NCAA Tournament Talk

[jacobkdoyle]

I heard some interesting stats about filling out brackets on the Pregame.com First Preview podcast...

There are 9.2 quintillion different ways to fill out a bracket. That's 9.2 trillion x 1 million, or 9 with 18 digits behind it. If you filled out a bracket every second, it would take you 292 billion years to do every possibility...which is 20x longer than the history of the universe. If everyone on the planet filled out a bracket per second, it'd take 42 years. Also, if you printed off a bracket for every possibility, the paper side by side would circle the globe 21 million times.

Anyway, I thought I'd open this thread for all non-UC NCAA Tournament talk.

 

[waterhead]

I heard some interesting stats about filling out brackets on the Pregame.com First Preview podcast...

There are 9.2 quintillion different ways to fill out a bracket. That's 9.2 trillion x 1 million, or 9 with 18 digits behind it. If you filled out a bracket every second, it would take you 292 billion years to do every possibility...which is 20x longer than the history of the universe. If everyone on the planet filled out a bracket per second, it'd take 42 years. Also, if you printed off a bracket for every possibility, the paper side by side would circle the globe 21 million times.

Anyway, I thought I'd open this thread for all non-UC NCAA Tournament talk.

UC's chances of winning the tourney don't seem so improbable now. I should buy Final Four tickets now

 

[JasonS]

Who does Oregon want to avoid in the West Region? Cincinnati. The physical, athletic Bearcats' boast a top 10 defense that really gets down and defends. Gary Clark is a mobile enough defender to limit some of Oregon's mismatches and he and Octavious Ellis might give the Ducks trouble with their physicality and ability to crash the glass.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab...eeds-can-be-beaten-and-by-whom-164911758.html

 

[jacobkdoyle]

My goodness is Fairleigh Dickinson bad.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Anyone think Wichita State is ready for a tournament run?

 

[ucswais]

Anyone think Wichita State is ready for a tournament run?

I think so ya, but Sean Miller is an amazing coach imo so that's a tough 1st draw.

 

[Bearcat Rob]

Anyone think Wichita State is ready for a tournament run?

Thinking the same thing jacob, love VanVleet and Baker and we all all know Gregg Marshal can coach. I got them going on a run

 

[L-T]

Anyone think Wichita State is ready for a tournament run?

Lol....are you going to place a bet based on what we say? I wouldn't want to get banned for causing you to lose money?

 

[Bearcat Rob]

How far is everyone taking cinci?

Also got an upset alert for everyone watch out for Weber St, like there chances

 

[mdchick]

How far is everyone taking cinci?

Also got an upset alert for everyone watch out for Weber St, like there chances

I agree Weber state is the safe bet if your picking an upset in the first round

 

[mdchick]

I love South Dakota state and Arkansas little rock but man they both got really tough draws I think all of the 5 seeds are better than the 3 seeds.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

I think Stephen F. Austin will give Huggy a game.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Lol....are you going to place a bet based on what we say? I wouldn't want to get banned for causing you to lose money?

If you give wtong advice, you'll be placed on permanent ban.

 

[justinhub2003]

So far Tulsa is not embarrassing itself. I'd love them to win and prove the naysayers wrong

 

[Bearcat_NTS]

Tulsa was one of the 5 worst at large selections ever. They aren't doing much to change perception so far.

 

[Bearcat_NTS]

Much better this half to start but man oh man they talk soooo much trash.

 

[justinhub2003]

Tulsa was one of the 5 worst at large selections ever. They aren't doing much to change perception so far.

I agree I was shocked, But when I compared top 50 wins of tulsa to Monmouth, Valpo, South Carolina and St bonnies, they had the better resume.

Only team to beat SMU @ Moody. Beat wichita st, UC and I think uconn.. I think they had 4 top wins and 1 of those being an away win against the #12 RPI team.

Monmouth had 3 beyond 200 RPI losses and only 2 wins in top 50

South Carolina had 1 top 50 win

Valpo had 1

St Bonnies had 3 but lost to Lasalle (#233)


I know its not a popular stance to take and defend Tulsa, but Kenpom was higher than Temple, they had more quality wins than all the teams that didnt make and some that did (Vandy).

It seemed like the committee chose to go with top 50 wins as a metric for the last team in and Tulsa was hard to debate with

 

[Bearcat_NTS]

I agree I was shocked, But when I compared top 50 wins of tulsa to Monmouth, Valpo, South Carolina and St bonnies, they had the better resume.

Only team to beat SMU @ Moody. Beat wichita st, UC and I think uconn.. I think they had 4 top wins and 1 of those being an away win against the #12 RPI team.

Monmouth had 3 beyond 200 RPI losses and only 2 wins in top 50

South Carolina had 1 top 50 win

Valpo had 1

St Bonnies had 3 but lost to Lasalle (#233)


I know its not a popular stance to take and defend Tulsa, but Kenpom was higher than Temple, they had more quality wins than all the teams that didnt make and some that did (Vandy).

It seemed like the committee chose to go with top 50 wins as a metric for the last team in and Tulsa was hard to debate with

The SMU win was really good. However the rest came at home. How many top 50 RPI teams did Monmouth get to play at home? The committee needs to realize that winning against RPI Top 100 teams on the road is more difficult then beating fringe top 50 RPI teams at home.

BTW, Tulsa was in my bracket until they lost to Memphis twice in the last two weeks of the season including a beat down loss in Orlando.

 

[justinhub2003]

The SMU win was really good. However the rest came at home. How many top 50 RPI teams did Monmouth get to play at home? The committee needs to realize that winning against RPI Top 100 teams on the road is more difficult then beating fringe top 50 RPI teams at home.

BTW, Tulsa was in my bracket until they lost to Memphis twice in the last two weeks of the season including a beat down loss in Orlando.

But 2 losses to Memphis is nothing compared to Army West Point, Canisius and Manhattan


thats just bad. And none of Monmouth's wins were away wins like @SMU was for Tulsa

And the media put monmouth in our head. Yes they beat Notre Dame and USC and yes they had a good bench celebrations but since when do teams get in with 3 sub 200 losses and zero quality road wins and SOS of 166 make the tourney without winning their conference? never. but because they were the darling of ESPN for 2 months we keep talking about a team who should just not be there

 

[BearcatSpaniard513]

Anyone else at work getting NOTHING done? Should have took off today...