College Hoops: 3/1/08 - 3/16/08

[SilverPhoenix 0]

Baylor got the shaft.

 

The team that always get shown first before the final bracket NEVER makes it.

[Guest Beastalentier]

All the big conference bubble teams seem to have gotten in.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

A&M vs. BYU. That's going to be a grinder of a game.

 

WHOOO BEARS!! They deserved it.

[Bored 0]

By the seedings Villanova was the last team in.

 

Looks like it was Illinois State who Georgia cost a spot. Man is it weird seeing an SEC team as 14 seed.

[CanadianChris 0]

West region:

 

1/16: UCLA vs. Mississippi Valley St.

8/9: BYU vs. Texas A&M

5/12: Drake vs. Western Kentucky

4/13: Connecticut vs. San Diego

2/15: Duke vs. Belmont

7/10: West Virginia vs. Arizona

3/14: Xavier vs. Georgia

6/11: Purdue vs. Baylor

 

Awesome. I'm so happy Baylor made it. That reaction was fantastic.

 

There isn't anyone in this bracket that should challenge UCLA.

 

 

[Hawk 34 0]

All the big conference bubble teams seem to have gotten in.

 

Ohio State didn't and fires have already engulfed Columbus.

[Guest Beastalentier]

Fires probably engulf Columbus if 8 a.m. 100-level sociology is cancelled, though.

[CanadianChris 0]

Neither did Arizona State. If they'd gotten in, I would've been disgusted.

[Jaxxson Mayhem 0]

There isn't anyone in this bracket that should challenge UCLA.

 

 

 

Stop lyinnnnnn. Duke gonna win that region.

 

 

Purdue's in there too.

[snuffbox 0]

THE Ohio State sociopathic retards.

[SilverPhoenix 0]

Baylor got the shaft.

 

The team that always get shown first before the final bracket NEVER makes it.

 

And I was wrong. Good for Baylor. They deserved it.

[Guest]

We're gone in the first round. At least this season with Mayo was fun. Oh wait, it wasn't.

[Guest Beastalentier]

wait are they srsly rioting in columbus

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

UCLA got a cake walk to the Final Four.

[Jaxxson Mayhem 0]

Bullshit.

 

 

[Kurt Angle Mark 0]

Not sure what to make about Fullerton getting Wisconsin

 

However nice of the committee to send Cal State Fullerton to our unofficial second home Omaha, NE

[Hawk 34 0]

That's true. Xavier will be a tough game for UCLA.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Nothing's for certain, but I'd say out of the four regions, UCLA has the easiest path.

 

I was suprised to see Villanova and Oregon get in. I thought they both played their way out of the tourney, but the bubble teams were all extremely weak this year.

 

Time to start filling out the bracket.

[CanadianChris 0]

My Elite 8 after about five minutes of thought:

 

North Carolina over Tennessee

Kansas over Wisconsin

Texas over Memphis

UCLA over Xavier

 

Championship: North Carolina over UCLA

 

Looking at the brackets, it's incredible how top-heavy college basketball is this year.

[RonL21 0]

Eh. I like Coach Knight's Idea of making it just the Top 128 Teams.

All it does is add one game and every team that deserves a bid gets in

and we will still pretty much end up w/ the same result in the end.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

I don't see a lot of first round upsets popping off the page like in year's past. The 12-5 matchup has sort of lost its relevance the past few years with the increased attention placed on the mid-majors.

[Bored 0]

Speaking of expanding, don't forget this year we have the College Basketball Invitational which will take the scraps that the NIT doesn't take. Apparently they will have no problem taking a school with a losing record. How exciting!

[Hawk 34 0]

Speaking of expanding, don't forget this year we have the College Basketball Invitational which will take the scraps that the NIT doesn't take. Apparently they will have no problem taking a school with a losing record. How exciting!

 

I'll wait up for that selection show.

[Bored 0]

Sadly I see no selection show on the channel guide but the NIT selection show is on at 9:00 PM EST/6:00 PM PST on ESPN2 tonight. I guarantee you it's gets higher ratings than the women's selection show.

 

One thing to think of when making picks this year is law of averages as last year there was incredibly low number of upsets without a single double digit seed getting past the first weekend. This year it I think it may be a little closer to normal.

[Guest]

My Elite Eight...

 

Tennessee over North Carolina

Kansas over Georgetown

Memphis over Stanford

UCLA over Xavier

 

Then Kansas over Tennessee and Memphis over UCLA...

 

Kansas cuts down the nets. Only lower seeded Sweet 16 teams I see are Oral Roberts and St. Joe's.

[RonL21 0]

Sadly I see no selection show on the channel guide but the NIT selection show is on at 9:00 PM EST/6:00 PM PST on ESPN2 tonight. I guarantee you it's gets higher ratings than the women's selection show.

 

One thing to think of when making picks this year is law of averages as last year there was incredibly low number of upsets without a single double digit seed getting past the first weekend. This year it I think it may be a little closer to normal.

I wanna see Uconn/Tennesee meet up on the Women's side.

It's gotten Personal between Summit and Auriemma it seems

[Mik 0]

Tennessee isn't even going to make it to their loss against UNC.

 

First round upset special: Cornell over Stanford!

 

Go Big Red!

[Guest Beastalentier]

Eh. I like Coach Knight's Idea of making it just the Top 128 Teams.

All it does is add one game and every team that deserves a bid gets in

and we will still pretty much end up w/ the same result in the end.

Bobby Knight can suck it, and don't call him Coach. He's not your coach. Would you call him Dad?

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Georgia a 14! Is that the lowest major conference seed ever?

 

I have watched literally zero college basketball games this season, so my bracket is going to be about as random as it's ever been.

[Guest Beastalentier]

In all fairness, they have a losing record, so it's hard to justify anything higher than that. Personally, I would've ranked them below good old Portland State, which I feel should be the official underdog team of TSM.