March Madness picks thread

Cannon Shell · #1 03-14-2010, 04:58 PM

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My final prediction for the field:

Good stuff

ateamstupid · #2 03-14-2010, 05:24 PM

32 out of 32 so far. Going into the last half of the bracket, things are looking good for Illinois/Mississippi State/Virginia Tech, bad for Utah State. Florida gets a 10, Minnesota an 11 and UTEP only a 12. Wake gets a 9.

philcski · #3 03-14-2010, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

32 out of 32 so far. Going into the last half of the bracket, things are looking good for Illinois/Mississippi State/Virginia Tech, bad for Utah State. Florida gets a 10, Minnesota an 11 and UTEP only a 12. Wake gets a 9.

Guess they let Wake off the hook for the bad finish. I'm OK with that. Not sure I love the Florida 10 seed. I can buy them getting in but ahead of 5-6 bubble teams seems wrong. They have one good win since November.

philcski · #4 03-14-2010, 05:40 PM

I got 64 out of 65. Swap Florida for Mississippi State. I have no problem with that selection by the committee whatsoever, but again I think Mississippi State deserved it head to head against Florida based on the win just this week.

ateamstupid · #5 03-14-2010, 05:47 PM

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I got 64 out of 65. Swap Florida for Mississippi State. I have no problem with that selection by the committee whatsoever, but again I think Mississippi State deserved it head to head against Florida based on the win just this week.

I don't think there's any way in hell Florida deserved a 10, but their overall resume beats Mississippi State's by a good margin, which was enough to offset the head-to-head loss on Friday.

ateamstupid · #6 03-14-2010, 05:37 PM

65 outta 65 baby. I'm coming for that ass Lunardi.

philcski · #7 03-14-2010, 05:42 PM

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65 outta 65 baby. I'm coming for that ass Lunardi.

Sweet ****in job Joey. I thought the committee did a great job overall other than a few wacky seeds (which might have reasoning) and their new era of matching mid-major with mid-major.

ateamstupid · #8 03-14-2010, 05:49 PM

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Sweet ****in job Joey. I thought the committee did a great job overall other than a few wacky seeds (which might have reasoning) and their new era of matching mid-major with mid-major.

Thanks Phil. Wake, Florida and Minnesota being seeded ahead of UTEP and Utah State is a joke, but I agree, otherwise they did a very good job, as they usually do.

Maybe you can explain this, but I never understood why the #1 overall seed never plays the winner of the play-in game. Theoretically, wouldn't the winner of that game still be the worst team in the tournament?

ninetoone · #9 03-14-2010, 05:55 PM

Nice lipstick on Clark Kellogg tonight...yikes!

philcski · #10 03-14-2010, 06:29 PM

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Thanks Phil. Wake, Florida and Minnesota being seeded ahead of UTEP and Utah State is a joke, but I agree, otherwise they did a very good job, as they usually do.

Maybe you can explain this, but I never understood why the #1 overall seed never plays the winner of the play-in game. Theoretically, wouldn't the winner of that game still be the worst team in the tournament?

The Play-in game winner has to play a Friday/Sunday pod. Just so happened the last few years, and this year too, that the #1 overall ended up in a Thursday/Saturday pod. Kansas was a lock for Oklahoma City...

philcski · #11 03-14-2010, 07:32 PM

The one thing I did really well this year was place the protected seeds. Had 10 of the 16 in the right pods (and the committee did a really good job of placing them geographically.)

Final results:
64/65 teams
24 exact seeds
56/65 within 1 seed

In my honest opinion- Cal and ND were WAY overseeded, and UNI, Tennessee, and SDSU were way underseeded. Thoughts?