*** Official Selection Sunday Thread 2023 ***

[cayin]

Trust in the strength. I actually like tcu against this Gonzaga team.

without Lampkin?

 

[fsanford]

That's half of what he said, you didn't mention the 2nd half of his statement where he said they had too many losses in the non-conf and needed to beat someone better than DePaul.

Nevada played 2 P5 team non conference and lost both

Again it seems loading up with cupcakes before conference and buillding a bunch of worthless wins is more important.

Committee is kind of all over the place

 

[ZuriCyclone]

Terrible draw for ISU, we will be coming from a long break to play a team that just played in a live game days before.

Of course ISU draws two P5 11 seeds with over 20 wins

 

[Pope]

Net ranking:

Iowa St 20
Xavier 22
Miss St 48
Pitt 67

Xavier gave 74.5 points per game this season, ranking 295th in the nation. Iowa State gave up 62.2, ranking 16th.

Offensively, Xavier averaged 82.1 ranking 10th. Iowa State averaged 68.5, ranking 259th.

As they say, defense travels. I really think we can impose our will and dictate the pace of the game.

 

[Marcelason78]

NET doesn’t seem to much of a driving factor:

5 seeds
SDSt. 14
Duke 16
Miami 35
StMary’s 11

6 seeds
Creighton 17
Ky 26
ISU 20
TCU 28

 

[simply1]

without Lampkin?

Gonzaga just seems pretty vulnerable to me this year in particular.

 

[trevn]

That's half of what he said, you didn't mention the 2nd half of his statement where he said they had too many losses in the non-conf and needed to beat someone better than DePaul.

Yeah ok. Go back to not watching games please.

 

[Klubber]

If Iowa gets by Auburn (I think they will) they'll play Houston without their best player. Puke.

Houston will throttle Iowa either way. I think Auburn wins that 8/9 game anyway but we'll see.

 

[Pope]

If Iowa gets by Auburn (I think they will) they'll play Houston without their best player. Puke.

Iowa will get by Auburn? You new here?

 

[alarson]

Nevada played 2 P5 team non conference and lost both

Again it seems loading up with cupcakes before conference and buillding a bunch of worthless wins is more important.

Committee is kind of all over the place

Seems like we would've moved up a seed line by getting that random extra win from Omaha, even though it shouldn't matter.

 

[ISUTex]

ISU was one spot behind Miami in the seed list (21 vs 20). One spot away from that ISU / Drake matchup so many people were fearing!

too bad. ISU would crush Drake.

 

[Clonehomer]

My only complaint is that our play in matchup is on Tuesday, and TCUs is on Wednesday. It should be the other way around.

Really? I thought it was automatically setup that the Thursday teams play on Tuesday ND the Friday teams play Wednesday?

 

[CYEATHAWK]

That's half of what he said, you didn't mention the 2nd half of his statement where he said they had too many losses in the non-conf and needed to beat someone better than DePaul.

So basically using November and December to punish someone?

Maybe they should have taken then a closer look at a certain team that lost to Eastern Illinois......and got swept by both Nebraska and Wisconsin.

 

[ca4cy]

without Lampkin?

Lampkin would get screwed into the floor trying to guard Timme. I'm favoring Gonzaga over TCU, but I personally don't think TCU's ceiling is changed much by the Lampkin situation.

 

[madguy30]

Houston will throttle Iowa either way. I think Auburn wins that 8/9 game anyway but we'll see.

I can see Iowa beating Houston for some stupid reason.

 

[chuckd4735]

Really? I thought it was automatically setup that the Thursday teams play on Tuesday ND the Friday teams play Wednesday?

Usually is, but 3 of the play in games play teams on Friday, so one has to go a day sooner.

 

[jsb]

Really? I thought it was automatically setup that the Thursday teams play on Tuesday ND the Friday teams play Wednesday?

I think it might have been a mistake on CBS's part.

 

[madguy30]

Iowa will get by Auburn? You new here?

Iowa with their back against the wall will come out and put out a good game.

 

[Clonehomer]

Iowa will get by Auburn? You new here?

Going to need to know the brand of basketball used. Wilson = loss for Iowa

 

[fsanford]

Seems like we would've moved up a seed line by getting that random extra win from Omaha, even though it shouldn't matter.

Well unless it was a Drake football scenario if they tried to make it up.

But yes I think 20 wins would have put ISU at the 5.

ISU it appears was the highest 6th