USA Today reports

Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:

Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.

Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.

(02-11-2018 04:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  USA Today reports

Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:

Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.

Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.

As far as where the games may be played, the South regional is in Atlanta, so that would certainly be an ideal landing spot for Auburn or Tennessee, or Kentucky or Florida or any other SEC team for that matter. East regional is in Boston, West is in Los Angeles, and Midwest is in Omaha (interesting choice).

The eight subregional "pod" sites this year are as follows: Pittsburgh, Nashville, Charlotte, Boise, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, and Wichita. Nashville is looking mighty good for Auburn and Tennessee, but with four ACC teams in the top 16, and Nashville being the second closest location to ACC country behind Charlotte, the competition will be stiff for the Nashville pod. As of this very ranking, Auburn would get a Nashville slot, with UNC likely getting slotted there too, UVa and Duke in Charlotte, and Clemson and Tennessee may have hopes for Dallas in that case, but with Texas Tech ranked ahead of them, only one at most would get Dallas, and one of them could be shipped out west to Boise or San Diego. The rankings within the rankings are very interesting, and it is a true chess match seeing who goes where when so many top-ranked teams are within a fairly small geographical footprint (Purdue, MSU, OSU, UC, XU all within a small radius, same for the SEC/ACC teams, and not to mention KU, OU and TTU near one another with Arizona not terribly far away from them).

Of course, this is all fun right now, because so much can, and will, change in the next few weeks as we head towards March. Gonna be fun!

(02-11-2018 04:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  USA Today reports

Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:

Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.

Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.

So if Arkansas makes the tourney, they’ll be in the West so they can lose to UNC in the round of 32 as usual.

(02-12-2018 06:51 AM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(02-11-2018 04:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  USA Today reports

Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:

Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.

Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.

So if Arkansas makes the tourney, they’ll be in the West so they can lose to UNC in the round of 32 as usual.

Tell me why a 6 or 7 loss North Carolina is in the top 12? They shouldn't even be in the top 16.

(02-12-2018 01:02 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 06:51 AM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(02-11-2018 04:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  USA Today reports

Here are the top 4 seeds for each regional:

Quote:South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 5 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

Part of this is fun because we can maybe project where some of these teams might be playing. I'm too lazy to look that information up, of course.

Other than that, we've got 2 SEC teams with high seeds and neither of them are named Kentucky. It's an interesting day indeed.

So if Arkansas makes the tourney, they’ll be in the West so they can lose to UNC in the round of 32 as usual.

Tell me why a 6 or 7 loss North Carolina is in the top 12? They shouldn't even be in the top 16.

Same reason TN is, I assume: strength of schedule. We've lost 6 games: UNC, Villanova, Auburn, Arkansas, Alabama, and Missouri; not a bad loss in them worst was to Arkansas at 39 RPI.

UNC losses: Michigan State, Wofford, Florida St, Virginia, Virginia tech, NC State, Clemson

Of those, Michigan State, Virginia, and Clemson are all solid, and the only 100+ RPI loss is to Wofford.