Should Tennessee be a 1 seed?

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What a great performance! SC is arguably the worst team in the SEC. But paired with the game against MSST it’s impressive.

Am I remembering correctly that the selection committee is supposed to refer to the NET rankings when determining seeding?

Tennessee is number 2 overall in those rankings yet everything I’ve read seems to suggest the ceiling for Tennessee is a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Meanwhile: The number one overall seed (In Lunardi’s Bracketology), Kansas, has one loss on the season (TN). Alabama, ranked 8th in NET, is a projected 1 seed.

More egregious to me is AZ being a 1 seed in the same region as Houston with Houston being a 2 seed. Houston is ranked 1st overall in efficiency and has been most of the year. Houston would be a 10 point? favorite on a neutral floor against Arizona.

I know it’s petty and much can be worked out on the court with games coming up, but I just don’t understand the justifications. I also used to dismiss these projections until last year when I saw Duke get a number 2 seed over Tennessee in the tournament. I’m a TN fan so I don’t mind flying under the radar…until it makes a difference for seeding. I’d love to see at least one final four run in my lifetime, and this team has a shot! A number one seed doesn’t hurt their chances to get there…
 
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JohnWardForever said:
Wow, the whole season is ahead. Let's see how it plays out. Let's see how the Vol bama game goes. SC is pathetic. There ARE teams in the SEC that play Defense....
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Hope we can continue this level of play and haven’t peaked too soon. Seems like there are usually teams that gets hot near middle or at end of season and go deep in the tourney. We have sometimes petered out after having a fast start. GBO and have a championship season.
 
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xavierbballfan said:
What a great performance! SC is arguably the worst team in the SEC. But paired with the game against MSST it’s impressive.

Am I remembering correctly that the selection committee is supposed to refer to the NET rankings when determining seeding?

Tennessee is number 2 overall in those rankings yet everything I’ve read seems to suggest the ceiling for Tennessee is a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Meanwhile: The number one overall seed (In Lunardi’s Bracketology), Kansas, has one loss on the season (TN). Alabama, ranked 8th in NET, is a projected 1 seed.

More egregious to me is AZ being a 1 seed in the same region as Houston with Houston being a 2 seed. Houston is ranked 1st overall in efficiency and has been most of the year. Houston would be a 10 point? favorite on a neutral floor against Arizona.

I know it’s petty and much can be worked out on the court with games coming up, but I just don’t understand the justifications. I also used to dismiss these projections until last year when I saw Duke get a number 2 seed over Tennessee in the tournament. I’m a TN fan so I don’t mind flying under the radar…until it makes a difference for seeding. I’d love to see at least one final four run in my lifetime, and this team has a shot! A number one seed doesn’t hurt their chances to get there…
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Barely halfway. Kinda like asking for a verdict in a trial that's just gotten thru jury selection.
 
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xavierbballfan said:
What a great performance! SC is arguably the worst team in the SEC. But paired with the game against MSST it’s impressive.

Am I remembering correctly that the selection committee is supposed to refer to the NET rankings when determining seeding?

Tennessee is number 2 overall in those rankings yet everything I’ve read seems to suggest the ceiling for Tennessee is a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Meanwhile: The number one overall seed (In Lunardi’s Bracketology), Kansas, has one loss on the season (TN). Alabama, ranked 8th in NET, is a projected 1 seed.

More egregious to me is AZ being a 1 seed in the same region as Houston with Houston being a 2 seed. Houston is ranked 1st overall in efficiency and has been most of the year. Houston would be a 10 point? favorite on a neutral floor against Arizona.

I know it’s petty and much can be worked out on the court with games coming up, but I just don’t understand the justifications. I also used to dismiss these projections until last year when I saw Duke get a number 2 seed over Tennessee in the tournament. I’m a TN fan so I don’t mind flying under the radar…until it makes a difference for seeding. I’d love to see at least one final four run in my lifetime, and this team has a shot! A number one seed doesn’t hurt their chances to get there…
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Too early to say yea or nay. We are only 3 games into the SEC schedule and anything can happen. One thing, it appears Kentucky is having real problems at this time, but you never count them out. They have talent and always have. If they continue, they may be paying two coaches a lot of money for a few. years.
 
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I haven't gotten to watch any games, just highlights, but it seems Tennessee is deep in every position. Veterans are playing like veterans, and younger players are looking good. If they can continue to put distance on their opponents, the rookies can get a lot of valuable minutes on the floor. Come tournament time, they should all be ready to go. This team could make the deepest run of any Tennessee in the past.
 
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As past history has shown, several teams play much better under pressure (NCAAT) than UT has shown in past several years.

Ky will be there, Kansas and Az are historically better under pressure, as are Purdue, Mich. and so on.

UT is playing like a FF team currently, but there is the tendency to choke in NCAAT. We shall see if this year (which is the best team RB has produced on paper) is different.
 
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All we gotta do is take care of business, and when we meet Bama, we can steal their 1 seed from them. Still lots of big games ahead to show that we deserve it, and we can’t have any more Colorados.
 
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If selection Sunday were today, then we are likely a 2 seed with the dumb possibility of being a 3 seed.

To finish the season as a one seed, most years, you can’t have more than 4 or 5 losses as a major conference team.
 
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omghulkhands said:
If selection Sunday were today, then we are likely a 2 seed with the dumb possibility of being a 3 seed.

To finish the season as a one seed, most years, you can’t have more than 4 or 5 losses as a major conference team.
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Last year 2/4 1 seeds had 6 losses, obviously 2 years prior aren’t apples-apples due to COVID causing cancellation of games. Going into yesterday nobody had us a 3 seed seed, it was 1 or 2 seed…Arizona lost yesterday so obviously that only solidifies that spot and that’s without considering our impressive result. I think you’ll see us as a 1 seed in more brackets than not when they do next updates.

With that said, obviously tons of basketball left to be played…a 1 seed is on the table, team rankings gives us a 79% chance of a 1 seed as of today, 15% chance of a 2 seed and 4% chance of 3 seed. I tend to think those percentages are a bit lofty but could just be BVS, in any regard a 1 seed is very much on the table at this point.
 
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Projected by TeamRankings as a #1 seed (sec #1 77%) and also ranked as #1 in the country. Hard to argue with that.
 
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If all goes as it looks like it should, our game against Alabama could be a battle for the #1 line. Though we rarely seem to get the benefit of our resume or even head to head, in seeding results.
 
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As mentioned above, teamrankings has us projected as the most likely #1 overall seed. DRatings projects us as the #3 overall seed. It's definitely in play.
 
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Unless you drive a Flux capacitor-outfitted DeLorean, this is a dumb question.
 
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Bracketology is basically based on what we’ve done to this point. You can look at the rankings and pretty much determine where most bracketologists will have us seeded. There are hurdles that we have to make in order to get a 1 seed. We can probably lose 2-3 more games throughout the year which would include the SEC tournament. If we lose in the SEC tournament then it would have to be in the finals. We would have to win or tie for first in the SEC regular season championship. The 2-3 loses can’t be bad loses. And we probably have to beat Bama in during the regular season when they come to Knoxville. All that most likely gets us a #1 seed.
 
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johnnybravo said:
Bracketology is basically based on what we’ve done to this point. You can look at the rankings and pretty much determine where most bracketologists will have us seeded. There are hurdles that we have to make in order to get a 1 seed. We can probably lose 2-3 more games throughout the year which would include the SEC tournament. If we lose in the SEC tournament then it would have to be in the finals. We would have to win or tie for first in the SEC regular season championship. The 2-3 loses can’t be bad loses. And we probably have to beat Bama in during the regular season when they come to Knoxville. All that most likely gets us a #1 seed.
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We learned last year the SECT doesn’t mean anything
 
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We could've and should've beaten South Carolina worse. Colorado State beat them by 32.
 
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