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NCAA Tourney Team Selection Options

manurespreader said:
What's great about this year is that even the bottom seed is good enough to upset the number 1. It would not surprise me at all for lower seeds to win games.
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Oh, I agree 100%. I was thinking about that yesterday. It wouldn't shock me if any of the #4 seeds won, or if they got swept. I could see the NCHC going 0-4 just as easily as they could go 4-0. I think this is a really balanced tournament.
 
SJHovey said:
Oh, I agree 100%. I was thinking about that yesterday. It wouldn't shock me if any of the #4 seeds won, or if they got swept. I could see the NCHC going 0-4 just as easily as they could go 4-0. I think this is a really balanced tournament.
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I don't have access to watch anything. And, there are very few non-conference games this year. So, just curious. On what basis do you call this a "really balanced tournament"?

Not arguing. Just asking.
 
Numbers said:
I don't have access to watch anything. And, there are very few non-conference games this year. So, just curious. On what basis do you call this a "really balanced tournament"?

Not arguing. Just asking.
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I guess just looking at the regions, and the mix of teams in them. There just seems to be a good mix of east and west teams, regular season and conference tourney winners, traditional powers and non-traditional powers, teams that even before the pandemic maybe hadn't played before or hadn't played recently.
 
Since the seismic Holy Cross upset of #1 seed Minnesota in 2006, the top seeds in regionals have been vulnerable.

Counting that 2006 field, there have been 56 number one seeds in a region (4 per tournament). 23 of them lost to the #4 seeded team in their first game, that's more than 41% of them. The 2005 tournament was the last one where all the #1 seeds won their opening game of the tournament.

2006
Holy Cross 4, Minnesota 3 (OT)

2007
UMass 1, Clarkson 0 (OT)
Miami 2, New Hampshire 1

2008
Notre Dame 7, New Hampshire 3

2009
Air Force 2, Michigan 0
Bemidji State 5, Notre Dame 1
Miami 4, Denver 2

2010
RIT 2, Denver 1

2011
Colorado College 8, Boston College 4
New Hampshire 3, Miami 1

2012
Cornell 3, Michigan 2 (OT)

2013
Yale 3, Minnesota 2 (OT)
St. Cloud State 5, Notre Dame 1

2014
North Dakota 5, Wisconsin 2

2015
RIT 2, Minnesota State 1
Providence 7, Miami 5

2016
Minnesota Duluth 3, Providence 2 (2OT)
Ferris State 5, St. Cloud State 4 (OT)

2017
Notre Dame 3, Minnesota 2

2018
Air Force 4, St. Cloud State 1
Boston University 3, Cornell 1

2019
American International 2, St. Cloud State 1
Providence 6, Minnesota State 3
 
Things I hope happen:

The refs do a good job! ( I know dreaming)
Barry Melrose keeps his mouth shut. ( Dreaming)
The underdog teams rule the day. ( I am so sick of the big name teams getting all the ink)
No one gets hurt.
We don't have ice or facility issues
No one gets Covid from this.
 
ND is out according to several reports with Covid positives. Past the deadline to add PC but NCAA should make exception here and put them in. 2.5 hour bus ride, rapide test PC and they bus in on Saturday for game.
 
NO exceptions. Walkover win for BC I guess. Good, ND didn't belong there anyway.

The fact that BC could benefit is going to make for some amazing reading. Schlossman is going to have a heart attack.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
NO exceptions. Walkover win for BC I guess. Good, ND didn't belong there anyway.

The fact that BC could benefit is going to make for some amazing reading. Schlossman is going to have a heart attack.
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Real issue is BC gets to sit there and rest while St Cloud plays BU and winner has to play another game in less than 24 hours. Not ideal. Everyone else has to win 4 games to win title and BC has to only win 3.
 
Obviously it's not ideal, who would say it is? But that's the situation we have here and the same would apply to any team.
 
When the big, bad, superior St. Cloud Huskies kick both BU and BC in the nuts this will be a non issue!
 
PC hasn't practiced all week, team already had their best player sign a pro contract. It would be a gong-show game to make them start practicing again all of a sudden, hop on a bus, hope the NCAA accepts rapid antigen tests, then play a game.

It's a bad situation but there's no good answer and sending out PC <48 hours before game time isn't a better solution.
 
Mike McMahon hinted that there were a couple positive tests in Fargo but an unspecified team is ok to play? Not sure if he's got the full story there as it would seem if you are going to let a team play despite 2-3 positive tests (which I support) then why wouldn't that apply to ND as well?

Edit: obviously anyone who tests positive is out. I meant the players who test negative. But now I will get scolded because one negative test might not mean anything.
 
Lemonade said:
Real issue is BC gets to sit there and rest while St Cloud plays BU and winner has to play another game in less than 24 hours. Not ideal. Everyone else has to win 4 games to win title and BC has to only win 3.
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It's how it used to be done with the super regionals so it's not a big deal in my opinion.
 
J.D. said:
How about they say screw the TV situation, let's play the BU-SCSU game tomorrow and then the regional final on Sunday.
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I do think this warrants some sort of schedule adjustment if they are able to with regards to the TV slots.

Not sure if they could move the day of the game (probably unlikely) but at least give them an earlier game time. They were already the night game, plus imagine the disadvantage of that going well into the night with some potential overtime.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
I do think this warrants some sort of schedule adjustment if they are able to with regards to the TV slots.

Not sure if they could move the day of the game (probably unlikely) but at least give them an earlier game time. They were already the night game, plus imagine the disadvantage of that going well into the night with some potential overtime.
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This is fair. I don't know that they'd be able to move the game to Friday given practice and testing protocols, but at least moving the BU-SCSU game to the early afternoon would give a bit of extra rest for that game's winner.
 
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