mrelegazna

Is this, like, a "if I have no expectations I can't get disappointed" type deal?

Most of you guys are better than X's and O's stuff than I am, but in looking at form and expectations: BAD: Arizona was T3rd in what I think was the second toughest conference in the country, beating their preseason expectations. BAD: Made the finals in the conference tourney, too. GOOD: Finished the regular season 3-5 in their last 8. 5-6 in their last 11 if you include the conference tourney. GOOD: Failed to beat single high major or tournament team in their non-conference schedule.

CBS: How did UNC get into the field? Committee Talking Head: Well, because Memphis beat UAB. If they hadn't, UAB and Memphis would both be in and UNC would be the first team out. CBS (Jay Wright): Great answer. LOL, what an absolute cop-out of a non-answer, which of course gets him a pat on the back from his TV bedfellows. So gross. Just go ahead and declare the 20 or 30 teams that the richest conferences, schools, and TV execs want and call the winner of that tournament the national champion.

in 2019, Buffalo made it all the way up to a #6 seed from the MAC with THREE regular season losses, although their OOC resume included beating two high majors, including to-be-#9 seed Syracuse.

That would mean only one loss all year, right? Even as much as the committee hates mid-majors, I think that would get us all the way to an 8 or a 9.

According to bracket aggregator bracketmatrix, who is currently tracking 111 brackets, 9 have us as a 14 seed. The other 102 all have us as a 13 seed. I think I know what seed we're gonna get! http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

Came here to post this. Unbidden, too. He wasn't asked, "who are some dark horses to look out for?" He was just riffing in general. 👍

They think the refs and announcers we're against them. Of course, every fanbase thinks that, but we're the only ones correct about it.

The Zips held Miami to just 7 points in the last 10:50 and just 4 points in the last 8:32.

As an extra FU, the NIT selection show the next day on ESPNU went to their first commercial saying, "Coming up, find out who ABC U, XYZ State, and AKRON will be playing in the NIT (little Akron highlight montage plays)!" And then we weren't selected at all. Anyone else remember that? 26-7 and no post-season. For any newer fans or young'uns....besides Middleton, that team was lead by Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce III, two local Akron kids (high school teammates of LeBron) that were charismatic, likeable and so, so, so good. This was before the CBI and other smaller post-season tourneys existed. I haven't loved a Zip team as much as I loved that one.

Still hands-down the toughest loss of my life of sports fandom, especially since Cedrick Middleton is perhaps my alltime favorite Zip.

My favorite part of this is how the thread title about Dambrot referred to him as "Ol' KD" for YEARS until the end, when all of the sudden THAT WAS TOO DISRESPECTFUL! AND WE SHOULDN'T BE MAD AT HIM ANYMORE! and it was changed to just Keith.

In fairness, the MAC website showed #1 vs. #8 as the noon eastern game for weeks now.

But NIU comes through for them! They got all of the elsewhere help they needed, with NIU and WMU both winning as road dogs. Alas, they couldn't help themselves and had their doors blown off from go by a Miami team locked into their seed. It is to laugh.

Note from a hoophead and neutral observer: