Who do you all like? Haven’t really watched much until the last few weeks. Can a Texas or Duke ride the wave? Can Purdue ride the largely one man show? Will a Kansas bounce back and repeat? Will the injuries for Houston or UCLA prove costly? Interesting year.
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Thread: College Basketball Tourney
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03-11-2023, 09:58 PM #1
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03-12-2023, 12:45 PM #2
I think Arizona and Marquette are the biggest non #1 seed threats. I could see either winning. Hard to not consider Purdue the overall favorite imo though. It wouldn't shock me if Kansas was the first #1 to fall as well.
Other notes I have
-It wouldn't be shocking to see Duke in the Final Four with how they're playing
-Tennessee has unraveled late and might be a first round upset candidate (especially if they fall to a 5-12 game)
-UConn and Baylor will both a very overrated 3 seeds if that's what they're given
-With the exception of a very early season Maryland game, Miami has not lost by double digits this season. Most of their losses are under 5 points. They'll be in it until the end with a chance to win no matter who they run up against.
-No idea what to make of Alabama. Aside from an early Houston win they beat no one. Lost to Zags, UConn, and TN. Next best tourney team win is Missouri or A&M I think? Granted they don't really have bad losses either.
I'll roll the dice against all the #1's and say Marquette wins this year.Last edited by TryingMen; 03-12-2023 at 12:54 PM.
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03-12-2023, 03:59 PM #3
Duke a 5 seed; Xavier a 3 seed
Someone accidentally f*ck up the school names on that one? Like... I get it they beat Marquette once but they also lost to Duke themselves so I don't get it tbh. More losses overall. No conference championship. And UConn their only other impressive win. Duke has wins over UVA, Miami, and the head to head over Xavier, plus won their conference.
On top of all that stuck Duke in Purdue's bracket lmao. Gave Virginia the 4 seed over them still too. Kind of shafted them all around. Very strange for a team they usually over seed (maybe trying to even out the previous favoritism haha). Everything else seems about right to me though.
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03-12-2023, 06:51 PM #4
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03-13-2023, 05:24 AM #5
Kansas is my team but in the Big 12 final they looked like crap. Basically if all their shooters are cold then they can easily lose a game. Good news is their bracket is easy peasy especially with injured UCLA as the two seed so I think they are a lock for the Final Four.
Can't believe VCU is a 12 seed, that's also a lock for a 5-12 upset first round IMO. I think Duke has a good shot, Purdue has shown they are vulnerable late in the season and are kind of a one trick pony. If I was going to pick a non number 1 Final Four it would be Texas, Duke, Arizona and Gonzaga.
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03-13-2023, 10:34 AM #6
Tournament pick'em group for anyone who is interested:
https://tournament.fantasysports.yah...234855b77afd84See Krackerjacked's sig
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03-15-2023, 09:47 AM #7
Made my bracket today
Some of the highlights
-NC State and Iona are my cinderella picks. I have them both getting to the Sweet 16.
-I do have Drake beating Miami, but I could honestly see all 5 seeds surviving the first round for the first time ever
-Duke and Indiana will be the first two teams to knock off their respective 1 seeds in the Sweet 16
-I have all of my 7 seeds winning; if I had to pick one I'm most worried about it's Missouri/Utah St
-As I already said above, I have Marquette as my champion. Brackets didn't change that. I have a Bama-Marquette matchup that I think may end up being the best game of the tournament in the Final Four.
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03-16-2023, 11:55 AM #8
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03-16-2023, 12:06 PM #9
Have Virginia falling in the 2nd round of my bracket anyway so I'm ok with this. Had a feeling they might be suspect because they haven't been playing as well lately. Lost to BC and UNC toward the end of the year, then Duke in the ACC tourney (which wasn't a bad loss but they didn't look all that competitive in it either tbh)
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03-16-2023, 12:06 PM #10
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03-17-2023, 03:06 AM #11
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03-17-2023, 07:29 AM #12
Those are pretty big upsets. You typically don't see 4 seeds who are 13 or higher make it past the first round, and getting 2 on the first day is already an above average pace imo.
Last year only St. Peters was 13 or higher to advance. The year before that only Abilene Christian and Ohio were 13 and higher. If we saw no other 13 or higher seeds advance today we've still matched or exceeded the last two years.
12-5's aren't even major upsets any more I wouldn't say. They're pretty routine. It might be more shocking to see all the 5's advance since that's never happened. Collectively I'd argue that's more of an upset.
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03-17-2023, 05:54 PM #13
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03-17-2023, 06:06 PM #14
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03-17-2023, 06:06 PM #15
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03-17-2023, 06:07 PM #16
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03-17-2023, 06:19 PM #17
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03-17-2023, 08:37 PM #18
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03-18-2023, 02:50 AM #19
I honestly don't know what Purdue's coach was thinking. They were in the bonus 10 minutes into the second half. FDUs best player was on the court for the last five minutes with four fouls. Yet they kept chunking missed three after missed three probably hoping that Edey would get rebounds. He was literally a foot taller than anyone guarding him and they were triple teaming him, leaving other guys wide open.
Credit to FDU because they were trying WAY harder than Purdue was.
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03-18-2023, 06:21 AM #20
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03-18-2023, 09:23 AM #21
I wasn't interested but the gf was and we ended up watching FDU beat Purdue and the owls from Florida beat Memphis with 2 seconds left.
Some exciting games towards the end and sloppy at other times.There is an unspoken thing, we are iron brothers and sisters, we are to support each other and...It is our duty to support our brothers and sisters in the iron game!
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03-18-2023, 04:45 PM #22
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03-23-2023, 03:09 PM #23
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03-23-2023, 06:10 PM #24
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03-23-2023, 09:23 PM #25
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03-24-2023, 07:22 AM #26
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03-24-2023, 05:53 PM #27
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03-24-2023, 05:56 PM #28
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03-24-2023, 06:15 PM #29
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