What everyone else said basically. Better chance to win round 2.
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Is it too much to hope for a specific bracket pod? Most ideal to me seems to be a 7/10 seed matched up vs a Mountain West squad (Boise St, Utah St, Colorado St, etc) and Marquette or Iowa St as the 2.
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If @Hooandtrue has taught us anything, itās that this board is a place you can dream your biggest dream.
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āI used Leap Day to perform a complete seed scrubbing of the entire field; as usual, a handful of teams [note: handful = 20] were mis-seededā
I read this as: āMy bracket has been obviously wrong (even to me, now that I look at it) for about half of the at-large field, and itās been that way for I donāt even know how long, because I donāt bother to really look at resumes very often.ā
Isnāt this his only job? Maybe he could find time to do it?
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Yeah, donāt 10-12 seeds have basically comparable average advancement stats to 8-9 seeds?
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Probably true. Although being an 8/9 isnāt an automatic 2nd round loss like it may seem. Eight of the last ten tournaments have had at least one 8 or 9 seed advance to the Sweet 16 or further.
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He still does something for St Joeās. Maybe heās the one who flaps the mascot wings
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We went to the VCU/St. Joeās game on Sunday, and sat about 20 feet from that damn mascot for 2.5 hours. I was ready to strangle whoever was in thereā¦the wings even flapped during the national anthem.
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Must be amazing cardio. 
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Has to be mechanical. It literally never stopped 
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Sounds like the start of a horror movie:
For those who know Whittenberger, including Jack Jumper, director of athletics communications, she and the Hawk are one in the same.
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Waitā¦ Why is everyone talking about seeding as it involves the second round?
Weāve only gotten to the second round once this century, if Malcolm Brogdon wasnāt on the team.
Iād rather try to get as high a seed as we possibly can for the first round matchup.
Edit: once without Perrantes at PG
Not true. 2016/17ā¦so twice.
Materially not much different between a 6 seed vs an 8. Weāve beaten Florida and Clemson - both in that range and weāve gotten embarrassed by a few bubble types (@wake, @memphis).
Now thereās a huge difference when comparing a Purdue/UConn/Houston to a 3 seed. A 14 is also way likelier to knock off a 3 seed in this day and age so instead of an automatic loss you could be dreaming of a run.
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Scrubbing is pretty common. Believe itās because the projections get treated as almost a power ranking over time. So the scrubbing allows them to step back and take a look at the whole body of work without the game to game āmovementā
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Because weāve never lost a first round game with Gertrude.
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Whatās crazy is the hilarity of how these things happened. People forget that we faced a global pandemic so no chance for a win (as did the entire country) had a covid shutdown couldnāt practice (literally only us) had a team that missed the tournament (as have Duke and UNC, both) and then lost on a miracle (bonehead on our side) play. Itās not like weāve been ready and just been thoroughly beaten to the point that thereās a narrative we donāt get it done lol.
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Todays updated Bracket Matrix has us as the last of the last 4 byes. Positive note is the the 4 teams directly below us all lost this weekend.
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Only 30 brackets have been updated with yesterdayās results though. Half of those have us as a 10 seed, while 5 of them have us out entirely. Thatās quite the spread at this point in the season, which shows how weird our resume is
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