March Madnes NCAA TOURNEY 2025

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So now that the ACC isnt even a basketball conference, whats left?
 
Well 5 days ago the SEC had 75% more NCAA tourney teams than the B10

1 round later they have the exact same amount of tourney teams

What, if anything, does that tell us?
 
rmilia1 said:
Well 5 days ago the SEC had 75% more NCAA tourney teams than the B10

1 round later they have the exact same amount of tourney teams

What, if anything, does that tell us?
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Nothing really. It's not like any of the top SEC teams got worked or even the lower seeded SEC teams totally embarrassed themselves. Matching up as this goes on might tell us something, but who knows.
 
rmilia1 said:
Well 5 days ago the SEC had 75% more NCAA tourney teams than the B10

1 round later they have the exact same amount of tourney teams

What, if anything, does that tell us?
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They were expected to get 9 and got only 8. B1G was expected to get 8 and did. Which is impressive. You also gotta take 68 teams. Lol. I don't think USC or Oklahoma State would have beaten UConn either. Lol.
 
rmilia1 said:
Well 5 days ago the SEC had 75% more NCAA tourney teams than the B10

1 round later they have the exact same amount of tourney teams

What, if anything, does that tell us?
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y'all still trying to draw conclusions from a single elimination tournament? LOL. ACC had four sweet 16 teams last year. Did that make them the best conference? of course. it's about matchups.

Big Ten won all the games they were supposed to in the round of 64. Congrats. It's an improvement from what the conference usually does this in the tournament.
 
Moab said:
Nothing really. It's not like any of the top SEC teams got worked or even the lower seeded SEC teams totally embarrassed themselves. Matching up as this goes on might tell us something, but who knows.
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ericd7633 said:
They were expected to get 9 and got only 8. B1G was expected to get 8 and did. Which is impressive. You also gotta take 68 teams. Lol. I don't think USC or Oklahoma State would have beaten UConn either. Lol.
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Yeah, the top of the SEC is real good. Those middle ones aren't to that level but they are still probably better than any of the teams from other conferences that could have replaced some of them. Maybe one or two questionable SEC additions to the tourney. Looking at the options from other conferences, I don't see any...in spite of what the West "By Gawd" Virginia guvnah thinks.
 
All 8 of todays 2nd round games are in Bookie
 
Kburjr said:
Big 10 Had a helluva Round of 64. 8-0 Average MOV of 19.75
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You made me go look this up you old fart.

It looks like the B1G teams were the ones that needed to be in the tourney. None that shouldn't have been like a few other conferences had.

The B1G"s wins didn't come against powerhouses but they met the tournament goal...just win and advance. Wins were all over double digit seeds. UC San Deigo (5>12), Bryant (2>15), Grand Canyon (4>13), Liberty (5>12), Montana (3>14), High Point (4>13), Xavier (6>11), Utah State (7>10).

So much for March Madness. Chalk was 25-7 the first round. 12>5s were the biggest "upsets". McNeese>Clem and Colorado State>Memphis. Lower seed winners were Creighton, New Mexico, Colorado State, Drake, Arkansas, Baylor and McNeese. Two of those were 8/9s so not much of a surprise.

Only first round wins over what are considered "power conferences"* were Illinois>Xavier, Gonzaga>Georgia, Saint Mary's >Vandy, Baylor > Miss State, Arkie>Kansas, UConn>OU, Ole Miss > UNC,

*Besides the four football conferences, I include the Big East and the WCC in the power category because of Big East and St Mary's and Gonzaga's past performances. Others might include yhe MWC but they've underperformed in the tourney IMO).
 
Deep Creek said:
You made me go look this up you old fart.

It looks like the B1G teams were the ones that needed to be in the tourney. None that shouldn't have been like a few other conferences had.

The B1G"s wins didn't come against powerhouses but they met the tournament goal...just win and advance. Wins were all over double digit seeds. UC San Deigo (5>12), Bryant (2>15), Grand Canyon (4>13), Liberty (5>12), Montana (3>14), High Point (4>13), Xavier (6>11), Utah State (7>10).

So much for March Madness. Chalk was 25-7 the first round. 12>5s were the biggest "upsets". McNeese>Clem and Colorado State>Memphis. Lower seed winners were Creighton, New Mexico, Colorado State, Drake, Arkansas, Baylor and McNeese. Two of those were 8/9s so not much of a surprise.

Only first round wins over what are considered "power conferences"* were Illinois>Xavier, Gonzaga>Georgia, Saint Mary's >Vandy, Baylor > Miss State, Arkie>Kansas, UConn>OU, Ole Miss > UNC,

*Besides the four football conferences, I include the Big East and the WCC in the power category because of Big East and St Mary's and Gonzaga's past performances. Others might include yhe MWC but they've underperformed in the tourney IMO).
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So, if you take out the 8 wins by B1G teams, the test of the field was 17-7. Dominant, but not 8-0 dominant.
 
Ducks win with ease as predicted. Saw this coming until we get Duke.

Overall this may have been the worst first round of tournament games I have ever watched. Hardly any excitement, no big time upsets, nothing.
 


lol

and Shaka Smart wasn't at VCU as long as I had assumed. guess his name being at the top of every school's coaching search for a few years made it feel that he was in Richmond for ten years.
 
BIG went 8-0 first round and the Big 12 went 6-1. Me thinks both will lose several games in the second round. We know there will be at least two losses one way or the other since Wisky plays BYU and Oregon plays Arizona.
 
Okay, cool another blowout. Maybe the women's tournament is more competi...

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