Another year no NCAA tournament....no reason to play this year

[ChicosBailBonds]

Joe has spoken.....

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/337



On the bright side, 4ever and Tower can watch their favorite coach in Milwaukee.

[Stretchdeltsig]

Awful post.  You must have to much time on your hands.

[bilsu]

Virginia Tech in as a 12

[jsglow]

By implication he has us at BEST a 7th place BEast team with the bottom 4 being MU, GTown, DePaul and St John's.

[Herman Cain]

By implication he has us at BEST a 7th place BEast team with the bottom 4 being MU, GTown, DePaul and St John's.

I think he picked 5 teams, Providence was left out as well. So we would be at best 6th.

[CTWarrior]

I think he picked 5 teams, Providence was left out as well. So we would be at best 6th.

But he had Providence in first 4 out, which puts us back in 7-10 range.

[MomofMUltiples]

Can't imagine why this is even a thing, months before any games are played. Sure, you can look at makeup of teams and roughly rank them, but NCAA brackets in June? There is such a thing as too much analysis.

[MU82]

I applaud Chicos for playing this straight and not putting anything in teal.

[Dawson Rental]

Awful post.  You must have to much time on your hands.

Except in rare circumstances, this is as good as it gets as far as early June basketball news goes.  Lunardi only puts out this too early prediction because there's a market for it.

[4everwarriors]

Joe has spoken.....

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/337



On the bright side, 4ever and Tower can watch their favorite coach in Milwaukee.

I may go just ta watch da mofo go down, hey?

[Dawson Rental]

I may go just ta watch da mofo go down, hey?

Crean sucks

[jsglow]

But he had Providence in first 4 out, which puts us back in 7-10 range.

Bingo.

[Jay Bee]

Can't imagine why this is even a thing, months before any games are played. Sure, you can look at makeup of teams and roughly rank them, but NCAA brackets in June? There is such a thing as too much analysis.

Marketing.

Small minds love to debate this sh1t.

Go to January projections... conference season in full swing... and compare to actual bracket. It's sad and stupid.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Awful post.  You must have to much time on your hands.

Well, it was almost 11:00pm.  I hope he's wrong and I say, let's play the season anyway.  How about it gang?


It's also June and means nothing, which I thought my sarcastic post made clear.   

[bilsu]

I forgot about Georgetown. I think they will be the third best team in the league.

[brandx]

Awful post.  You must have to much time on your hands.

Chicas and Waldo Jeffers should meet up. They would have lots to talk about.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I forgot about Georgetown. I think they will be the third best team in the league.

Why?

[The Equalizer]

Marketing.

Small minds love to debate this sh1t.

Go to January projections... conference season in full swing... and compare to actual bracket. It's sad and stupid.

I thought it would be interesting to actually compare Lunardi's August 5 pre-season projection last year (the earliest I saw posted at the ESPN site) to the actual tournament field.

It turns out he does a decent job picking the field (if not the exact seed) for the first 12 seeds, and terrible for seeds 13-16. Two teams he picked became ineligible for the tournament subsequent to his 8/5 projection and likely would have made the tournament (SMU and Louisville), so I don't know if you can fault him for that..

I guess people can quibble over projecting Villanova a 3 seed and seeing them finish as a #1, or picking Kentucky as a #1 only to have them a #4 in the tournament, and so forth.  I wouldn't view that as a huge miss--I'll give him credit for being directionally correct making a projection seven months down the line.
 
Draw your own conclusions:

Lunardi's 8/5 seed		Actual NCAA seed
1	UNC	1
1	Kentucky	4
1	Kansas	1
1	Maryland	5
2	Virgina	1
2	Iowa State	4
2	Oklahoma	2
2	Duke	4
3	Villanova	1
3	Indiana	5
3	Gonzaga	11
3	Wichita State	11
4	Wisconsin	7
4	Michigan State	2
4	Arizona	6
4	California	4
5	LSU	out
5	ND	6
5	SMU	out*
5	Louisville	out*
6	Michigan	11
6	Georgetown	out
6	Baylor	5
6	Utah	3
7	Butler	9
7	Texas A&M	3
7	Miami	3
7	NC State	out
8	Texas	6
8	Cincy	9
8	Purdue	5
8	WVU	3
9	UCLA	Out
9	Xavier	2
9	Fla State	Out
9	Vanderbilt	11
10	SDSU	out
10	Dayton	7
10	UCOnn	9
10	Oregon	1
11	Syr	10
11	Georgia/URI	out/out
11	MU	out
11	Tulsa	11
12	ODU	out
12	Buffal	14
12	SF Austin	14
12	Arkansas/Ore St	out/7
13	Yale	12
13	Murray State	out
13	Valpo	out
13	Iona	out
14	Wofford	out
14	LaLa	out
14	EWU	out
14	UC Irvine	out
15	Vermont	out
15	SDSU	out
15	NM State	out
15	Hofstra	out
16	Hampton/Lehigh	16
16	RM/Tex Southern	out/out
16	High Point	out
16	UNF	out

[DienerTime34]

We need to be patient and respect the process. In a few years we'll be back in the NCAA tournament, paving the way for Wojo to leave for Duke. Then we can go through the process again.

[Dawson Rental]

I thought it would be interesting to actually compare Lunardi's August 5 pre-season projection last year (the earliest I saw posted at the ESPN site) to the actual tournament field.

It turns out he does a decent job picking the field (if not the exact seed) for the first 12 seeds, and terrible for seeds 13-16.

So Marquette is making the tournament as a 13 to 16 seed.  Excellent.

[Bocephys]

So Marquette is making the tournament as a 13 to 16 seed.  Excellent.

Perfect slot for a mid major to pull an upset!

[T-Bone]

[Spotcheck Billy]

Chicas and Waldo Jeffers should meet up. They would have lots to talk about.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

[tower912]

Izzo is going to be in Milwaukee?

[bilsu]

Why?

I am assuming Georgetown did not lose any of the non seniors to transfer. They started out very strong last year and than crashed largely due to injuries. White was out the whole year with an injury. I like Govan. They should have a very good frontline. They are the opposite of MU in that their team has numerous frontline players and not a lot of guards. They lost Smith-Rivera, but I was not impressed with him. He disappeared a lot during games and then at the end of games would try to do to much.