i'm a newby but do #1 vs. #2 seedings matter when there isn't a dominant #1 team? i know geography matters but not sure how that ties into seedings?... obviously pride, but is that highly relevent?
i am reading quickly but did all of st mary's, monmouth, valpo (not really on bubble) and SDSU miss making the tourney?
i think they either need to cut down on 6th-8th best teams in power conferences, make some minimum standard on obscure conference champions (i.e. one of the best team in RS and won the tourney) or just expand the monday/tuesday games.
how much more diluted would the whole experience be if you added 8 more non-elite conference teams to monday/tuesday. sdsu would make it as MWC is not elite.... could you dilute much more than it's already been diluted?
sorry if some of things i said were wrong... . new to this and writing very quickly.
i am reading quickly but did all of st mary's, monmouth, valpo (not really on bubble) and SDSU miss making the tourney?
i think they either need to cut down on 6th-8th best teams in power conferences, make some minimum standard on obscure conference champions (i.e. one of the best team in RS and won the tourney) or just expand the monday/tuesday games.
how much more diluted would the whole experience be if you added 8 more non-elite conference teams to monday/tuesday. sdsu would make it as MWC is not elite.... could you dilute much more than it's already been diluted?
sorry if some of things i said were wrong... . new to this and writing very quickly.
wow, sagarin with MCS at #2. oregon at #15....
i wonder if there are enough meaningful non-conference games for power ratings to be accurate.
strikes me that pac12 this year had a bunch of non-traditional teams do well and while some traditionally good programs had off years they are still fairly good teams... not sure this would get picked up accurately with so few meaningful non-conference games (of course, cal losing to SDSU doesn't help, ucla (usc too) losing to monmouth too)
i wonder if there are enough meaningful non-conference games for power ratings to be accurate.
strikes me that pac12 this year had a bunch of non-traditional teams do well and while some traditionally good programs had off years they are still fairly good teams... not sure this would get picked up accurately with so few meaningful non-conference games (of course, cal losing to SDSU doesn't help, ucla (usc too) losing to monmouth too)
How Seton Hall is a 2 point dog to Gonzaga is baffling. Hall has won 12 of its last 14 and beat Xavier twice and Nova in the last 2 weeks. Gonzaga has beaten 2 top 50 teams all season (St Mary's and UConn). I don't see how Gonzaga is going to be able to guard Whitehead, Carrington, or Rodriguez. Seton Hall is also 23-9 vs. the number so far.
Also, like Iona +8 vs. Iowa State. AJ English might be the best player on the court here. This game should be a track meet but Iowa State only goes 6 deep and playing in Denver with the altitude could be a pretty big factor. Iona is going to run the entire 40 minutes and go 8 or 9 deep. I think Iowa State will win a nail biter something like 92-88 but Iona can win this game.
