I’ll submit the only power 5 school to never win a tourney game playing a loathed divisional rival is your overwhelmingly most compelling option. Plus Keisei is dope
N’Faly Dante (center) is 51 of 60 from the field in March, and will eat. Otherwise it’s your old friend Jermaine Couisnard and freshman Jackson Shelstad as the only other Oregon players who can score. The Ducks perimeter defense is appallingly bad, they only play like 6 guys real minutes, and even on their best days will have a 5 minute stretch with no points. Dana Altman has never lost a first round game at Oregon (7-0), and could be facing his old school, Creighton, in round two. So if you’re a believer in sports are scripted…
That injury probably had an impact. A big strength for Florida is their length and offensive rebounding. Losing him hurts that for sure. They probably docked San Francisco a seed back in 21-22 when Massalski got injured in the WCC Tournament too Dons get Cincy in the NIT. That could be a fun game
super injured and (perhaps related) super inconsistent all year with little reliable shooting (2/17 in the p12 title game from 3) but a dominant low post center. altman is a great gameday coach but we might have a stretch of 8 minutes of game action where we score 2 points.
Completely agree that if a guy won't be playing you have to dock a team for that, best example is Cincy back in the day after Kenyon Martin was hurt in the conference tourney. Not sure Micah is worth a few seeds but whatever. Had an immediate flashback to Jon Egbunu getting injured in 2017 right before conference tourney and never playing for us again, he was a helluva post player. We can weather it but just really sucks and on a stupid freak play...
Just a little speed bump. Will be interesting what happens with Muss. We’re in a pretty good spot to land a replacement should there be some movement. and we are a baseball school
Feel like you’re really underselling Few here. There are plenty of teams that have made weird deep runs in the tourney. Gonzaga’s cinderalla run paved the way for Few’s takeover. Think these days will be behind them in short order, though, unless Few can figure out how to replace Lloyd’s prowess in international recruiting, most especially in today’s NIL landscape.
Been on your campus twice in the past two years, always astounded at the money and the talent on campus. Go Dukes
We aren’t. We are actually glad that we will get the hard part of our trip to the championship out of the way in our initial bracket.
They feel like they should be rewarded for winning the sec tourney despite not really beating anyone gold along the way
Totally our fault that Bama, UK, and UT folded like some bitches because they didn't want to play us.
Anyone heading to Memphis for the games? Based on the teams that are there, I assume not aside from the few Husks that are going.
I think the region we ended up in is really too-end loaded, and I thought those top 4 should’ve been spread out a bit more equitably. But it is what it is. Some Auburn folks are really bothered by the seeding and the location. The metrics loved us. The Q1 games hurt us. I thought the away-from-home narrative was a bit overblown, but we also didn’t win any of our toughest games away from Neville. Outside of the offensive performance at home against Kentucky which was an anomaly compared to the rest of the season, we’ve lived up to the predictive metrics all year. So, I think a lot of Auburn people think we were a little underseeded, even before the SECT.
FadeMe is great but the rest are weird and terrible people I had to fly to fucking Buffalo last year and they’re crying about flying to Spokane like their team should warrant being placed somewhere more local
Oh yeah. And I think we got Charlotte the year before. 2019 we ended up in SLC. Being on the 3 line probably keeps us out of Spokane, but it didn’t happen. Just gotta make the best of it.
what a cool factoid about 2032 at madison square garden, i guess seton hall should’ve been in after all