Official NCAA Tourney Selection Thread

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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

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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.

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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.

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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"

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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"

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Thank you ...

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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).**

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Funniest shit I've read on this board in a long time.....

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Originally Posted by Ari Gold

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by RocketDawg

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

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I thought so too. Thought they would end up a 4.....

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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"

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jeez man, it's a seeded tournament. There really isn't anything "regional" about it except for the names.

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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.

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Sanctimonious Level: 11

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

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Originally Posted by SailingDawg

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

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Hulu and YoutubeTV both offer TruTV on their live packages.

The Ref coming strong in this thread. Nice job young man.

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Originally Posted by TheRef

Hulu and YoutubeTV both offer TruTV on their live packages.

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As does Playstation vue.

I guess my comeback was worth it tonight