Jerry Palm's March Madness seeding: Purdue 4, GOPHERS 5, Badgers 6, Maryland 6

[GopherLady]

We obviously still need to win, but I can't remember a time since 1997 that we were ahead of WI, especially with them ranked ahead of us in the Big 10!

 

[macgopher]

We obviously still need to win, but I can't remember a time since 1997 that we were ahead of WI, especially with them ranked ahead of us in the Big 10!

Assuming both win tomorrow, The Sunday game will loom quite large.

 

[Donovan]

What is up with this USA Today projection? I'm assuming it is a misprint, it has us as a 5 seed playing Wichita State/USC as the 12 seed. I get USC, but Wichita State at 12 has to be an error.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ege-basketball-march-madness-bubble/98626374/

 

[37score]

What is up with this USA Today projection? I'm assuming it is a misprint, it has us as a 5 seed playing Wichita State/USC as the 12 seed. I get USC, but Wichita State at 12 has to be an error.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ege-basketball-march-madness-bubble/98626374/

Wichita is bouncing around a 9 or 10 seed right now. A 12 seems low.

 

[UpAndUnder43]

I really don't want to play a team that has already won to advance. No reason as to why, I just don't like it.

Is there any facts showing those teams perform better than others?

 

[GophersInIowa]

I really don't want to play a team that has already won to advance. No reason as to why, I just don't like it.

Is there any facts showing those teams perform better than others?

2011 is the first year with the at-large play-in games. The winners have gone 6-6 in the first round. I believe every season the two winners have gone 1-1. So it does appear these teams do pretty well after winning the play-in game.

 

[UpAndUnder43]

2011 is the first year with the at-large play-in games. The winners have gone 6-6 in the first round. I believe every season the two winners have gone 1-1. So it does appear these teams do pretty well after winning the play-in game.

Thanks. Didn't want to do the work and figured someone would

Those teams being .500 in the first round has to be above the average so my for of them makes sense.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Thanks. Didn't want to do the work and figured someone would

Those teams being .500 in the first round has to be above the average so my for of them makes sense.

Definitely higher than average. The play-in teams have been 11, 12, 13 & 14 seeds.

 

[Ope3]

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Wichita is bouncing around a 9 or 10 seed right now. A 12 seems low.

This bracket pundit agrees with Wichita's seeding:

http://www.forums.gopherhole.com/bo...eld-of-68-(through-March-1)-16-available-bids

 

[JimmyJamesMD]

Palm still has us as a 5, however we are now playing UNC Wilmington. The #4 is Florida. I like this seeding

 

[builtbadgers]

The game sunday is for a temporary seedline. Even though none of those match ups hols as each result has moving pieces . I also think that Lunardi is a better reflection of seeds as he models the exact criteria that the committee does. He talked about this recently about giving less weight to RPI . It is still a part of it but less so as other metrics have proven far more useful even though they hurt the mid majors by helping the power conferences.

 

[hyaluronic]

I like to avoid one seeds as long as possible... Give me six, or give me three. We have a lot of work to do for a three seed, if it's even possible.