March Madness picks thread

philcski · #1 03-14-2010, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

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 · #2 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?

dalakhani · #3 03-14-2010, 07:40 PM

Boys...I am in awe. Well done.

Am I right in fading the ACC ?

GPK · #4 03-14-2010, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

Boys...I am in awe. Well done.

Am I right in fading the ACC ?

None of them will make the sweet 16

ateamstupid · #5 03-14-2010, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

Boys...I am in awe. Well done.

Am I right in fading the ACC ?

I wouldn't have said so before the ACC tourney, but now I say yeah.

Quote:

Originally Posted by philcski

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?

Nice work. You had the harder job of seeding everyone, I just picked the ins and outs (better than Lunardi, ahem).

I agree on all counts, except maybe SDSU. As for Notre Dame, the committee traditionally gives a ton of weight to Big East tourney runs for some reason (remember in '06 when Syracuse came into MSG out of the tourney, ran the table and ended up with a 5-seed). Georgetown is a little overseeded as a 3 as well IMO. I actually like Cal to beat Louisville, but they didn't deserve an 8.