UConn #1 Overall Seed - Impressive In 3 Bid League

[Drew]

EXTREMELY impressive were the #1 OVR seed in a 3 bid league. Not a ton of quality win opportunities but we just absolutely dominated everyone all year and earned this as a result. Now to win 6 more!!!

 

[uh-no]

3 bid league was bullcrap. st johns was by far the best team left out.

 

[pj]

Very impressive that the SEC champion got a 4 seed, Big 10 champion a 3 seed, and the Big 12 champion got a 2 seed. You've got to hand it to these conferences getting such high seeds for their champions.

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[slepers]

Chief???

 

[uconnric]

3 bid league was bullcrap. st johns was by far the best team left out.

Post handle?

 

[Fishy]

EXTREMELY impressive were the #1 OVR seed in a 3 bid league. Not a ton of quality win opportunities but we just absolutely dominated everyone all year and earned this as a result. Now to win 6 more!!!

What an insanely stupid take.

 

[BigFanCT]

I guess my thread got deleted (?) so I’ll interject here because it’s not just an over-reaction.

They need to get rid of Val. She is a small time thinking commissioner. This is still a small time league- we need someone who thinks of it as something more than that.

 

[BugsyCT]

If this weekend broke differently throughout the country, the BEast is a 5-6 bid conference.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Besides @Creighton, St. John's was by far the toughest test we faced over the last 2 months.

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[Drew]

What an insanely stupid take.

You’re not impressed we got the number one overall seed in a three bid league?

 

[Travelman6]

St John's and Shall deserved in, for sure over MSU who, ONCE again gets in with 14 losses. Hope unc crushes them if they win their first.

 

[HuskyHawk]

You’re not impressed we got the number one overall seed in a three bid league?

I’m impressed that the committee payoffs are probably going to not be investigated for screwing what should be a 6 bid league in favor of some terrible programs from big football playing conferences.

 

[Drew]

I’m impressed that the committee payoffs are probably going to not be investigated for screwing what should be a 6 bid league in favor of some terrible programs from big football playing conferences.

I don’t even know what this means

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[Blueballer]

Bilas on right now giving way too much praise to Purdue.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Let’s demoralize everyone and win it all. JOB’S NOT FINISHED!

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don’t even know what this means

It means that if you’re a team from a conference that sponsors FBS football, the committee will favor you over a team from a conference that doesn‘t. Why? Because the entire NCAA budget is funded by this tournament and the football conferences are threatening to pull out of it because they think their teams don’t get enough bids.

 

[HuskyHawk]

It means that if you’re a team from a conference that sponsors FBS football, the committee will favor you over a team from a conference that doesn‘t. Why? Because the entire NCAA budget is funded by this tournament and the football conferences are threatening to pull out of it because they think their teams don’t get enough bids.

To illustrate. There are 32 at large bids. Five went to schools from non FBS conferences. 27 went to schools in FBS conferences.

 

[87Xfer]

To illustrate. There are 32 at large bids. Five went to schools from non FBS conferences. 27 went to schools in FBS conferences.

Im afraid that's correlation not causation

 

[freescooter]

It means that if you’re a team from a conference that sponsors FBS football, the committee will favor you over a team from a conference that doesn‘t. Why? Because the entire NCAA budget is funded by this tournament and the football conferences are threatening to pull out of it because they think their teams don’t get enough bids.

A. DUH!
B. It is truly difficult to feel bad for St Johns or Seton Hall. The Johnnies didn’t beat anybody and lost to some pretty bad teams. They had a chance to redeem themselves, and I have no doubt CBS wanted them, by getting to the NOOB finals, but they didn’t do it. Seton Hall beat us. That’s about it and got blown out by St Johns. Both got what the deserved and should enjoy the NIT.
C. The NOOB has 2 absolutely awful teams. Georgetown, whose only league wins came against DePaul, and DePaul whose only league wins came against, well, nobody. When you finish 11-9 but 4 wins come against the absolute dreck of college basketball, people notice. It hurt the credibility of those bubble teams. Other leagues have bad teams but DePaul was the worst team in a major conference by a mile. Georgetown was simply awful, but looked like 1976 Indiana compared to those clowns.

 

[OceanDoggie]

"I'm probably just a little embarrassed for the league, for such a proud league," Hurley said of the Big East, which ended up with three tournament teams, including Marquette and Creighton. "The whole thing is just kind of a shell game. And it just really comes down to what the committee values." - Dan Hurley

UConn, Houston, Purdue, UNC men's No. 1 seeds

Defending national champion UConn, a day removed from winning the Big East tournament and improving to 31-3 with its seventh straight victory, was selected as the men's No. 1 overall seed Sunday night during the NCAA tournament selection show.

www.espn.com

 

[HooperScooper]

 

[87Xfer]

A. DUH!
B. It is truly difficult to feel bad for St Johns or Seton Hall. The Johnnies didn’t beat anybody and lost to some pretty bad teams. They had a chance to redeem themselves, and I have no doubt CBS wanted them, by getting to the NOOB finals, but they didn’t do it. Seton Hall beat us. That’s about it and got blown out by St Johns. Both got what the deserved and should enjoy the NIT.
C. The NOOB has 2 absolutely awful teams. Georgetown, whose only league wins came against DePaul, and DePaul whose only league wins came against, well, nobody. When you finish 11-9 but 4 wins come against the absolute dreck of college basketball, people notice. It hurt the credibility of those bubble teams. Other leagues have bad teams but DePaul was the worst team in a major conference by a mile. Georgetown was simply awful, but looked like 1976 Indiana compared to those clowns.

So where's your team in the bracket?