SouthSideRyan

I'm assuming sarcasm?

There's a better than decent chance that this would be the most anticipated, watched and heated national title game ever if it actually came to fruition. If Bobby Frasor didn't go to my high school, I don't think I'd even watch that game.

Nearly every bracket doesn't include the play-in game. Re: UCLA: It pretty much had to do with my absolute disrespect for the Pac 10 this year. Their best wins were against teams I had slotted as 10 seeds. They were my 2nd #4 if that helps at all,

If Zambrano starts your in trouble!

Ryan McGriff-Illinois

Oral Roberts is the 16 seed I think has the best chance at an upset. Weird that they have the longest odds.

Excellent news. The better Ponson looks(stat wise obviously) in spring, the better chance he has of wasting the Cards first 10-15 starts out of the 5 spot.

Memphis final 4, I'm thoroughly unimpresed with their entire bracket.

What would piss you off more? Being benched for Neifi Perez or being benched for Chris Gomez? Jesu Christo.

Boredom leads to lots of things...like this. My conference records for the tourney from my nsbb bracket. C-USA: 5-2 Big Ten: 13-6 Big East: 16-8 Big XII: 6-3 A-10: 3-2 Valley: 4-4 Pac 10: 3-4 ACC: 3-4 WAC: 1-2 SEC: 2-6 CAA: 0-2 MW: 0-2 Yeah, I don't think much of the SEC.

Last year's Illinois or North Carolina team would run away with it this year.

UConn isn't invincible. Notre Dame nearly beat them on the road, and despite ND having all those near wins, they weren't a tourney team. They had a bunch of close wins to bad teams to go along with the close losses to superior teams. That said I have UConn going to the championship, but wouldn't be all that shocked if they fell to UAB. As much disparity as there is between the 1s and the rest, I'd only be shocked if Memphis didn't make it to the sweet 16.

Is DePaul beating Syracuse by 39 really supposed to be something in the Big East's favorite?? DePaul lost to Old Dominion by 44 points. Nobody in the Big 10 or any other power conference outside of South Florida could do that. Georgetown lost to South Florida. Nobody in any power conference could do that. Most of the teams in the non-power conferences couldn't do that.

The Reds are a horrible baseball team. The Cubs are not.

The bottom 4 teams in the Big East are worse than any of the 11 in the Big Ten. Rutgers is worse than everyone but Purdue. That's why the Big 10 is a better conference.

Me throwing darts would've done a better job. And I'm not a particular good darts player.

Not only was Kansas given the same seed as Illinois, they got the game in Auburn Hills and U of I was sent out to San Diego, saying that the committee thought Kansas was ranked higher than U of I. In summary, not only was U of I a 4, they weren't even the top 4. Insane. Additionally, Ohio St. had to have been ranked as no better than the 3rd #2 seed, as they drew the same bracket as the play-in game. Insane.

Actually, upon review of my 1-65 rankings I had Kansas as a 5, so I guess it's not that bad. I'm not really impressed by any of OK, UK, or Cal though which is why I said they hadn't beaten anybody. Teams I had more than 1 seed off by my rankings LSU(2 instead of 4) Illinois (2 instead of 4) Michigan St.(3 instead of 6) UCLA(4 instead of 2) Marquette(4 instead of 7) GW(4 instead of 8) Tennessee(5 instead of 2) Georgetown(5 instead of 7) Florida(6 instead of 3) Wisconsin(6 instead of 9) N. Iowa(7 instead of 10) Syracuse(8 instead of 5) SIU(9 instead of 11) Zona(10 instead of 8) Missouri St.(10 instead of OUT) Bradley(10 instead of 13) Nevada(10 instead of 5) Penn(11 instead of 15) Winthrop(11 instead of 15) UNC-Wilmington(11 instead of 9) Hofstra(12 instead of OUT) Cal(12 instead of 7) UW-Milwaukee(13 instead of 11) Cincy(13 instead of OUT) San Diego St.(13 instead of 11) Oral Roberts(14 instead of 16) Pacific(15 instead of 13) Montana(15 instead of 12) 28 teams I had seeded 2 spots or more off. Bear in mind our selections were based on how we felt it should be put together, not how they would be put together, so this is more to demonstrate just how pissed I am about how the seedings turned out. Also gives oppurtunity for everyone to fire on me for stupid things like MSU as a 3 and Marquette as a 4 in the way that I fired on the actual committee. Our committee as a whole missed on 3 with Seton Hall, and the horrendous choices of Air Force and Utah St. taking the spots of Missouri St., Hofstra, and Cincinnatti. IIRC, Utah St. wasn't voted as even a potential bubble team by a single one of the 9 of us that did this.

This is the crack smokingest job by the selection committee I've ever seen. And Cuse, enough with the straw men, NOBODY thinks Air Force belongs. Problems with the bracket from my point of view: Air Force gets in?? Utah St. gets in?? George Washington an 8?? NC Wilmington a 9??(Too high) Syracuse a 5???? LSU a 4??(Too low) San Diego St. an 11??? (too high) UCLA AN [expletive] 2????? FLORIDA A 3??? NEVADA A 5??? [expletive] TENNESSEE AN [expletive] 2??? F!!!! MONTANA A 12??? Heading in I was confident that U of I if they played their best game could beat any team besides UConn. They drew UConn in the sweet 16. Awful, just awful. I'm really struggling to see how UNC's body of work is better than U of I's. Kansas beat nobody until today and is a 4. Indiana as a 6 is just bat**** crazy. I've never been so angry about a bracket without regards to my favorite teams. I can't wait for No. Iowa to knock off Georgetown, Wichita to beat Seton Hall, and Bradley to beat Kansas Unfortunately the burden of proof on those 3 teams is to win 3 more games after that. While all Kansas, Seton Hall and Georgetown have to do is win that 1 to prove that mid-majors suck. After all Seton Hall was in the Final 4 15 years ago.

And why is that? How many Mid-Major schools have even made it to the Final 4? You would think one would have gone that far sooner or later. Let's see...Marquette made it 3 years ago as a member of Conference USA. Maybe that doesn't count. Kent State made the Elite Eight in 2002. Gonzaga made it in 2000. Indiana State made the final game back in 1979, too, if the Elite Eight isn't far enough to be considered "far". Not letting teams get in unless they've "been there before" is quite the catch-22. I don't consider Conference USA as Mid-Major when it comes to basketball and I don't consider the Elite 8 the Final 4 as I stated. You are right about Indiana St and they had to go back to 79 which is 27 years ago. The top teams have been in and haven't gone far so why let the middle teams go to the 65? When was the last time the 7th and 8th place team in a power conference made the final 4? The idea that they haven't been very good in previous years, so they should be precluded this year is ridiculous. The difference is that the 7th or 8th place teams have proven they could go to the final 4 in other years while MM's have none of theirs go. Do you honestly think Cincinatti has a snowball's chance in hell of making the Final 4? You're changing the argument. A 7th or 8th, and I'm pretty damn sure 6th place team in any conference has never gone to the final 4. Might as well limit it to only the top 5 teams per conference. The fact that DePaul wasn't an embarrassment 10 years ago has nothing to do with whether they're worthy of the tourney should they put up a 500 record one of these years. Hell, there's teams in BCS conferences that have never made a final 4, guess they should never get the chance either. They haven't proven themselves. Let's just have a tournament at the end of the year with every former Final 4 team, and nobody else. That'll teach them for not being basketball factories.

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Amazing as always DJAXX

Well no team lower than an 8 seed has ever won the tournament either. Might as well trim the tournament cause obviously those at-larges below them have no chance to win the tourney.

This is exactly what small market clubs should be doing. The highest risk is maybe you overpay by 3M over the next 5 years, and that's if Peralta sinks to Berroa's current levels. Peralta also has a higher standard to fall from than Berroa did. If Peralta fell off at the same pace that Berroa did, I think he'd be worth right around 13M If he stays where he's at, I think he's worth nearly twice that over the length of the contract.

I don't see how this is a big gamble by the Indians. How much regression do you expect from Peralta that he won't be worth ~12.8M in 3 arbitration years?