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2015 NCAA Basketball Tournament Discussion

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DZ83CK said:
Certainly the Committee assigned seeds based largely on how many quality wins the teams had. Credit the Big East for having many top-50 teams to give each other quality wins when they beat each other. Certainly the Big Ten this year gave their top-50 teams limited opportunities to get those wins this year. OSU had only five conference regular season games against top-50 RPI teams.
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I don't know why I get the feeling win or lose (Wednesday), someone will make a bigger run at Archie Miller at Dayton. But really it's up to him if he wants to be at a non-Kentucky/Florida SEC school.
 
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BVistahC said:
I don't know why I get the feeling win or lose (Wednesday), someone will make a bigger run at Archie Miller at Dayton. But really it's up to him if he wants to be at a non-Kentucky/Florida SEC school.
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Shaka Smart stayed at VCU after their improbable Final Four run and has continued to remain relevant. Anthony Grant, Smart's predecessor, bolted for Alabama after a brief (but successful) run at VCU. He never could turn the Tide and got fired last week. Dan Monson did the same thing at Gonzaga after they emerged in the late 90s. He jumped to Minnesota, did next to nothing, got fired and hasn't had a job that good since (he's been at Long Beach State since 2007). Meanwhile, Mark Few has stayed in Spokane after succeeding Monson and he's continued to remain relevant.

The bigger job isn't always a better one. Sean Miller was smart in leaving Xavier for Arizona. I'm guessing he has some advice for his brother - be selective.
 
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Jake said:
The bigger job isn't always a better one. Sean Miller was smart in leaving Xavier for Arizona. I'm guessing he has some advice for his brother - be selective.
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That's the point. Alabama is the school I'm thinking will approach Archie Miller the hardest and it's not a good job, just like South Carolina Men's Basketball is a wasteland.

I also don't know how long Andy Enfield's contract is at Southern California, but I guess it's an upgrade from Florida Gulf Coast.
 
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Jake said:
Still laughing at Xavier being a six seed. Not just a six seed, but rewarded with a play-in game opponent on short rest. :lol:

They went 9-9 in the Big East, good enough for 6th place. This isn't your father's Big East. Their "impressive" wins that pushed them to a 6 seed? Three over Georgetown, two over Butler, one over Providence, and one over Cincinnati. They lost 13 times, including to DePaul (20 losses), Creighton (19 losses), Auburn (20 losses) and Long Beach State (17 losses).

I don't care if they get hot and win a few games, that's not a resume of a 6 seed.
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I had X as a 7 seed on my projections. They had 8 top 50 wins and while they did have some questionable/bad losses it really seems like the committee focuses on the top 50/wins over tourney teams more than the bad losses.

Take Ole Miss for example they had like 5 really bad losses and still got in which I was expecting them to be out because of all those bad losses but the committee left out Colorado State who had only 1 "bad" loss because they only had 2 top 50 wins.

Still can't figure out how UCLA got in that was terrible in every way possible. At least I had Ole Miss as the first team out so it wasn't a huge shock to me there was 9 teams for the final 8 spots and it was so close to call but UCLA was a wow. Now watch UCLA go to the sweet 16.
 
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