Bear Down Wildcats

RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:38 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:33 pm Duke should fall to a 3 seed

Definitely think that's going to happen

Auburn, Kentucky, Villanova and Tennessee deserve the #2 seeds

Committee is honestly pathetic

I agree that Wisconsin will probably be seeded ahead of UCLA but I 100% believe UCLA is a better team

Alieberman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:41 pm

CalStateTempe wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:39 pm Is today like teenager Christmas where you know what your parents are gonna get you and it’s just are you getting name or last years edition?

Like stoaked to open the present even if we know what we are getting

Seeing AZ revealed as a #1 never gets old or less exciting.

We earned this 1

Heck yeah….straight truth

Bracket matrix #1 most accurate brackettologist over a 5 year span

Final bracket

CONTINGENCY:

IF Purdue beats Iowa -> Purdue 2 seed, Villanova 3 seed
IF Iowa beats Purdue -> Villanova 2 seed, Purdue 3 seed

Kentucky, Texas Tech, Illinois.... not ideal!

Good lord please no thank you

Teams I don't want for each seed line and what I'd like (pulling from matrix). Obviously some seeds are low relevance (10/11 mainly come to mind)

2 - Kentucky (give me Auburn or Nova)
3 - Texas Tech (PURDUE or Duke)
4 - Arkansas (Providence!!)
5 - Iowa (Would like St Mary's but Houston seems probable)
6 - Texas (Colorado St)
7 - Michigan St (Ohio State)
8 - Murray St (SDSU)
9 - Memphis and UNC (Marquette)
10 - don't care
11 - Va Tech (Indiana or Michigan)
12 - Rutgers (anyone else)
13-16 do not care

I don’t see our team being intimidated by anyone.

cerec_cat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:17 pm I don’t see our team being intimidated by anyone.

This of course is all fan based. I think our guys feel like they could beat anyone

Alieberman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:24 pm

cerec_cat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:17 pm I don’t see our team being intimidated by anyone.

This of course is all fan based. I think our guys feel like they could beat anyone

That's why I don't feel worried about who's in our bracket. Our guys can take down anyone.

I'm rooting more for a revenge tour than anything.

Remember when Purdue was ranked #1?

That was cute

Peace out Purdue.

Still can’t understand the love for the Big 10. Seems to me to be a bunch of good to mediocre teams.

It’s gonna be another bloodbath tournament for the Big 10

Btw ucla can suck it! Now back to our scheduled program

C’mon Midwest!

Love how the Duck's mascot is in this ad and they're going to the NIT.

So much for our Chicago meet up.

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:12 pm So much for our Chicago meet up.

Bummed

ya man we tried...i will be in San Antonio if anyone goes.

This is the best path we've had to a FF in YEARS.

This is not the strongest Nova team, and a little surprising as a 2 seed. Illinois and Tennessee...well, rematch city.

Houston isn't going anywhere, imo.

Any early picks on a Cinderella in our region?

9 Big 10 teams is some bullshit.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:35 pm 9 Big 10 teams is some bullshit.

Ridiculous.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:35 pm 9 Big 10 teams is some bullshit.

Of those 9, only one or two will get to the S16.

Can't wait to see the media's head explode when USC and UCLA upset other teams.

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:43 pm Can't wait to see the media's head explode when USC and UCLA upset other teams.

usc isn't going anywhere, and ucla is in the toughest region. neither is getting further than the S16.

Have any of you actually watched the Tournament before? Some of these takes on who is going to beat who 2 or 3 games down the road are funny.

Chattanooga

Seton Hall historically has been unkind to AZ as well - something of note.

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:13 pm Seton Hall historically has been unkind to AZ as well - something of note.

Except '88!

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:13 pm Seton Hall historically has been unkind to AZ as well - something of note.

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Yep. Bad draw for the Illini

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Feels like everyone is picking that and thus it won't happen

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Not a chance.

RaisingArizona wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:10 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Yep. Bad draw for the Illini

Illinois scares the hell out of me. In part because of 2005 PTSD. They’ve got Cockburn who can bully Ballo and Koloko and their guards can go off on anyone. This is my worst nightmare for the tourney.

Anybody able to talk me off the ledge? I’m too anxious to be able to get excited for the tourney since I heard the Illini announced as our 4 seed.

CatFan1399 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:10 pm

RaisingArizona wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:10 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Yep. Bad draw for the Illini

Illinois scares the hell out of me. In part because of 2005 PTSD. They’ve got Cockburn who can bully Ballo and Koloko and their guards can go off on anyone. This is my worst nightmare for the tourney.

Anybody able to talk me off the ledge? I’m too anxious to be able to get excited for the tourney since I heard the Illini announced as our 4 seed.

Yes, there is a decent chance we won't even face them.

BTW, we already beat them this year...at their place.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:16 pm

CatFan1399 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:10 pm

RaisingArizona wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:10 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:04 pmChattanooga

Yep. Bad draw for the Illini

Illinois scares the hell out of me. In part because of 2005 PTSD. They’ve got Cockburn who can bully Ballo and Koloko and their guards can go off on anyone. This is my worst nightmare for the tourney.

Anybody able to talk me off the ledge? I’m too anxious to be able to get excited for the tourney since I heard the Illini announced as our 4 seed.

Yes, there is a decent chance we won't even face them.

BTW, we already beat them this year...at their place.

Having beaten them earlier scares me even more. I hate the “revenge factor” for them. I’m from Illinois originally and have some obnoxious family that crawls out of the woodwork whenever Illinois has a chance to upset my hopes and dreams. 2005 nearly killed me.

Here’s to hoping they get upset early. I’ll be a big fan of Chattanooga and/or Houston next week.

Another thing on Illinois: in our game against them back in December, they shot the fucking lights out from three (16-36). That's even better than Stanford (11-20) shot against us this past week and almost as good as Colorado (16-32). We won all three of these games, which tells me that we have it in us to survive an opponent that goes absolutely bonkers from three.

Also, I have to think that Coach Lloyd will be addressing three-point defense this week, since we obviously struggled in this area in the Pac tourney.

Cockburn is a handful, and I expect him to have a good tournament. But no one has better big men than we do. Think that's becoming increasingly clear.

I fear no team in our region.

Not Tennessee. Not Illinois. Not Villanova.

As CTL says "We are in attack mode. We have nothing to defend and will continue to throw haymakers."

When contemplating Illinois and Tennessee, remember that Ballo was not relevant for either of those games. We handled Kofi and now we have ANOTHER skilled body to throw at him. And he won't be able to muscle Ballo around as much as Koloko

Illinois will be gone the moment they don't hit 50% of their threes. Not going cold, just not being red hot.

Illinois has actually seemed to have been playing much worse since Curbelo came back

Illinois is a lot softer than they look, everyone thinks Kofi is all that but 2 fouls and he folds like a tortilla chip at the bottom of a hot tub.

They JUST lost to Indiana who were 9-11 in their conference...that would be like us losing to Stanford or Cal, and yes I know Furd shot lights out in the tourney, but the Ill loss to Indiana was not like that...all Il had to do was defend one guy Xavier Johnson and they couldn't do it because they are not known for defense...Illinois is not that good defensively and I don't think they get past Houston.

Illinois is also going to have to travel to San Antonio. No home crowd there to draw emotional momentum. I also don't think Curbelo returning has helped Illinois. And when we played Illinois the first time, Ballo was still raw and Larsson hadn't recovered fully yet. I like our chances if we meet Illinois.

Maybe NET rankings really do mean something.

9 of the top 16 NET teams are still alive

1 Gonzaga
2 Arizona
3 Houston
6 Kansas
8 Villanova
9 Texas Tech
10 UCLA
12 Duke
13 Purdue
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20 Arkansas
31 North Carolina
32 Providence
34 Michigan

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49 Iowa St
62 Miami

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124 St Peter's

Before selection Sunday - I think all of us would have taken having to beat Houston and Villanova/Michigan to go to the FF.

Obviously we want St. Peter’s now and the lower seeds, but all things considered…

5 seed

As soon as they said ASSU is in I stopped reading.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:32 am As soon as they said ASSU in I stopped reading.