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NCAA Tournament Prognostications
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Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
I like this.
What I really think would be right is 2 Western quarters, with Point traveling to Adrian, and UST traveling to SNC. Forget last weeks regional rankings...
I like this.
What I really think would be right is 2 Western quarters, with Point traveling to Adrian, and UST traveling to SNC. Forget last weeks regional rankings...
GB Puck Fan
It's A Great Day For Hockey
I could live that. Sure hammer would, too
Hammer
We'll be back.
I'd take that, go to the house, and hide in the basement.
Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
SNC should not have to play a play in(edited from quarterfinal) game being ranked 1. Thats like making a division leader and 1st ranked team play in a wildcard game in the NFL. There is a reward for being ranked higher, and that reward is not having to play Wednesday. The extra effort to proceed is for the lower ranked and or at large bids to deal with. However they have done this to them in the past(2011) and I'm sure it's not the last time. With the NCAA it's all about cost and money, not what's right to do.
SNC should not have to play a play in(edited from quarterfinal) game being ranked 1. Thats like making a division leader and 1st ranked team play in a wildcard game in the NFL. There is a reward for being ranked higher, and that reward is not having to play Wednesday. The extra effort to proceed is for the lower ranked and or at large bids to deal with. However they have done this to them in the past(2011) and I'm sure it's not the last time. With the NCAA it's all about cost and money, not what's right to do.
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Hammer
We'll be back.
You mean play-in game. SNC will not play in a play-in game. With an 11 team field, no one gets a bye to the semis. They will get a bye to the quarters.
I don't think SNC has any concerns regarding a Wednesday night game this year.
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admiral0417
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Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
SNC will not be playing a play-in game on Wednesday. They will have a "one and in" on Saturday which is the minimum amount of games you can play to get to Lewiston. Therefore, they are rewarded for their #1 position.
SNC will not be playing a play-in game on Wednesday. They will have a "one and in" on Saturday which is the minimum amount of games you can play to get to Lewiston. Therefore, they are rewarded for their #1 position.
KnightsOfTheRound
Hockey Knight in Boston
Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
The other site has their final bracketology article up. I won't link it, because I don't know if that's kosher, but they conclude what we already know: this thing is a total cluster****. Well worth reading.
The other site has their final bracketology article up. I won't link it, because I don't know if that's kosher, but they conclude what we already know: this thing is a total cluster****. Well worth reading.
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
And the other site makes the assumption of eliminating teams right away, and even then they can barely pick the field. If the comittee decides not to eliminate teams right away ... well ... it may take them till after the tournament is over to figure out which teams to pick...
And the other site makes the assumption of eliminating teams right away, and even then they can barely pick the field. If the comittee decides not to eliminate teams right away ... well ... it may take them till after the tournament is over to figure out which teams to pick...
Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
Can we all just agree on one thing? Whatever the Committee does, it won't be 100% right?
Can we all just agree on one thing? Whatever the Committee does, it won't be 100% right?
Re: NCAA Tournament Prognostications
The "best" part of this is the fact that the rankings provide an example of a potential infinite recursive cycle. One of the components is record against ranked teams. So you compute that record, then list the ranked teams. But when you compiled the record, you discover that some teams that were ranked drop out of the rankings, thus you have to recalculate, thus producing a new list of ranked teams, so you recalculate ... That infinite recursion scenario is why they went to the "once ranked, always ranked" concept, which they discarded this year (probably because they forgot why they went to it in the first place).
Can we all just agree on one thing? Whatever the Committee does, it won't be 100% right?
The "best" part of this is the fact that the rankings provide an example of a potential infinite recursive cycle. One of the components is record against ranked teams. So you compute that record, then list the ranked teams. But when you compiled the record, you discover that some teams that were ranked drop out of the rankings, thus you have to recalculate, thus producing a new list of ranked teams, so you recalculate ... That infinite recursion scenario is why they went to the "once ranked, always ranked" concept, which they discarded this year (probably because they forgot why they went to it in the first place).