Is he providing stream of consciousness bracket updates now? Heās changed it like 3 times this morning.
I think he falls victim to win āmove upā lose āmove downā mentality and with how much ESPN has him pumping these out and I donāt blame him.
Occasionally he does a full scrub and thatās when you see more logical decisions being made like Michigan State being moved down a lot with 14 losses and only 3 Q1 wins.
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Uh oh, bad news folks. Apparently the committee team sheets have just been updated with new criteria.
VIRGINIA
Q1/Q2 10-10
Q3/Q4 13-0
NET - 50
SOR - 25
EYE TEST
Houston - 20/20
UConn - 20/20
Indiana State - 20/20
VIRGINIA - 20/500ā¦LEGALLY BLIND
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Look at it this way: With our resume and someone like Beekman out for the season, the committee would pass on us, too.
I always follow the bubble watches even when weāre not on it (in part because for so many years, getting onto the bubble was basically our stretch goal, and so it became a habit). And I donāt think Iāve ever seen a bubble perform this well. In fact in some years the whole bubble is floundering and the refrain is āDo any of these teams even want to make the tournament?ā
We picked the wrong year to be on the bubble.
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Please do brother!!
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I think others have mentioned this, but being on the bubble has taken a ton of enjoyment out of champ week for me, stressing about so many results instead of enjoying tournament basketball. After this year I hope we can hit a few year run of being safely in before Tony hangs it up
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Whatever happens in the next 36 hours, Iām at peace with it.
If we get in, great. Donāt expect us to advance to even the round of 32, but always a positive to make the tournament.
If we donāt, itās not because someone stole our bid, or we got screwed. We managed to blow a game that would have made us a lock, and we didnāt take care of business. Our 2 best players choked. Our future HOF coach, coached maybe the worst last minute of regulation and OT of his career.
Because of that, Iām not going to get wrapped around what happens in other games today. If on Sunday evening, our name is called, Iāll be happy. If not, oh well.
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Ha yeah. Iād rather just enjoy the chaos this time of year and root for the underdogs. Itās much less fun to have to root for all the favorites. Especially when it doesnāt work!
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Princetonās cooked. Hope the committee doesnāt take them as an at-large.
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0 chance of that
Ok, emotional reactions over, Iāve calmed down. I still think, short of a State, Oregon, Non FAU sweep that we get in. Dayton is fine and a success for me would be making to to play Thurs/Fri. I remind myself that there was a point this season that that seemed crazy.
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I was wondering about this. Would beating NC State make us a lock? It seems like a close win last night followed by a 15 point loss tonight could have us in basically the same position.
Which brings me back to what is the committee doing? Are they really adjusting their team list with every result like Lunardi? I doubt it.
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Do you think some info gets leaked to him?
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Not a bracketokogist but I doubt it. Theyād be Q1 losses.
Heās not even close to the best historically on Bracket Matrix so I doubt it.
It is an odd philosophy to disregard the NET rating to compare two teams but rather to compare how those two teams fared against other teams using the same metric that was disregarded.
All announcers give out 80 or so bids like Hooandtrue gives out 27 UVA scholarships to dream recruits. It should be a rule that every announcer who says some outside team should be in, they have to also say who should be out.
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Eh, the committee loves Q1 wins. I personally think were ahead of Seton Hall but if weāre not in the end, thatās really the only thing anyone can point to
If Iām being honest, they should be trying to include teams who have demonstrated potential to win big games. How well or poorly you fared against Q3 or Q4 teams should matter less because the NCAAT isnāt about Q3/Q4 teams (low major AQ excepted).
That extends to UVA. I think our chances of doing anything in the NCAAT are pretty low because we pretty consistently won against bad teams, did ok against middling teams, and not good against really good teams.
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