Despite the SEC being as strong as it's been in years in basketball Joey Brackets...
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The Committee has screwed us again. Unbelievable.
You should check out the imbalanced ACC schedule. UNC has a far easier conference schedule than Duke and Virginia next season.
The team that finishes in first place in the ACC regular season usually gets a 1 seed. And the imbalanced ACC schedule always impacts the final standings.
I think we could be a top seed, especially if Travis and Hagans are here. Youth is usually what costs us several games. This team has several veterans, so that shouldn't be a problem.
My 1 seeds right now:
Midwest- KU
South- UK
East- Duke
West- Gonzaga
I think UNC will struggle a bit without Berry leading the way. Dude led them to two straight title games and a title. We saw how they struggled against size in the A&M game and they didn't get any bigger. I put them at a 2 seed.
Midwest
1. KU
2. UVA
3. Michigan St.
4. Cuse
South
1. UK
2. UNC
3. Michigan
4. KSU
East
1. Duke
2. UT
3. Nova
4. WVU
West
1. Zaga
2. Nevada
3. Auburn
4. VT
My 1 seeds right now:
Midwest- KU
South- UK
East- Duke
West- Gonzaga
I think UNC will struggle a bit without Berry leading the way. Dude led them to two straight title games and a title. We saw how they struggled against size in the A&M game and they didn't get any bigger. I put them at a 2 seed.
Midwest
1. KU
2. UVA
3. Michigan St.
4. Cuse
South
1. UK
2. UNC
3. Michigan
4. KSU
East
1. Duke
2. UT
3. Nova
4. WVU
West
1. Zaga
2. Nevada
3. Auburn
4. VT
Which means a slow period and little to discuss unless you want another thread about Pitino, the NBA draft or a visit from a recruit.
I found it interesting that everyone is talking about how strong the SEC is going to be next year but Mr ACC still has the ACC getting almost double the teams in.
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Joey is one of the least important people on the planet. Most anyone who follows college basketball can get as close as he does on who's in.
I trust his pre-season prognostication about as far as I can throw him.
Yep and he's become a smug little prick the last few years. Thinks he's important and intelligent. Kinda like most of the ESPN herd.
UVA is always overrated. Not sure how they can dominate the ACC, then always fall early in the NCAA's.
Their system is predicated on stall ball tactics and a defense that grabs/holds a lot. The ACC refs don't call 75% of the fouls they commit. When they get to the NCAA Tourney, they run into some new refs and suddenly their defense doesn't work.
Not really when you consider un-CHEAT got a 2 seed a year ago despite 10 total losses and a loss at home to mighty Wofford (which is either the only reason they didn't get a 1 seed or moved them up to a 2 seed from a 3 seed).
In what universe does anyone rate U6 an eight seed. They’ll be lucky to finish 500.Loservile an 8 seed?![[roll]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/roll.r191677.gif "roll [roll]")
I wish we could wager on that After the season starts I bet ole Joey gets smarter and adds more SEC teams
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Dont care for Lunardi, but he ONLY predicts what the selection committee WILL DO. His job is to try and predict the bracket that once again, is chosen by the committee.
And UNC being a one seed, SEC getting shafted, ACC getting damn near every school in is always a safe bet when it comes to the choices those clowns on the committee make.
And UNC being a one seed, SEC getting shafted, ACC getting damn near every school in is always a safe bet when it comes to the choices those clowns on the committee make.
Disagree to some extent. The Selection Committee bases its seedings on a team's body of work in the current season. What Lunardi is doing in these pre-season brackets is his biased projections of what he thinks will happen. So yeah, he's obviously biased when he puts 11 ACC teams in and only 6 SEC teams.
I don't know that I disagree with him (about the SEC). The TOP half of the SEC will be very strong next year, but I don't think the bottom half will be good at all.
Take Arkansas. They lost 8 of their top 9 players, returning just Gafford mixed a bunch of new guys. Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas A&M (lost 5 of 6 best), and South Carolina will also be pretty awful or, at best, .500 teams.
At the top, UK, UT, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi St, and Florida will be in the tournament rather easily.
So what it comes down to will be Missouri (Porter & Tilmon's growth), Vanderbilt (Shittu's recovery, Garland's ability), and Alabama. I don't know that I would put any of those three with more than 50-50 odds on making the tournament.
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That's a good assement of the league IMO as well. History tells us that we always struggle to get more than six anyway.
All this belly aching in the thread. I don't see one argument for which ACC team shouldn't be in and what SEC team deserves that spot.
I don't really care enough about the ACC to look at the teams, who they lost or retained, their schedule and any other pertinent information to determine which teams will get in but based on history 1/2 of them will probably lose the first game and 2/3 will be gone the first weekend. I do know that the SEC never gets the same respect that the ACC does but until someone other than UK or Florida wins it all that is to be expected.
I would be surprised if UofL makes the tourney.
Lost a lot and have a new coach/new system.
They will have some growing pains, most likely.
Lost a lot and have a new coach/new system.
They will have some growing pains, most likely.
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