What a crappy draw!
Duke ,a 6 ,we are an 8 ,hosed again
We have to play Michigan state, then if we manage to win that game, we get to play North Carolina essentially on the road..... >:(
izzo v crean
terrible
GIANT penalty for McNeal getting hurt. They are clearly assuming he's done for the year.
What a fvckin crock of shi+!
I'll be extremely happy if we manage to beat MSU......the thought of playing UNC in North Carolina in the second round is making me queasy.
We will take it to MSU before being crushed by North Carolina.
Man we get screwed just about every year.
word is out. McNeal wont play. Lets face it, without him we are an 8 seed----if that
Even with the McNeal factor, Duke a 6 and us an 8. Effing crock.
thats a bunch of bs, i can't believe that, an 8 seed?!?! and of all places in nc with a possible match up vs unc...wtf was the committee thinking. lets just go put some 5 year olds on the committee, i'm sure they would do just as good a job.
we got the shaft. i can't believe some of the teams seated a couple spots higher than us. Crean vs Izzo baby, it's going to be crazy. in round 2, i hope hansbourgh watches out for burke's sharp elbows.
B*LLSH*T!!! What a friggin joke. ??? >:(
nuts and bolts...nuts and bolts...
Is the selectino community even supposed to take injured players into consideration when the seed teams? And how do they know McNeal won't play?
McNeal or no McNeal, an 8 seed is a travesty.
Absolutely terrible. We are just better than Purdue or Az? Thank God we beat Pitt and St Johns or we would have been out.
Pretty obvious the committee thought Big East was a joke and the Big 10 was a great conference. No Syracuse and us an 8 seed unreal friggen real.
No West Virginia either
About the only bright side about this is that we don't have to wait for the NIT bracket to come out.
What a total hose job. 10 wins in the BE, 21 RPI, and we get an 8. Unreal. Losing 5 out of our last 8 really did us in.
Edit: I couldn't remember, and my wife said we lost 6 of 8. Moral: Never trust a woman. ;D
Yeah, but Duke? The same Duke team we kicked the crap out of on a neutral court? A six, the same as Louisville, which right now is 15-20 points better than them???
The conference got jobbed across the board.
Our late season struggles and McNeal's injury sure didn't help things either, and yes, thank God we beat Pitt and St. John's or else it looks like we would be going to the NIT.
As you know, I know the right words.Use your imagination.***************. I rest my case.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 11, 2007, 05:43:08 PM
About the only bright side about this is that we don't have to wait for the NIT bracket to come out.
What a total hose job. 10 wins in the BE, 21 RPI, and we get an 8. Unreal. Losing 6 out of our last 8 really did us in.
Except we didn't lose 6 of our last 8. We lost 5 of our last 8 and went 5-5 in the last 10. Some of these seedings are just incredible.
nice job, NCAA. Not that it will matter one iota to the tax-exempt a-holes in their front office (and it shouldn't), but I will not watch one second of their let-sell-tickets Dance. Good riddance.
If we got hosed so bad, we should have no problem taking out MSU. Quit whining and go and win a game for once in the tourney.
Gee, seven posts. Hope they were all as inspirational. Thanks for the wisdom.
Way to be NCAA--now tell me again how many dinners Coach K takes you out to a week? Your blatant lack of objectivity makes me want to gag on a spoon. I don't know what else we have to do to get higher than an 8 seed when we've been basically in the top 25 all year..... same as Duke. Bleck!
former cusa comissioner who was on the committee. I agree with our seeding but just want to make this point known
Quote from: WhereisGeraldPosey on March 11, 2007, 05:55:13 PM
If we got hosed so bad, we should have no problem taking out MSU. Quit whining and go and win a game for once in the tourney.
We'll beat Michigan St. That is not the point. The point is we now have to play NC at NC which will be impossible. A better more deserving seed would at least gave us some hope for the Sweet 16.
Joke seeds:
Duke-6 With an 8-9 conference record, and we beat them. They should have been a 9 or 10.
Butler-5 They got hot and won a PRESEASON tournament, including wins over ND before they came around and Gonzaga who was overrated even then. Then they finished SECOND in the Horizon League and SECOND in the tournament, losing to 14-seed Wright St. TWICE. It's actually a joke they were included and Syracuse was left out, not to mention giving them a 5 seed. The selection committee should be fired just for this. If they actually wanted to make sense they could have switched us with Butler, but an 8 for Butler would have still been too high. It's a joke that this team, which will lose to a better Old Dominion team, is rated higher than us and Louisville.
Indiana-7 Not a horrible mistake like last year's 6 seed when they were a bubble team. But their only notable win is against Wisconsin. Any tournament team should beat Michigan State and Purdue at home. They also lost the first game of their conference tournament to Illinois. Again, looking at the name of the school more than anything.
Syracuse is better than all of these teams: Arizona, Purdue, Butler, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Villanova, Illinois, Southern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan State, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, BYU, Xavier, Tennessee, Stanford, Nevada, and maybe even Marquette. Maybe one or two or those are exagerrations, but they have a reasonable case, and probably an edge, over more than half of the at-large teams. Using that logic we should be grateful the joke of a committee even included us in the tournament. How the Big East gets only one more bid than the Big Eleven I don't know.
Quote from: WhereisGeraldPosey on March 11, 2007, 05:55:13 PM
If we got hosed so bad, we should have no problem taking out MSU. Quit whining and go and win a game for once in the tourney.
I think MSU is a dangerous team... its not that fact, but how do you explain Duke a 6 and MU an 8.... it makes no sense... and if your a Badger fan, have fun not making the sweet 16 with the "best team ever assembled at Madison", then have fun in the NIT next year.
Back to this year, the tourney committee really screwed up, not just Marquette, but all over... Drexel AND Cuse should be in before Illinois or Purdue, ND shouldnt be a 6 seed, neither should Louisville.... Texas should be higher, obviously upset about Marquette's place
seems like the committee put every ACC team in their best spot available... Virginia gets a 4 seed, VT a 5, Duke a 6, Maryland a 4(thats a joke)
We got screwed.... IU gets a 7 seed.... What a f^^^in joke.
Ok, the selection committee isn't as big a fan of MU as us. But we are in. The only one keeping us from advancing is ourselves. Lets play with a chip on our shoulders. We still owe Roy Williams for the blow out when He was at Kansas in the Final Four.
Quote from: NCMUFan on March 11, 2007, 07:27:00 PM
Ok, the selection committee isn't as big a fan of MU as us. But we are in. The only one keeping us from advancing is ourselves. Lets play with a chip on our shoulders. We still owe Roy Williams for the blow out when He was at Kansas in the Final Four.
If the players are as p*ssed as me and most others on this board than hopefully they take it to court whip some serious butt in Michigan St and NC.
ecompt sorry we can't all spend all of our time on message boards like you and have over 200 posts, give the guy a break.
Quote from: mufanatic on March 11, 2007, 06:14:24 PM
Quote from: WhereisGeraldPosey on March 11, 2007, 05:55:13 PM
If we got hosed so bad, we should have no problem taking out MSU. Quit whining and go and win a game for once in the tourney.
We'll beat Michigan St. That is not the point. The point is we now have to play NC at NC which will be impossible. A better more deserving seed would at least gave us some hope for the Sweet 16.
Assuming UNC gets past Eastern Kentucky that is... could be the first #1 seed upset in the first round! ;D
ok - so I am dreaming.. but if it did happen, Eastern Kentucky would almost assuredly be out of gas the next day against us 8) no no.. don't wake me yet.. this is a nice delusion to get me through the next few days.. anyone know where I can get any Eastern Kentucky fan gear?
dont understand the panic. Did we want to reach the sweet 16 by playing cupcakes or did we want to earn it?
Unbelievable. How can the committee honestly say that we deserved a better seed last year than we did this year? Any way you look at it what we did this year warranted at least a six seed. Let's prove them wrong this weekend.
Quote from: mviale on March 11, 2007, 09:59:34 PM
dont understand the panic. Did we want to reach the sweet 16 by playing cupcakes or did we want to earn it?
Ill take the sweet sixteen with cupcakes, would be lovely :)