Yeah, I know. It’s December 9th…
But 1st worthless Lunardi bracket drops, so does the meaningless speculation.
You’ll take the Houston (South) region back soon enough, I’m sure. You can book it.
In the meantime…
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low-majors across the country should be praying they draw USC if they somehow end the season as a 5 seed since that would be the most predictable upset in quite some time lol
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What’s up with these brackets throwing all of the highly seeded Big 12 teams in the same bracket? Meanwhile, the other power conferences largely avoid that, particularly the Big 10.
Almost at every sport, and at every turn, it feels likely the conference is colluded against to keep it down or increase the odds of an unfavorable outcome.
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Bring on Michigan. We still owe them for 2018.
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Shouldn’t we have a separate thread on why mid-majors don’t belong in the tourney because they can’t be the best in the country?
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Probably the best bracket of the ones posted. Defensible seeding and bracketing that tries to separate conference foes as much as possible.
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Well, neither can Iowa, but they’re still probably gonna let them in anyways.
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If ND does not get a one thru 3 seed, will they take their basketball and go home?
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The word of the day is PORPAGATU 
Why the heck with our ranking (#7) and our reputation are we a #3/4 seed???
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I would say in general the significance of the AP ranking in terms of March at least is less significant than ever. It’s been moving that way for some time. @kzappa
Before when Houston was #1 in the AP, they were also #1 (or very close to it) in the metrics, or more directly correlative rankings to your question, these newer computative rankings matter the most these days in a March seeding context.
So like right now, Houston is 19 NET, so UH very well could still be getting some tangible benefit of the doubt in that regard. They are also 11 in KP, which would have them pegged somewhere around the 3rd 3 seed if you’re making a 1-for-1 comp. (Which it won’t work like that for March, there will be discrepancy w/ KP…but it’s certainly more correlative than the AP nowadays)
The Coogs are, however, still the highest rated big 12 team in torvik, which a lot of people like and is also fairly well respected…at #4 there.
And obviously all of this will change for the vast majority of teams as we move forward with a bigger sample size.
UH will be in the Houston Regional when all is said and done.
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I agree with that prognostication! Not sure why we are behind Purdue when they were completely embarrassed by our Cyclone friends.
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I genuinely think so. I’ve seen enough over an extended period of time. I will be waiting for that shoe to drop for the next 2ish months lol
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Very true.
our metrics isn’t pristine like they usually are yet (4th thru 9th on whichever site you use) and dropping the vols game is causing big swing with our wins above bubble rating since its still somewhat early in the year rn
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AP Ranking has zero bearing on seeding. We haven’t landed a marquee win yet (plenty of opportunities later in the year), and our advanced metrics aren’t as good this year.
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