Bracket Games

[MsProudSooner]

The NCAA has denied it, but I've always thought they loved to set up the brackets so that certain teams might face each other as they advance. For example, they've put teams who had stopped playing each other in the regular season such as Louisville and Memphis on a collision course.

Who might they stick in our bracket?

Houston?
UNLV?

 

[WTSooner]

The NCAA has denied it, but I've always thought they loved to set up the brackets so that certain teams might face each other as they advance. For example, they've put teams who had stopped playing each other in the regular season such as Louisville and Memphis on a collision course.

Who might they stick in our bracket?

Houston?
UNLV?

I doubt Houston makes it this year.

I don't think they pay much attention to that stuff. I'd like to avoid being bracketed with Virginia or Michigan State. Both bad matchups for OU, I think.

 

[Zimwillett]

I doubt Houston makes it this year.

I don't think they pay much attention to that stuff. I'd like to avoid being bracketed with Virginia or Michigan State. Both bad matchups for OU, I think.

Neither will UNLV.

I actually take the committee at their word that they don't consciously try to set up a bracket with matchups in mind. Go read some of the articles by people who have participated in the various "mock selections". It's actually a pretty intricate process involving a series of votes with little to no room for committee members to sit around and try to concoct matchups:

"By the time we were building the bracket, there was very little debating and a lot of simply watching the pieces come together like a jigsaw puzzle. There's no room for conspiracies and creating "juicy" pairings (i.e. Kentucky and Louisville meeting in the Sweet 16 last season), no matter what the conspiracy theorists say. Asked the most surprising thing he learned from the experience, Will Haskett of the Horizon League Network said, "When it comes to placing the teams in the actual bracket, there is absolutely no way for the committee to create those conspiracies. There is no such thing as an orchestrated matchup."


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2387936-behind-the-scenes-how-the-ncaa-tournament-selection-committee-really-works

 

[perryj74]

Here is one for you.

Kentucky will be in our regional with it being the 50th anniversary of Kentucky vs Texas Western game.

 

[OrlandoSooner]

Here is one for you.

Kentucky will be in our regional with it being the 50th anniversary of Kentucky vs Texas Western game.

I hope the good guys win again.