Dan Murfman said:
Dgilpin said:Some really interesting seeding to say the least ...
I am surprised you had that. Did you not see their respective SOS's?mabrowndog said:
I had 63 of the 64 teams right (missed NC State in lieu of SMU),
Dan to Theo to Ben said:I am surprised you had that. Did you not see their respective SOS's?
Dan to Theo to Ben said:I am surprised you had that. Did you not see their respective SOS's?
They got in based on their 2 performances v. Syracuse.WayBackVazquez said:I don't see NC State as a justifiable pick at all.
mabrowndog said:
I appreciate the explanation, and the math makes sense even if I still see it as conceptually misapplied. My answer to Pomeroy and Sagarin is that it's easy to be dominant when you're rarely tested. It's also easy to be dominant when you run up the score against weaklings, which Pitino does any chance he gets unless it's one of his buddies or coaching progeny. Had Louisville lined up 2 or 3 more upper-tier non-conference programs instead of the parade of dreck they faced aside from UNC, KY and S. Miss, I'd be far more agreeable with the "they blew everyone out, never got blown out themselves, and only lost close games" argument. And I'm not just talking about national powers. Give me a George Washington, an Arkansas, an Oregon, a Toledo. Anything other than the tripe Pitino passed off. Because absent that, no matter how they slice it, Louisville went 4-3 against the next best three teams in its conference, including beating the same team 3 times, and failed to beat either of the only two Top 50 non-AAC squads on their slate. And that's the entirety of the extent to which they were tested this season.
The bookmakers’ first fix to this field would be making defending champion Louisville a No. 1 seed. [Wynn Sportsbook Director] Avello expected to find the Cardinals on the No. 2 line Sunday, but called even that placement “a really big stretch.”
He would currently favor Louisville in a game against any other team in the country, and said the Cardinals were assured to give points in every contest on their way to the Final Four. [LVH Sportsbook Director] Salmons indicated just two teams Louisville would post as an underdog against in the whole tournament — Florida, the overall No. 1 seed, and Michigan State, another No. 4 seed.
DukeSox said:You figure the head of USA basketball with multiple gold medals weighs in and suggests NC State should be included, then they should probably be included.
Dan to Theo to Ben said:They got in based on their 2 performances v. Syracuse.
I would have picked UW-GB, but I don't really see anyone else
Edit: Oh that's right, thanks for the reminder, DukeSox.
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