8th Seed for 2011

[HoopsMalone]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology


Lunardi has us as an 8 seed to start the year.  Still a 65 team tourney for this projection.

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

Meaningless as this is, it sure would be nice to play in the United Center in the 1st 2 rounds in 2011 

[wojosdojo]

Meaningless as this is, it sure would be nice to play in the United Center in the 1st 2 rounds in 2011 

With the UC being a fourth the distance to the BC I'd be going pretty crazy... and I'm sure know that crowd would too. Id be nice to finally play close to home and not head out west!

[2012 Warrior]

anyone else find it funny UW has a chance to play Cornell again only in the second round?

[wadefan#1]

Last year we were 7 spots better than projected. I wonder if we can do that next year.

[flash]

He has Notre Dame as a 6 seed??? Wow that is BS.  They could seriously graduate their entire team and still be preseason top 25.  It baffles me how much they get overrated every year.  It makes me sick.  I hate Notre Dame

[APieperFan3]

not to mention how they gobble up my NBC channel on saturdays during the fall...just gross

but always good to see them tally up in the L column!...no matter what the sport

[Buzz Williams' Spillproof Chiclets Cup]

He has Notre Dame as a 6 seed??? Wow that is BS.  They could seriously graduate their entire team and still be preseason top 25.  It baffles me how much they get overrated every year.  It makes me sick.  I hate Notre Dame

^This. +1.

[Dawson Rental]

He has Notre Dame as a 6 seed??? Wow that is BS.  They could seriously graduate their entire team and still be preseason top 25.  It baffles me how much they get overrated every year.  It makes me sick.  I hate Notre Dame

Now, now, I know it feels like a kick in the groin, but remember that what you're experiencing  is a perfectly natural and healthy reaction to a continuing injustice of monumental proportions.  Just picture yourself cheering like hell against them, and I guarantee that you will begin to feel better.

[brewcity77]

Last year we were 7 spots better than projected. I wonder if we can do that next year.

My thoughts exactly. #1 seed in the Midwest regional, please 

[State Street Warrior]

96 team field of bracketology was released.  We would play the winner of UTEP and Lehigh.  13 Big East schools in the field.

[ChicosBailBonds]

96 team field of bracketology was released.  We would play the winner of UTEP and Lehigh.  13 Big East schools in the field.

Number 1 seeds having to play real games in their first games.  Purdue against Cornell.  Ouch.  Baylor against Siena.  Duke against Alabama. 

I disagree strongly with Lunardi that this is how the tournament would expand by putting that many teams, say, from the Big East.  Just apply the .500 conference record rule and it kills that notion immediately, but we'll see how they do it....if they do it.  Still some talk of going to 68 but that won't get the NCAA the revenue it needs.

92% of all NCAA revenue comes from the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament television contract.

[muhoosier260]

92% of all NCAA revenue comes from the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament television contract.

huh? how about football?

[State Street Warrior]

Number 1 seeds having to play real games in their first games.  Purdue against Cornell.  Ouch.  Baylor against Siena.  Duke against Alabama. 

I disagree strongly with Lunardi that this is how the tournament would expand by putting that many teams, say, from the Big East.  Just apply the .500 conference record rule and it kills that notion immediately, but we'll see how they do it....if they do it.  Still some talk of going to 68 but that won't get the NCAA the revenue it needs.

92% of all NCAA revenue comes from the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament television contract.

Even if you take out teams that were not at or above .500 then the Big East had 10 last year, and could very well have it again, you can't think Depaul will recover quick enough to steal that many wins (ouch, painful memories) and a few other teams will win just 3-5.  Look at Rutgers (who just granted Rosario the release btw) they will be lucky to win 4 games in confrence.  Given several other confrences do not have as many weak teams but still, LSU, Miami, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Iowa, Iowa State.  I don't think many of those teams will win a ton of games so lots of major confrence teams will be right there at the .500 mark.

[Litehouse]

huh? how about football?

The BCS is not the NCAA.  Most of the football money goes directly to the schools and conferences, not the NCAA.

[ChicosBailBonds]

huh? how about football?

As I've said here time and time again here on this board, the NCAA does NOT control DI football.


Quote from NCAA Annual report...."Approximately 90% of the operating budget of the NCAA comes directly or indirectly from the television rights and marketing fees (primarily the broadcast agreement with CBS related to
Division I Men’s Basketball Championship)."


The monies from college football go to the conferences and the individual schools.  The NCAA does not run DI football, they are a body that was not designed to do this and do not control those interests.  The BCS, the conferences, the networks essentially control DI football.  The NCAA runs the playoffs \ championships for all other aspects of college football, but not DI FCS.

[SacWarrior]

If there is a 96 team tourney I can't wait to see Notre Dame get beaten by Sacramento State in the opening round.

[JimmyLikesBasketball]

MU gets an 8 seed in Lunardi's 96-team bracket!!! 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/bracket?id=5071629

[pillardean]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology


Lunardi has us as an 8 seed to start the year.  Still a 65 team tourney for this projection.

This has to be the most ridiculous thing I could imagine, it's not even the end of April.  The Spring Signing period has just begun and we have bracketology for the 2011 tournament?  Jeez...

[muhoosier260]

As I've said here time and time again here on this board, the NCAA does NOT control DI football.


Quote from NCAA Annual report...."Approximately 90% of the operating budget of the NCAA comes directly or indirectly from the television rights and marketing fees (primarily the broadcast agreement with CBS related to
Division I Men’s Basketball Championship)."


The monies from college football go to the conferences and the individual schools.  The NCAA does not run DI football, they are a body that was not designed to do this and do not control those interests.  The BCS, the conferences, the networks essentially control DI football.  The NCAA runs the playoffs \ championships for all other aspects of college football, but not DI FCS.

gotcha

[RawdogDX]

This has to be the most ridiculous thing I could imagine, it's not even the end of April.  The Spring Signing period has just begun and we have bracketology for the 2011 tournament?  Jeez...

Could you imagine a midget, dressed like a samurai, doing a headstand while yodeling?  Cause that is probably more ridiculous.

[warriors1991]

Could you imagine a midget, dressed like a samurai, doing a headstand while yodeling?  Cause that is probably more ridiculous.

Lunardi is a pretty small guy but to call him a midget is a bit much.......

But I agree with Rawdog. The absurdity of talking bracketology in April is baffling. I know we all here at muscoop can't get enough MU bball but come on already.......

[HoopsMalone]

But I agree with Rawdog. The absurdity of talking bracketology in April is baffling. I know we all here at muscoop can't get enough MU bball but come on already.......

If hoops fanatics like us will click on it, ESPN gets to charge more for ads.  If ESPN knows a way to get ad money, they will post a bracket in April and take that cash flow.

[T-Bone]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13165827

6th seed facing Washing or the Gauchos.

[Lacrosse218]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13165827

6th seed facing Washing or the Gauchos.

I think this was just a mock bracket of this years tourney had there been 96 teams in it.