UNC - Asheville "6th" best 16 seed ever...

[jr4750]

awesome...

Ken Pomeroy wrote a piece today (before the announcement) saying that this will be the first year a 16-seed upsets a 1-seed. He does admit to saying this most years, but his data shows that UNC-Asheville, which will play Syracuse on Thursday, is the sixth-best 16-seed ever.

 

[Marsh01]

awesome...

Ken Pomeroy wrote a piece today (before the announcement) saying that this will be the first year a 16-seed upsets a 1-seed. He does admit to saying this most years, but his data shows that UNC-Asheville, which will play Syracuse on Thursday, is the sixth-best 16-seed ever.

him.

 

[Cuse_1999]

It doesn't surprise me they are that high on the list. Remember, two 16 seeds are basically 15 seeds now because there are 2 play in games for 16 seeds. The four 16 seeds that are in the play-in games would have been the 16 seeds prior to the new format. The other 2 16 seeds would have been 15 seeds

 

[EastCoast2]

...and they're the 3rd best 16 seed THIS YEAR... next

 

[CorduroyG]

we need a "bulletin board manager" on the staff this year. we got enough ammo now to fill up 10 bulletin boards heading into thursday.

 

[690West]

I'm pretty sure we win by 25+ on Thursday. Actually, I'm convinced

 

[Orangemen]

2 16 seeds this year and 2 16 seeds last year should be the 4 best ever, considering that, as was mentioned above, they are basically 15 seeds in the old format.

And since our 16 seed is not a play in participant, they should be one of the 4 best ever.

Considering that they're only the 6th best ever, it looks like we got a major major break.

 

[Garbs]

It doesn't surprise me they are that high on the list. Remember, two 16 seeds are basically 15 seeds now because there are 2 play in games for 16 seeds. The four 16 seeds that are in the play-in games would have been the 16 seeds prior to the new format. The other 2 16 seeds would have been 15 seeds

no they would not be in tournament

 

[Garbs]

guess what happened to the 5 best 16 seeds ever...they got rolled by #1 seeds

 

[Cuse_1999]

no they would not be in tournament

I'm pretty sure when the 4 new spots were added, all the automatic bids remained the same. They simply added 4 new at large spots.

 

[Garbs]

I'm pretty sure when the 4 new spots were added, all the automatic bids remained the same. They simply added 4 new at large spots.

one new conference, 3 new at larges

 

[Orangemen]

no they would not be in tournament

The teams that would be out of the tournament are three of the last 4 in. This year that's the 2 playing tonight, and one of the 12s playing tomorrow.

The teams at the bottom would have all been in either way.

 

[cusetown1]

does this Kenny guy bet? I'm assuming he doesn't, maybe he should put up or shut up.

 

[bnoro]

When he wrote that article, he was saying he thought the winner of Vermont/Lamar could give UNC a good game... Read the article before you attack the guy.