OFFICIAL: Selection Sunday Thread

[shocksrbest]

Talk about your dream scenario for you guys if this bracket would come true in this fashion as Gary Parrish predicts.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/predictions

Wichita State winning the National title as they beat Kentucky, Louisville, Duke, Creighton and Kansas.

Wally Szczerbiak has the Shocks winning it all as well...right arrow over and the other analysts are on the next page.

[Shock Therapy]

It is sort of hilarious that Parrish is almost the only pundit picking us to win the whole thing after all the crap we gave him from November - January.

The ability to change ones mind is pretty positive trait. And being one of the few to pick us to win it all should be enough to cut him some slack for a loooong time.

[ABC]

The ability to change ones mind is pretty positive trait. And being one of the few to pick us to win it all should be enough to cut him some slack for a loooong time.

Agree and we should all give ******* some credit for that too.

[ShockerFever]

Agree and we should all give ******* some credit for that too.

Why? For him picking WSU over Kentucky now?

Eff that.

He's gonna have to pick WSU to win it all 3 years in a row to erase all of the garbage he's thrown at us in the last 2 months.

[Shock Top]

Why? For him picking WSU over Kentucky now?

Eff that.

He's gonna have to pick WSU to win it all 3 years in a row to erase all of the garbage he's thrown at us in the last 2 months.

Agreed.

Parrish hasn't dragged our school through the mud like ******* and Gottlieb.

[RoyalShock]

I know this isn't flattering but thought it was kind of funny, in a self-deprecating way.

[pie n eye]

Wu is about to go super saiyan.

[Shock Top]

I know this isn't flattering but thought it was kind of funny, in a self-deprecating way.

Come on now SportsNation!

That's not even the most up-to-date Wu logo!

[Speed]

Come on now SportsNation!

That's not even the most up-to-date Wu logo!

shouldn't Wu be yawning?

[Cdizzle]

shouldn't Wu be yawning?

Clearly his left hand is flying the bird.

[Shock Top]

shouldn't Wu be yawning?

Maybe he is just saying "That's all?!"

[wu_shizzle]

Baylor over the Blowjays.

Book it.

What do I win?

[HenryMuto]

I just seen this post this guy made on a site after selection Sunday before the tournament started. This guy is exactly right on all fronts.

http://bracketball.blogspot.com/

A note on geography

So Wichita State got a loaded regional. Here's why.

The committee likes to put teams into the bracket in such a way that travel is minimized for the teams and their fans. So let's look down the seed lines and see how they did that.

Villanova, as the top 2 seed, got to be placed in the east. Michigan was next, and obviously got placed in the midwest.

On the 3 line, Duke was the top 3 seed. Geographically, their preferred region is the midwest, not east (least travel).

On the 4 line, Louisville was the top 4 seed. Geographically, their preferred region is the midwest.

On the 8 line, Kentucky was the top 8 seed. Geographically, their preferred region is the midwest.

So now we see the problem. Wichita gets the toughest 8 seed, followed by the toughest 4, followed by the toughest 3 or the 2nd toughest 2. That's imbalanced, period. Wichita got a tougher draw than others. Because of geography. Because the committee tries so hard to keep everyone close to home.

The NCAA needs to stop this. I get the concept behind their geographical-based methods. But a fair bracket should be of primary importance. Geography should be secondary to a fair and balanced bracket. The NCAA needs to revisit their policy and introduce rules that force them to create more balanced regionals.

This problem also shows up in other ways. The AAC has 4 teams in the tournament, but 3 would up in the same regional. Cincy, Memphis, and UConn are all in the east regional. Naturally, they all went there because they're eastern teams. I'd rather see the NCAA reintroduce the rule that forces the top teams from each conference into different regionals. It's not fair to a conference to be loaded up into a single regional.

The NCAA is almost there in terms of a pure, fair bracket. They just need to de-emphasize geography just a little bit.

One more thing: if you're the top team among teams in a seed line (say, Kentucky and the 8), you get geographic priority over the other 8s. Therefore, you could make the argument a team would rather be the top team on a seed line instead of the last team on the above seed line. You'd rather be the first 7 seed than the last 6 seed. Because with the first 7 seed, you get geographic priority, and the last 6 gets the last available spot. That needs to be fixed.

[wu_shizzle]

We'll see how far Kentucky will go, but I'll always remember the monumental effort it took a team of NBA players to beat us.

That being said, it's stupid that if we were a #2 seed in the South that we would have had an easier path to the Elite 8.

[Shock Top]

We'll see how far Kentucky will go, but I'll always remember the monumental effort it took a team of NBA players to beat us.

That being said, it's stupid that if we were a #2 seed in the South that we would have had an easier path to the Elite 8.

A 2-seed in the same region (MW) even, would have been easier.