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Can everyone remember this next year.
Can everyone remember this next year.
After the 1st round, we could have to play 3 teams(Texas, UT, Gonzaga) we have previously played to get to the Final 4, one we've beaten twice. That is odd in this day and age.The idea we always have these crazy match-ups and tough brackets is pure paranoia by some.
Ricky f’n Blanton. Odd? Maybe. Out to get UK….nope.After the 1st round, we could have to play 3 teams(Texas, UT, Gozaga) we have previously played to get to the Final 4, one we've beaten twice. That is odd in this day and age.
I still remember having to beat Bama and LSU 4 times to reach the Final 4. That LSU loss is one of the MOST painful of my lifetime!!!
Kenny "Sky' Walkers last game. 😭 😭 😭
Convinced we stop Louisville from getting #2 if we had played anyone else that we hadn’t beaten three times already.After the 1st round, we could have to play 3 teams(Texas, UT, Gozaga) we have previously played to get to the Final 4, one we've beaten twice. That is odd in this day and age.
I still remember having to beat Bama and LSU 4 times to reach the Final 4. That LSU loss is one of the MOST painful of my lifetime!!!
Kenny "Sky' Walkers last game. 😭 😭 😭
Made embarrassing Dale Brown in the 1994 come back game and the 86 pt half in 96 that much sweeter!!!Ricky f’n Blanton. Odd? Maybe. Out to get UK….nope.
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Can everyone remember this next year.
Remember it well. Loved that 86 team.After the 1st round, we could have to play 3 teams(Texas, UT, Gonzaga) we have previously played to get to the Final 4, one we've beaten twice. That is odd in this day and age.
I still remember having to beat Bama and LSU 4 times to reach the Final 4. That LSU loss is one of the MOST painful of my lifetime!!!
Kenny "Sky' Walkers last game. 😭 😭 😭
What about OUR BIGGEST RIVAL TENNESSEE. It would have been a perfect bracket if Michigan State was our 2 and not have to beat Tenn a 3rd time.Seems fishy to me. The Selection Committee obviously knew how well Kentucky plays in rivalry games. Didn’t want to give us the chance.
It’s basically become an annual tradition for the BBN to try to concoct some angle upon which we can claim the committee has it in for us.The idea we always have these crazy match-ups and tough brackets is pure paranoia by some.
The looney tunes theory that the NCAA set up that LSU matchup is so laughable …. yet I’ve been seeing our fans pushing it for four decades now.I still remember having to beat Bama and LSU 4 times to reach the Final 4. That LSU loss is one of the MOST painful of my lifetime!!!
Only if we had more blood flowing than in this tournament. Louisville beat the ever loving hell out of everyone they played. This tournament is insane. It’s kinda like it’s fixed or something??Convinced we stop Louisville from getting #2 if we had played anyone else that we hadn’t beaten three times already.
Well done. Well done indeed.Seems fishy to me. The Selection Committee obviously knew how well Kentucky plays in rivalry games. Didn’t want to give us the chance.
No, they will put on their tin foil hats next year too. Ignoring you could create a conspiracy storyline between us (UK) and probably 20 other teams.Nothing.
Can everyone remember this next year.
I disagree.The storyline thing was always a bunch of nonsense.
After you factor in the seed listing and the bracket rules, what I always do every year is go team by team and see where everyone got placed.
Doing this exercise you quickly realize it's not about storylines......it's just common sense why teams go where they go after applying the bracket rules.
It was one of the most painful losses in my memory too. We would have played Louisville in the Final Four if we win that game.After the 1st round, we could have to play 3 teams(Texas, UT, Gonzaga) we have previously played to get to the Final 4, one we've beaten twice. That is odd in this day and age.
I still remember having to beat Bama and LSU 4 times to reach the Final 4. That LSU loss is one of the MOST painful of my lifetime!!!
Kenny "Sky' Walkers last game. 😭 😭 😭
I disagree.
If the SC sees the opportunity, they will will absolutely place teams in certain spots to create story lines. It makes for good basketball.
At the very least, they do not shy away from story lines that present themselves. This year, they could have easily replaced Arkansas with New Mexico or Utah State as the 10 seed out West or put UCLA as the 7 seed instead of KU. Those teams make more sense in the West, but they saw an opportunity to get to Hall of Fame coaches playing in the first round and then going up against another Hall of Famer in the second round. That makes for good ratings. Which means dollars. Which is what this is all about.
If you don’t think the SC tweaks things to add to the entertainment side of the whole tournament, I don’t know what to tell you. This is an event. Events organizers do whatever they can to draw crowds and secure eyeballs for television.I’ve not fully looked at it yet but I’m 100% sure there was a reason Arkansas went where they did and it had nothing to do with a Self Cal 1st round game.
And where teams go is more based on the first two rounds site, not the regional. The region you go to is more dependent on where you are on a particular seed line.
If you don’t think the SC tweaks things to add to the entertainment side of the whole tournament, I don’t know what to tell you. This is an event. Events organizers do whatever they can to draw crowds and secure eyeballs for television.
They might not blatantly change things around, but I bet they manipulate things to help with ratings.
Actually last year was an easy bracket and we got the easiest of all bracket breaks the Shai season but couldn't beat KSU. We haven't gotten that tough a bracket in a while . Also we usually do really well when we do get a tough bracket. Toughest road we ever had in 14 we make the title game then lose to the lowest seed we played till then other than 1st game.Maybe it was Cal.
We may have gotten the easiest bracket for the first time in a while.
Cal has to beat two GOAT coaches.
St. John’s is tough. Pitino once again saves and rebuilds a program into a legit post season threat.