NCAA Tourney Preselection Thread

[jlb1705]

He's like a real-life "after" from Conan O'Brien's "If They Mated".

 

[tibor75]

How could someone as unquestionably ugly as Joakim Noah have come out of the bajingo of Miss Sweden?

here's your answer:

 

[Flocka]

here's your answer:

What, you being the father?

 

[methomps]

LSU goes from Final Four to not even making the NIT.

Edit: same with George Mason

 

[crazybuckfan40]

LSU goes from Final Four to not even making the NIT.

Edit: same with George Mason

Suprised that George Mason didnt make the NIT after beating up on ODU in the semis of the colonial conference and then giving VCU a very tough game...

 

[DaytonBuck]

Mason didn't have much of a shot to make the NIT with the reduced field and regular season champs getting an automatic birth.

I think the one I can take away from this year is the selection committee really values big wins. Stanford finished 18-12 with a 10-8 conference record and at large low 65 RPI. They struggled in their last ten going 4-6 which is supposed to be an important factor. Lost in their first game of the PAC10 tourny. The only thing I can see their resume hanging it's hat on is they got wins over Oregon, Washington St, UCLA, Texas Tech, USC, and Virginia. The committee had to have a had quite a bit of respect for the strength of the PAC10.

 

[methomps]

Mason didn't have much of a shot to make the NIT with the reduced field and regular season champs getting an automatic birth.

I think the one I can take away from this year is the selection committee really values big wins. Stanford finished 18-12 with a 10-8 conference record and at large low 65 RPI. They struggled in their last ten going 4-6 which is supposed to be an important factor. Lost in their first game of the PAC10 tourny. The only thing I can see their resume hanging it's hat on is they got wins over Oregon, Washington St, UCLA, Texas Tech, USC, and Virginia. The committee had to have a had quite a bit of respect for the strength of the PAC10.

The committee may also have considered that Stanford was without Goods during most of their late-season slide.

 

[DaytonBuck]

even when Goods was healthy the trees got blown out by Air Force and Santa Clara

 

[OregonBuckeye]

How could someone as unquestionably ugly as Joakim Noah have come out of the bajingo of Miss Sweden?

I think that could be an episode of Mythbusters.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

How could someone as unquestionably ugly as Joakim Noah have come out of the bajingo of Miss Sweden?

apparently, beauty can skip a generation. when it does, what is left in its place is a gargoyle.

 

[osugrad21]

Chicago Sun

Oden, Buckeyes will be the stars of the show

March 12, 2007
BY JIM O'DONNELL Staff Reporter
BEST STORY LINES: Greg Oden of No. 1 Ohio State (30-3) already is the best NBA-bound defensive center in college basketball since Patrick Ewing; with more room to operate offensively against non-Big Ten foes in the NCAA tournament, what sky is his limit? The job Billy Gillespie has done with No. 3 Texas A&M (25-6) is the biggest turnaround in the Lone Star State since Buddy Holly left country music behind.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

ANALYSIS
Selection process unkind to OSU, Columbus
Monday, March 12, 2007
Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Major-college basketball fans in central Ohio probably have a couple of bones to pick with the NCAA Tournament selection committee. The committee did make Ohio State a No. 1 seed, in the South Regional, but it didn?t make the Buckeyes ? tops in both major polls ? the overall No. 1 seed. That went to Florida, the team that badly beat a young OSU playing with a rusty Greg Oden in December. Even North Carolina, which knocked off an Oden-less OSU early, was seeded ahead of the Buckeyes, who beat out Kansas in the pecking order of No. 1 seeds.

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