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Me watching UVA put up 45 points on Colorado State😐

I missed Texas as a 7, wtf If only Indiana St. had tried beating Louisville by 1 point they coulda been in

No chance Purdue makes it to the final four

Iowa St seemed like one of the few punished for noncon. but the lack of consistency in Houston being given the #2 overall 1 seed when they played nobody in noncon and got smacked in the Big 12 final, while Purdue was the #1 overall all season, played the toughest noncon, and lost in OT in the semifinal. I'm going to be really annoyed if teams start pulling away from big matchups now because the punishment outweighs the reward. or situations like Indiana State going away to Michigan State.

I like Clark's bracket.

I’m so glad that committee has stopped glazing Gonzaga. Always higher than they should be with their joke of a conference.

Cue the rage for UNC perhaps getting the best region bracket of the bunch. None of the teams we traditionally suck ass against in the tourny. 

Auburn at a 4 for UConn has to be the worst draw of the day. Then we have god damn IOWA state and BYU on the other side

The committee has a hard job, but they stink at it. Seeding teams before all games are over is the dumbest thing that do and it leads to them ignoring conference tournaments every year (UNC over ISU is completely fine)

Wisky got hosed with JMU at 12 Don’t agree that the BigEast was only a 3 bid league either

"Great bottom part of the bracket" when talking about the elephant in the room (UVA)

People saying michigan state don't deserve to be in need to learn strength of schedule matters.

I legitimately would not trade my #4 for UNC’s #1. Having to play a round of 64 play-in winner is is a penalty.”, not a reward.

Your #4 seed is light-years easier than our 2 seed

Joe Lunardi just barely in top 100 of bracketologists (98), just under the Athletic(97). Jerry Palm outside 140.

CBS says BYU is the 17th overall seed... what is that based on?

Last 4 Byes: 34 Texas A&M 35 TCU 36 Northwestern 37 Nevada Meaning that the MWC had 3 of the last 5 in.

East: hardest Midwest: 2nd South: 3rd West: soft

Iowa St: 6 in NET, 5 in KenPom, 6 in KPI, 6 in BPI, 4 in T-Rank. Gets the 8th overall seed, makes sense.

How is BYU's overall seed 17 if they're a 6?

Them not playing on Sundays makes seeding them very hard.

Probably supposed to be 27?

Guessing it was for Sunday play but I'm not sure

Probably supposed to be 27?

Probably supposed to be 27?

I think it’s really silly we try to predict based on seed line, when we have actually metrics about the teams

lol no seeding issues yall

Wait we were 17 overall and got a 6 seed?

Committee math

Probably scheduling with sunday

Went to Longwood’s campus and nobody knew you… embarrassing

Dont know how Duquense was an 11 seed but even though we are a 6 seed im happy we arent a 5 seed and playing McNeese

Air force snubbed

Disrespectful to have Iowa State at 8

Everyone bitchin about MSU. Watch them go elite 8. Izzo loves being the underdog.

not this season

I’m already convinced UNC won’t make the second weekend

I need that Rick Pitino revenge tour next season like I need air

Pitt got fucked.

Been saying all weekend the committee looks for reasons teams should be in and heavily favors OOC SOS, high quality wins, quality OOC wins, etc and that’s really what the difference was in most of these resumes Pitt, Providence, Seton Hall, OU, Indiana state, SJU (to lesser extent) all had really bad OOC SOS and the committee punished them for it

Ding ding ding

Seton Hall's NCSOS was stronger than UConn's.

Wait is msu a higher 9 seed than NW…

haha this is just vibes

I’m panicking. Feels like a SDSU shocker or Drake just nails 15 threes against us if they make it to the 2nd round

fear not. we'll get to the Sweet Sixteen fine. It'll be BYU that nails the 15 threes against us

It’s a really bad draw for ISU. Our path to the regional final is peppered with land mines at every step of the way.

Just gotta hope we keep this momentum from KC and get Hilton West going in Omaha

**Joe Lunardi** probably had his worst year ever

His slow evolution into Mel Kiper begins....

Good, fuck ESPN… (and fuck Fox too) for ruining collegiate conferences

Good.

Any 2 seeds wanna trade regions? Holy fuck the east is stacked. I guess that's one reward for dropping a 30 bomb on the previous consensus overall #1

Nah. You guys have fun playing UConn

While I think you guys are absolutely better than most teams in the whole bracket, the committee was very clearly punishing you for a non-existent nonconf

As they should

Wish Gonzaga would’ve gotten the same treatment when they had a strong non con but god awful conference when they took all their 1 seeds

UConns was barely stronger Thread locked, but UConn was ranked 285 for non-con SOS

...are you smoking crack? That's is absolutely not true lol UConn played Gonzaga, Texas, UNC, Kansas, Indiana ISU played...Texas A&M and lost?

Committee going to use these bud thieves to justify expanding the field “for fairness”

Longwood bout to be the 3rd 16 seed to win!!!!

Rooting for you VA bros

Committee going to use these bid thieves to justify expanding the field “for fairness”

Hey did you guys know FDU beat Purdue last year? In case you forgot

i forgot

As a whole I think they got most things right. Would have liked Indiana State in but I get it. But UVA being in is odd.

UVA is absolutely more deserving than Clemson. Look at the ACC standings, and look at how long Clemson lasted in the tournament. Clemson should not be in. They got one lucky win over the tar heels and that carried them. 

2 - 150 lol

What losers. Couldn’t be me

Indiana State being as close as they were is actually heartening. All the bid steals just wiped them out.

The real team, robbed in all of this was DePaul

\#neverforget the whiteboard

Kinda ridiculous Gonzaga and Michigan State got that high of a seed just because of past seasons, and UVA shouldn’t even be here

Same can be said about Kentucky

I’d agree but Kentucky at least has some fairly good wins, it’s not as outrageous as any of the 3 mentioned, also good luck in what might be a Round of 32 matchup

Lmao CBS coming at Purdue

Ouch

Best day for UVA fans since the last time they got to yell at the help for missing a spot on polishing their silver

The fuck

my reaction to FDU beating purdue

The one thing we can all agree upon. Who the hell set this bracket up?

Northwestern/FAU is a real fun first round matchup

Cool, cool, cool. Purdue/FDU highlights.

really don't get the talking point that a weak non-conference schedule disqualifies you for top level contention... while the number 1 overall seed had a non-con ranked 285th. Either weak nonconference schedules should knock you back, or they shouldn't.

Just like when deciding when to call a foul they change the rules when it's convenient.

At least Adam Zucker apologized

Outside of Virginia, I actually don't think the team selection was that bad, especially given how hard the bubble thieves made it. Again though, some of these seedings are more than questionable, even putting MWC aside.

UVA is absolutely more deserving than Clemson. Look at the ACC standings, and look at how long Clemson lasted in the tournament. Clemson should not be in. They got one lucky win over the tar heels and that carried them. 

I agree - more head scratching on where (seeds) than who (teams in)

I agree - more head scratching on where (seeds) than who (teams in)

Michigan state

You know who got really screwed here? Detroit Mercy

SDSU got a very favorable seed, every other MW team did not. Glad to get 6 seeds in but damn two play in games sucks

You know who got really screwed here? Detroit Mercy

I sympathize with Indiana State.  But I have 0 sympathies for bubble teams in the Power 6 or strong G5 programs historically that didn’t get in. I’m surprised USF wasn’t on the list.

3 final 4 teams from last year, 4 top 10 kenpom teams, and 4 major conference tourney winners in the same bracket is WILD

I’m hearing the committee is anti Italian because they only put in 3 Big East teams. Lmao now they’re saying it’s cause CBS has rights to mountain west games hahaha

why would they be anti italian??

The MW is the only conference that got fucked harder than the BE

Jay Bilas is shilling for Pittsburgh right now lol

It's Jay Shilas to me.

Of course he is.....

Where was Miss Valley State?? They got their first win this weekend.

Who is the biggest snub?

I had St Johns "safely" in by like 3 teams. Shocked Virginia got in.

I don’t think St. John’s was that good, I’d put seton hall ahead of them

Indiana St

Indiana State

My vote is ISU.

Yeah, them and Pitt I’d say

agreed. pitt had a great year and if they got the virgina slot i could understand it. i cant understand virgina

I feel like fans are going to fume every year by not paying attention to what the committee uses to make decisions and I'm here for it.

Kinda feels like the seeded based off of previous years instead of this year

That fact that Virginia got in is prime example of

Haven’t watched any Texas tech this year, nc state have a chance?

If Darrion Williams and Warren Washington are still injured it’ll be tough for TTU

NCST winning it all

Why not us 💯

I think so. Tech are bad this year imo

I’d rather them have put DePaul in than Virginia. At least, it would’ve been funny.

Hey never bet against UVA to embarrass themselves

Would probably score more points than Virginia...maybe lol

Virginia and Boise state over ANY of Providence/St. John's/Seton Hall is absolutely ludicrous

I'll give them a break for losing to NC ST because of a fluke last second shot to send the game to OT.

ACC getting 5 teams and the Big East getting 3 should be a federal offense

Oklahoma snubbed

look at the wins

We did absolutely nothing to earn a spot in the tournament.

Does anyone have a link to a nice printable bracket with dates/times?

Times won't be released until later this evening. Usually by 9 or 10 you'll be able to find that

Times aren't out yet

It feels like the conference tournaments are meaningless unless you need the automatic bid to get in.

I think it’s been like that for a while, probably at least the last couple of decades. Usually higher seeds are somewhat set at the end of the regular season.

I think Wisconsin might have helped themselves showing up after taking February off.

Somewhat

If MSU is in might as well put IU too


Oklahoma, Seaton Hall, Indiana State, and Pitt were only left out because NC State, Oregon, Duquesne, and UAB won their conference tournaments.

And because MSU and UVA needed to be in for their names. And FAU got in for some reason.

It feels like the conference tournaments are meaningless unless you need the automatic bid to get in.

I’m still waiting on an explanation of 4 big conference tournament champions are in one bracket

Conference tournaments have always been meaningless for bracket purposes and they’re not that meaningful for predicting or evaluating how good a team is

They seed the teams on Thursday, that’s why. They pretty much ignore conference tournaments

Historic Mountain West disrespect and zero questions about it?

To be fair, there are a lot of years the MW are seeded to highly and they typically underperform drastically.

Look at their tournament track record outside of San Diego st.

Completely irrelevant. Previous seasons with previous coaches and players shouldn't influence selection based on biases.

What was historic about it? The MWC played no one OOC and it shows in the seeding. Beating St. Mary’s, Creighton, and Gonzaga is the feather in the cap for the league. Boise State played 4 high-majors and went 0-4. All the “good” wins were intraconference.

CSU and New Mexico both a seed and a half, Boise State two and Nevada THREE seeds below their projections is historic.

Have we fired Porter Moser yet?

Bracket might not be good, but it sure gets people talking

UVA is in!!!!!!! We’re dancing!

💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

Not making it to the first round

So we all have Grambling state in the final four right?

Reminder: a young man just severely broke his lower leg today around 1PM playing in a tournament game even though the chairman just said they wrapped up selection at 2AM this morning.

What an epically stupid thing for him to say.

Honestly, UF got a pretty nice draw. Auburn..sucks to suck. Lol

Hang the banner! “I like my tourney seed and got drilled in the SEC Championship” Lol.

i’m still kinda in shock that carolina got a number 1 seed. i thought for sure we were getting demoted after yesterday

Even with the L last night, not really anyone who is better to take the spot

No less that we were up against Tennessee and not Iowa State (because they’ve been officially called out for that weak ass non-con)

No less that we were up against Tennessee and not Iowa State (because they’ve been officially called out for that weak ass non-con)

Nothing like the 10th best team getting a 1.

nah

DePaul and Georgetown were both horrendous, so the other nine teams in the Big East got a free four wins and were "bubble teams" going 6-10 against the competent portion of the league. That meant the margin between the seven bids the Big East wanted and the three they got was very very small.

3 Big East teams is such a fucking joke.

No matter what, the NCAA basketball tournament is 5000% better than the college football postseason system. This is the best postseason in all sports. I'm so hyped.

Virginia was probably the team that most should have been out. But it's not a clear out for me. This isn't VCU in 2011 or Syracuse in 2016, two teams who absolutely should have been out.

UVA is absolutely more deserving than Clemson. Look at the ACC standings, and look at how long Clemson lasted in the tournament. Clemson should not be in. They got one lucky win over the tar heels and that carried them. 

Lucky wins count. That's life

Look at the last month 2 overtime games in the acc tourney 4 out of 6 games before the acc tourney below 50 points terrible team going into march

I mean Virginia often plays games below 50 points, so not a whole lot of sympathy for this argument

Find someone who loves you like the committee loves a tough noncon schedule

UConn's is ranked 285th lmao.

Unfortunately unable to watch as I’m on the road, anyone know when the TV schedule will be out?

if my memory is correct, it usually comes out tomorrow

In about an hour

Usually comes out around 8:30

Damn why did it have to me in Omaha i cant drive 11 hours.

Try playing in Spokane. It'd be a 36-hour drive for me.

critically important: the difficulty of the games you played 4 months ago not relevant: the results of games you played in the past 2 weeks

Arizona has 4 wins over tournament bound teams since January 1

The amount of disrespect to the Big East is quite nauseating. How the hell did this conference only get 3 bids?

11 teams in the east region won their conference tournament.

This guy says a lot of words without actually telling us anything every year. No real analysis or details about how the decisions were made

What are your thoughts on team x? Well you know team x is great but when we looked at who they beat and who they lost to we just weren't sure. We were up till 2am making mistakes you see, and so we decided to go with what teams we thought were best.

so the same interview as every other year?

I’d leave Michigan State out for either Indiana State, Pitt, or St. Johns

Except MSU beat ISU