2016 Bracketology

[shockfan89_]

Reg season should be auto bid. Why even play it if it means nothing to a smaller conference?
Tourney should be for nit auto and seeding.

I understand this and have felt it many times myself, but I also like the auto bid for the Conference tournament because every team still has a shot, and something to play for, until the final weekend of the season. What if WSUs injuries would have lasted another 3 or 4 weeks and by the time we got everyone healthy we had dug a big enough hole that we couldn't win the conference outright? Wouldn't it be nice to have the tourney auto-bid so the team could still salvage the season and make the NCAA tournament? I see both sides though.

[Shockers5150]

Anyway to expand and allow for both? Give top 4 seeds ( or whatever number) byes? I'd be open to anything that awards consisteny, and helps desperate teams.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

I don't want the bar for at-large teams to get any lower. This year, WSU will have fought injuries, bad bounces, lots of close losses, and historic poor shooting nights, yet they are still going to get in. Every team that has any business thinking about a national championship will get in.

I like that every one of the 351 teams are technically eligible for a national championship on March 1. Conference tournaments are set to favor the best teams, and even after the auto bids are assigned, there are plenty of at-large bids to go around and ensure that no worthy team gets left out.

[Bentley]

No Virginia? RPI 3, KenPom 2.

Computer rankings help UVa but here's where it breaks down for me:

- 4 losses to non-NCAA teams. That's a LOT for a 1 seed.

- losing road record

[ShockdaWorld]

I sat right behind a Seton Hall season ticket holder. He agreed we got jobbed by the officials but said it was commonplace in the Big East to have home cooking, almost expected. He said, sorry you all have to lose but this is how it works in the Big East, and he was completely serious.

This does NOT surprise me even a little.

[im4wsu]

Anyway to expand and allow for both? Give top 4 seeds ( or whatever number) byes? I'd be open to anything that awards consisteny, and helps desperate teams.

An alternative could simply not allow any team with .500 or below in their conference (including tournament) into the NCAA, except tourney winner. I'd even move the .500 up to .60 or .550. That should open up a few slots.

[mjbaker84]

Just business and due diligence

oh I know, just bringing it up that the athletic department feels there is enough of a possibility to have that thought.

[wichshock65]

What does the VCU blowout do for us, if anything?

[mjbaker84]

Would have been a real scoop if you had added something to the effect of "six of the seven pallets were Mountain Dew."

majority were water and pepsi... :chuncky:

[wusphlash]

oh I know, just bringing it up that the athletic department feels there is enough of a possibility to have that thought.

Just the athletic department shaving so they don't look like a bum.

[Kung Wu]

I really do hope you were jerking me around there.

Hahahaha. Bait, line, and sinker!

[WuShock Reaper]

Here is where Joe Lunardi has been tracking the Shockers this week:

March 6th - WSU 7th seed in Oklahoma City versus 10 seed Butler (North Carolina #1 seed in the West Region)
March 7th - WSU 7th seed in Spokane versus 10 seed Butler (North Carolina #1 seed in the West Region)
March 8th - WSU 8th seed in Des Moines versus 9 seed Butler (Kansas #1 seed in the Midwest Region)
March 9th - WSU 8th seed in Brooklyn versus 9 seed Cincinnati (Villanova #1 seed in the East Region)
March 10th - WSU 8th seed in Brooklyn versus 9 seed Saint Joseph's (Villanova #1 seed in the East Region)
March 11th - WSU 8th seed in Des Moines versus 9 seed Butler (Kansas #1 seed in the Midwest Region)
March 12th - WSU 8th seed in Des Moines versus 9 seed Oregon State (Kansas #1 seed in the Midwest Region)

March 13th - WSU 9th seed in Des Moines versus 8 seed Providence (Kansas #1 seed in the Midwest Region)


Updated as of 2:30pm today.

[shocker3]

Warren Nolan has moved us out of the last 4 in and now has us safely IN as a 10 seed. At the beginning of the week, he had us OUT. http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2016/projection

[Rosewood]

That has to be for clicks, right? I can't imagine the committee puts WSU vs KU in the 2nd round in back to back years.

[ShockerPrez]

I think that we will have a different blue blood in our bracket this year.

I feel a possible UNC 2nd round matchup.