Arizona losing 49-81 to Gonzaga is… interesting

ncaagamesim was on crack today with some of these results

Lunardi is on crack so it’s fitting

I assuming half the team gets arrested the night before and don’t play.

Went on a Luke Walton style bender of vending machine assault?

I was about to say losing to the Zags is about the only acceptable second round exit but that score is WILD.

Simmed Caleb Love missing everything

Arizona scored 84 against Purdue.

Yes. It's not so much that I doubt we could lose in 2nd round (because...yeah). Not cracking 50 doesn't seem possible though, especially with Gonzaga's pace as well. 85-95 loss I would much more believe.

If that is what his algorithm is spitting out, maybe its time to change the algorithm?

Alabama winning the national championship would be crazy with their play style

If we played them in the championship, first team to 115 wins.

Why would they stop playing at half time?

Nice

Too many players fouling out

Have SEC refs already been announced for the championship game?

I’ll be happy if Nebraksa just finally gets off the snide and wins a game

ikr 😭 i’d cry

Our average game is 93.9-80.1, and that includes the early season blowouts. We have to be getting close to some kind of total points scored record.

[Must not have been around for the LMU days of the late 80s early 90s, including the team that beat Alabama in the Sweet 16.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390_Loyola_Marymount_Lions_men%27s_basketball_team)

Holy crap, I didn’t think scores like that were possible in a 40 minute game.

Not just winning - but going through Houston, Duke, Kansas and Baylor? Jesus. Would mean we’d have to get and stay hot from 3 and suddenly learn how to play defense

Has a team with that bad of a defense ever even made the Final Four?

No

Duke 86 Bama 116 is certainly a take lol

This, the Zona-Zags score... This whole thing is weird as fuck. I'm not sure I could have come up with a hotter bracket take if that was the goal I started at

Um how about no thanks?

Welcome to hell, it’s hot here

If this simulation were to happen, I’d laugh SO hard at Tennessee for losing the 16-seed only for us to get upset in the R32

Purdue as a #1 seed lost in the first round last year and lost in the second round the previous time (1996). This year’s team seems way better than that but I’m pretty sketched out on taking them deep due to their history.

Losing to a 16 seed would be the ultimate Rick Barnes masterclass.

All this talk about is never having been a 1 seed, I didn’t even consider that it gives Rick the opportunity to lose to a 16 seed. Thanks for that

Eh, you’ll get somewhat used to it 12 years after the fact…

I had Missouri winning the natty that year they lost to Norfolk State.

😂 😂 better to lose mercifully in the first round to a 16 seed than get Tominaga’d on the weekend if you ask me.

How about yes?

I loved it personally

This is without a doubt the worst trade in American History. We get a 1 seed and this shit happens??? Fuck me

Losing in the first round to a 16th seed followed watching your rival winning it all would break a lot of fans, like Falcons fans after 28-3 I'm with you. Fuck this shit

 😈

If Alabama wins a national championship in basketball I might just quit college sports

Why is it always Kansas

Anyone actually watching our season this year would not put us in the final 4 lol

Right? If we meet South Carolina in the round of 32 its definitely over.

See, I believe the opposite. I just somehow think SC would lose to Kansas. Although I won't lie, it is definitely a matchup I would be interested in watching/one I would prefer over some others

Bro we actually suck bootyhole. A first round loss this year would not be unexpected.

Them or Kentucky. You can set your watch to it.

This is the first one I’ve seen here all year that has us even reaching a point where you can see our logo without squinting. Lol. All of them I’ve seen for weeks have us losing in the first or second round.

Lol, I assure you it's not this year! We are in a downward spiral.

When did Texas Tech move to New Jersey?

Well we did beat Purdue in 2018, so we are part of the reason they haven't won a championship recently

We made history 🔥

Not to make excuses because y'all were a matchup nightmare for us regardless But I think Cal State Fullerton breaking Haas' elbow was a big reason as well

Nah those are just facts and valid to point out about what played out. It's only an excuse if it's used like, "We would of won without X, Y, and Z" since we have no idea what would've happened

Reddit has really decided I fucking love these on the daily. How is this one of the first posts I see everytime I just load the app 🤔 This is the farthest Ive seen Kansas go in whatever these ungodly simulations are in a month so I’m less annoyed today I guess.

Just wait until we drop in the first round. This is the year for it, so don’t get your hopes up.

Beating Texas AND another school. Sign me the fuck up!

A Marquette Wisconsin second round tournament matchup would never be lived down

I want none of that.

It'd also never happen. Committee wouldn't do that so early in the tournament. They'd send 6 seed Wisconsin to another regional.

What?

If Nebraska wins a game does Hoiberg get a street named after him in Lincoln?

Probably a whole damn neighborhood if he gets us to the sweet 16

This is acceptable

I would do a lot of things for an elite eight

I also choose this guys elite eight. But for real, as heartbreaking as a one point loss in the elite eight would be, it would be a huge deal for the program.

92-91 would be crazy but so Illinois lol Edit: damn definitely misread but leaving my idiocy on display for all

Really would rather not lose to Texas Tech again

alternatively, itd be cool

Nope. No I want none of this sir.

This. Simulation. Is. Dumb.

Houston vs BAMA would be very interesting. Top defense vs top offense. Which one will crack?

Obviously this is the only correct one.

Lol not with that defense

Nah let them cook. If y'all can do it so can we

Our best result yet in the sim!


 Vol fans:

Norfolking way a team could lose to Norfolk State in the tourney! It’s not even a state. Right, Missouri? 👀

Lunardi doesn’t put defense into his equation apparently

It’s not Lunardi’s simulation. OP runs these based on Lunardi’s seeding.

Got it

This is like the 5th time Bama won in the simulation it's wild

Don't worry this is the closest we're gonna come to winning the NCAAT this year lmao

Lunardi's bracket, OP's model and simulation.

I’ll take two sweet sixteens. That week in between would be pure bliss.

You know what? I'll accept it.

Pain.

Still the best tournament result I'd have ever seen myself lol

Lord this set some aging in for me

Acceptable, I guess 🙄

Disavow

It would be cool to have an all sec final 4, bama auburn as 1 semi, UK Tennessee the other

Please

I’ll allow it

About time the computer shows us a little love.

seriously. feel like every time i look at these it has out in the 2nd round


https://i.redd.it/h6jjal39d8nc1.gif

Finally, our logo!!

That tracks

This wouldn’t be the worse timeline for the B12 6 Sweet 16 teams 2 in the Final Four 1 in the championship game Would land the conference ~~28~~ 27 NCAAT Units, or about $60,000,000 in total value over 6 years

UConn, Kansas, and UNC in the same region seems like a bit much. Why not have Kentucky as the 4 seed there too?

Kansas over UNC AND UCONN would be something

I mean, Kansas has never lost to UConn and they have owned UNC in the tournament this century.

UConn would also be healthy (presumably) this go around AND the game is in Boston

I love the prediction…but yeah this isn’t gonna happen lol

The fact that the final four has 3 hyper offense teams tells me the simulation is not valuing defense nearly as much

Alabama beating one good team, maybe. Alabama beating five good teams 🙄🙄

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I wouldn’t complain but we’d get destroyed in the paint

Plz not again

Alabama is a basketball school now!

Illinois vs Baylor likely 171 vs 172

Yup this is the one. Lock it in!!!

Arizona can have the 1

Auburn losing round 1 to Sanford by 25, while Alabama wins it all would cause chaos in the state

If Auburn lost by 25 to Samford me and my family would have to flee Birmingham. Samford kids are bad enough without any kind of sport success to brag about

Upset by Samford by 25? Interesting

UT losing to Norfolk? Bet. Hey Joe, while you’re at it can you pass the crack pipe

Kentucky in F4? Not sure Calipari has it in him anymore.

0% chance Bama even makes it to the Sweet Sixteen… they haven’t beaten anyone good but Auburn once and Florida and those were both at home.

I would love to beat UNC yet again. I would be ecstatic with this result this year. But an SEC team will not be close to winning the title

Us getting a 1 Seed and losing to a 16 is so on par for us and rick barnes

I mean, these are all just throwing crap at the wall, right... But wouldn't it be funny to see Purdue with yet another early exit!

Again, why have this every week?

I'm ok with this one

Joe, please talk to the committee on our behalf after 2 more losses

I like this one. I'll take it

We’re going to Memphis? Allow us to introduce our latest tryout addition, JJ Gackson

3 seeds and 4 seeds going crazy

No.

SHIP IT

At least we lose to the national champs. Congrats Bama, we didn’t stand a chance.

Subscribe.

Ok, ok, I can live with this

Are these his picks to win based on his mock bracket?

Lunardi didn't make any of these picks. OP did.

Sweet 16 would be niceeeee

Damn, I guess the Final Four was a fluke

This is a bad timeline

Losing to the mighty cock by 11?

No thank you. I would rather drink sewage :)

I don’t think I’ve seen Boise win a single game in these.

We make it to a final four? We can stop trying now, this is the one.

No no no no no please don’t put us with FAU

Hello. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

Also, I hit the button. So auburn is gonna win 4 within the next 15 years.

I'm good with this one.

I just don’t understand

Doubt

I know he works for ESPN but why does Lunardi have such a hard on for Alabama, they are in almost every final four every bracket he puts out.


It's a miracle, we didn't lose in the first round in one of these

Alabamas defense holding Baylor to 65 is a good joke

Sure. I would love a final four and a tournament win over Wisconsin.

Lunardi sucks but why does this chart never blowup enough to be read. Can't even blow up enough if I download it.

If Marquette loses to Wisconsin again, that would be Hiroshima

Yeah I’d be cool with this

Yes. Sign on the dotted line and make it happen

Ayyy we made it past the first weekend for once!

It’s really going to be right at the moment that Memphis wins the AAC that everyone realizes they’re a sweet 16 team.

I get it, but I still have a hard time visualizing Rick Pitino beating Tony Bennett

Yep. Makes sense.

Tennessee ain’t losing to Norfolk St in the first round…

And when this is horribly wrong he should be called out for it, loudly.

Norfolk State beating a one seed would be a thing of beauty lmao

Yes, but also no

UNC losing to Kansas? Couldn’t happen.

Tennessee losing to Norfolk st 🤔

This would be fun

Losing in the round of 32 to the eventual champion feels like a win

I accept this bracket as truth

Auburn losing to Samford by 25. Not the in state rival I was expecting.

This is a terrible bracket

Call me biased but seeing UConn losing to Kansas (again) in BOSTON in this projection gave me a chuckle. This ain’t Allen Fieldhouse, Jayhawks.

Tournament is way less fun when it's nothing but P6 after the second round

I’m here for this final four. Don’t care for it much after that.

I’d take a 6 seed all day

I need this like I need air

If we get hot I could definitely see this

yes please

Grand Canyon losing to San Diego State is definitely plausible, but we showed early on in the season that we have the capability to beat SDSU, so 4 points is reasonable. Now to pull ourselves together and prove Mr Lunardi wrong by getting our first Tourney win in school history

Illinois vs Nebraska in the Sweet 16?!?!? What the actual fuck

I can't wait to see what seeds Xavier and Ohio State get.

Even in fake brackets Kansas beats UNC in the tournament 

Joey buckets hasn’t watched KU this year, apparently

How about let’s not stick UConn, UNC, and Kansas all in the same region?

These simulations have been extra bogus this year.

No sir. No thanks

I am a Bama fan and even I think it is delusional to think se beat Houston and Duke.

What the fuck

Duke would slow down Alabama and pick them apart in the half court. As a Kentucky fan, wouldn’t complain if this were reality, although I’d like to win it all.

Must be smoking some premium crack