Selection Day Surprises

julescat

Junior
May 29, 2001
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Hit and run post of the year. Of the friendly fire variety no less.


Edit -- I thought you meant that Dayton would have gone 6-10 in the Big Ten schedule. Now I get that you mean a 6-10 seed. I agree. My apologies.
 

Fitz51

Senior
Oct 21, 2008
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ESPN has Vanderbilt listed as the most over-seeded team. By their strength of record metric, they say the team shouldn't even be in.
 

NJCat

All-Conference
Mar 7, 2016
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ESPN has Vanderbilt listed as the most over-seeded team. By their strength of record metric, they say the team shouldn't even be in.

Vandy got in by beating Florida 3 times. Not too shabby.
 

Katatonic

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Oct 23, 2004
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But Wisconsin was an 8 seed, were ranked 24th, went further in the BTT and blew us out of the water. Seems like maybe just Wisconsin was not very highly respected I assume due to the way they finished the season.

Seems like the committee didn't really take into account Wisky's late B1G slate swoon being due in part to Koenig's gimpy leg.
 

CatManTrue

All-American
Oct 4, 2008
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ESPN has Vanderbilt listed as the most over-seeded team. By their strength of record metric, they say the team shouldn't even be in.
This doesn't account for their second half surge. They will be a formidable first round matchup for us - I don't think any of our bigs match up well defensively with their 7 foot center who can also shoot threes.