Yes, typically the last four non-auto bids are roughly 40ish-60ish Kenpom/Sagarin/Net/Etc.
And so 11 makes sense as a rating spot.
16 seeds are often 100+ in these metrics.
Iām fine with half the play-in games being being at-large teams.
These teams are not good anyway and in some cases had outright disappointing seasons.
Let the little guys who won their conference get their shot at history.
The at-large play-ins being slotted into the 16 seed spot would fuck over the 1 seed that drew them hard.
2 of the one seeds getting Fairleigh Dickinson and SEMO and the other 2 getting Mississippi St and Arizona St would massively unbalanced.
Iād like all the play ins to be at large. Really make āem in their way in.
I wonder if the small conference champs like having a competitive game before getting led to slaughter or not. I donāt have that perspective.
At large at 11 is right.
Iām pretty sure thereās a win shares payout to the conferences per win, so the small conferences actually like the play in games because it gives them a realistic shot at grabbing one of those.
ok, I understand that, then why not make Az St and Miss St and their opponents 12s, 12s become 13sā¦and push all lower seeds down so that the 415s become two playins too (or something similar because not all 16s are playinsā¦)
The play in seed line varies year to year. Sometimes itās on 2 different seed lines.
The rough outline of how they do it is:
They take the 32 AQ Teams and then figure out the 36 At-Large teams.
The 4 worst At Large teams are slated for the At Large Play-In Games.
They then seed the Automatic Qualifiers. This year a lot of the Mid-Major teams were weaker, so conferences like the A10 (VCU), Sun Belt (Louisiana) and MVC (Drake) can grab a 7-10 seed. Those teams are all 12 or 13 seeds this year, but if they were seeded on better lines, the Play-In games would be a 12 or even 13 seed.
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ok, next question, I donāt follow college basketball much, but I am filling in the bracket for the contest at work INSTEAD of doing workāfor round 1, Iām only seeing one or two 20+ point line and one of the 5-12 lines is 3.5. Seems super competitive. Was it always like that or is there a lot more parity?
Thereās more parity now than a few decades ago.
5/12 games are often the best mid-majors against a middling major conference team. I think Murray St was favored as a 12 not that long ago.
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Rutgers showing the committee that it BELONGED.
They were a top 10 team per torvik in mid January but that was a precipitous fall.
LOL Virginia
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Virginia lost to a 16 seed, and yet managed to one-up the futility. YIKES
Kihei Clark now has the best and worst passes in NCAA tournament history. What a horrible way to end a great career.
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FU so hard Virginia
Itās the 5 year anniversary of the UMBC game.
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That play might surpass Webber timeout for sheer pants shitting. Webber at least had people yelling time out at him, was trapped, wasnāt playing FURMAN.
Nice start to the tourney!
lol amazing