2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament.

[Picklerick 2.0]

Don't blame Purdue, you're the one who made the picks. If you thought they were "trash" you should not have picked them.

Seems odd to be white knighting a one seed that got bitch slapped by a 16.

 

[Ron G]

Seems odd to be white knighting a one seed that got bitch slapped by a 16.

As Lou Holtz once said when tied at half time of game in which Notre Dame was a prohibitive favorite. "They give scholarships at that school too"

 

[PhilSimms11]

Double digit seeds have reached the Sweet 16 a lot (36 of 38)...
1985--(11)Auburn, (11)Boston College, (12)Kentucky
1986--(11)LSU, (12)DePaul, (14)Cleveland St
1987--(10)LSU, (12)Wyoming
1988--(11)Rhode Island, (13)Richmond
1989--(11)Minnesota
1990--(10)Texas, (11)LMU, (12)Ball St
1991--(10)Temple, (11)UConn, (12)Eastern Wash
1992--(12)New Mexico St
1993--(12)George Washington
1994--(10)Maryland, (12)Tulsa
1995--None
1996--(12)Arkansas
1997--(10)Providence, (10)Texas, (14)Chattanooga
1998--(10)West Virginia, (11)Washington, (13)Valpo
1999--(10)Gonzaga, (10)Miami-OH, (10)Purdue, (12)SW Mo St, (13)Oklahoma
2000--(10)Gonzaga, (10)Seton Hall
2001--(10)Georgetown, (11)Temple, (12)Gonzaga
2002--(10)Kent St, (11)So Illinois, (12)Missouri
2003--(10)Auburn, (12)Butler
2004--(10)Nevada
2005--(10)NC St, (12)Milwaukee
2006--(11)George Mason, (13)Bradley
2007--None
2008--(10)Davidson, (12)Villanova, (12)Western Kentucky
2009--(12)Arizona
2010--(10)St Mary's, (11)Washington, (12)Cornell
2011--(10)Florida St, (11)Marquette, (11)VCU, (12)Richmond
2012--(10)Xavier, (11)NC St, (13)Ohio
2013--(12)Oregon, (13)LaSalle, (15)Florida Gulf Coast
2014--(10)Stanford, (11)Dayton, (11)Tennessee
2015--(11)UCLA
2016--(10)Syracuse, (11)Gonzaga
2017--(11)Xavier
2018--(11)Loyola Chicago, (11)Syracuse
2019--(12)Oregon
2020--No tournament
2021--(11)Syracuse, (11)UCLA, (12)Oregon St, (15)Oral Roberts
2022--(10)Miami, (11)Iowa St, (11)Michigan, (15)St Peter's
2023--(15)Princeton

 

[Anointed One]

Gonzaga going to their 8th straight sweet 16 is pretty dang impressive... UCLA vs Gonzaga should be a great game... Zags have won the last two contests in the tournament against the Bruins...

 

[Ickey Shuffle]

Gonzaga going to their 8th straight sweet 16 is pretty dang impressive... UCLA vs Gonzaga should be a great game... Zags have won the last two contests in the tournament against the Bruins...

The way Gonzaga manipulate the seeding each year is pretty dang impressive indeed.

 

[jwolt92]

The way Gonzaga manipulate the seeding each year is pretty dang impressive indeed.

You mean the team that has finished top 10 KenPom every year back to 2016? Crazy how they're always highly seeded. Just say you know nothing about college basketball and leave it at that. You pay attention for 4 weeks out of the year and act like you know it all but really you just come across as one of the dumbest people in this thread and there's some solid competition

 

[Anointed One]

The way Gonzaga manipulate the seeding each year is pretty dang impressive indeed.

They still win two games in a row to get the sweet 16. Every other team can’t say that over the last eight years.

 

[Ickey Shuffle]

White Knighting for the king of creampuffs that's avoiding a major conference. Lol how adorable.

 

[jwolt92]

White Knighting for the king of creampuffs that's avoiding a major conference. Lol how adorable.

You can quote me pussy. But since you can't come up with an actual argument, I'll just assume you aren't smart enough to do it

 

[PhilSimms11]

Sweet 16
(1)Alabama (31-5) vs (5)San Diego St (29-6)
(6)Creighton (23-12) vs (15)Princeton (23-8)

(4)Tennessee (25-10) vs (9)FAU (33-3)
(3)Kansas St (25-9) vs (7)Michigan St (21-12)

(1)Houston (31-5) vs (5)Miami (27-7)
(2)Texas (28-8) vs (3)Xavier (27-9)

(4)UConn (27-8) vs (8)Arkansas (22-13)
(2)UCLA (31-5) vs (6)Gonzaga (30-5)

 

[PhilSimms11]

Sweet 16
(1)Alabama (31-5) vs (5)San Diego St (29-6)
(6)Creighton (23-12) vs (15)Princeton (23-8)

(4)Tennessee (25-10) vs (9)FAU (33-3)
(3)Kansas St (25-9) vs (7)Michigan St (21-12)

(1)Houston (33-3) vs (5)Miami (27-7)
(2)Texas (28-8) vs (3)Xavier (27-9)

(4)UConn (27-8) vs (8)Arkansas (22-13)
(2)UCLA (31-5) vs (6)Gonzaga (30-5)

Fixed it.

 

[Montalban]

Go Princeton. So nice to see basketball played the right way. Love to see white dudes dominate.

 

[Wamu]

Gonzaga going to their 8th straight sweet 16 is pretty dang impressive... UCLA vs Gonzaga should be a great game... Zags have won the last two contests in the tournament against the Bruins...

That should be a helluva game. Both teams have players that have played in a Final Four.

 

[Wamu]

White Knighting for the king of creampuffs that's avoiding a major conference. Lol how adorable.

Purdue's a terrible 3-point shooting team. And it caught up to them at the worst time.

32.7%

That ranks # 281 in the country.

 

[Tainthappening]

White Knighting for the king of creampuffs that's avoiding a major conference. Lol how adorable.

Gonzago always has tough non-conference schedule

They were 3-1 vs remaining Sweet 16 teams (Beat Alabama, Xavier, MSU / Lost to Texas)

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Gonzago always has tough non-conference schedule

They were 3-1 vs remaining Sweet 16 teams (Beat Alabama, Xavier, MSU / Lost to Texas)

Yea with Hoops conference doesn't matter as much.

Houston had an SOS of roughly 90. Not good by major conf standards but they've been tested.

Played Bama close

Beat st Mary's, Virginia, oral Robert's in non conf.

 

[lilchi721]

Gonna be interesting going forward

 

[PIBuckeye]

As Lou Holtz once said when tied at half time of game in which Notre Dame was a prohibitive favorite. "They give scholarships at that school too"

great way to put it.

parity is escalating as the years go by. but I still say there is a failure of recruiting the right kids at the bigger schools, and coaching failures. sorry, not sorry. I still say with the facilities teams have like OSU, Duke, NC, and a dozen others, it's ludicrous that these teams are not having the success they should have. not saying there shouldn't be cinderellas, but the failures of the big boys should not be happening to this degree.

look at purdue. good team. but they thought the answer to everything was Edey. nope. Their terrible guards were exposed. It's a damn shame. I can't count how many teams have/had a better guard pair than the boilermakers. Teams started to notice this and exposed it.

 

[PhilSimms11]

2023 marks the first tournament without a 1-seed in the Elite Eight.

There will be a completely different Final Four this season.
Duke--2nd round
Kansas--2nd round
No Carolina--DNQ
Villanova--DNQ

First time since 2011 without a 1-seed in Final Four.

 

[UK Cowboy]

Texas looks like the beat team to me

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

No 1 seeds in the elite eight.