Comments on: Latest NCAA tourney projections: Duke’s a 1, but who else?

By: indyshepherd

indyshepherd — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:14:25 +0000

Gonzaga could be the first #1 that loses to a #16 in NCAA BB tournament history.

By: mungman69

mungman69 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:24:27 +0000

Yes, let’s see what Gonzaga does in the tourney before we bury them. Indiana will win it all.

By: docwat

docwat — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:00:38 +0000

It’s getting difficult to call the Atlantic 10 a mid-major conf. As to the rips on Gonzaga, I will wait for the tourney. Suffice to say that this is the deepest team Mark Few has had; ask any coach of a top-25 team if they want to have the Bulldogs in their bracket – they don’t!

By: homixide

homixide — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:18:38 +0000

Every year there are once good teams in every conference that don’t live up to their expectations, You should major deductions in your ranking depending on how many Blue Chip players you have, if you have the best players in the country and lose, it should matter more take away double the amout of blue chip players to votes recieved and then they get their Ranking that week, Teams of guys not given the same individual player recognition should get a polls bonus+1 for working with a handicap Big power schools should not get extra credit for beating their own conference rivals at home since the have to play them twice anyway. LOL yeah its a funny dream but if your school got all the best players and you still lose it should cost you extra

By: rmcdonald23

rmcdonald23 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:07:06 +0000

I don’t understand how the PAC-12 has 5 teams predicted to be in. Although I don’t get to watch them play very often because I live on the East coast, I did watch the Arizona/UCLA game recently and was stunned at what poor basketball I was watching from both teams. If they are representative of how the PAC-12 is playing this year, then they shouldn’t even be in the tournament, much less sending 5 teams?!?!

By: guatdajel

guatdajel — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:42:36 +0000

You are so correct. The BIGGEST PROBLEM is the NCAA Football and Basketball Derbies is the fact that the sports media is incompetent, omni-powerful, and not stoppable. Both football and basketball polls are driven by the sports media. Even if it is coaches voting … they have to use the media stories as a base or the media will bully them in print. There is no recourse to fight the sports media. So forever more, college sports tournaments will be corruptly seated! We actually need a new sports network to control the mainstream networks by outing the incompetent analysts and forcing all pollsters to be on a leaky bucket voting scale. What’s that? The more your top selections get beat the lower the value of your votes until you are banned from voting for 25 years. The information should be publicly available. Also, any sports analysts who makes predictions should be required to report his/her accuracy. If the accuracy is below 60%, they must identify themselves as junk reporter, a new title.

By: florida727

florida727 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:02:23 +0000

I’m sure I’ll be in the minority here, but I think Norfolk State, Southern, Charleston Southern, and Northeastern, should NOT have to play in what is essentially a play-in game, let alone against each other. I know, I know, their conferences are “weak”, especially relative to the Big 10, Big 12, ACC, Big East, etc., but they are LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. They at least deserve some respect. Even if they get beat by 112 in the first round by a Duke or an Indiana or whatever, I think they deserve the acknowledgement for their accomplishment.

The play-in games (please stop calling them “first round” games; that would mean SIXTY teams get a bye into the “second round”, which is laughable) should be bubble teams like Tennessee, Iowa State, Virginia, etc., even though those teams would likely beat the snot out of the four mentioned above. Again, just a respect thing. Like it or not, they’ve earned it. Not everyone can play in the Big 10 or Big East. At least recognize their accomplishments.

By: sdb74

sdb74 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:02:44 +0000

You would have to love either UNC or Creighton’s chances of beating Gonzaga in the round of 32 if Gonzaga wins their first game. Gonzaga is a flat out joke. They are like Boise St in football.

By: my6bs

my6bs — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:13:26 +0000

Most wins vs RPI Top 100? UNM (17-4)
Highest winning % vs RPI Top 100? GU (11-2)
Compared to Indiana (10-4), Michigan (10-4), Louisville (10-5), Michigan St (8-7), Duke (13-4)…

By: homixide

homixide — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:44:10 +0000

East coast teams lose, and their fans still think they deserve spots because of their brand name, RPI is all that matters just because you play certain teams doesn’t give you a free ride #12 UNM has beaten every top 25 team they played this year on the road, so being 1200mi away from your fan base and winning against ranked teams at home is no big deal. Some teams didnt get knocked down on the polls the way they should of been, for losses to teams with low RPI, but some seem to wanna get a free pass for name recognition. If some forgot when the dance starts, a lot of supposed great teams in the last few Tourneys have been knocked off early

By: imwhitewolf

imwhitewolf — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:17:58 +0000

Gonzaga a #1 seed? How funny. Their strength of schedule is 74th. They are 1-2 vs Top 25 teams and BOTH of those teams are no longer in the top 25.They play in a conference whose tourney is the week BEFORE the big boys. Let’s end this same arguement we have every year. They move up in the polls because they are playing the likes of San Diego, San Franscisco, Portland and, yes, Lewis and Clark State. Who have Indiana, Michigan, Michigan St, etc. played? Why, each other. At best Gonzaga would be fighting for mid pack status in the Big 10, Big East, ACC, and anyother year, in the SEC. As bad as Gonzaga getting a #1 seed would be is even putting St Marys into the tourney. God alone knows what their SOS is but they are 0-2 against the Top 25 and they’ve lost to Pacific, Northern Iowa, the ACC bottom dwelling Georgia Tech plus their two losses to Gonzaga.
The top seeds, as of today, should go to IU, Miami, Kansas, with the fourth one up in the air between Duke, Michigan, Louisville, and Florida. Now I’m a diehard Duke fan and getting Ryan Kelly back is awesome but if you watched the game against Miami for the first half at least Miami was slicing them up. Kelly was the only one keeping Duke in the game.