🏀 BRACKETOLOGY 2024-2025 : Bama enters as a two seed

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[#80]

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Yeah I don't see it especially looking at their remaining schedule. Unless 7-9 in conference gets in that would apply to UGA as well.

 

[mando]

Can't go .500 with seven games. I think we win tomorrow and the only home game we probably drop is vs Florida. At Mizzou has been a house of horrors for Oats, outside of the '22-'23 season. Unfortunately Oats has had issues with beating TN after starting 3-1 against them.

Yeah I get the .500 with 7 games but I could see 4-3 pretty easily.

 

[Bama News]

Where Alabama Lands on Selection Committee's Initial Top 16 NCAA Tournament Seeds

For the first time this season, the selection committee unveiled its top-16 seeds for March Madness if it started today.

www.si.com

For the first time this season, CBS Sports and TNT Sports, the broadcasting networks for the 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, unveiled the selection committee's top-16 seeds for March Madness.

NCAA Tournament selection committee chair Bubba Cunningham joined Adam Zucker, Clark Kellogg, Jay Wright and Seth Davis in the studio on Saturday to announce the official list if the college basketball season ended today. Each of these teams would be given a No. 1-4 seed among the four quadrants of the bracket. The top-4 teams would be 1-seeds, programs ranked 13-16 would earn 4-seeds and the 5-12 ranked squads would be the 2-3 seeds in between.

According to NCAA director of media coordination/statistics David Worlock, 84 percent of teams featured in the bracket preview have remained on the top four seed lines in the final bracket.

Alabama, which came into Saturday at No. 2 in the AP Top 25, received the same ranking among the top-16 seeds. If the season ended today, the Crimson Tide would be the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region.

Top 16 Seeds​

1. Auburn (1 seed, South Region)
2. Alabama (1 seed, Midwest Region)
3. Duke (1 seed, East Region)
4. Florida (1 seed, West Region)
5. Tennessee (2 seed, East)
6. Texas A&M (2 seed, South)
7. Purdue (2 seed, Midwest)
8. Houston (2 seed, West)
9. Iowa State (3 seed, Midwest
10. Kentucky (3 seed, West)
11. Wisconsin (3 seed, South)
12. Arizona (3 seed, East)
13. Texas Tech (4 seed, South)
14. Michigan, (4 seed, West)
15. Kansas (4 seed, Midwest)
16. St. John’s (4 seed, East)

 

[TerryP]

Kansas (4 seed, Midwest)

Top 16 team sitting at t5th in the Big 12. Three teams tied for that spot; Baylor has the tie-breaker over Kansas. BYU is the third facing Kansas tomorrow night.

About Kansas. Since the beginning of last season they are 18-14 in conference play: 10-7 against AP ranked teams.

I could have said "Since Self signed his lifetime contract." I'd follow that with, "where's the 'fire' gone?" He looks like, as they do at times, to be 'skating through to the bank.'

There's some good teams in that conference; no doubt led by Houston. They've had decent competition only to look at the last two years and see a few games over .500?

I can't help but compare ol' Bill here to Gregg at Wichita State. He got his money and they slipped into mediocrity.

 

[TerryP]

No change with Lunardi:

 

[TerryP]

Last week Jerry Palm had Bama as the 1 seed in the Midwest. Purdue was the two seed; it's now Tennessee.

There's one more bracket published: 87 now. Tennessee has dropped one spot (overall four last week) and has been replaced by Florida.

 

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

@Bammerboy321

 

[Bammerboy321]

@Bammerboy321

Watched them beat Creighton the other night. Unfortunately Kalkbrenner got injured. St. Johns is definitely one of the best teans in CBB.

 

[TerryP]

BYU is the third facing Kansas tomorrow night.

About Kansas. Since the beginning of last season they are 18-14 in conference play: 10-7 against AP ranked teams.

I could have said "Since Self signed his lifetime contract." I'd follow that with, "where's the 'fire' gone?" He looks like, as they do at times, to be 'skating through to the bank.'

I'm not a "Kansas hater." Simply put, I don't get enough "exposure" to feel one way or another. I did catch bits and pieces of this one last night. A conference game with a final result that looks like a game we'd see in late November against Kansas multi-directional West University.

Kansas' resume: Seven losses to unranked teams this season. And still in the top 25? A loss by 34?

'Awful' Kansas loses by 34, tied for Self's worst

At 34 points in margin, according to ESPN Research, struggling Kansas' 91-57 defeat at BYU Tuesday night in Provo, Utah, is tied for the worst loss under Bill Self, the longtime Jayhawks' coach, and the third-worst loss in the storied program's history.

www.espn.com

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On a realistic note: If I'm coaching a team in the dance and see we're about to face Kansas? About like seeing UCONN on the opponent line...I wouldn't be comfortable. There's too much talent for this team to be

 

[TerryP]

I get lost looking at stats; y'all know this.

I found this weird. In Tuesday's top 100 games only 10 saw a double-double.

In one of the threads from a few weeks ago I mentioned how Minnesota had caught my attention. At the time they were "killin' it" from outside the arc and on the free throw line. I suspect we're going to hear Ski-U-Mah more than a few times.

 

[TerryP]

I'm not a "Kansas hater." Simply put, I don't get enough "exposure" to feel one way or another. I did catch bits and pieces of this one last night. A conference game with a final result that looks like a game we'd see in late November against Kansas multi-directional West University.

Kansas' resume: Seven losses to unranked teams this season. And still in the top 25? A loss by 34?

'Awful' Kansas loses by 34, tied for Self's worst

At 34 points in margin, according to ESPN Research, struggling Kansas' 91-57 defeat at BYU Tuesday night in Provo, Utah, is tied for the worst loss under Bill Self, the longtime Jayhawks' coach, and the third-worst loss in the storied program's history.

www.espn.com

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On a realistic note: If I'm coaching a team in the dance and see we're about to face Kansas? About like seeing UCONN on the opponent line...I wouldn't be comfortable. There's too much talent for this team to be

BTW, just remembered.

AP, pre-season #1 team? Yep. The Jayhawks.

 

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[TerryP]

In my opinion, 2-2 is a guaranteed spot on the one seed line and a bye until Friday in the SECT.

 

[#80]

J. Lunardi update.

Men's Bracketology: Tennessee's a 1-seed again but let's talk about the other end of the SEC

Both Oklahoma and Texas have dismal conference records, yet are in the First Four Out. Could these sub-.500 teams (in SEC play) really go dancing?

www.espn.com

 

[bama alum]

What a bracket!

 

[Rolltide24]

St. John’s, Duke and Auburn are in great positions for #1 seedings. In my opinion. Houston is also going to be tough to move. I believe St. John’s and Duke have the easiest roads between now and the Dance. Very very difficult for us to poke our heads in the talk for a 1-seed at this point. We could fall to a 3-seed if we aren’t careful. Easily actually, if we lose the next 2 and don’t win a game in the SEC tourney.

 

[#80]

Men's Bracketology: Tennessee's a 1-seed again but let's talk about the other end of the SEC

Both Oklahoma and Texas have dismal conference records, yet are in the First Four Out. Could these sub-.500 teams (in SEC play) really go dancing?

www.espn.com

Updated today. Lunardi was on last night at halftime of the UH-KU game IHO three of the #1 seeds are locked AU, DU and UH the last one is up for grabs between Bama, UT and UF.