We are now on the fateful day of Sunday, March 13th, Selection Sunday. This thread is for discussing predictions on the final conference tournaments, placements, theories, opinions, and other ideas revolving around Selection Sunday and seeding.
There have been many developments in the past week. We saw Virginia Tech go from being in the first four out to winning the ACC tournament. Texas A&M has made a surprise run in the SEC tournament and is currently playing in the championship. Notre Dame sits in the last four in in many brackets and Wake Forest sits outside on a decent amount of brackets as well.
Everybody start preparing your tournament challenges!
I predict the Hokies will be the popular prediction on ESPN tonight for a double digit seed to make a run. The analysts usually have the chalkiest picks imaginable with one underdog.
Personally, I hope the miracle happens and the ACC gets seven. Just pretend our coach is Jim Boeheim and maybe we can make it to the final four. cough 2016 cough
You just mentioned my sleeper team I’ll have in the final 4. Best coach ever plus Penny? See you in New Orleans. And I will be out of my pool the first weekend.
Am I the only one who has an irrational hatred for Gonzaga. Something about them just targeting an easy conference every year then losing in the final four or championship constantly makes me slightly dislike them. Of course, they’ll always be the one seed every year.
I hated last years team (our ft worth beat down plus high d-bag quotient), but not this years. I just think they’re overrated right now. They were top 10ish in noncon, then they dominated WCC, and everyone forget they’re just good, not great.
They still give me an underdog vibe vs the power conference teams even though they clearly aren’t anymore. They can lose in the sweet 16 though if that makes you feel any better!
They are a scary team finally. Playing almost as well as they were supposed to play all year. I do think they still have flaws that will doom them rather early to a well coached team.