Midwest Regional Discussion

[Chip Douglass]

Discuss.

[machchunk]

Re: Midwest Regional Discussion

MIDWEST (Indianapolis)

Dayton, Ohio
Friday, March 20
No. 1 Louisville vs. No. 16 Alabama State-Morehead State winner
No. 8 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Siena
Miami
Friday, March 20
No. 5 Utah vs. No. 12 Arizona
No. 4 Wake Forest vs. No. 13 Cleveland State
Minneapolis
Friday, March 20
No. 6 West Virginia vs. No. 11 Dayton
No. 3 Kansas vs. No. 14 North Dakota State
No. 7 Boston College vs. No. 10 USC
No. 2 Michigan State vs. No. 15 Robert Morris

[Chip Douglass]

Re: Midwest Regional Discussion

This is the toughest bracket IMO along with the East.

I'd be very surprised if Kansas made it to the Sweet Sixteen.

[Chaos81]

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I'd be very surprised if Kansas made it to the Elite Eight.

I'll be surprised if we make it past the first weekend.

[countryboy]

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Louisville to the Final 4.

[OSUFan_88]

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If I'm Louisvillie, I'm pissed that they may have to play Ohio State in Ohio in the second freaking round.

However, Ohio State may have some problems with getting there.

[countryboy]

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If I'm Louisvillie, I'm pissed that they may have to play Ohio State in Ohio in the second freaking round.

However, Ohio State may have some problems with getting there.

yeah, that pissed me off, but what are you going to do? We won the BE regular season crown @ West Virginia and won the BE tournament playing a virtual road game against Syracuse in the Garden. And I guaran-damn-tee those 2 teams are a better than Ohio State. In fact, we know West Virginia is.

[Chip Douglass]

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I'll be surprised if we make it past the first weekend.

That's what I meant to type.

NDSU was one of the teams I wanted UCLA to avoid.

[superjames1992]

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Interesting. I don't know how WVU will fare against the Flyers as I don't know a whole lot about Dayton.

Am I looking at this right? Did Louisville really get the #1 overall seed? That's pretty surprising.

[superjames1992]

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yeah, that pissed me off, but what are you going to do? We won the BE regular season crown @ West Virginia and won the BE tournament playing a virtual road game against Syracuse in the Garden. And I guaran-damn-tee those 2 teams are a better than Ohio State. In fact, we know West Virginia is.

28 points better ... at Ohio State.

[Chip Douglass]

Re: Midwest Regional Discussion

Am I looking at this right? Did Louisville really get the #1 overall seed? That's pretty surprising.

I was surprised at first, but Louisville was the only team who earned it during the conference tournaments.

[Chaos81]

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That's what I meant to type.

NDSU was one of the teams I wanted UCLA to avoid.

Yeah, I was happy at first to see us get a 3 seed, then I saw who we had to play and wasn't quite as excited. The arena is going to be full of Bison fans.

[countryboy]

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Am I looking at this right? Did Louisville really get the #1 overall seed? That's pretty surprising.

only 3 of the top 8 teams won their conference tournameny(Louisville, Duke, Memphis) and only two of those won their conference regular season(Louisville, Memphis)

Louisville won the regular season championship of the toughest conference in basketball and won the tournament of that same conference. Tough to argue against.

[superjames1992]

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I was surprised at first, but Louisville was the only team who earned it during the conference tournaments.

Very true. I didn't hear any of the pundits talking about Louisville being the #1 overall seed (and some didn't think they should even be a #1 seed at all), but it really does make sense the more I think about it.

At least I know West Virginia could potentially beat the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, something I usually can't say!

[fishepa]

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Louisville got a pretty tough draw. Oh well. Not much you can do about it.