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I wonder if ESPN is going to do the weekly feature like previous years where each conference is broken down by teams that are "Locks", "Should be in", or "have work to do" to make the tourney. I think it was Eamonn Brennan that wrote it. It always seemed like he made the Cats situation more dire than it was. With the daily BPI and updated tourney info showing seeding, that might replace the above mentioned article.
 
Bearcat22 said:
I wonder if ESPN is going to do the weekly feature like previous years where each conference is broken down by teams that are "Locks", "Should be in", or "have work to do" to make the tourney. I think it was Eamonn Brennan that wrote it. It always seemed like he made the Cats situation more dire than it was. With the daily BPI and updated tourney info showing seeding, that might replace the above mentioned article.
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I would assume he would do it again. I think Brennan does a great job with all his work.
 
Location wise it looks like St. Louis is the best for UC fans to travel to. According to that bracket it will host 1/16, 8/9 and 2/15, 7/10.
 
That CBS bracket would have us possibly playing UCLA in the 2nd round. That would be a VERY interesting match-up. They don't have a lot of interior scoring, but they are so lengthy on the perimeter. They start 6-9, 6-4, 6-5, 6-10, and 6-10. Who guards Kyle Anderson? Rubles makes sense, but then you have the Wear brothers who are both 6-10 to deal with. Do you put Shaq on one of them? They also have 5 guys who can really shoot the 3, including one of the 6-10 guys.

I know these bracketology things mean nothing right now. But that's one team I don't think I would want to run in to.
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
Location wise it looks like St. Louis is the best for UC fans to travel to. According to that bracket it will host 1/16, 8/9 and 2/15, 7/10.
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I've never been sure on that. Can they assign cities whichever seeds they want to or is it predetermined? Milwaukee would be about the same as St. Louis. I live in Indianapolis and have tickets to the Midwest regional so seeing Joe Linardi put us in that regional with a high seed makes me giddy.
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
Location wise it looks like St. Louis is the best for UC fans to travel to. According to that bracket it will host 1/16, 8/9 and 2/15, 7/10.
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What seeds are in a pod depends entirely on the highest S-curve team that prefers that pod. If you want STL, that means getting around either Kansas or Witchita. If you want Milwaukee, that means beating out the 2nd B10 team. If we can get a 3 seed, we have a shot at Raleigh (likely Duke in the other spot). All of this is difficult even if we hold the 3/4 spot. I honestly feel more confident we can land a good region like Memphis or even Indy than I am confident we stay out of those SA, Spokane, San Diego pods.
 
Scheids21 said:
I've never been sure on that. Can they assign cities whichever seeds they want to or is it predetermined? Milwaukee would be about the same as St. Louis. I live in Indianapolis and have tickets to the Midwest regional so seeing Joe Linardi put us in that regional with a high seed makes me giddy.
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Look at it like this, the top B10 team is going to want Indy. Once they are in Indy, we wont see a 3 or 4 seed B10 team in Indy (and there will be a few that will likely fall in those seeds). So we're really only up against non-B10 teams in that seed range for the Indy spots. In the case of Lunardi, he believes Kansas will also take Indy. That would also rule out Iowa St, Oklahoma st, Texas, etc from Indy. You see what I'm getting at. Process of elimination from all the top conferences being logjammed here is going to make it likely we get a good regional and unlikely we're anywhere close the 1st 2 rounds.
 
UC stays at a 3 seed, but in the East playing Canisius, Pittsburgh, Villanova and Syracuse for Joe Linardis bracketology.

Not good for us JumpingJack.
 
Linardi has begun updating his bracket twice a week. UC falls to a 4 seed in the New York region beginning in San Antonio playing Green Bay, Iowa, and Syracuse.
 
Scheids21 said:
Linardi has begun updating his bracket twice a week. UC falls to a 4 seed in the New York region beginning in San Antonio playing Green Bay, Iowa, and Syracuse.
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I know there's lots of basketball to play but the fact this team could be realistically in contention for a seed from 2 - 5 at this point in the season blows my original hopes/expectations on just making the tournament out of the water.
 
Not that it matters at this point, but I think he made some rare mistakes on this one that make our region impossible. That or he just doesn't care about procedures yet. Xavier/SMU need flipped at absolute minimum regardless of true seed because of the conference restrictions. Really Xavier should not be in the same region with Villanova since they are both top 3 teams in the BE, let alone playing in rd2. VCU should not be in our region at all because UMass is A10#2 and they are A10#3.

With so many things wrong, I have to assume he's just putting this out there for general seeding and not paying attention to procedures.
 
TheLivingLegend said:
I really have no clue why people follow Bracketology... Whats the point? it changes every single week.
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Yes, based on wins and losses during the last week. Obviously its nowhere near set in stone, but I enjoy watching our seed fluctuate as well as other teams, and imagining where we might end up.
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
Gives you an idea of seeding. All the computer numbers change every week too. It is really more important for teams on the bubble...
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It doesn't change that much really. 80% of your resume is done. To put it another way, if anyone would like to friendly wager that UC will be anything other than a 3 or 4 seed come selection sunday I will take those 2 seeds and give you the field.
 
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