***Official Men's Basketball National Championship Game Thread***
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Minnesota may eventually survive, but this pairing wasn't mentioned in the "poorly seeded" discussions I've seen (such as Wichita State and UW too low, . This is more like a 7 vs. 10.
CycloneErik
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CycloneErik
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It sorta depends on the year, and strength of the bubble vs strength of mid to low conference teams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Championship_upsets#12_vs._5
In 2013 all 5v12 upsets were P5 over P5, or P5 over mid major.
Now that I'm looking into it, I'd love to go through that list to ensure the math is correct. But if you look at the last 10 years of 5/12 upsets, there are a lot of P5 teams in there as 12 seeds.
My guess is if a P5 team gets in as a 12, they probably were bid stealer from their conference tourney, or were on some sort of hot streak, making it more likely that they'll win their first round game? Not sure, I'd have to go back and look at each team's schedule.
EDIT: Seeding power conference teams as 12's may have gone away the past few years because of the addition of the 11 seed play in game, which now seems to be 50% reserved for P5 bubble teams. If I were to guess this will probably reduce the occurance of 5/12 upsets, and maybe increase the occurrence of a 6/11 upset? Just a thought.
Northwestern crapping the bed is good for my bracket. MTSU not so much. Let's just say I wasn't very high on a lot of the Big 10 teams...
Hilarious that Jim Calhoun's illustrious career ended on THAT play by THAT human turd.
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