The 1 seeds are gonna be so sucky this year

[Zenigundam]

Kansas- weakest Kansas team in many years. Texas Tech is honestly better than they are, they just played like crap against them. Only two decent players, both can be shut down.

Xavier- Even worse than KU. This team is a joke. Run Macura off the 3 point line and bottle up Bluett, and they've got nothing.

Villanova- The best of the 1 seeds, but very wack frontcourt.

Virginia- The luckiest team in America. Kyle Guy and Devon Hall aren't that amazing. They just win because there hasn't been an explosive team to go up by 15 on them and get them out of their fundamental shell.


Yeah guarantee that these 1 seeds, maybe 1 will make the final four.

[TripleCrown9]

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Duke is gonna be a 1 seed, man. They'll get in over Kansas.

Who would you have as the 1 seeds?

[phenom1990]

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Can we merge this into the Bracketology thread as it seems like this fits that topic?

[jake44np]

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Duke is gonna be a 1 seed, man. They'll get in over Kansas.

Who would you have as the 1 seeds?

He is using Joe Lunardi's current bracket prediction, that was just release earlier today.
Either Nova or Xavier will lose in the Big East tourney and fall out of a no 1.
If MSU wins the Big 10 tourney they will get a NO 1 seed.
Lots can change between now and sunday.

[ImTellinTim]

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He is using Joe Lunardi's current bracket prediction, that was just release earlier today.
Either Nova or Xavier will lose in the Big East tourney and fall out of a no 1.
If MSU wins the Big 10 tourney they will get a NO 1 seed.
Lots can change between now and sunday.

This tournament has already happened because they played it at MSG where there is another tournament this week. Michigan beat MSU in the semifinals and Purdue in the final.

[jake44np]

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This tournament has already happened because they played it at MSG where there is another tournament this week. Michigan beat MSU in the semifinals and Purdue in the final.

Wow, I have been doing to many drugs!
I actually watched the finals of the BIG10 tournament. lol
I guess it was just in my mind that all the tourneys were this week.

[rockchisler]

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First year a number #1 goes down


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[Zenigundam]

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First year a number #1 goes down


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Dude, it honestly might be. I want to fill out a perfect bracket just like everybody else, but Xavier and Kansas are so suspect. UVA will probably win its game just by playing great, heady ball, but any team with high major athletes can potentially run them out of the gym.

I'm seriously worried, my man. If I were making the 1 seeds to absolutely avoid a 1 vs. 16 upset such that the 1s would be like 25 pt favorites, I'd confidently go with Villanova, Duke, Michigan State, and Virginia (UVA by default).

[itsmb8]

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First year a number #1 goes down


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I truly, truly believe this... Honestly, just about EVERY TEAM this year is even. Nobody stands out above the rest, this year will be so damn random.

[ImTellinTim]

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Every year people say "this is the year" then they all win by double digits with maybe one being close with 10 minutes left to play. Don't see it being any different this year.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2017-03-16/march-madness-have-1-seed-vs-16-seed-games-been-getting

Here are a few more (actually useful) bits of information from the history of 1 seed vs. 16 seed:

Only 15 games have been decided by less than 10 points, the most recent one in 2014: Arizona’s 68-59 win over Weber State.
No game has been decided by one possession since 1996. That’s longer than most of the 2017 tournament’s players have been alive.
In fact, in the past 11 years, more than three times as many 1 vs. 16 games have been decided by more than 30 points (13) than fewer than 10 points (four).
The closest any game has come has been one point. It’s happened twice, and both games were in the 1989 tournament. The first was Georgetown’s 50-49 win over Princeton. The Hoyas would go on to lose to No. 2 Duke in the Elite Eight. The second game was Oklahoma’s 72-71 win over ETSU. In the very next round, the Sooners demolished No. 9 seed Louisiana Tech 124-81 (43 points!), before losing to 5-seed Virginia in the Sweet 16.
On the other side of the coin, the biggest blowout in the matchup's history was in 1998, when Kansas bullied Prairie View for a 110-52 win. That 58-point margin remains the largest in any tournament game since the tournament expanded in 1985, but Kansas would lose the next game to No. 8 seed Rhode Island 80-75.
The closest any one tournament has been for 1-16 games was 1989, when those two games were decided by one point, and the margin of victory for the 1 seed was just 10.5 points over the four games.
The year of the biggest blowouts took place nine years later in 1998, when the average margin was 42.25 points thanks to wins of 88-52, 99-60, 99-63 and 110-52.
North Carolina A&T has been the 16 seed the most of any team, facing off against a No. 1 seed five times (1985, 1986, 1994, 1995, 2013). No team has been the 16 seed four times, though 15 teams have held the bottom seed thrice.
The MEAC has sent 14 teams to the tournament as a 16 seed, the most of any conference.
The highest scoring matchup took place in 1987, UNC’s 113-82 win over Penn.
The lowest score in a 1 vs. 16 game is 99 points, which has happened twice — Georgetown’s 50-49 win over Princeton in 1989, and UCLA’s 70-29 win over Mississippi Valley State in 2008. Slightly different games there.

[jake44np]

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I truly, truly believe this... Honestly, just about EVERY TEAM this year is even. Nobody stands out above the rest, this year will be so damn random.

So you think EVERY TEAM that made the tourney this year is even?
Vegas called, they would like you to place some bets with them.

[itsmb8]

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So you think EVERY TEAM that made the tourney this year is even?
Vegas called, they would like you to place some bets with them.

Obviously its a bit of an exaggeration, but yes. This year its SOOOO wide open.

[LowerWolf]

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Virginia- The luckiest team in America. Kyle Guy and Devon Hall aren't that amazing. They just win because there hasn't been an explosive team to go up by 15 on them and get them out of their fundamental shell.

Props to you. Good call.

[rockchisler]

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Salute on the call


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[itsmb8]

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First year a number #1 goes down


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YOU SIR ARE A GOD.