Lunardi's latest

[UKBB4Ever]

Wherever we go it won’t be where Lunardi says.

 

[gharding07]

HTF do you have TOP 3, middle 4 ? Pretty broad range.

I'm saying Lunardi has us the top 3 seed. Palm and others have us as a mid 4 seed. We will land somewhere in the middle of that

 

[gharding07]

I think likely a 2 seed with 2 Nashville wins
Definitely with 3 wins
Great, but the 3 seed is nice too, just win game 1

Were not getting a 2. Would probably take getting the title game and Texas Tech losing right away to even be close.

 

[bucsrule8872]

Win or lose that first game, we stay on the 3 line unless somebody just below us gets really hot.

Been saying for a while that this time of year it’s hard to get movement either way. The resumes are already pretty much built.

In the SEC, just playing a tourney game helps your resume. Every game is a Q1 game. Hard to tumble when that is the case.

 

[Jamal Mercer]

Its fun to look at bracketology but its the same every year, our fans take it as gospel as if Lunardi sets the bracket. Its never even close to reality....as far as who our opponents would be or where we would play.

 

[SemperFiCat]

Everyone should just look at this, chuckle and wait for Sunday. Lundardi is historically pathetic at the actual brackets and regions. He's really only marginal at best on seeding.

Sunday is around the corner. I'd be fine with waiting a few more days for the real deal bracket.

This. He's even said so himself. This is just air filler.

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

I actually feel Lunardi gets a lot of unnecessary hate. The guy created an entire sub genre of college basketball projections just out of his own interest in the game. He never once said he is some gatekeeper or supreme bracketologist. He made a career out of predicting brackets. Then, he gets hammered constantly by people for being inaccurate. He isn’t the best bracketologist but I respect and appreciate the guy regardless. Know I’ll get crushed but I like to voice support for people who get piled on needlessly.

 

[runt#69]

Even when we win the SEC tournament this year, we will still be a three seed, somehow. I just want to see them go play and have fun and win, win or lose. I trust in Coach Pope and this team. They are not going to let BBN down this year.

It would be funny to watch them all squirm having to debate why Kentucky didn't get a 2 seed for winning the SEC tournament this year, for instance. When all the attention and talk is about Alabama, Florida, and Alabama fighting for the last 1 seed ..... Kentucky backdoors everyone and wins the tournament? what does that do ? Michigan State then moves up into a 1 seed if they were to win the BIG TEN tourney too ? HMMMM.... And then everyone will ask, well, Kentucky won the SEC tournament, shouldn't they have gotten better than a 3 seed ?

HMMMMM

LOL

I will pray :
I pray to invoke the BLUE MIST to descend on my hometown, the place I was born not but a few miles from where they will be playing the tournament there. May my fellow Big Blue Nation brethren paint Nashville BLUE ! Bring down the Blue Mist and show the SEC who still is king and win the SEC tournament THIS YEAR. It might just be, when you stop and think about it, the greatest SEC tournament title win in the history of this program. That's ANOTHER REASON why winning this matters.

We've faced "adversity" all season long. TEAM ADVERSITY. Look at these young men out there right now and they are capable of playing even better, and their best basketball performances have yet to come.

We’re going to win. That’s why we’re going down there​

- Coach Mark Pope

I say we go to CATville and win the SEC tournament just like Coach Pope says. Then let them seed us and do whatever.

We go there with the mindset to win it. We are Kentucky , and we intend to win every single basketball game when our team steps out onto the floor to play against ANYBODY. We're just going to go all out when we step on the court and go out there and give our total best effort. They are going to do that, and that's all I would ask of these guys, I trust in this team. I love our team.

Just like that. Just like Coach Pope says.

About Lunardi's current bracketology:

If you swap out Michigan State and Texas A&M & put them out West and put Lunardi's other region picks in the south, that makes as much sense as any other combination I've seen. Stick Kentucky and Texas Tech as the 2,3 to Auburn's overall 1 in the South. Makes as much sense as anything else right now.

I'm just stoked to get this SEC tournament under way !
Can't wait !

Go Big Blue !

 

[yabbadabbadoo]

Were not getting a 2. Would probably take getting the title game and Texas Tech losing right away to even be close.

Ok
I guess you’re probably right

 

[yoshukai]

Bro you’re going at it like this is the actual bracket. This is just a guy’s projection

Even if you ignore geography, the s-curve would ALSO dictate we should be in the South with Auburn.

Auburn gets their obvious region as the #1 seed, as does Duke in the East, then Houston getting the preferable location of the two remaining, with Florida being the one sent out west as the final #1 seed. The S-curve would dictate Alabama be paired with Florida, so they were shifted to avoid the SEC/SEC matchup. Tennessee is next, also shifted to avoid the SEC/SEC matchup. Michigan State should be next, and by the s-curve should be matched up with the overall 3rd seed, but was moved to the South due to geographical preference. All this results in Florida getting the 8th seed, Texas Tech. Kentucky, by s-curve, SHOULD be matched up against #1 seed Auburn, but instead was swapped with Texas A&M without s-curve OR geographic reasoning.

Suddenly on the 4 seed line the entire s-curve is completely thrown out the window 13 overall Maryland gets their geographic preference instead of being shipped out west as the s-curve would dictate. Wisconsin also gets their geographic preference (which conveniently also matches the s-curve), Purdue gets sent out west despite the s-curve suggesting they should face Duke, but they can't because he has Maryland (an ACC/ACC matchup) slotted where they should be by s-curve, then Clemson lands in both their geographic preference and correct s-curve location.

As far as I can tell, of the Top 16 seeds, Kentucky is the ONLY team not in their geographic OR s-curve location without a shift for avoiding a conference/conference matchup involved in the decision. It looks like the moron in charge only put us there because suddenly keeping the s-curve between the overall 8 and overall 9 mattered. All the rest can be thrown to the wind. Not that it matters, of course, as the actual bracket won't look anything like this. I just like throwing Lunardi under the bus for being bad at the only job he has.

Lunardi is HORRIBLE at projecting where teams will be placed. He’s actually below average on seeding and teams making and missing the tournament too . He’s mainly a product of the espn hype machine. WHERE he has teams placed is not even worth talking about.

 

[ImTheVillageIdiot]

Lunardi is HORRIBLE at projecting where teams will be placed. He’s actually below average on seeding and teams making and missing the tournament too . He’s mainly a product of the espn hype machine. WHERE he has teams placed is not even worth talking about.

Bracketology is not an exact science. I respect Lunardi. He’s just a basketball nerd, he’s not infallible.

 

[Tampa_cat54]

Even if you ignore geography, the s-curve would ALSO dictate we should be in the South with Auburn.

Auburn gets their obvious region as the #1 seed, as does Duke in the East, then Houston getting the preferable location of the two remaining, with Florida being the one sent out west as the final #1 seed. The S-curve would dictate Alabama be paired with Florida, so they were shifted to avoid the SEC/SEC matchup. Tennessee is next, also shifted to avoid the SEC/SEC matchup. Michigan State should be next, and by the s-curve should be matched up with the overall 3rd seed, but was moved to the South due to geographical preference. All this results in Florida getting the 8th seed, Texas Tech. Kentucky, by s-curve, SHOULD be matched up against #1 seed Auburn, but instead was swapped with Texas A&M without s-curve OR geographic reasoning.

Suddenly on the 4 seed line the entire s-curve is completely thrown out the window 13 overall Maryland gets their geographic preference instead of being shipped out west as the s-curve would dictate. Wisconsin also gets their geographic preference (which conveniently also matches the s-curve), Purdue gets sent out west despite the s-curve suggesting they should face Duke, but they can't because he has Maryland (an ACC/ACC matchup) slotted where they should be by s-curve, then Clemson lands in both their geographic preference and correct s-curve location.

As far as I can tell, of the Top 16 seeds, Kentucky is the ONLY team not in their geographic OR s-curve location without a shift for avoiding a conference/conference matchup involved in the decision. It looks like the moron in charge only put us there because suddenly keeping the s-curve between the overall 8 and overall 9 mattered. All the rest can be thrown to the wind. Not that it matters, of course, as the actual bracket won't look anything like this. I just like throwing Lunardi under the bus for being bad at the only job he has.

Idk what you mean, this is not super complicated.

They didn't want to align an SEC/SEC matchup between the 2s and 3s, OR between the 1s and 2s.

So in that scenario, you have to put the 2 SEC teams that are ranked as 2s away from the 1 seeds, which they did.

You then need to put the 2 SEC teams that are ranked as 3s and put them away from the 2s. Which they did.

And then out of those matchups for the 3s, they took the higher ranked team (Kentucky) and placed them against the easier of the 2 seeds, and took the lower ranked SEC 3 seed (Texas A&M) and placed them against the more difficult 2 seed, which seems fair.

That is very clearly exactly what happened here.

 

[yoshukai]

I actually feel Lunardi gets a lot of unnecessary hate. The guy created an entire sub genre of college basketball projections just out of his own interest in the game. He never once said he is some gatekeeper or supreme bracketologist. He made a career out of predicting brackets. Then, he gets hammered constantly by people for being inaccurate. He isn’t the best bracketologist but I respect and appreciate the guy regardless. Know I’ll get crushed but I like to voice support for people who get piled on needlessly.

I just don’t trust or like anyone who wears a toupee.

 

[michaeluk26]

I personally don't want to be a 4 and have to potentially play a 5 in the 2nd game. I'm also not foolish enough to think we beat the 14 as a 3 seed just cause. We've GOT to win our first SEC TOURNAMENT game. I want to beat Georgias ass after we got totally screwed by the officiating, if you could call it that, in Athens.

 

[Rideordiewildcat]

How's this guy keep 1 Quad 1 win UNC that close and over 5 Quad 1 win Texas in leagues that are polar opposites???

 

[Fox2monk]

If we are the higher seed, what's the justification for sending us out west and Texas A&M south where we would prefer?

I don’t care where we go as long as it’s A good path.

 

[Fox2monk]

Did you know they are making the Dukies gay?

 

[Digger-Cat]

If the Cats end up as a 3 seed, just avoid Bama as their 2 seed and I think they can make a run.

Don't forget about Robert Morris, we need to avoid them too.

 

[Digger-Cat]

Michigan State has silently slid in the two seed. That’s crazy, little to no talk on them this season.

Because they really haven't played any big head to head matchups and they play on Sundays.

Looking at the BIG10, MSU is the only real FF threat, everyone else can't play more than 1 decent game in a row.

MSU is very good though, that's no surprise, it's March and Tom Izzo is the coach.

I would rather give Texas Tech a go than play MSU right now, but mainly because a large part of my family are MSU fans and they hate the SEC. I would certainly hear about it if we lost to them.