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"March Madness" -- 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

Anagram said:
Zags were the only at-large quality team SMC played during the entire year though. I think they were a top 30 team, but their non-conference schedule was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. They do need to schedule better.
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Last poll they ranked #23 even after they lost in the conference tourney to a team they beat twice. Only team in top 25 not invited.
Looking at Teams IMO if St. Mary's played all 66 teams in tourney they would be favored against more than 45 of them.


20 Kentucky 24-10 229
21 Auburn 25-7 224
22 Rhode Island 25-7 96
23 Saint Mary's 28-5 89
24 Florida 20-12 67
25 Miami 22-9 56
25 Nevada 27-7 56
 
slick said:
Last poll they ranked #23 even after they lost in the conference tourney to a team they beat twice. Only team in top 25 not invited.
Looking at Teams IMO if St. Mary's played all 66 teams in tourney they would be favored against more than 45 of them.


20 Kentucky 24-10 229
21 Auburn 25-7 224
22 Rhode Island 25-7 96
23 Saint Mary's 28-5 89
24 Florida 20-12 67
25 Miami 22-9 56
25 Nevada 27-7 56
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Yeah. KenPom and Sagarin have them as a top 30 team. But they didn't exactly go out and prove it. They only played one tournament team the entire season (the Zags twice), won a close one and got blown out in the 2nd. And they lost to some pretty bad teams like Wazzu and San Francisco as well as some middling ones like BYU and Georgia.
 
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TobyOne said:
UCLA is playing very well and seems to be peaking at the right time. If an 11 time champion can be a cinderalla in the tournament, it will be UCLA.
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SenorXm/Sirius said:
Karma?

Arizona gets blown off the court by No. 13 Buffalo 89-68.
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I don't know that it was karma as much as the fact that the team has been erratic all year. That's kind of the hallmark of a Sean Miller team. While he puts 5 good players on the floor he never seems to get them to play as a team. Why these guys kept feeding Trier is beyond me. Sure, the kid has all kinds of potential but he's also prone to games like he had on Thursday. There is no good reason to keep feeding a guy that's shooting 25% from the field and 0% from the arc. Just sit him down and put anyone else in.
 
Lutherf said:
I don't know that it was karma as much as the fact that the team has been erratic all year. That's kind of the hallmark of a Sean Miller team. While he puts 5 good players on the floor he never seems to get them to play as a team. Why these guys kept feeding Trier is beyond me. Sure, the kid has all kinds of potential but he's also prone to games like he had on Thursday. There is no good reason to keep feeding a guy that's shooting 25% from the field and 0% from the arc. Just sit him down and put anyone else in.
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A whole bunch of people had Arizona in the final 4. They didn't just lose to Buffalo because they had an off day, they got blown out. A MAC team blowing out the best team in the Pac 12? A Pac 12 team with sure future NBA players on their team?

IMO there's something more going on.
 
Sean Miller being fitted for an orange jumpsuit. Thats whats going on.


SenorXm/Sirius said:
A whole bunch of people had Arizona in the final 4. They didn't just lose to Buffalo because they had an off day, they got blown out. A MAC team blowing out the best team in the Pac 12? A Pac 12 team with sure future NBA players on their team?

IMO there's something more going on.
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The injury to Purdue's Isaac Haas almost certainly knocks out one of my Final Four picks.
 
John Gasaway
ESPN Insider

History was made, but it's even more shocking than that. The impossible happened. No. 16 seed UMBC beat
top overall seed Virginia, and it wasn't even close: 74-54. Before tonight, No. 16 seeds were 0-135 in the
NCAA tournament. Now, you can make that 1-135.

This was more of an improbability than the McCabe firing.
 
slick said:
John Gasaway
ESPN Insider

History was made, but it's even more shocking than that. The impossible happened. No. 16 seed UMBC beat
top overall seed Virginia, and it wasn't even close: 74-54. Before tonight, No. 16 seeds were 0-135 in the
NCAA tournament. Now, you can make that 1-135.

This was more of an improbability than the McCabe firing.
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Whose got a perfect bracket now? I'll bet someone picked UMBC. Virginia looked like a whipped pup.......
 
Wasn't Virginia the overall #1? (edit- just read Slick's post, yes Virginia was the $1 seed)

They're gone, Arizona is gone.

I doubt there's anyone with a perfect bracket anymore.
 
UMBC over Virginia was the largest possible upset, literally. Virginia was the overall No. 1 seed, which meant that UMBC was the overall lowest-rated No. 16 seed. There can never be a bigger upset in the NCAA tournament. Wow.
 
Jack Hays said:
UMBC over Virginia was the largest possible upset, literally. Virginia was the overall No. 1 seed, which meant that UMBC was the overall lowest-rated No. 16 seed. There can never be a bigger upset in the NCAA tournament. Wow.
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There is no excuse for laying an egg like that.
 
UMBC---best I could come up with not using the Google was University of Massachusetts Boston College

I guess I was off a bit--University of Maryland Boston County
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Wasn't Virginia the overall #1? (edit- just read Slick's post, yes Virginia was the $1 seed)

They're gone, Arizona is gone.

I doubt there's anyone with a perfect bracket anymore.
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Better chance to win the lottery than to have a perfect bracket after Virginia got ambushed.
I heard UMBC was picked on 2% of the brackets but those who picked UMBC were obviously
not genius's & had to have had other goofball selections or just happened to check the wrong box
or were UMBC students & alumni. No perfect brackets exist today.
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David Purdum
ESPN Staff Writer

With Virginia's loss, teams favored by 20 or more in the NCAA tournament are 155-3
straight up since 1985. In addition to Norfolk State's win over Missouri, Santa Clara
defeated Arizona as a 20-point underdog in 1993.

CG Technology offered the Retrievers at 20-1 and took an $800 money-line bet that paid a net $16,000.

A bettor at Las Vegas sportsbook operator CG Technology on Friday placed a $20,000
money-line parlay on three heavy favorites in the NCAA tournament for a chance to win a net $870.

The bet: North Carolina, Purdue and ... Virginia.

The Tar Heels and Boilermakers delivered. The Cavaliers did not.
 
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I see Xavier played like an NBA team: scoring 102 points while giving up 82. Giving up that many points to a 16-seed is basically playing no defense.

Go Musketeers!!
 
Not only did 2 final 4 favorites lose, they got soundly beat. If that got beat at the buzzer, that's 1 thing. But Arizona and Virginia got destroyed. That's the real story, IMO.
 
I'll take the team with 4 first round picks and the best coach in college basketball.

Duke basketball!
 
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