Kolek planning to go pro
How does that work? Maybe we can play our first round game next year in Kenosha.
As I said elsewhere, we beat Creighton at CenturyLink. We beat Xavier at Cintas. We can beat SC at Greenville. Love to see Wojo coach against K
Surprised that no one mentioned WHY the game was played in S Carolina.It was moved because of the politics in N Carolina. Hate to say it, but Duke is the team that got screwed by this.Legalized discrimination = no tournament games.The same will occur next year if the law isn't changed.
Not to mention, North Carolina didn't pass a bill between Selection Sunday and the first day of the Tournament. The selection committee knew they were putting a 7 seed in South Carolina and absolutely could've avoided that.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
This. It was, and remains, complete BS. I love how in our postgame presser, someone asked the players how they felt about playing a road game, and if they felt jobbed. JJJ started to answer, and Wojo cut him off and said something like "We don't feel jobbed at all. We are happy to be a part of this tournament and we will play anywhere they send us. The NCAA does a great job." No way in the world he actually felt that, but he is the PC police.
Completely agree. It's actually pretty insane how often we've gotten jobbed on location the last 10 years.2017 - SC in Greenville2013 - Lexington against Davidson/Butler - fair, neutral location2012- Murray State in Kentucky in Round 2 (as the better seed)2011 - Xavier in Cleveland in Round 12010 - Washington in San Jose in Round 1 (as the better seed)2009 - Utah State in Boise in Round 1 (as the better seed)2008- Stanford in Anaheim in Round 2 (we were the worse seed, so whatever)That's as far back as my memory goes off the top of my head, but we've received some crap placement.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Top four seeds in a region are only protected from a potential home-crowd disadvantage for the first round games. While it sucks to have to be shipped out west so many years in a row, just because the other team is closer geographically doesn't mean that they have a home-crowd advantage. 2009 - a) Logan is 300+ miles from Boise b) OK and Memphis (#2) got preference to KC... if given the option to play in KC as a 7-seed or Boise as a 6-seed, I think most would choose Boise c) sure, swapping 6-seeds and putting MU in Mpls would have been great for MU, but then WVU would have been shipped out west.2010 - Seattle to San Jose is a day's drive (13 hours according to Google Maps).2011 - As an 11-seed, being slotted into Cleveland (next best to Chicago) is probably the best MU could have hoped for. Xavier is on the other side of Ohio any way, and they were the better seed, so no gripe there.2012 - Arguably, swapping the 3/6 pods in Columbus and Louisville (but leaving Belmont in Columbus) would have eliminated the potential second round home-crowd disadvantage for MU vs. Murray State, but as mentioned, that's not part of the committee's bracketing criteria. Georgetown was the #3 in Columbus, which was mildly better for them than Louisville, and MU had just beat them a week prior, so this "jobbing" may have some merit to it... but we beat Murray State rather than running into the buzzsaw of NC State like Georgetown did.2017 - In hindsight, this was bad. But after the selection, I saw SC as more of a 9 or 10-seed than a 7 considering how they ended the regular season. As a 10-seed, I'd much rather play another 10-seed on a quasi-home court than play an actual 7-seed on a truly neutral court... I bet most coaches would agree. Not to take away anything from SC, but I thought Duke was a vulnerable 2-seed, so I didn't have any issue with a potential 2nd round matchup with them in the Carolinas either... again, I'd rather play a weak 2-seed three hours from home than a much stronger #2 seed on a truly neutral court.
I don't think that's true. I've been listening to Gary Parrish's podcast with Matt Norlander since someone shared it on Scoop after MU beat Nova and they reference how much harder it is to beat a team on the road than it is at home. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like it's easier to beat the 20th ranked team at home than it is the 50th ranked team on the road, or something to that effect. There aren't 30 teams between a 7 and a 9/10 seed.
Well.. hopefully the committee took notice of the crowd in Greenville and considers that in the future. Even though the 10-seed doesn't deserve home-crowd protection, no 5-12 seed should be slotted into a pod an hour away from campus if it can be avoided.That said, if the NCAA nullified all of the results from this past weekend and decided that everyone keep their original seed but the first round was going to be rebracketed and replayed tomorrow, would you rather play Michigan or South Carolina in Greenville?
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
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