I'll get the ball rolling for what should be an awesome tournament.
First thought, Michigan an 11 Seed and not even in the First Four? Seems way off.
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Projecting Duke vs Michigan St in the second round
Yeah that Michigan selection at that high a seed boggles the mind
If you're that close to .500, regardless of your SOS or who you beat, you don't deserve to be in. Hell - they didn't even win a game in the BIG10 tourney. They were beaten by Indiana, who CBS says was one of the last 2 teams into the NCAA.
Plus your coach punches another coach...automatic DQ
Michigan higher than Notre Dame is shocking.
Rutgers in as well has me wondering if ACC only gets 4 bids (Notre Dame, VT, Duke UNC)
Miami is in as a 10 seed.
VT and UNC gonna be in the same region.
ND got a play in game! LMAO!
Sooo VT is in the East
Feel like VT could be anything between a 8-11 seed
11 seed it is. Ready to beat Texas.
EDIT: one year late on Shaka
Shaka's at Marquette
Fuck Texas!
Virginia Tech vs. Yale in the 2nd Round? Okay; I'll take it!
Well, I guess one of my teams would have to win.
Til this game is over, I shall be hostile to every UT fan around
Same seed as Michigan and 3 seeds lower than Unc...what?
Would rather be an 11 than an 8-9
Same. Avoid the top 2 seeds til at least the Sweet 16
Bring it on Texas!!!!
🤘⬇️ ready to throw some horns down
HORNS DOWN FAM.
Am I crazy in thinking Elite 8?
Most likely......but fuck it
You really think we'll lose to Kentucky?
Yes
VT vs Murray St in rd 2, the Beamer bracket
I'm going to laugh about our #11 seed after we wax Kentucky's ass!
So... we definitely needed that Duke win to be in the tournament apparently?
We would have been Texas A&M today. Damn fraud is what it is but that was what the committee thought of us.
11 seed is disrespectful to any P5 champion with an above .500 record. Setting that aside though, the region is actually pretty favorable.
Hell yeah. Let's win a natty as an #11
Greenberg backing up VT; said Vt as an 11 while Texas is a 6 makes no sense at all If anything they should be switched. Also noted that Purdue might struggle with tech because even though they have size they'd have to get out on perimeter to cover and not sure they'd be able to hang
Bilas too, on both points. Happy to hear us get some love
So what he's saying is that the Committee remains "certifiably insane" for having us as an 11 Seed. I hope we keep that chip on our shoulder all the way to the Final Four!
Hopefully, our guys aren't reading the recent praises of Lunardi and others, and just go about our business, taking care of the tasks at hand, one game at a time. If we look past Texas, we'll get beat, but if we take care of business like we did in the ACC Tournament, we'll do fine.
So lunardi basically just said the committee really doesn't pay attention to conference tournaments hence why Tennessee didn't move up to a 2; yet Duke gets dropped to a 2? So they only count it against you and not for you?
I think Duke was always a 2. Conversation on Reddit is that conference tournaments never matter. Glad we aren't Buzz! Lololololol
It's dumb as hell to me that they place so much emphasis on a Quad 1 win in early Nov but basically ignore the final week of play and the conference tournaments. They've gone completely up their own asshole with the Quad stuff
Time to be the 1st 11 seed to win the whole damn thing
Ruh Roh
Storm's coming, Texas
Hope your ERCOT can handle it.
Love the video, their tone immediately changes when VIRGINIA TECH is revealed.
That was a team acknowledging they were going home after the first round. Nobody wants to play us after we knocked off Notre Dame, UNC, and Duke in three straight days.
Our last five opponents are like an old collect call number
10-10-2-3-1
I guess the term region "region" means nothing since none of the game are in "the East'.
loluva is NIT bound?
Regions haven't really started until the sweet 16 for the past several years, I think.
Indiana and Michigan should be reversed. It appears that the committee valued non-conference SOS and the results against it very highly this year.
Wish they would agree on a set of criteria and stick with it year to year. The process is a bit too opaque.
Yeah, our first couple months weren't great. But we just schooled three other tournament teams in back to back days, and flat out schooled two (edit:) RANKED blue bloods in the process, and we get an 11 seed???? We are going to seriously blow up a lot of brackets.
We just became the lowest seed to win the ACC tournament. Let's do the same for the NCAA tourney!
Michigan shouldn't be in this tourney period. 17-14 overall. B1G with 9 bids. Um.......Bullshit
You are absolutely correct.
Miami 10 and we are 11? Really?!? We beat Miami down the stretch, win the ACC Championship, and they have a higher seed. Bias indeed.
Also, if we did not beat Duke, no ifs ands or buts we would be outside looking in.
Selection Committee does not like the Hokies folks.
We should win the whole thing about it.
We split with Miami and they had a better non-con. They also won at Duke and UNC
Women's Team to play FGCU in the 5/12 matchup in College Park
Which makes 0 sense. FGCU has been ranked basically all season but yet get a low seed due to the crappy conference they play in. If they're good enough to be ranked all season and we're not, they should be seeded higher than us regardless of conference.
What metrics did they use for seeding?
And why would conference tournaments not matter? Afraid of recency bias? Really dumb but let's take care of business!
Logically the conference champions should be the highest seeds--taking into account the schools' records. Non-conference winners should be seeded based on their w-l AFTER the conference champions.
But we know how logical the rankings in college sports are.
Based on the ranking of the seeds themselves VT would be valued at #46... Not even close to NET, KenPom... Way under seeded.
Oh well... Same mentality as the ACCT. Just win baby!
Honestly the people who are screwed over the most with it is Texas. You never want to be the school playing someone who is under seeded with a chip on their shoulder. And coming off a P5 conference title?
We'd be pissed if roles were reversed
Reminds me a bit of when we played Wisconsin a few years ago and they were way underseeded.
Texas ran into one of the most formidable 11 seeds in a good while, and I'm not saying that just because I love the Hokies.
True, we beat Texas and we're basically a 6 seed.
Does that mean UMBC was a 1 seed then?
*cackles in hokiegirl*
Yep.
Is that our winning percentage or Cattoor's shooting percentage from last night?
Amazingly, the winning percentage is higher!
No doubt we were under-seeded. No doubt as well if we did not take it to the house beating ND, UNC, and Duke we would not be dancing. So, the NCAA tournament is just like the ACC Championship. The world will scoff. We get no credit, no benefit of the doubt. No choice but to just go out and win. I bet our Longhorn boys know this and are worried.
Check the reaction of the guy closest to the screen once VT is revealed:
Sooooooo good. Hopefully the boys can rest up and come out swinging.
And the guy second from right at the end of the video. Crossed arms is a defensive posture.
I don't know where to put this, but if you missed any of our ACC tourney games (or just wanted a re-watch or two) this Youtube channel has them all in their entirety. It looks like they have ALL the conference tourney games this year so you'll have to search for VT in particular.
The Key Play women's bracket competition has been opened on ESPN. Password LOLUVA
We are definitely in one of the two weakest regions. Kentucky is a tough out, but Purdue and Baylor are probably the worst 1 and 3 seeds.
Man I think Purdue is pretty good. Baylor will have a rough time though after all their injuries
Purdue always looks good on paper every year but has only made the Elite 8 once in the last decade.
They have major defensive issues this season, especially on the perimeter.
It's not like they're playing a top 3 3pt% shooting team in the nation....
Oh....
They are...
to be fair, Purdue is also an elite 3pt% team
But our 3pt defense is 100 places higher than theirs
Really!? I thought Midwest looked super easy. Most talking heads have said east looks toughest
That's because of VT.
VT wins the championship. It's simple math.
For real though, algebracket is a pretty cool site. For those who haven't seen it you can use sliders at the bottom to adjust what statistics you deem important and it predicts the results above.
If the stars align it could be a Lancer-Hokie championship game. That would be totally awesome for me!!
I think two things held true for the committee this year:
1) They pretty much ignored all the "advanced metrics" and only went by strength of resume rankings
2) They stopped caring once the conference tournaments started
If you look at Torvik's Teamsheet Ranks, I sorted by the average of two resume-based rankings - ESPN's SOR and the KPI. Shuffle a few teams around based on where they likely were before championship week (lower Tennessee before they won the SEC, etc.) and it matches up with the bracket quite a bit.
I don't mind the ignoring of conference tournaments for the most part. A lot of fans bitching about not getting in (see: aTm) probably sucked most of the rest of the year when it counted, and just because their team is playing a little better now they think they deserve it.
Let's face it, that would be us if we lost to Duke, but just because we won 11 of 14 games at the end of the season doesn't make up for our shittiness the first half of the season.
It was 13 wins of the last 16 if you want to include the last 3 losses. I'd say 16 games is a very good sample size when the season is 35 games so far. But I agree the first half was super shitty. Change 2 out of the 3 of Memphis Xavier and Dayton and we are easily in the tourney with a much higher seed.
I disagree with this method. What if you have a young team that took half a season to gel but played like champions the last half. What if injuries or Covid derailed part of your season but you recovered. In looking for teams most likely to perform well in a tourney, wouldn't you want to see which teams perform best in a tournament style back to back games?
I agree. A span of 12 to 15 games at the end of the season showing you have improved and remain consistent winning 80% of those games should count for something vs judging a team that lost some at the beginning of the season figuring things out.
If rather have mediocre record teams that are playing their best basketball in the tournament as opposed to mediocre teams limping in relying on a strong early season record vs scrub teams.
It makes sense logistically this way, but you can't just disregard the first half of the season as if it were scrimmages. And if you weigh the 2nd half of the season more, you need to do that for all teams.
Genuinely think it's fucked that teams who earned an auto qualifier have to play a play in game. At larges should be the ones playing the play in games if you qualify automatically you should be in the first round.
The four play-in games are for the four lowest rated auto-qualifiers (the sixteen seeds), and then the four lowest at larges (the eleven/twelve seeds). It kind of sucks for the sixteens, even though they can then technically claim NCAA tourney wins.
It probably makes sense, just to make the eight lowest at larges play for those eleven/twelve seeds, but I'm guessing since that those sixteen seed play-ins already existed, they just backdoored those other two play-ins.
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2022-03-15/first-four-ncaa-tournament-ultimate-guide
Remember a UCLA team who made a final four run last year? I sure do, remember what their seed was? 11. LETS GOOOO
I can think of quite a few 11 seeds from the past 15 years that made a Final Four run....four of them actually
They also started in the first four.
Anyone watching Ind-Wyo?
Wyoming is woefully bad offensively. More Turnovers than made FG.
They belong nowhere near the NCAA Tournament.
The fact that Lunardi had them ahead of us for most of this week, and had we not beaten Duke, they may have made the tournament while we got left at home is an absolute joke.
Indiana is not much to look at either.
Yeah that was my impression that they both looked really bad. I think us ND Miami Wake etc would've wiped the floor with either team tonight. The ACC might surprise in the tourney, or could've just been an off night for both teams tn
It was interesting that we are a 11 seed, but Joey "Brackets" thinks we might be a sweet 16 type of team.
Source: me
The B1G and SEC (best conference ever) has lost its games in ncaaT snd NIT so far vs ACC schools.