Bracket Show

[rrlbees]

And a look back at some very surprising omissions in prior year. In fact each of the last 3 years there has been a team at 90% expectation rate missing. The last 2 years it seems the committee has actually been friendlier in the last spot to mid-majors. That was not the trend pre-2016.

2021 - Louisville 92% (replaced by Wichita St)
2019 - TCU 93% (replaced by Belmont)
2018 - USC 93% (replaced by Syracuse, who was only at 12%!!)
2016 - St. Bonaventure 86%
2015 - Colorado St 91%
2015 - Temple 90%

Some surprising teams to make it
2018 - Syracuse at 12%
2016 - Tulsa at 1% (1 person out of 186 had them in)
2015 - UCLA at 10%

You’re a beast

 

[orangenauburn]

Big ten gets love so Rutgers over ND

 

[Jake]

Rutgers and ND in….wow

 

[kirbivore]

Glad Rutgers got the play in game

 

[jncuse]

Rutgers and Notre Dame get in WOW. That means somebody big is getting screwed.

Now 14 teams, 5 spots, % to get in per the bracket matrix
Davidson 100%
Miami 97%
Indiana 94%
Texas A&M 94%
Michigan 91%
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Wyoming 89%
SMU - 42%
Xavier - 36%
Oklahoma - 26%
Wake Forest - 8%
VCU - 5%
North Texas - 5%
BYU - 3%
Dayton - 2%

ephUconn

 

[Cusefan0307]

Michigan is toast.

 

[Jake]

ACC gets five in. Not awful.

 

[kirbivore]

Surprised they put Duke in Gonzaga's region.

 

[kirbivore]

I never thought Notre Dame was in doubt.

 

[UpstateSM]

I don’t think Rutgers or ND deserved to get in.

Duke being a two seed is whack. They’re a 3 seed. One last favor to K.

 

[jncuse]

Davidson in which was on my long list

Now 13 teams, 4 spots, % to get in per the bracket matrix
Miami 97%
Indiana 94%
Texas A&M 94%
Michigan 91%
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Wyoming 89%
SMU - 42%
Xavier - 36%
Oklahoma - 26%
Wake Forest - 8%
VCU - 5%
North Texas - 5%
BYU - 3%
Dayton - 2%

ephUconn

 

[Bulldog04]

Glad Rutgers got the play in game

We should stop making fun of them. Lose in football and make tourney and Su doesn’t... but I can’t not make fun of them

 

[NineOneSeven]

GO NM STATE

 

[jncuse]

Duke should have never been a 2 seed.
Hopefully Izzo screws them in round 2.

 

[Briancuse]

Rutgers does not belong in

 

[UpstateSM]

North Texas and VCU are two way more deserving teams than Rutgers and ND.

 

[Orangefan1]

This is such an empty feeling today

 

[jncuse]

Michigan is toast.

Hope so.

 

[syrBossHogg]

And a look back at some very surprising omissions in prior year. In fact each of the last 3 years there has been a team at 90% expectation rate missing. The last 2 years it seems the committee has actually been friendlier in the last spot to mid-majors. That was not the trend pre-2016.

2021 - Louisville 92% (replaced by Wichita St)
2019 - TCU 93% (replaced by Belmont)
2018 - USC 93% (replaced by Syracuse, who was only at 12%!!)
2016 - St. Bonaventure 86%
2015 - Colorado St 91%
2015 - Temple 90%

Some surprising teams to make it
2018 - Syracuse at 12%
2016 - Tulsa at 1% (1 person out of 186 had them in)
2015 - UCLA at 10%

I never realized

1. How many teams with those high odds get screwed every year
2. How unlikely it was we made it in 2018. I remember it wasn't great, but I thought we had like a 40% chance to get in

 

[JustPherU]

Duke should have never been a 2 seed.
Hopefully Izzo screws them in round 2.

Izzo ain’t getting through round 1

 

[kirbivore]

Duke should have never been a 2 seed.
Hopefully Izzo screws them in round 2.

Normally I'd root for Davidson over Michigan St., but we need the maximum roadblocks in front of Duke.

 

[Vorony]

Didn’t Duke request the Midwest region, since it’s closer to Coach K’s home? Not a great week for K during his farewell.

 

[Irt4su]

Everyone here needs to relax they have released the west yet! We always do better out of the west...ok wait its back on now!

 

[Cusefan0307]

Who’s 2 seed did Duke steal?

 

[UpstateSM]

Davidson is going to beat MSU and Id be shoooocked if Dook gets past them and Texas Tech.