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NCAA Basketball: South Carolina Wins The Best Women's Tournamnet
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Rude.
UNC-Greensboro got screwed
They beat every team they were supposed to beat. They have zero losses outside of Quad 1. And of their Quad 1 losses (they were 2-6), only one was to a non-tourney team (Furman). The others were 2 seed Kentucky, 3 seed LSU and 7 seed Wofford (three times). No other losses.
Let's compare to Pac12 Regular Season Champion, Washington. 2-4 in Quad 1, losing to 1 seed Gonzaga, 4 seed Va Tech, 5 seed Auburn, and 11 seed Arizona State. Three losses to Quad 2, 10 seed Minnesota and 12 seed Oregon (twice). Plus one Quad 3 loss to California. The only tournament team Washington beat in their entire season was Oregon. The only real difference between the records here is that UNC-G only played two Quad 2 games total. Whereas Washington played 11 total Quad 2 games and lost three of them. Is Washington's one win over Oregon really worth that much? Given that, if Oregon had not beaten Washington by 20 points in the Pac12 Title Game, Oregon wouldn't even be a tourney team?
And now let's look at Arizona State:
First off, Arizona State just plain has a worse NET ranking (63 to UNC-G's 60). But they went 3-3 in Quad 1 games, actually managing to beat three tourney teams, 4 seed Kansas, 5 seed Mississippi State, 8 seed Utah State and only one Quad 1 loss to a non-tourney team (Colorado). Looks pretty good so far! But then they went 8-3 in Quad 2, beating two tourney teams (Oregon, Washington) and losing to two non-tourney teams (Stanford, USC). And then they lost two Quad 3 games. And two more Quad 4 games just for good measure. Does beating three tourney teams outweigh losing to seven(!) non-tourney teams?
But hey, UNC-G does have that non-tourney loss to Furman. That's got to be a black mark, right?
Well, let's look at Furman! Their NET ranking is 41, better than at-large teams Syracuse (42), Iowa (43), and Washington (45). They went 1-5 in Quad 1, their lone win against Big East Champs and 6 seed Villanova at Villanova. Their Quad 1 losses are Wofford, UNC-G, LSU, and ETSU, so two tourney teams and two non tourney teams. They went 3-1 in Quad 2, with another loss to UNC-G and 2-1 in Quad 3 with a home loss to Samford. Strangely enough, Furman has a Quad 4 victory over a tournament team - 16 seeded Gardner-Webb (eventual destroyers of Virginia, just you watch)
So what does it all boil down too?
TL;DR Washington and Arizona benefited from the fact that their league was overvalued, giving them both a bevy of mediocre Quad 2 wins, that UNC-Greensboro could have never picked up due to the relative strength of their league. UNC-G won the games they should have won, and neither Washington or ASU can say the same.
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They had a “great” non conference record but it turned out all those teams they beat were a turd buffet
I’m not even sure they went .500 in conference and they have a loss vs Rutgers
Don’t pick them
I didn't watch a single game of basketball all season, so I went and filled out a bracket.
Ended up with Michigan as the only non-number 1 in the final 4, and have them winning it all.
Yeah, um, no. We have six functional players and are utterly lost if we run into a mobile center who can switch onto our guards. Also we can't shoot. Won a ton of games because we defend like motherfuckers, but against elite talent that has figured out what to do we're probably screwed.
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Holy moly
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
God -dammit- Frank Howard you stupid bastard.
What’s the record for fewest possessions in a modern college game?
Wisconsin would win that one.... somehow
*quietly erases Syracuse upset from bracket*
Good riddance I say. Howard's been nothing but a bad attitude.
I'm looking forward to seeing people's brackets.
Similar to mine but I have Michigan St. upsetting Duke then losing to Michigan and UNC winning it.
edit:
ALSO IT ME GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ITTY
Bummer
NMSU too, after Auburn pulled a Bruce Pearl special.
I think Auburn can beat 'em though.
Nope, it’s the school
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The ones he hit in the Maryland game Kevin Harlan was referencing were amazing, because he was shooting them over a 6'11" shot blocker and basically hitting the top of the backboard.
You guys have fun with the rest of the tournament.
I'm rooting for Duke now.
Imagine how he acts when there aren’t any cameras on him
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At least he's not Coach K: Mother of former Duke player says Coach K shouted at her, making her cry.
In other news, I'm a bit worried about facing Wofford without PJ Washington, but hopefully keeping him out of this game will help him recover better by next weekend if we win. A PJ-less Kentucky team doesn't have much chance of making it out of Kansas City.
He's still a whiny asshole, and deflecting by pointing out how shitty ESPN is is beneath you. Also Appling and Payne.