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[BerninDownTheHouse]

They may not be the foremost authority on college basketball, but the Wall Street Journal's analytical model has us going to the Sweet 16.

 

[Governor Sibley]

Fine by me though.

 

[Section201]

Bernin

They may not be the foremost authority on college basketball, but the Wall Street Journal's analytical model has us going to the Sweet 16.

Gotta link?

 

[BerninDownTheHouse]

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-sports-scores.html

Click on "How the WSJ Model Sees It".

 

[streetfighter]

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/wsj_NCAAProjections0315.pdf

According to their projections, the B10 will have 4 sweet 16 teams (OSU, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue), 2 Elite 8 teams (OSU, Wisconsin) and one final four team (Wisconsin). Would love to see the B10 tear up the tourney like that.

 

[Monty519]

I love the piece there on expanding the tournament, especially this gem on just going all the way and expanding to 347 lol:

But think of the upside. Absolutely no one is going to get snubbed from the Magnificent 347. Think of how delightful Selection Sunday would be. No bitter coaches, no weeping cheerleaders, no strident five-minute rants on ESPN about how so-and-so really deserved to get a slot in the NCAA tournament. This may briefly mitigate the need for certain humans on ESPN, but they can just go get Mr. Musburger a sandwich or a honey lozenge.

And that's not all. In our Magnificent 347, you wouldn't actually ever get eliminated. There will be no consequences—teams may beat each other, but no one will technically "lose." One school will be crowned the champion, but everyone will be considered a "winner." The idea is to replicate the drama, energy and positivity of a third-grade gingerbread-house-making contest.

You might find this silly, but we think it's fitting. We've become a country of zero-down loans, 10 best-picture nominees, 64-calorie beer and fat-free pizza. There's no need to make hard choices anymore, and no stomach to make college teams endure the cruelty of a snub or an elimination basketball tournament. Let's leave that madness where it belongs: high school.

LOL, so true, so true.

 

[gopherguy05]

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/wsj_NCAAProjections0315.pdf

According to their projections, the B10 will have 4 sweet 16 teams (OSU, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue), 2 Elite 8 teams (OSU, Wisconsin) and one final four team (Wisconsin). Would love to see the B10 tear up the tourney like that.

They also have Duke winning the whole thing.....automatically insane in my mind....

 

[streetfighter]

They also have Duke winning the whole thing.....automatically insane in my mind....

I disagree. They have the easiest road of the 1s and are a very efficient team.

I have a tough time seeing Purdue getting to the sweet 16 w/o Hummel but I'm sure their calculations have no way of compensating for his loss. I can, however, see the other 3 B10 teams making it to the sweet 16.