NCAA Tournament 2016 Thread

[spuwho]

Time to start the NCAA Tourney discussion, but with Florida, UNF and Florida State all slated for the NIT, I might have to make an NIT thread instead?


FYI: Austin Peay, whom UNF defeated @ home earlier this year was the 8th seed in the Ohio Valley Conference, got the automatic berth to the NCAA Tourney by defeating UT-Martin in the OVC tourney final.

[tufsu1]

Time to start the NCAA Tourney discussion, but with Florida, UNF and Florida State all slated for the NIT, I might have to make an NIT thread instead?

not likely to happen, but FSU (and UF) can make it in with a deep run in their conference tourney...that said, the other half of my alma maters just won the American Conference regular season and is sitting relatively comfortable at 20-10 (having won 9 of their last 11).

[spuwho]

Time to start the NCAA Tourney discussion, but with Florida, UNF and Florida State all slated for the NIT, I might have to make an NIT thread instead?

not likely to happen, but FSU (and UF) can make it in with a deep run in their conference tourney...that said, the other half of my alma maters just won the American Conference regular season and is sitting relatively comfortable at 20-10 (having won 9 of their last 11).

Temple has their work cut out for them. Are you going to Orlando to watch?

[tufsu1]

Time to start the NCAA Tourney discussion, but with Florida, UNF and Florida State all slated for the NIT, I might have to make an NIT thread instead?

not likely to happen, but FSU (and UF) can make it in with a deep run in their conference tourney...that said, the other half of my alma maters just won the American Conference regular season and is sitting relatively comfortable at 20-10 (having won 9 of their last 11).

Temple has their work cut out for them. Are you going to Orlando to watch?

indeed I am

[spuwho]

NCAA will be announcing the the brackets here shortly.

[spuwho]

tufsu1, your Temple team made it it appears. #10 seed.

[spuwho]

FGCU got tossed into the First Four in the East against Farleigh Dickinson.

Based on their RPI, this was not a surprise.

[spuwho]

Michigan is a total surprise, tossed into the First Four mid-tier play in.

While they have a tough schedule, I didn't think they were that good.

Stonybrook at #13 seed is weird. That game against Vermont, they did come back, but I wasn't impressed with their offense at all.

[spuwho]

Some of the seedings are kind of foobar to me, but if UNF had won their tourney, they probably would have faced Xavier or Michigan State in the first round.

Austin Peay winning the OVC tourney would have pushed up the Ospreys, but its all academic now.

[spuwho]

SEC didn't do so well. TA&M and Vandy. Kentucky.

But South Carolina's poor non-conference schedule compared to Vandy's seems to have caught up with them.

[CCMjax]

SEC didn't do so well. TA&M and Vandy. Kentucky.

But South Carolina's poor non-conference schedule compared to Vandy's seems to have caught up with them.

The SEC was complete and utter garbage this year.  Even worse than most years, which is pretty bad.  I think they are lucky to get three teams in, probably should have only been Texas A&M and Kentucky.  South Carolina had one of the biggest jokes of a schedule of all time for a power 5 team and didn't deserve to get in.  I just laughed when they started off the season 15-0 or whatever it was with half their wins over community colleges.  I'm not even convinced A&M is that good, and we shall see about Kentucky if they go up against UNC.

[tufsu1]

tufsu1, your Temple team made it it appears. #10 seed.

see...no worries

[thelakelander]

Go Canes!

[bencrix]

I think Miami will dominate FL collegiate hoops for the foreseeable future. They've got a really good team this year and what looks like a fairly favorable tournament draw.

[Traveller]

Virginia grad here.  Surprised we got the #1 seed over  Michigan State, but a Chicago regional against teams like MSU, Purdue, and Iowa State doesn't make for much of home-court advantage.  Here's hoping we can at least make it to the Elite 8 and avenge those losses to Sparty the last two tournaments.