I literally laughed when Kansas got a 3 seed but will admit I didn't know USC was that much better.
March Madnes 2021 NCAA Tournament
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Oh no...I'm not doing that again.
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I wouldn't go THAT far.
The only thing that you can go by is the early season OOC and the PAC-12 has sucked in recent years.
But this year, you didn't play the early season tournaments, so judging the conferences against each other was guesswork.
But you had to give the B1G and B12 some credit because they did the best OOC.
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Probably dumb to claim Kansas is better than USC then.
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I'll take tweets that did not age well for a thousand, Alex.
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That much was clear.
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I never expect much with SC in regards to basketball. Really don’t follow basketball much. Under normal circumstances I do expect SC to beat Kansas by 5 TDs tho haha
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You got beat by a team named after a blowjob
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What OOC results led people to think the Big Ten was great?
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I dont disagree the PAC was underseeded but the only real metric they had was past performance and a handful of OOC games. Oregon and a smidge of arizona is just about it for the PAC of late
But this will change minds. They've done what they needed to do
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How so?
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ACC challenge mostly i reckon
Its not like the committee ignored the computers and went anti PAC also
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Oregon's been to 4 of the last 5 Sweet 16s. The committee will criminally underseed the PAC 12 again next year. There will be enough time between next season and we will start this process again.
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I think this year turns the tide
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We can hope but I doubt it. Same shit ever year
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A few thoughts as I'm mentally forcing myself back to work after 4 days of (mostly, but not all) basketball...
-The NCAA did a great job. Only one game was called and I don't think most would say that would affect the outcome. Far better than I thought that was going to go.
-Missing the fans wasn't too bad, but the stagger of the games was weird, and watching multiple games at a time was more difficult than usual.
-I thought the B1G was slightly overrated all year but essentially losing the conference was a big blow to the NCAA. Them and the bluebloods make up roughly 50% of the college basketball fanbase.
All in all, we almost got all the games in and Nova is in the Sweet 16 which was far from a given, so can't complain.
-The NCAA did a great job. Only one game was called and I don't think most would say that would affect the outcome. Far better than I thought that was going to go.
-Missing the fans wasn't too bad, but the stagger of the games was weird, and watching multiple games at a time was more difficult than usual.
-I thought the B1G was slightly overrated all year but essentially losing the conference was a big blow to the NCAA. Them and the bluebloods make up roughly 50% of the college basketball fanbase.
All in all, we almost got all the games in and Nova is in the Sweet 16 which was far from a given, so can't complain.
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This was a tough year to seed because of the lack of OOC games. I don't think the Pac 12 was under seeded this year, they are, however, performing great in the tournament. The pac 12 didn't perform all that well OOC, which is why we are where we are with seeding.
Oregon State lost to Wyoming and Portland OOC then went 10-10 in the Pac 12.
Colorado lost to Tennessee OOC, and had no wins of note OOC, and took on some bad losses in conference. I'd say a 5 was fair.
UCLA lost to San Diego State and Ohio State OOC, with no good wins OOC.
Oregon lost to Missouri, and didn't have any good OOC wins.
USC had the best OOC, by splitting with Uconn and BYU.
And then the bottom of the league took on alot of bad losses OOC or losses in general.
Honestly the strength of the B1G was built on the fact the bottom of the league did tremendous OOC. PSU beat two tournament teams OOC in VCU and Va Tech, Gophers went undefeated beating the 2nd team out of the tournament in St Louis. You could argue had SLU won that game they would have made it. NW only lost once OOC. Rutgers beat Cuse, MSU beat Duke at Cameron, not a great win, but had they lost probably aren't getting in. I also think the fact that the B1G got a majority of their games in helped, because you had the opportunity to compile more quality wins, a loss didn't really hurt, and your metrics overall, had a chance to be better.
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I really hated the pacing this year. Really missed having multiple games on at the same time throughout the day. Seems like more later games than normal. That's my favorite part, being at work and having multipel games going.