SEC Undefeated in NCAA play

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i really believe the committee got it right.

some of what you are seeing is confirming what people knew.

people knew tennessee and kentucky were talented. they just didn't put it together.

how do you measure that?

is the ncaa not supposed to take the win-loss record into account?
 
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Well for us it's all sorted out. Sweet 16 roster this year and we made it.

Hoping for more now but still proud.
 
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I'm sure it has been explained on here before, but how do you justify having 2 eleven seed teams having to play into the tournament, and allowing the 16 or 15 seed teams not having to play in? It rally seems odd to me.
 
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A better seed might have led to an early exit. I'm glad things worked out the way they did.

I'm also glad that we might have another chance at UK. They are probably one of the most beatable teams we could face in the Elite Eight.
 
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If all three teams win in the next round the SEC will be 10-0!

Nor was it so long ago that the Wildcats' conference was widely, rightfully dismissed for having one great team, one good one and a bunch of dross. But after Sunday -- when Kentucky finished its late-season transformation and Tennessee kept its overpowering momentum going -- the SEC suddenly owns three spots in the Sweet 16.
In many ways, Tennessee's emergence has run parallel to the Wildcats'. Like Kentucky, the Volunteers were always obviously talented. Like Kentucky, Tennessee's advanced analytics revealed a team far better than its record suggested. Like Kentucky, which beat Louisville on its own floor in December, the Vols' 35-point win over Virginia gave fans a result to point to and say, see? Like Kentucky, UT spent most of the SEC season underwhelming -- being swept by Texas A&M, losing to Vanderbilt, getting overrun on defense at Missouri -- before flipping some kind of switch in the final weeks.
The result for the SEC, combined with Florida's wins, is a 7-0 SEC record in the NCAA tournament. It's the first conference to go 7-0 or better in the NCAA tournament entering the Sweet 16 since the Big East went 8-0 in 2003, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The last time the SEC went 7-0 or better in the NCAA tournament entering the Sweet 16 was 1996, when Kentucky won the national title.
That was the dominant discussion late in the day Sunday -- how the lowly SEC had redeemed itself in the NCAA tournament. Some even went so far as to claim the SEC had been unfairly maligned, that the tournament revealed a league far stronger than anyone previously realized.
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Home Court - ESPN
 
#14
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You have to earn respect. Fla, Ky and UT have earned some for the SEC this year. The conference still has to do better in OOC regular season games though.
 
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99gator said:
i really believe the committee got it right.

some of what you are seeing is confirming what people knew.

people knew tennessee and kentucky were talented. they just didn't put it together.

how do you measure that?

is the ncaa not supposed to take the win-loss record into account?
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I don't have a problem with the 11 seed but Tennessee should not have been in the play in game. That was done strictly to match teams from major conferences against each other and increase attendance and tv ratings for those first four games. The 16 seeded teams should be playing in those games.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I don't have a problem with the 11 seed but Tennessee should not have been in the play in game. That was done strictly to match teams from major conferences against each other and increase attendance and tv ratings for those first four games. The 16 seeded teams should be playing in those games.
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Those 16 seeds won their conference. The last 4 in should be the ones in the play-in games. In this case it was UT, Iowa, Xavier, and NC State.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Those 16 seeds won their conference. The last 4 in should be the ones in the play-in games. In this case it was UT, Iowa, Xavier, and NC State.
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The committee seems split on that as two of the games do involve 16 seeds but the real reason in having the other two played among at large teams is to increase interest in those games which TruTV didn't want to carry if they were all four for a 16 seed..
 
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Boca Vol said:
Those 16 seeds won their conference. The last 4 in should be the ones in the play-in games. In this case it was UT, Iowa, Xavier, and NC State.
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Who cares what piddly ass conference they won? They still wouldn't beat a UT, Iowa, Xavier or NC State consistently.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Those 16 seeds won their conference. The last 4 in should be the ones in the play-in games. In this case it was UT, Iowa, Xavier, and NC State.
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i agree with this. i have always felt this way since they came up with the first 4.

the reward for earning an automatic birth is that you should not be subjected to a first four game.

first four games should be for at large teams only.

imo
 
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Boca Vol said:
Those 16 seeds won their conference. The last 4 in should be the ones in the play-in games. In this case it was UT, Iowa, Xavier, and NC State.
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Think Dayton actually was one of the last 4 in, but due to the game being played in Dayton the comm****tee decided not to put them in it. iirc
 
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99gator said:
i agree with this. i have always felt this way since they came up with the first 4.

the reward for earning an automatic birth is that you should not be subjected to a first four game.

first four games should be for at large teams only.

imo
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The problem with that is most of these automatic bids are won over the course of 3 day tournament and not the regular season so teams like Cal Poly get in with losing records from crappy conferences in many cases.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The problem with that is most of these automatic bids are won over the course of 3 day tournament and not the regular season so teams like Cal Poly get in with losing records from crappy conferences in many cases.
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That's not on the NCAA tournament. That's on the conferences. Tournament gives one bid to each conference. It's up to the conference to decide how to give out that bid.
 
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Lefteye said:
Think Dayton actually was one of the last 4 in, but due to the game being played in Dayton the comm****tee decided not to put them in it. iirc
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But Duke playing in Raleigh is AOK. Not very consistent is the committee.
 
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