*****Official Selection Sunday Game Thread*****
 

It will be on CBS at 6 eastern time, 5 central time.

Who do you think is the last 4 in? The last 4 out?

Mizzou blows.

Kentucky.

Kentucky out

Give me North Carolina round one!

What's the consensus? KU gets a #1 seed?

**** Haith, Pressey, and Bowers with a raped AIDS tree.

Gonzaga, Louisville are your locks. Kansas probably gets the third with Indiana getting the last one.

I don't know about Indiana. They did get beat by Wisconsin.

I'm sure they want Indiana since the B1G is supposed to be their power conference.

You can say worse things about almost every other team this year. Miami lost to ****ing In. State and Florida Gulf Coast.

LMAO

You don't want that. Really. You don't. They're doing the same shit ISU loves to. Only with much, much better athletes.

They'll get it. They won the best conference in the regular season and held the #1 overall for so long that they'll get the nod. They'll still be the vegas favorite to win it all I'd imagine. No matter the seeding.

Clones have got this on lockdown

Anyone ever been to Dance Card? It correctly predicts usually all but one team in the field each year.

http://www.unf.edu/~jcoleman/dance.htm

Yep. There's no shame in losing to Wisconsin. They have a damn, damn good defense and they know how to play the game to suit their abilities.

2-0 vs the top 25 and all other teams under consideration have at least 5 wins, and their SoS is 101.... but, you're probably right.

Louisville is probably the only team that should be a lock, and Indiana might have the 2nd best case for #1. I won't be heartbroken if KU ends up a #2, but they have as good of a case as any other team... they would be a lock, but their bad loss was really bad (granted, I tend to look at good wins before bad losses... it was really bad).

The problem with this year is that I essentially view every team as fraudulent. Might as well just throw darts at my bracket.

I agree w/ Bearcat on Gonzaga, but this year it just doesn't matter. Honestly, it rarely will anymore b/c college basketball is such a terrible, terrible product.

Iowa St. is gonna get that one seed and a home game to boot.

You're always welcome to join your crimson and blue brethren.

We could use someone with your pronounced, violent posting tendencies!

Top 8 for me:
Gonzaga, Louisville, KU, Indiana
Duke, Miami (assuming they win), Ohio St, Florida

No coincidence the B1G is the "best" conference this year.

They might even let Melvin Weatherwax sit on the bench as honorary staff for the NIT Championship game.

C'monnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, better than an 8-seed! That's all I'm hoping for, that the committee doesn't want to potentially throw a 30-4 #13 RPI team with 24 wins in its last 25 games at a #1 seed in the second round.

Also for Southern Miss to get in. Their resume is nothing special because C-USA was spectacularly bad from 3-12, but they're a ****ing beast to play and I love watching them.

Last year there were at least 3-4 teams like Kentucky, North Carolina, etc that stood out.

This year, you might really be better off throwing darts at a board. Indiana can get bogged down in half court games, KU lost a game to flipping TCU. Michigan limped to the finish line. Miami might get caught asleep against a weaker opponent. Duke looked strong with Kelly back, then promptly went out and lost their first game in the ACC tourney.

People rip on Gonzaga, and I probably won't pick them to win... but they certainly don't look much worse than everyone else. They pretty much ran through all the Big 12 teams they played this year.

I agree with all of this.

I keep telling people Gonzaga is pretty legit.

Yeah. It's going to be one ****ed up tournament. Every team has their own little fatal flaw. Somebody has to string together six games and cut down that net though.

It's times like these, I'm just thankful for Bill Self. In Bill I trust. :thumb:

This year's awesome because no one has any idea what's going to happen.

... which means it's going to be chalk all the way, I guess.

Lets go Rebs!!

Henderson can go die in a fire.

lol -- bustin out the gator chomp with 6 minutes left.

Dude is an arrogant cock.

Yeah, you don't see a lot of good athletes behave like that.

And get away with it.

SEC Champs!

It's gonna be funny when Henderson goes 4-17 in the first round and his team gets bounced.

Dude is the biggest prick in CBB.

I'd sooner send myself to a Federal Prison with a bulls eye tattooed on my asshole.

Indiana State has to be kicking themselves at the moment. If they hadn't completely collapsed at the end of the year the Missouri Valley might have gotten three teams in. They beat the ACC champ, SEC champ, whipped MVC champ Creighton by 20 during the regular season, beat Wichita State on the road, and took Mountain West champ New Mexico to OT.

You think Akron has a chance to make some noise?

I'm glad you're considering it.

I don't know... I thought they'd have trouble beating Ohio for the MAC title since their starting PG is suspended and Ohio still has DJ Cooper... but they whipped them. You think that would still hurt them in the tourney though. Can't imagine them making a run like Ohio did last year without their PG.

Is the unveiling of the bracket at 5 or 6?

I thought it was 6pm CST.

Or is that Bracketology at 6pm CST?

5:00 on CBS

Thanks main.

Gottlieb just had a great segment on CBS. they read a tweet from Ole Miss' Henderson about Gottlieb saying they didn't deserve a bid. Gottlieb responds with a St Paddys cupcake and refers to Ole Miss' ooh schedule ranked 302 and scarfs down a bite.

Friggin hilarious.

Is there a more despised player in college basketball than Henderson?

Well, other than the Iowa State fans, who would say that belongs to Elijah Johnson LMAO

Henderson also said after the game that coaches who didn't vote him as SEC POY " are losers".

Love that.

I hope Haith and Pressey fall asleep in Steubenville.

Numb****ingnuts.

I love the guy. And he hit some huge shots today.

A time and place for everything.

He acts stupid every game.

Goddamm... Wisconsin is just a tough team. I hate them cause they KO'd the Cats twice in the last 5 years. But they are a mentally tough team.

Players talk all the time. Difference being, he says what he wants.

I get the talk, competitiveness, etc.

Don't understand acting like a douchebag, show boater though.

I hate watching Bo Ryan teams, but he does a great job of putting this team in a position to make a decent run in the tournament every year. Can't ask for much more in a coach.

I'd like to see them get as high as a 3 seed, though I know that's unlikely, even if they beat Ohio State. They have beaten some tough ****ing teams this year. A very impressive resume.

I wouldn't go that far... not yet, anyway. Outside of Kentucky last year, it's certainly heading towards parity on steroids like the NFL, and I've mentioned several times that I think that league has gone way downhill in the past several years. There's still plenty of good basketball, but teams just don't have that killer instinct these days, so shit like KU/TCU happens more and more.

Ross=Boss

Huh? David/Goliath happens every year. It's not a reflection of the state of college basketball. HJ is overly-opinionated on arbitrary BS. He's the Skip Bayless of CP.

What did he do that was so bad? The Gator chomp? Talk a little shit post game?

Hamas, explain to me why it's a terrible product? Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to get across in this post.

I didn't know who the guy was until today. Looking him up, he seems like quite the dingleberry. Dumbass got busted for counterfeiting $800 and buying weed with it.

It's slowly changing, but it definitely seems like there's more parity these days. Two 15 seeds won in the same tournament, and only 4 previous 15s had ever won a game. UConn went .500 in the Big East and won the NC against Butler. Sure, there was Villanova in '85 and Kansas in '88, and there are always 5/12 upsets, etc.... but, I'd be interested to see research on it, since the past few years have seemed crazier than normal. Like I said though, there's still plenty of good basketball being played, and some parity doesn't hurt anything.

He's also a fan of an SEC team, and if all games ended like their last one, he'd have a point.

Someone mentioned him on FB and said he's been acting like that all tournament, but it's the first time I've heard of him, too. :shrug:

I'm coin flipping on every match up.

Not a fan of him in general.

He goes too far overboard for my liking.

Henderson is awesome.

I mean what's to dislike about this:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...psf113925f.gif

You guys going ESPN or CBS for the selection show?

Nevermind, CBS at 5.

He didn't even look at the opponent's bench. :shrug:

I guess if you're a fan of the Little Rascals.

Well. I guess Colorado State is beating Mizzou. That's nice.

Like the #5 for OSU.....hope that means KSU is a #4 at worst

That puts Duke @ 8 on the S curve....surprised they fell that far

Creighton/Duke would be fun, at least for a half, like Creighton/UNC.

Damn. Memphis at the six. There you go UP.

1st CUSA team.....did Southern Miss get in after all?

MU is dead.

If they said that, then I'd have to say so.

Yeah, glad Illinois dodged that bullet

We knew this before they announced their match-up.