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KollegeHoops 2022

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 08 2022 07:12 PM

Blue Hens just qualified for the 1st time in 2 decades

whippoorwill Mar 09 2022 10:35 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Yay Delaware!

Willets Point Mar 09 2022 10:43 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

William & Mary extends their streak of never qualifying for the NCAA Tournament despite being a charter member of Division I to 73 years! Nerd schools represent!!!

MFS62 Mar 09 2022 11:20 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Last season, Yeshiva University had a 30-0 record, but the Division III post season tournament was cancelled because of the pandemic. This year, they finished 25-4, and were knocked out of the first round of the playoffs by Johns Hopkins University 59-63. There will be no Later

Frayed Knot Mar 12 2022 05:06 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Blue Hens just qualified for the 1st time in 2 decades And likely wii be rewarded with either a 16 seed or the even more insulting non-invite invite of a play-in game just to get to a 16 seed. For a tourney that likes to think of itself as the ultimate meritocracy, it sure like the skew things in favor of the power elite.

ashie62 Mar 18 2022 04:07 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Rutgers went down swinging at least. Was hoping Delaware could knock out Villanova. I'm rooting for little old St. Peters from here in.

Gwreck Mar 21 2022 09:53 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: And likely wii be rewarded with either a 16 seed or the even more insulting non-invite invite of a play-in game just to get to a 16 seed. For a tourney that likes to think of itself as the ultimate meritocracy, it sure like the skew things in favor of the power elite. What would have been a fair (or non-insulting) seeding for Delaware?

Edgy MD Mar 21 2022 11:03 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Yeah, the very nature of seeding is, by definition, openly skewing things in favor of the elite. But that's how tournament brackets usually are designed, in virtually any sport.

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 21 2022 11:23 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Except for this year's CPF World Series of Scrabble, a true meritocracy based on random confrontations and spelling

kcmets Mar 21 2022 11:31 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Haven't seen one dribble of any of the games yet. Forgot to do my pool, so with no 'action' I really couldn't give a flippin' poop about Tourney22.

Gwreck Mar 21 2022 01:24 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

There is also an inherent problem with the statement “For a tourney that likes to think of itself as the ultimate meritocracy…” How does a tournament “think” that? Who's said that - some TV announcer? President of the NCAA? An NYT columnist in 2010? More than a little context is needed. But again, the first question holds. What's the seeding or process that would be fair and non-insulting to Delaware?

Frayed Knot Mar 21 2022 04:35 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: And likely wii be rewarded with either a 16 seed or the even more insulting non-invite invite of a play-in game just to get to a 16 seed. For a tourney that likes to think of itself as the ultimate meritocracy, it sure like the skew things in favor of the power elite. What would have been a fair (or non-insulting) seeding for Delaware? Don't have a specific one in mind; I wasn't sure if they are from a conference that gets the non-invite invite or just the perpetual low seed. What I do know is that the small conferences reps (winners only even if there was a non-division winner that year with a great in-season record) have shown the ability to occasionally survive a round or two and might have the chance to do so a bit more often if their opening games weren't perpetually against the likes of Duke, Kentucky, Villanova, UNC. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. That's all bad enough, but then the expansion to 68 made it even worse as four of those conferences were essentially shunted off to the kiddies table of the play-in tourney so that only the two survivors can taint the real party with their presence and those are the one who have to travel, play, win, and then travel and play again and almost always against one of the blue bloods. The results are somewhere north of 95% predictable as it was set up to be and those results are then used to justify never improving where those teams are seeded in future years. All this while 'bubble' teams with bigger names -- usually 6th, 7th, 8th place also-rans in their league -- are given much better odds, even those teams which have to go through their own coin-flip game, by having those survivors face not top-four or top eight squads right off the bat but teams generally ranked somewhere in the top 25 or 30. Smaller conferences don't have to get upper-half seeds but I think it would be more interesting if slots a couple of notches up were reserved for division winners while letting the middling major conference teams have to fight from the last slots because they essentially were the last slots to get in. And it would be nice if the tournament expanding didn't actually constitute a reduction in the number of conferences who get a welcome mat.

Lefty Specialist Mar 25 2022 07:31 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

So, um, Saint Peters. Destroyers of brackets everywhere. Party in Jersey City tonight.

Edgy MD Mar 25 2022 08:51 PM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Best performance by a MAAC team in ever. Thing is, had I filled out a bracket, I totally would have taken them this far because I'm MAAC man.

MFS62 Mar 26 2022 06:10 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Lefty Specialist wrote: So, um, Saint Peters. Destroyers of brackets everywhere. Party in Jersey City tonight. The reporters are flooding the campus this morning and there are no students to interview. Did they expect any college student would be awake at 7:30 AM on a Saturday morning, especially after partying all night? Later

Lefty Specialist Mar 26 2022 06:26 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Purdue has 41,000 students. Saint Peters has 35,000 living alumni.

MFS62 Mar 28 2022 06:11 AM Re: KollegeHoops 2022

Lefty Specialist wrote: Purdue has 41,000 students. Saint Peters has 35,000 living alumni. North Carolina had 69 points. St. Peters had 49. Later