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03-17-2019, 05:27 PM
msstate7

Kentucky cake walk
03-17-2019, 05:27 PM
RougeDawg

So the Klansharts get to travel to South Carolina and we have to travel about as far away as physically possible in the lower 48? Thought you were supposed to get rewarded with higher seeds.
03-17-2019, 05:29 PM
maroonmania

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder

It's us against the world. No surprise. Respect has to be earned

We never get any respect in any sport except maybe baseball so might as well just ignore it. But the baseball respect has been earned going back to the 70s and 80s.
03-17-2019, 05:29 PM
BigEasyDawg

Auburn with a cake walk to the Sw. 16
03-17-2019, 05:31 PM
msstate7

I really don't see any way we don't end up with duke vs Michigan st and North Carolina vs Kentucky. Those will be epic games
03-17-2019, 05:32 PM
KOdawg1

Guys this is a good draw. Who cares about the location, our fans wouldn't travel anyway. We have a legit shot at the sweet 16 where we will most likely get smoked by Duke, but name a 1 seed that we wouldn't get smoked by. I'm pumped
03-17-2019, 05:34 PM
TheRef

West Region

(#4 Overall) #1 Gonzaga vs #16 Fairly Dickinson/Prairie View A&M
#8 Syracuse vs #9 Baylor

#5 Marquette vs #12 Murray State
#4 Florida State vs #13 Vermont

#6 Buffalo vs #11 Arizona State/St. John's
#3 Texas Tech vs #14 Northern Kentucky

#7 Nevada vs #10 Florida
#2 Michigan vs #15 Montana
03-17-2019, 05:38 PM
TheRef

Last 4 In

Belmont
Temple
Arizona State
St John's

First 4 Out
UNC Greensboro
Alabama
TCU
Indiana
03-17-2019, 05:40 PM
TheRef

Conference Breakdown (Multiple Bid Conferences)

Big 10: 8
ACC: 7
SEC: 7
Big 12: 6
American: 4
Big East: 4
PAC 12: 3
Mountain West: 2
West Coast: 2
Ohio Valley: 2
Atlantic 10: 2
03-17-2019, 05:42 PM
RocketDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by KOdawg1

Guys this is a good draw. Who cares about the location, our fans wouldn't travel anyway. We have a legit shot at the sweet 16 where we will most likely get smoked by Duke, but name a 1 seed that we wouldn't get smoked by. I'm pumped

There may not be any spectators at all at the game.

I wonder how super-conservative Liberty feels about traveling to California, especially the ultra-liberal Bay Area?
03-17-2019, 05:43 PM
RougeDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by KOdawg1

Guys this is a good draw. Who cares about the location, our fans wouldn't travel anyway. We have a legit shot at the sweet 16 where we will most likely get smoked by Duke, but name a 1 seed that we wouldn't get smoked by. I'm pumped

If we played somewhere remotely close I would try to make the games. I went the last Time we went. Was a fun weekend n
03-17-2019, 05:52 PM
BeardoMSU

Quote:

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

traveling to California, especially the ultra-liberal Bay Area?

Lots of massage parlors in the Bay Area, bro

You'll see a bunch of Liberty fans in disguise so they can remain anonymous from their fellow Liberty fans....(insert Baptist fishing and beer joke).**
03-17-2019, 05:58 PM
KOdawg1

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

If we played somewhere remotely close I would try to make the games. I went the last Time we went. Was a fun weekend n

I would try to go too. Our guys are getting to go to Cali though. They'll be pumped.
03-17-2019, 05:58 PM
I seen it dawg

Happy to be able to watch us play in the dance. I'll be in Vegas so I love that time slot.
03-17-2019, 06:01 PM
msstate7

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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg

Happy to be able to watch us play in the dance. I'll be in Vegas so I love that time slot.

So awesome. I'll be a "slightly" lesser version, miss gulf coast haha
03-17-2019, 06:02 PM
WSOPdawg

I'm just glad that finally, basketball is relevant again for us... FINALLY!!!
03-17-2019, 06:07 PM
Ari Gold

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

So the Klansharts get to travel to South Carolina and we have to travel about as far away as physically possible in the lower 48? Thought you were supposed to get rewarded with higher seeds.

We didn’t even go to the games here in Starkville .. plus the 8/9 1/16 are in Columbia
03-17-2019, 06:08 PM
Ari Gold

Little FYI
We were also a 5 seed in 1996 ...
03-17-2019, 06:09 PM
Ari Gold

Buzz may have Aggie Land on his mind ...
03-17-2019, 06:10 PM
RocketDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

Little FYI
We were also a 5 seed in 1996 ...

I'm surprised that Auburn wasn't seeded higher.
03-17-2019, 06:22 PM
RougeDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

We didn?t even go to the games here in Starkville .. plus the 8/9 1/16 are in Columbia

And this applies to us having to travel as far away as you can possibly go in lower 48 in what way? Auburn got screwed too. Salt Lake City. Who selects these locations? San Jose California being an East bracket site makes absolutely zero sense. You cannot make an argument for it. None.
03-17-2019, 06:24 PM
TheRef

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Originally Posted by RougeDawg

And this applies to us having to travel as far away as you can possibly go in lower 48 in what way? Auburn got screwed too. Salt Lake City. Who selects these locations? San Jose California being an East bracket site makes absolutely zero sense. You cannot make an argument for it. None.

They pick the first and second round sites and usually each site will hold games from two regions

Then there's another list for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 (Regional Finals)

Then there's yet another list for the Final Four and Championship Game sites

Just because you're in the East Region doesn't necessarily mean anything. Just means your Regional Semis and Finals will be in the "East"
03-17-2019, 06:26 PM
Ari Gold

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRef

They pick the first and second round sites and usually each site will hold games from two regions

Then there's another list for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 (Regional Finals)

Then there's yet another list for the Final Four and Championship Game sites

Just because you're in the East Region doesn't necessarily mean anything. Just means your Regional Semis and Finals will be in the "East"

Thank you ...
03-17-2019, 06:28 PM
Saltydog

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeardoMSU

Lots of massage parlors in the Bay Area, bro

You'll see a bunch of Liberty fans in disguise so they can remain anonymous from their fellow Liberty fans....(insert Baptist fishing and beer joke).**

Funniest shit I've read on this board in a long time.....
03-17-2019, 06:30 PM
Turfdawg67

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

Little FYI
We were also a 5 seed in 1996 ...

I like the karma, but we should've been higher in '96. They picked the teams before our game with UK was over. They assumed we'd lose to them and put us as a 5th seed.
03-17-2019, 06:31 PM
Saltydog

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Originally Posted by RocketDawg

I'm surprised that Auburn wasn't seeded higher.

I thought so too. Thought they would end up a 4.....
03-17-2019, 06:37 PM
RougeDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRef

They pick the first and second round sites and usually each site will hold games from two regions

Then there's another list for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 (Regional Finals)

Then there's yet another list for the Final Four and Championship Game sites

Just because you're in the East Region doesn't necessarily mean anything. Just means your Regional Semis and Finals will be in the "East"

I wasn?t asking you to explain the obvious, captain obvious. I know how the process works. I was asking how a selection process allows a site to be as physically as far away from the region it is supposed to be representing. I?m saying the entire process makes zero sense. And if you do have to make selections of locations with some idiotic method, at least reward the teams who are seeded higher.

Same as Hartford CT being a West location? How does that make sense? I?m talking logical explanation, not the way they select. At least select more centrally located sites if you are going to allows human beings on a committee to penalize a 5 seed by sending them as far away as you could possibly send them in lower 48.
03-17-2019, 06:40 PM
I seen it dawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

I wasn?t asking you to explain the obvious, captain obvious. I know how the process works. I was asking how a selection process allows a site to be as physically as far away from the region it is supposed to be representing. I?m saying the entire process makes zero sense. And if you do have to make selections of locations with some idiotic method, at least reward the teams who are seeded higher.

Same as Hartford CT being a West location? How does that make sense? I?m talking logical explanation, not the way they select. At least select more centrally located sites if you are going to allows human beings on a committee to penalize a 5 seed by sending them as far away as you could possibly send them in lower 48.

Why the **** you got to be a ****ing asshole? If this is your attitude all the time then just ****ing go somewhere else. Zero reason to be an asshole to The Ref. Unbeknownst to you, you aren't a ****ing genius on everything of this message board or the world. ****ing get over yourself.
03-17-2019, 06:44 PM
Saltydog

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigEasyDawg

I would hate to see it but I honestly wouldn't be suprised if the black bears beat Virginia (if Virginia doens't lost to a 16 again)

It honestly wouldn't surprise me either. I think they'll beat Oklahoma. I've seen them a couple of times and I think UM will get past them. UVA is elite defensively but UM has enough firepower to play with them, IMO. Matters not, I just want us to get by Liberty and then see what happens. As of now, nobody is giving us a chance. Liberty shots the 3 well so it would sure be great to get Nick back out there on the perimeter for his D but that's a whole other subject unto itself.
03-17-2019, 06:49 PM
Quaoarsking

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

I wasn?t asking you to explain the obvious, captain obvious. I know how the process works. I was asking how a selection process allows a site to be as physically as far away from the region it is supposed to be representing. I?m saying the entire process makes zero sense. And if you do have to make selections of locations with some idiotic method, at least reward the teams who are seeded higher.

Same as Hartford CT being a West location? How does that make sense? I?m talking logical explanation, not the way they select. At least select more centrally located sites if you are going to allows human beings on a committee to penalize a 5 seed by sending them as far away as you could possibly send them in lower 48.

We aren't a high seed, so we don't get any reward. They build the brackets before they assign sites. Then the 1 seeds get matched up with their closest site (Duke - Columbia SC, Virginia - Columbia, North Carolina- Columbus now that Columbia is unavailable, Gonzaga - Salt Lake City). Then the 2 seeds get the best of whatever's left, followed by the 3s and 4s getting the scraps.

There aren't a lot of Western teams in the tournament at all this year, so San Jose was still around when the pod with 4-seed Virginia Tech came up.

The fact that a 5-seed Mississippi State got a farther away site than 8-seed Ole Miss is not claimed to be a consideration of the Committee. Ole Miss got put in Duke's pod, and therefore goes to the site that is lined up for Duke. We got put in Virginia Tech's pod and had to take a scrap. If sucked and Stanford were a 1 seed, and Ole Miss got put in Stanford's pod, they would be going out to San Jose and maybe we'd get Columbia if it were still available.

And also as a disclaimer, all of the above is just approximate. You'll probably find some examples of 2/3/4 seeds in sites that don't seem to be the most ideal for them, but either was as a 5-seed, we're not getting any preference.
03-17-2019, 06:59 PM
Quaoarsking

Additional info:

2 of the 8 sites out are out West - Salt Lake City and San Jose.
However, only 1 of the top 16 seeds is Western (Gonzaga). So the 4 pods getting sent out West are the ones including 1 Gonzaga ... and 4 Kansas, 4 Kansas State, and 4 Virginia Tech.
03-17-2019, 07:11 PM
Liverpooldawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

I wasn?t asking you to explain the obvious, captain obvious. I know how the process works. I was asking how a selection process allows a site to be as physically as far away from the region it is supposed to be representing. I?m saying the entire process makes zero sense. And if you do have to make selections of locations with some idiotic method, at least reward the teams who are seeded higher.

Same as Hartford CT being a West location? How does that make sense? I?m talking logical explanation, not the way they select. At least select more centrally located sites if you are going to allows human beings on a committee to penalize a 5 seed by sending them as far away as you could possibly send them in lower 48.

Jeez man, it's a seeded tournament. There really isn't anything "regional" about it except for the names.
03-17-2019, 07:33 PM
TheRef

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03-17-2019, 07:47 PM
BeardoMSU

Quote:

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

I wasn?t asking you to explain the obvious, captain obvious. I know how the process works. I was asking how a selection process allows a site to be as physically as far away from the region it is supposed to be representing. I?m saying the entire process makes zero sense. And if you do have to make selections of locations with some idiotic method, at least reward the teams who are seeded higher.

Same as Hartford CT being a West location? How does that make sense? I?m talking logical explanation, not the way they select. At least select more centrally located sites if you are going to allows human beings on a committee to penalize a 5 seed by sending them as far away as you could possibly send them in lower 48.

Sanctimonious Level: 11

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03-17-2019, 08:09 PM
SailingDawg

TruTV. For us cable cutters, how will that be accessible? Is it on Hulu's live package?
03-17-2019, 08:10 PM
TheRef

Quote:

Originally Posted by SailingDawg

TruTV. For us cable cutters, how will that be accessible? Is it on Hulu's live package?

Hulu and YoutubeTV both offer TruTV on their live packages.
03-17-2019, 08:38 PM
I seen it dawg

The Ref coming strong in this thread. Nice job young man.
03-18-2019, 01:59 AM
ScoobaDawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRef

Hulu and YoutubeTV both offer TruTV on their live packages.

As does Playstation vue.
03-18-2019, 05:11 AM
TheRef

I guess my comeback was worth it tonight

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