2025 SEC Tournament

#529
#529
Legion of Doom said:
Lunardi has updated and Texas is out. So 13 in with him.
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Did he just update?
He had them last 4 in just an hour and a half or so ago?
Edit: Yep...he just updated.
Odd, since no game I can think of should've affected his earlier prediction.

North Carolina has one Quad 1 win and a quad 3 loss. Embarrassing to the committee if they end up getting in.
 
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#530
#530
Legion of Doom said:
Lunardi has updated and Texas is out. So 13 in with him.
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I respect Texas and Rodney Terry for giving it an A+ effort in the SEC Tournament. They played above what they’re truly capable of from an ability perspective. However, they just don’t look like a tournament team overall. They played awesome in Bridgestone, but their resume as a whole just doesn’t say tournament team to me. Johnson is a great, great player. He will be a hell of a player in the NBA. Deserves all the praise he gets and then some. Unfortunate for him that he’s on a team that just isn’t very good.

With all that being said, in the old ACC r Big XII, they may very well have found themselves in the field of 68. Being in the SEC generates more money as far as tv goes, but the overall ending is just that this Texas team isn’t able to make it happen in this league.
 
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Anti-shunshinepumper said:
Did he just update?
He had them last 4 in just an hour and a half or so ago?
Edit: Yep...he just updated.
Odd, since no game I can think of should've affected his earlier prediction.

North Carolina has one Quad 1 win and a quad 3 loss. Embarrassing to the committee if they end up getting in.
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I think that Boise St win, knocked out Texas. UNC is a lock
 
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#538
#538
knoxvol52 said:
Lunardi bracket at 12:35 a.m. has Texas out and UNC last team in.Boise State in. If Colorado State win MWC tomorrow than another bubble team is out.
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Gotcha. But, knowing how the committee loves the blue bloods, I'll give 2 to one odds, that UNC is a stone cold 🔒
 
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#540
Lunardi Bracketology (13 of 16 in the NCAAT)

Eliminated from SECT:

USCjr (12-20)(Buh Bye)
LSU (14-18)(Buh Bye)

Texas (19-15)(First Team Out)

Vandy (20-12)(LAST 4 BYES/#11 East)
Arkansas (20-13)(LAST 4 BYES/#10 East)
Oklahoma (20-13)(LAST 4 BYES/#10 West)
Georgia (20-12)(#9 Midwest)
Miss State (21-12)(#9 East)
Missouri (22-11)(#7 South)
Mississippi (22-11)(#6 Midwest)
Texas A&M (22-10)(#4 Midwest)
Kentucky (22-11)(#3 West)

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Still Alive:

Barn (#1 South)
Florida (#1 West)
Bama (#2 Midwest)
Tennessee (#2 East)(Cleveland/Newark)
 
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#541
I don't think that Texas was ever getting in unless they won the tournament. 15 losses, 6-12 in conference regular season, OOC not good, no wins over the SEC Big Four, a loss to South Carolina. This idea that bad teams can play their way in with a tournament win or two is more a click bait fabrication by the bracketologists than reality. Also, I find 13 SEC teams would be a bad precedent and a mistake. The SEC is clearly four elite teams and then 9 good teams that are all the same. Rather than sort out the most deserving 4-5 teams of those nine, they're just going to put all nine in? I hope not.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Saturday matchups (both games on ESPN)

1:00pm: #4 Tennessees v #1 Barn (-4.5)
3:30pm: #3 Bama v #2 Florida (-3.5)
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This is why I think the tourney still matters for that final 1 seed chance. The fact that the final 4 of the SEC are the top 4 seeds means this should be treated like an extension of the regular season where games matter and not traditional conference tourney doesn't matter. Whoever goes furthest of Bama Florida and Tennessee SHOULD get that 1 seed. It still baffles me that there is something Houston has done is a 2-3 horse conference that has them ahead of 2 of the 3 in Bama Florida Tennessee.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
This is why I think the tourney still matters for that final 1 seed chance. The fact that the final 4 of the SEC are the top 4 seeds means this should be treated like an extension of the regular season where games matter and not traditional conference tourney doesn't matter. Whoever goes furthest of Bama Florida and Tennessee SHOULD get that 1 seed. It still baffles me that there is something Houston has done is a 2-3 horse conference that has them ahead of 2 of the 3 in Bama Florida Tennessee.
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I am alone in the wilderness on this, but I believe Florida can still jump Houston on the 1 line.

I don’t know how Florida could go 30-4 winning the conference tournament finishing with a 5-1 record vs. Auburn, Alabama and Tennessee with only one game being a home game and be behind them.

And I respect Houston and the Big 12. But, I think Florida would have a tremendous argument especially since that’s where two of Houston’s losses came from
 
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99gator said:
I am alone in the wilderness on this, but I believe Florida can still jump Houston on the 1 line.

I don’t know how Florida could go 30-4 winning the conference tournament finishing with a 5-1 record vs. Auburn, Alabama and Tennessee with only one game being a home game and be behind them.

And I respect Houston and the Big 12. But, I think Florida would have a tremendous argument especially since that’s where two of Houston’s losses came from
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I agree on that. I don't necessarily think Houston is a lock to wrap up the 3 seed if Bama or Tennessee win this tourney. I don't know how the case can be made for Houston being seeded better than the 4th one seed over a 28-6 Tennessee with two final wins over two top 5 teams, a 30-4 Florida with wins over two top 5 teams, or a 27-7 Bama with wins over two top 5 teams. All in back to back days.

I also think it hurts Houston going 0-2 against the SEC in the resume debate as well

Houston have 2-3 less losses vs Bama/Tennessee with 3 horse conference is just not enough to compare to 4-7 losses in the SEC this season.
 
#546
#546
Anti-shunshinepumper said:
Did he just update?
He had them last 4 in just an hour and a half or so ago?
Edit: Yep...he just updated.
Odd, since no game I can think of should've affected his earlier prediction.

North Carolina has one Quad 1 win and a quad 3 loss. Embarrassing to the committee if they end up getting in.
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You are correct. No way UNC should get in. They even had a chance to beat Duke without Flagg. Human committees with a bias if that happens.
 
#547
#547
ZZ13 said:
I don't think that Texas was ever getting in unless they won the tournament. 15 losses, 6-12 in conference regular season, OOC not good, no wins over the SEC Big Four, a loss to South Carolina. This idea that bad teams can play their way in with a tournament win or two is more a click bait fabrication by the bracketologists than reality. Also, I find 13 SEC teams would be a bad precedent and a mistake. The SEC is clearly four elite teams and then 9 good teams that are all the same. Rather than sort out the most deserving 4-5 teams of those nine, they're just going to put all nine in? I hope not.
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The SEC will probably get 13 in. I have no problem with that because OU beat Louisville, Michigan, and Arizona in the non conference. That’s how strong the conference is. I’m fine with Texas not getting in, but UNC better not get in. That would be ridiculous.
 
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VolGee4 said:
The SEC will probably get 13 in. I have no problem with that because OU beat Louisville, Michigan, and Arizona in the non conference. That’s how strong the conference is. I’m fine with Texas not getting in, but UNC better not get in. That would be ridiculous.
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OU should get in over Texas and UNC, but when you go 6-12 in conference you’re not going to get much sympathy if you don’t get in.
 
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ZZ13 said:
I don't think that Texas was ever getting in unless they won the tournament. 15 losses, 6-12 in conference regular season, OOC not good, no wins over the SEC Big Four, a loss to South Carolina. This idea that bad teams can play their way in with a tournament win or two is more a click bait fabrication by the bracketologists than reality. Also, I find 13 SEC teams would be a bad precedent and a mistake. The SEC is clearly four elite teams and then 9 good teams that are all the same. Rather than sort out the most deserving 4-5 teams of those nine, they're just going to put all nine in? I hope not.
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Once the field is set, I’d bet Texas would be favored over 10-15 and maybe more of the teams that are in. Texas has talent and they have nobody but themselves to blame for not making the field. They underperformed their talent level this season the most of any SEC team IMO.
 
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