Chalks having a field day

[Lennys Tap]

Two rounds into the "It's a crapshoot, all luck, doesn't prove anything" NCAA tournament, the #1, 2 and 3 seeds are a combined 24-0. Two 4s have lost - Kansas, to the team (5th seed Auburn) that deserved the 4 in their region, and Kansas St., who played without its best player.

When the games are most important the best teams are generally the best prepared.

#Cream rises #Crapshoot full of crap

Sorry Tower - great minds think alike - sometimes even simultaneously!

[tower912]

Beat you by two minutes.  Great minds....

[Pakuni]

Two rounds into the "It's a crapshoot, all luck, doesn't prove anything" NCAA tournament, the #1, 2 and 3 seeds are a combined 24-0. Two 4s have lost - Kansas, to the team (5th seed Auburn) that deserved the 4 in their region, and Kansas St., who played without its best player.

When the games are most important the best teams are generally the best prepared.

#Cream rises #Crapshoot full of crap

Sorry Tower - great minds think alike - sometimes even simultaneously!

It's only the second time in NCAA Tournament history that all the 1,2 and 3 seeds have advanced to the second weekend, so I wouldn't dance on the graves of the crapshooters just yet.
It was, after all, only a year ago that six of the top 12 seeds didn't survive the first weekend. Bad cream, maybe?

[Lennys Tap]

It's only the second time in NCAA Tournament history that all the 1,2 and 3 seeds have advanced to the second weekend, so I wouldn't dance on the graves of the crapshooters just yet.
It was, after all, only a year ago that six of the top 12 seeds didn't survive the first weekend. Bad cream, maybe?

Of course there are upsets, just as there are in the regular season. And IMO the committee frequently does a poor job of seeding because to them a game in November means as much as one in February or March. The best teams usually win conferences championships. Not always. Pretty much everyone last year knew that national champ Villanova was a better team than conference champ Xavier before they proved in both the Big East and NCAA tournaments. Does that mean that conference standings are a crapshoot? To me it just means that whatever the format the best team only usually wins. Not always.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

The format of the tournament is the biggest crapshoot in all major sports. That doesn't necessarily mean the results will be a crapshoot.

[willie warrior]

Two rounds into the "It's a crapshoot, all luck, doesn't prove anything" NCAA tournament, the #1, 2 and 3 seeds are a combined 24-0. Two 4s have lost - Kansas, to the team (5th seed Auburn) that deserved the 4 in their region, and Kansas St., who played without its best player.

When the games are most important the best teams are generally the best prepared.

#Cream rises #Crapshoot full of crap

Sorry Tower - great minds think alike - sometimes even simultaneously!

Exactly. And we had plenty of important games down the stretch and crapped everywhere. A further indictment of zwojo.

[Cheeks]

Yes, this year, so far things holding to form.....this may be one of the rare years where the best team actually wins.

Of course, Duke by one inch goes from advancing to being another of the #1 seeds and overall favorite to crash and burn....but they live another day.  I still say that will ultimately happen, and again the anointed "best" team will not win it all.

Mark Few, Coach K, etc, aren't wrong. It's a crapshoot.  They would know best, they participate in it each year.

[burger]

Chalk until now......

Now it gets fun......

Got a chance.....

Virginia wins.....Auburn gets to the final 4.....T Tech and Duke.....are my 4.....Duke almost better if they go out.....

Big pay day if this one hits....

[Cheeks]

Two rounds into the "It's a crapshoot, all luck, doesn't prove anything" NCAA tournament, the #1, 2 and 3 seeds are a combined 24-0. Two 4s have lost - Kansas, to the team (5th seed Auburn) that deserved the 4 in their region, and Kansas St., who played without its best player.

When the games are most important the best teams are generally the best prepared.

#Cream rises #Crapshoot full of crap

Sorry Tower - great minds think alike - sometimes even simultaneously!