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"NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread."
Estee 45387 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-14-11, 12:19 PM (EST)
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"NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread." |
LAST EDITED ON 03-17-11 AT 07:23 AM (EST)If I have to hear one more sportcaster refer to the Thursday games as 'Round Two'... http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket And there's your primary source of complaints. The men's tourney pickers and seeders have already had to do some fast explaining about that field, all of which broke down to 'We don't care and if you keep asking us about this, we're going to flunk your kids.' (Eleven Big East teams? Really? Because twelve would have somehow been too many?) The women's committee typically has less explaining to do, mostly because there's fewer people asking questions: we'll get a look at that travesty-to-be shortly. But in the meantime... well, the TV package may give some people fits. Not only don't free channels cut it any more, but finding the TruTV games may take a little work. (I have it, but it wasn't easy to spot.) And this whole 'First Round' business is more than a little silly. Plus the arrangement of the play-in games... and then there's the billions of dollars that no student will ever benefit from... Well, at least Billy Packer's still gone. ...then again, there's four channels involved right now. Analysts are at a premium. You don't think...? *sigh* Duke is a #1 seed, the Patriot League is screwed, and I'm hosting a play-in game in the parking lot. Business as usual. Is it too much to hope for George Mason to kill some more people? I have a list. 
It's not a short list.
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vince3 16183 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-14-11, 12:41 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread." |
A sign of the cooperation package of the networks: I saw Charles Barkley (normally a TNT NBA desk jockey) on the CBS coverage of the Brackets' introduction...
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vince3 16183 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-15-11, 09:03 PM (EST)
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11. "First game played" |
and it'll take at least one overtime to decide it...
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vince3 16183 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-15-11, 09:23 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: First game played" |
UNC-Asheville wins the first game of the Tournament in OT... which is a little deja vu for them... Their first ever Tournament win was also in Dayton, in 2003, in the Opening Round Game/Play-In Game...
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mrc 9500 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-16-11, 11:31 AM (EST)
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13. "The logic of the play-ins" |
Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't understand the logic of the play-ins. I assumed that the four teams that advanced from those games would play the #1 seeds. That's not happening, so how did the committee decide which teams would play in the First Four and where they would be seeded once they won?
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aethelstan 3990 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Thong Contest Judge"
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03-17-11, 09:54 AM (EST)
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16. "RE: The logic of the play-ins" |
The logic here is that the tournament is filled with automatic qualifiers - the ones who win their league tournaments (or finish first in the case of the Ivy League) and at large candidates. It is common that the at large teams are better than a number of the automatic qualifiers of lesser leagues like the South West Athletic Conference (SWAC) or the Southland Conference. If they had made the 8 play-in teams the worst 8 teams, then you would just have 8 automatic qualifiers playing each other which was seen as unfair as the automatic qualifiers have earned their way into the tournament by winning their league tourney whereas at large teams are just the best losers (or lucky losers if you prefer the tennis term). Note that historically, the tournament only had league winners. The committee decided that half the play in games would be the worst overall teams and the other half would be the worst of the at large teams, commonly referred to as the "last four in". In previous years, the "last four in" were around the 11/12 seed so that's why they are there this year. Hope this is clear enough.
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Estee 45387 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-17-11, 05:12 PM (EST)
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17. "RE: NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread." |
The state of Kentucky may have just come within thirty seconds of the worst first-round day of its collective life. Morehead State takes out one team and the other just barely survives their encounter with Princeton. Beware the #13 seeds, for they are hungry and quick on the cuts.
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Estee 45387 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-17-11, 06:42 PM (EST)
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18. "Arachnophobia." |
Say hello to Richmond, also known as The Spectacular Spider-Men.
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cahaya 14687 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-19-11, 09:36 PM (EST)
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23. "Mack!" |
You moron! You don't foul on the opponent's full-court inbound with 1.8 seconds left and a one point lead! Agggh! *Excruciating game over thoughts*Ah, a reprieve! The Pitt player misses the second free throw, it's overtime! Oh, wait! Another moron foul, this time by Pitt on the rebound. *swoosh* and win for Butler. Make that four games in a row in NCAA tournament that Butler gives it's fans last-second entertainment. Other than that oh-so-stupid foul, Mack had a stellar game. Luckily for him, his team didn't pay the price for his mistake.I grew up just 3 miles from Butler, so it's obvious who I'm cheering for in this tournament! Having said that, they'll be lucky to make the Final like they did last year.
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Snidget 36344 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-20-11, 07:08 PM (EST)
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28. "Few minutes left. 90 something to 50 some odd" |
But we have to delay all of CBS's Primetime because the refs might allow some Harlem Globetrotter repeato shot to get a basket every couple of seconds?
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Snidget 36344 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-20-11, 07:17 PM (EST)
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30. "RE: Stupid Dook. " |
And here I thought it would just be from Ohio State being too slow with the slaughter I saw going on at 7:01.
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cahaya 14687 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-20-11, 11:47 PM (EST)
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34. "RE: NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread." |
The Flighting Irish are catching the next plane out by the looks of it with less than 5:00 to go.
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vince3 16183 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-20-11, 11:47 PM (EST)
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35. "RE: NCAA tourney Week #1 complaining thread." |
Yeah, really. They're getting spanked by Florida State...
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mrc 9500 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-21-11, 03:42 PM (EST)
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37. "RE: Orange crushing." |
That's an understatement. I wonder how volsfan and Wayne are taking the news.
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Snidget 36344 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-27-11, 04:56 PM (EST)
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44. "RE: Shaka the world!!!" |
I suspect that result is going to bust up quite a few brackets.
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vince3 16183 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-27-11, 05:10 PM (EST)
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45. "RE: Shaka the world!!!" |
I think that eliminates almost every bracket in both of our Yahoo groups from successfully predicting the champion... I think maybe UNC is the last possible predicted champion...
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Estee 45387 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-28-11, 00:57 AM (EST)
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48. "The F4 question." |
Was this a case of Really Big Upsets or more one of Really Bad Seeding?
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Estee 45387 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-05-11, 07:59 AM (EST)
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54. "Finale summary." |
A game no one could stand to watch won by a coach no one outside his market can stand.
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