Yeah and we are going to play on Friday Sunday aren't we? Kentucky can't play the same day they host so Kentucky will have to be Friday and Sunday if they win.
Lunardi: UK the last three seed, need Arizona to lose
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3 seed anywhere>4 seed anywhere.
There's a little gap between the top 3 teams and teams 4-6. Then there's a huge gap between the top 6 and the field.
If we're a 3, we don't see the 1 seed until the Elite 8. If we're a 4, we see them in the Sweet 16. You also play a 5 instead of a 6 in the 2nd round. Minor, but it matters.
Maybe we should decline the invitation then
Remember all those years under Calipari where we would nitpick every possibly seed outcome, only to watch Cal lose in the first weekend anyway?
Talking to some people that have some booster friends:
My understanding is that the boosters are blown away with Pope's success this season and love the guy. Pope has the financial commitment to get whoever he wants.
There's an atomic bomb of a transfer name floating around, and some people are claiming it's already a done deal. And Pope has been assured there's plenty of money to make it work .
Should be. The season matters.
But I’ve seen them screw us terribly on the seed.
Here is another guy I follow that has won bracket matrix contest before and is one of the best
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Dave’s Seed List
Below is Dave’s current Seed List (at the time of publication). A couple of things to note: Now that we’ve reached Championship Week, teams in BOLD represent the automatic bid based on …
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| Seeds 1-24 | Seeds 25-50 | Seeds 51-68 | First 4 OUT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Auburn | 25) Saint Mary’s | 51) High Point | Xavier |
| 2) Duke | 26) Kansas | 52) Yale | Boise State |
| 3) Houston | 27) Illinois | 53) Troy | North Carolina |
| 4) Florida | 28) Gonzaga | 54) Akron | UC-Irvine |
| 5) Alabama | 29) Marquette | 55) Lipscomb | Next 4 OUT |
| 6) Tennessee | 30) Memphis | 56) Utah Valley | Ohio State |
| 7) Michigan St | 31) Creighton | 57) NC-Wilmington | Dayton |
| 8) St. John’s | 32) Miss State | 58) Montana | Wake Forest |
| 9) Texas Tech | 33) Connecticut | 59) Robert Morris | North Texas |
| 10) Kentucky | 34) New Mexico | 60) Wofford | |
| 11) Texas AM | 35) Georgia | 61) Omaha | Next In Line |
| 12) Iowa State | 36) Oklahoma | 62) Norfolk State | |
| 13) Wisconsin | 37) Arkansas | 63) Bryant | |
| 14) Maryland | 38) West Virginia | 64) SIU-Edwardsville | |
| 15) Arizona | 39) Drake | 65) American | |
| 16) Purdue | 40) Vanderbilt | 66) Iona | |
| 17) Michigan | 41) Utah State | 67) Jackson State | |
| 18) Oregon | 42) Baylor | 68) St. Francis (PA) | |
| 19) Ole Miss | 43) San Diego St | ||
| 20) Clemson | 44) Texas | ||
| 21) BYU | 45) Indiana | ||
| 22) UCLA | 46) VCU | ||
| 23) Louisville | 47) Colorado State | ||
| 24) Missouri | 48) UC-San Diego | ||
| 49) Liberty | |||
| 50) McNeese |
I think the Tyty year, they got a better seed than most people expected. And I really felt like it was the best possible bracket given our season.
Some joke team called St. Peter's. Murray State, LOL. We're not losing to some mid major in state team. And then we'd get Purdue. And while Jayden Ivey was nice, he did a lot of hero ball and loved tough shots. Maybe they were banged up too? I'm not sure. But I honestly remember thinking we'd have SMOOTH sailing until we saw UNC in the Elite 8.
And then St. Peter's happened. I was sick at my stomach. Questioned everything in my life.
That's awesome news. It just didn't make sense to me that we could offer Hurley $11 million + but not compete with programs like UT for Lanier or UNC for Wilson.
I figured it was always just a degree of reallocation of funds. UK has always had money for hoops. It paid Calipari a king's ransom while he was here. The deflective fans found a way to paint the UK program as a "poor state" that couldn't get it done, however. It became a comical caricatured narrative at a certain point.
I think that's right.
I think we're 1 of a very small group of schools that care more about basketball than football. And now that Pope has smashed expectations year 1, the money is there.
We have rich people like a lot of other states. The Club Blue should also blow up now that we've seen Pope's genius at work. Basketball is the #1 sport in the state. And even the non-rich people are fired up about Pope and the cats. I think we'll see a huge influx where regular folks give what they can give to help Pope.
I think Calipari had become a bad financial advisor. You gotta give him your money for him to double it. But if he keeps proving incompetent with the money he's already been given--at a point--why keep giving him more to hope for a different result?
Kentucky has money. Horse farms and bourbon run this Commonwealth. Also soybeans.
There is money here, the issue is the NE states and the west coast will always have more. We should however be able to compete with the likes MS, AL, and others though.
That's where I think It can get dangerous going heavy into one player. Injuries or a bad transition from H&S to college can hijack a year. If you look at TN, if Lanier goes down like Jax, butler, Kerrisa they would've been done!
So it'll be a interesting balance!
I still think Kentucky is a 3 but if Maryland wins and Arizona wins tonight then I think they might slip to a 4
We have a 4 million person fan base. At least 3 million of those people are adults who can contribute to the nil fund.
What schools on the northeast or West Coast have remotely close to that type of fan interest?
People talk about major media markets, but they forget that you have to have fans that care. What schools on either coast in the big cities have fans that care?
So SEC Tournament today and tomorrow is like the NCAA Final Four level games.Here is another guy I follow that has won bracket matrix contest before and is one of the best
Dave’s Seed List
Below is Dave’s current Seed List (at the time of publication). A couple of things to note: Now that we’ve reached Championship Week, teams in BOLD represent the automatic bid based on …
Updated: March 15, 2025 | 10 a.m. ET
Seeds 1-24 Seeds 25-50 Seeds 51-68 First 4 OUT 1) Auburn 25) Saint Mary’s 51) High Point Xavier 2) Duke 26) Kansas 52) Yale Boise State 3) Houston 27) Illinois 53) Troy North Carolina 4) Florida 28) Gonzaga 54) Akron UC-Irvine 5) Alabama 29) Marquette 55) Lipscomb Next 4 OUT 6) Tennessee 30) Memphis 56) Utah Valley Ohio State 7) Michigan St 31) Creighton 57) NC-Wilmington Dayton 8) St. John’s 32) Miss State 58) Montana Wake Forest 9) Texas Tech 33) Connecticut 59) Robert Morris North Texas 10) Kentucky 34) New Mexico 60) Wofford 11) Texas AM 35) Georgia 61) Omaha Next In Line 12) Iowa State 36) Oklahoma 62) Norfolk State 13) Wisconsin 37) Arkansas 63) Bryant 14) Maryland 38) West Virginia 64) SIU-Edwardsville 15) Arizona 39) Drake 65) American 16) Purdue 40) Vanderbilt 66) Iona 17) Michigan 41) Utah State 67) Jackson State 18) Oregon 42) Baylor 68) St. Francis (PA) 19) Ole Miss 43) San Diego St 20) Clemson 44) Texas 21) BYU 45) Indiana 22) UCLA 46) VCU 23) Louisville 47) Colorado State 24) Missouri 48) UC-San Diego 49) Liberty 50) McNeese
Yep. Four of the top 5 teams in the country. I mean.....I don't understand why people aren't getting how hard this conference was.
Arizona will absolutely not jump us. We have 11 quad 1 wins. Lmao
At 3:39 PM ET they interviewed the committee chair and he said all but 4 at large teams have been put in the field and he expects the final 4 to be put in before dinner. He also said the top 9 seed lines have already been set. Which means Kentucky is set already as their seed.
Now of course he said there is final scrubbing coming later today and tomorrow so they could get moved up or down still.
Also contingency brackets will be made for those final 4 at large for bid stealers.
Also was noted the number of times in a conf played this year affect when they can play in the tournament
once - round 32
twice - S16
three - E8
So Kentucky if a 3 seed and Bama if a 2 seed won't be in same region since they would meet in S16.
Now of course he said there is final scrubbing coming later today and tomorrow so they could get moved up or down still.
Also contingency brackets will be made for those final 4 at large for bid stealers.
Also was noted the number of times in a conf played this year affect when they can play in the tournament
once - round 32
twice - S16
three - E8
So Kentucky if a 3 seed and Bama if a 2 seed won't be in same region since they would meet in S16.
I don't wanna get on board with it but honestly, kinda feels a bit like that way
Aliases coming out of the woodwork, lmao, Must use the same password on all of them. 🤣
Even if we had 100,000 fans give an average of $20 each, it would be huge.
A ton of UK fans I know have an attitude of "well, someone else can pay."
With that attitude, we should expect 6th place finishes in the SEC yearly.
If we want to win, we need to get out our wallets and pay.
Yeah, Arizona is absolutely not jumping Kentucky to get a 3 seed and knock us down to a 4. We're a 3 seed. I'm hopeful for a Texas Tech (2) in our region. So that'll probably not happen, knowing the S.C. They'll make sure to pair us up with Michigan State as our (2).
Just a feeling. Been wrong plenty of times before, I just don't see them taking us off the 3 line since the reveal weekend, we've stayed right there.
Lunardi's opinion notwithstanding .... he's just flat out wrong with his takes. Take them with a huge grain of salt.
If he can cause people here to worry, he's had a great day. His desire to crap on UK in any possible way is sickness-level. He often does it very passive-aggresivlely, which is even worse.
Hard to get quad 2 wins when pretty much everyone in the conference is a quad 1.
We don't need him to be fully healthy to play much better than we played last night. We just need someone who can competently get the ball across halfcourt and get us into our offense. This would help Oweh from feeling like he has to do things that he can't.
We also beat both teams playing for the acc championship. Beat Tennessee TWICE. Beat Florida. yeah, we crapped the bed last night but we had a late game before and no Lamont Butler. Not to mention that our best player was basically knocked out of the game early. Yes, he came back but was not the same.
Those 2 Tennessee wins just got stronger today. We’re a 3. I’m pretty confident of that.
My NCAA Tournament Top 16 Projections:
South
1 Auburn(1)
2 Michigan St.(7)
3 Texas Tech(10)
4 Purdue(16)
East
1 Duke(2)
2 Tennessee(6)
3 Iowa St.(12)
4 Maryland(14)
Midwest
1 Houston(3)
2 Alabama(5)
3 Wisconsin(11)
4 Texas A&M(15)
West
1 Florida(4)
2 St. John’s(8)
3 Kentucky(9)
4 Arizona(13)
South
1 Auburn(1)
2 Michigan St.(7)
3 Texas Tech(10)
4 Purdue(16)
East
1 Duke(2)
2 Tennessee(6)
3 Iowa St.(12)
4 Maryland(14)
Midwest
1 Houston(3)
2 Alabama(5)
3 Wisconsin(11)
4 Texas A&M(15)
West
1 Florida(4)
2 St. John’s(8)
3 Kentucky(9)
4 Arizona(13)
Really? Refresh my memory and list those head scratching games that we lost at full strength.
7-0 at full strength, including a win over Duke.
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