New Bracketology out - the dumbest one yet from Lunardi.

[DawgatAuburn]

We are a 9 game against New Mexico in the latest one, but he has us going up against Kentucky if we win. No way the committee does that.

There are five SEC teams in, and in addition to us and UK, he has UM (5) and UF (6) in the same bracket and Vandy in another one.

 

[615dawg]

Crooming - getting paid for a job that you aren't doing.

That's lazy. He just said hey MSU is a 9 seed and placed us somewhere without looking at the second round matchups. He does that a lot, and if you look at his "I got 63 out of 65 teams right" crap - hell, its usually pretty evident who the last four in/last four out are. You have a good chance of getting 2 if you draw four out of a hat.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

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[graddawg]

I'm trying to be objective here, but can someone please provide me with possible justification for having us as a 9 seed and OM as a 5? I understand that Ole Miss beat a pretty good KSU team, but we have the same number of losses at this point, we won the head-to-head match up and some of the updated RPI's even have us ranked higher. I don't get it. Is there a big difference in the ESPN Daily RPI between the teams, or something else I'm not aware of?

 

[Sutterkane]

A real test of how well he predicts the brackets is to compare from the beginning or middle of the year to the final teams that get in. I'd bet they're way off.

 

[maroonmania]

its like we will be punished for Rider for the rest of eternity. Per realtime rpi we have the higher RPI and the head-to-head win at their place. But, for some reason, we are STILL being projected with a significantly lower seed than OM AND they remain in the polls while we are still left out. Either we're too low or OM is too high in both the tourney projections and the polls, one or the other.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

...two teams from the same conference cannot meet until the third round (Sweet 16). So, yeah, that's a dumb oversight by Lunardi.</p>

 

[RebelBruiser]

A real test of how well he predicts the brackets is to compare from the beginning or middle of the year to the final teams that get in. I'd bet they're way off.

Well, yea, of course, because he's not projecting what he thinks is going to happen in the future. He projects what he thinks would happen if selections were today. Resumes change between the middle of the season and end of the season.

Not defending his projection, because it's just a projection. To me it's no better or worse than any other projection. They're all just for entertainment, and yes by the end of the season, he's pretty close to what is actually going to happen, because he has the full resumes for each team, and he knows the process the selection committee goes through.

I don't see why people get caught up in a mid-season projection when conference play just started. A whole lot is going to change between now and March.

 

[GloryDawg]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">this guy would name his own National Champion and both Ole Miss and Alabama would raise a flag if he named them that National Champion. Who really cares what this guy thinks. We beat Ole Miss at Ole Miss, hell chances are, he is a dumb *** and he thinks it was the other way around. At the end of the season we will be Western Champions and Ole Miss will have a lower seed if they don't fall apart. I have watched five of the six Western teams. The one I have not watch play is Auburn. I have not seen any other western team that looked better then us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> We got a lot of talent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> If they play to the level of their capability, we will be pretty dang good.</p>

 

[DawgatAuburn]

The old rule was conference opponents could not meet until the Elite Eight but they changed that a few years back when the Big East went to 173 teams or however many they have now. Now they MUST put the first three or four in separate regions. I think it is three for some reason but four makes more sense. Beyond that teams CAN meet in the second round, but I don't think it has happened yet. I think if any conference was good enough to get five or more in, they would do their best to keep them apart until at least the Sweet 16.