Exactly.
And to add to that, off the top of my head, I’m fairly certain 3 seeds have an advantage against 6 seeds VS. 2 seeds over a 7/10 seeds combined.
Pretty sure. It was part of a post i made last year. So if true, just further food for thought.
This will make it interesting.
Had to go back and read the NCAA site (I dont recall the 1st 4 from a conference “rule”)
Of course Lunardi, who really isnt that good at bracketology, whiffs on the principles too, or just doesn’t care. He has got better (still middle of the pack at best) at guessing the field, he is not that good at guessing locations.
Using his seeds, youd have to move UH and BYU to Midwest & East,
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That’d be a fun elite 8
More for you, probably!
My favorite part of Lunardi is he gets paid to put this stuff out and yet 3 out of the 4 eleven seeds playing in Dayton are Big 12 teams.
Lol. That means there’s a Big 12 play in game in the first round.
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the B12 is gonna have 5 or so bubble teams though if there was a complete mock bracket done today idk if baylor gets in since the only metric that has them even close to good enough metrics for a bubble team is kenpom and it doesn’t help that sdsu and creighton are in the struggle bus this year
Oh yeah that’s a good point, I didn’t think about that lol.
I do think tho that after they rank 1-68 they can and would move one of them out and slide a higher take down, at that hypothetical.
Kinda similar to the infamous ‘BYU can’t play on Sundays’ example. I could be wrong tho.
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Hahahaha… Memphis is #12 mid-major… 
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Damn… this might actually get Penny fired…
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500 million from FedEx couldn’t buy their way into the conference… and now barley making top mid majors lists…
Tough time to be a Memphis fan lol.
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There is new bracketology post above this mid major stuff too, btw.
I don’t usually pay much attention to this stuff in early January, but I find it interesting that we keep winning games and moving DOWN to where he now has is basically even with Tech. WTF.
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Same with BYU even though BYU is looking better.
It’s because the KenPom rankings are stagnant and Arizona and Iowa State are so good.
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Complete rubbish that we are not a #2 seed… and Vanderbilt as a #2 is a complete joke.
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You know it’s garbage when we all would want to play them lol.
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One of the stated bracket principles is putting teams to as close to a location as possible. UH is gonna be in the South if 5 Big12 teams are top 4 seeds.
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Same for Nebraska… would love to be stacked up in the Elite Eight with either Vandy or the Huskers… assuming they ever win a NCAA tourney game.
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a 6 spot gap isn’t that close when you consider how the first weekend will look for each team and i’d say its because our schedule is backloaded and for our standards our metrics are low even though we have a much better resume now vs this time a year ago