NCAA Tourney Team Selection Options

[J.D.]

Lololololol

 

[beaverhockeyfan]

Buccigross doing a great job telling us Caufield and Holloway are gone after the season

Maybe they have already left?

 

[Rabid Gopher]

I'd be pissed if I was a UMD fan. If they go on to win it all there will be a huge * in the books.
It will not be a legit NC or three-peat.

 

[J.D.]

Nah, there won't.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

B1g: 0-3

 

[Ralph Baer]

B1g: 0-3

That's B1gly. ;-)

 

[First Time Long Time]

I'd be ****ed if I was a UMD fan. If they go on to win it all there will be a huge * in the books.
It will not be a legit NC or three-peat.

Yes it will. If they win...they played under the conditions put forth...there is nothing illegitimate about it.

 

[Bomber]

B1g: 0-3

On the heels of the basketball teams spitting the bit. Ouch.

 

[J.D.]

Maybe Iowa can take down UConn in women's hoops

 

[J.D.]

This could be the worst performance from a #1 seed since BC lost to CC in 2011. At least that team had national titles in 2010 and 2012. Wisconsin hasn't won a tournament game since 2010.

 

[J.D.]

Not over yet at least

 

[purpleinnebraska]

But even if they had bubbled, Neither Michigan nor Notre Dame were infected in Fargo and Albany. The results to the tournament would have been the same. ND would not have been allowed in and Michigan would have been kicked out this afternoon.
I don't know how the bubble would have worked, though. The sports that bubbled last year (NHL, NBA) required a certain amount of isolation time before the games and practices started. This would not have been possible with the conference championships just ending 5 days ago.
I know the basketball tournament did a bubble in Indy with a similar timing situation. The way the winter sports season has gone, I think they got really really lucky that only 1 team had an issue coming in. Now that the remaining 16 teams have been in Indy for a week and a half, the bubble concept should be helping prevent any further disturbances.
If hockey followed that plan, the bubble would only really protect the frozen four teams, not really the other 12.

The sports that bubbled also had the good fortune (looking back on it now) of being played when the virus was at it's lowest point for infections. Baseball wasn't bubbled back then, and still had relatively few positives after the first week or two. Virus gonna virus, and that means seasonal rises and falls.

 

[SJHovey]

I'm stealing this line from someone else, but I don't care.

It says a lot when we've only seen one tournament game played thus far, yet managed to eliminate three B1G teams.

 

[captain beefheart]

Bern...

 

[J.D.]

Buccigross sounds like he's locked in a closet

 

[Proud2baLaker]

Melrose sounds drunk.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Melrose sounds drunk.

Drunker than normal?

 

[J.D.]

I don't know if UMass can do this for 60 minutes but so far they look vastly superior to the western power Wisconsin

 

[Proud2baLaker]

Drunker than normal?

I guess I don't know. I haven't watched anything with Melrose in like 5 years

 

[Proud2baLaker]

That probably does it for Lake State.