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BASKETBALL Bracket Thoughts

mizzoucobra

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1. Teams "underseeded." I understand the process to be for teams being included in the tournament the committee looks at "what have you done," where the seeding process can be more "how good are they?" With that general idea in mind, my teams that may have gotten slotted a little too low:
--Louisville: Received a 7 seed, ranked 17th in Pomeroy
--Wofford: Received a 7 seed, ranked 19th in Pomeroy
--St. Mary's: Received an 11 seed, ranked 31st in Pomeroy

2. Overseeded teams. Looking at the same thought process:
--Kansas State -- 4 Seed, ranked 23rd in Pomeroy. With Wade a question mark?
--LSU -- 3 Seed, ranked 18th in Pomeroy. Lot of stuff going on with that program.
--Washington -- 9 seed, ranked 51st in Pomeroy. Just got ran by Oregon.

3. Favorite 1st round matchups:
--Markus Howard vs. Ja Morant...er...Murray State vs. Marquette
--Nevada vs. Florida. Nevada can be scary good, Florida has some really quality wins.
--New Mexico State vs. Auburn. Both teams are playing great basketball right now.
--Louisville vs. Minnesota. A Pitino reunion? Sure that wasn't considered in this matchup.

4. Teams that are gonna wreck brackets, either by playing above seed level and making a deep run, or by taking an early loss and kill those folks who picked them to make a deep run...call it the volatility group:
--Auburn
--Iowa State
--Florida State

5. Best potential matchups in the first two weekends:
--Duke vs. Michigan State E8
--Tennessee vs. Purdue S16
--Nevada vs. Michigan R32
--UNC vs. UK E8
 
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