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Lunardi’s Top 16 he just announced at halftime of the Memphis game on ESPN2:

South (Atlanta):
1) #1 Auburn
2) #6 Houston
3) #15 Kentucky
4) #11 Michigan State

West (San Francisco):
1) #3 Florida
2) #8 Texas A & M
3) #12 Texas Tech
4) #16 Wisconsin

Midwest (Indianapolis):
1) #2 Alabama
2) #7 Purdue
3) #10 Iowa State
4) #17 Kansas

East (Newark):
1) #4 Duke
2) #5 Tennessee
3) #13 Arizona
4) #20 Michigan
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bullcity gamer said:
Florida Atlantic defeated Tennessee in the Sweet 16 in 2023
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I remember Bilas talking a day later about how bad the officiating was in our game. Like him or not, he carries a lot of weight, and that was the worst thing that could happen for Barnes. Had Bilas said nothing, I doubt Florida Atlantic beats them.
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pisgah101 said:
I Might be in the smallest minority here and that’s okay BUT if you think every major college program in America wasn’t in some way or another “paying” players you’re kidding yourself. Heck a couple cousins I know of that went to major schools in the 90s had an uncle that liked to talk.. another guy I know went to a MUCH smaller school once made the comment he’d go to wherever paid him the most
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Back in the day when Rivers was at NC State he would drive around in his White Escalade but he was also married and had family money but the funny part was that TA McLendon had a Black Escalade that was tricked out. There was no way he bought that himself lol.
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Ironic, you guys were talking about Tennessee and St. John’s in terms of the NCAA seeding. Ironic because I have been thinking about those two teams actually fairly recently and I don’t want to see either one of them.

Barnes will absolutely thug it up like two years ago with his “well the refs can’t call them all” strategy. And in the case of two years ago, the refs barely called any on a team that was among the most fouling teams in the nation. Who was the team that played Tennessee the game after they beat Duke? I remember watching that game and that Eurotrash guy for Tennessee literally just shoves one of the other teams players off the ball and it was just an absolute dirty play.

Regarding St Johns, Rick Pitino is one of the best of all-time. If it were most other coaches, I wouldn’t be that concerned, but Pitino is a legend, just ask him, he’ll tell you. (lol).
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Neue Regel said:
I saw the last several minutes of it. WOW! Wake looked to be in pretty solid control of that game, that was a terrible collapse. And the Wake guard blew it taking that shot so far out from the basket when there was much more time remaining to get in for a closer shot. The defense was scrambling and not everybody was even back yet and he pulls a Caleb Love shot like a foot behind the three-point line.

I wouldn’t 100% say Wake is done yet since we do have the factor of the ACC tournament and they have a couple of big opportunities, including Duke in Cameron, but that was a very bad loss for them given the lack of quad 1 wins and the ACC this year. Even though their overall record is pretty decent. In the old RPI pre-Quad crap days, the Demon Deacons would be considered an NCAA tournament team right now. But that’s not how they assess teams anymore.

Would like to see FSU provide a favor and beat Clemson in Tallahassee this weekend.
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That game pissed me TF off. I had Wake money line in a parlay and they were my only loss. 16 point lead with 10 minutes left and they get outscored 31-13 the last 10 minutes to sorry ass FSU.
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The_Only_Blue said:
Wake with a bad loss at home to FSU. Whatever little chance they had to go to the tourney is done.
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I saw the last several minutes of it. WOW! Wake looked to be in pretty solid control of that game, that was a terrible collapse. And the Wake guard blew it taking that shot so far out from the basket when there was much more time remaining to get in for a closer shot. The defense was scrambling and not everybody was even back yet and he pulls a Caleb Love shot like a foot behind the three-point line.

I wouldn’t 100% say Wake is done yet since we do have the factor of the ACC tournament and they have a couple of big opportunities, including Duke in Cameron, but that was a very bad loss for them given the lack of quad 1 wins and the ACC this year. Even though their overall record is pretty decent. In the old RPI pre-Quad crap days, the Demon Deacons would be considered an NCAA tournament team right now. But that’s not how they assess teams anymore.

Would like to see FSU provide a favor and beat Clemson in Tallahassee this weekend.
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Think this is what the committee will reveal on the bracket reveal on Saturday on CBS, just my opinion REVISED:

South (Atlanta):
1) #1 Auburn
2) #7 Purdue
3) #15 Kentucky
4) #20 Michigan

West (San Francisco):
1) #3 Florida
2) #8 Texas A & M
3) #13 Arizona
4) #17 Kansas

Midwest (Indianapolis):
1) #2 Alabama
2) #6 Houston
3) #12 Texas Tech
4) #9 St. John's

East (Newark):
1) #4 Duke
2) #5 Tennessee
3) #10 Iowa State
4) #11 Michigan State

I had completely left Arizona off in my original post by accident. Long story short Wisconsin misses the Top 16 cut.
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bullcity gamer said:
DukeDallas, I believe a few years ago the committee stated they were going more to an S Curve while also taking geography and how many times (if any) top seeds had played each other during the regular season.

In my projections I have Florida as the 4th number 1 out West. As a result, Florida should have the top #2 seed. Florida and Tennessee have already played twice and have the potential to play a 3rd time in the SEC Tournament this is why I moved Tennessee to the East Region.
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I have always been a proponent of the S Curve, it's by far the most fair, the regionalization has screwed Duke over too many times.
2019 the Zion year we were the #1 overall seed but drew the #1 2 seed MSU due to geography.
2013 the Mason Plumlee team (underrated team) we were the #1 2-seed (5th overall) but got placed in the region with Louisville (#1 overall) because again...geography. I truly think we were the 2nd best team that season but Louisville was just too good.

With chartered flights, there is no reason to not use the S Curve. None.
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DukeDallas9192011015 said:
Love the projections. But if Tennessee were #5 (top 2 seed) wouldn't they go to the south?? Because it is based off of geographic region preference?? Of course, that would put them with another SEC team as the 1 seed, but there are going to be so many SEC teams, the committee will have to pair some of them up.
I have a feeling if we get the #1 East seed that the top Big10 team is our 2 seed (MSU, Purdue, maybe Michigan).

I would be thrilled with Tennessee as our 2 seed though, Jon (and Tyrese) need to get some revenge on them for 2 years ago. St. Johns in Newark would be slightly scary though, but I would still sign up for that region right now.
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DukeDallas, I believe a few years ago the committee stated they were going more to an S Curve while also taking geography and how many times (if any) top seeds had played each other during the regular season.

In my projections I have Florida as the 4th number 1 out West. As a result, Florida should have the top #2 seed. Florida and Tennessee have already played twice and have the potential to play a 3rd time in the SEC Tournament this is why I moved Tennessee to the East Region.
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