better. And three of my Final Four are still alive - which I'm betting is about as many as anyone. Only one person in my pool still has his Final Four intact, and he put Butler in there.
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Depends on how many more times sulley gets to use up three pages per game complaining about how the calls never go for Illinois and how his teams never catch breaks. While Illinois is up 10
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No, it's been replaced with the "Andy doesn't want to talk about it because he's taking epic amounts of abuse for being the most vocal Big East fan on the board" line.
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I was just thinking that if I had a paper bracket, I'd be preparing to set it on fire That's was my thought as well which is why I posted it. My bracket is toast. Although so are many others. Saw an ESPN thing where either 31.7% or 41.7% (can't remember which) picked Kansas to win it all which is the highest percentage since they have had brackets on their site. 42.2 percent is what I saw. I had Ohio State. I love it. Incredible.
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FAROKHMANESH AGAIN!!!
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The board and the dunk! Wow!
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I really can't say I'd have a problem with KU going out. Not just because I have them out in the Elite Eight and it would submarine about 3/4 of everybody else, but because UNI would be a really fun Cinderella to root for.
