Tired of listening to people’s bullshit about an end of season fade! Lets go dancing boys and @3boysmom
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I'm hoping and praying they end up in Omaha. I might sell a kidney to be there.
Would probably have to fall to the 8/9 slot to be there, opposite Kansas or Baylor. But winning 2 games would make it worth it.
3-1 since the February fade officially began at Purdue.
Pretty good for a fade.
Pretty good for a fade.
We will not be in Omaha as a 4 seed. No reasonable scenario exists.
I DO think it is possible we end up in St. Louis if we're in the 4-6 range.
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Same here. Tickets are lined up. St. Louis would also be great. Third choice is Tampa. Warm weather and know the area from all the bowl games.
Are you counting Purdue as part of the fade? We lost to Indiana in there too.
Seemed obvious he was counting Indiana, but 4-2 is our actual February record.
Nope, said since it started.
It started with Purdue. They were supposed to lose out from there.
What? How not?
Kansas wants St. Louis, not Omaha. So Baylor takes 1 Omaha pod... who else takes Omaha? Hint... check who is hosting the Omaha site and is thus ineligible.
Edit: St. Louis is actually the one that is nearly impossible. With Kansas, Dayton, potentially Louisville/Kentucky if the Cleveland pods are gone, etc. We would have to get slotted their as the worse seed in a more or less random draw.
Why would KU want STL over Omaha? Are you using Trump’s map of Kansas being directly below Iowa?
Waco is 11hrs from both Omaha and St Louis
KU is 4.5 hrs from STL and 3 hours from Omaha
Kansas wants St. Louis? What does that even mean? When do teams submit requests?
Every single projection I've seen has Kansas in Omaha, which makes perfect sense. Baylor is about equidistant from the two, but most projections have them in Omaha, also. If somehow one of them ends up in St. Louis and Iowa lands the 4-seed in Omaha, we will both be happy and you can declare yourself right. In the meantime, I've seen multiple projections with Iowa in St. Louis, so I'm going with that.
Sorry, switched Kansas and Baylor. My mistake on that. Kansas is the only team with Omaha as the closest pod site. Baylor is closer to St. Louis.
So after Kansas... who would take the other Omaha pod in the top 3 seeds? As it sits now, there will be a 4 seed slotted into Omaha. The STL pods will be taken by top 2 seeds (Baylor, Dayton)
Which 2 teams get Cleveland before Dayton, forcing them to go to St. Louis? Just about projection I see puts Louisville and a Big East team in St. Louis as #3 seeds.
Again, I have not seen a single projection putting Iowa in Omaha since Bracketology began, but multiple putting them in St. Louis. We can certainly criticize the people who run these sites, but chances are they know more about what is going on than either of us.
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Thanks, that's right. I wonder which school I messed up on and mixed up with Dayton. Going to have to review all my geography before putting together a new bracket.
Edit - must be Louisville... only school that makes sense to confuse with Dayton that is slightly closer to St. Louis than Cleveland.
Ok, here is how I see the top few seed lines; hopefully you folks can correct any other geography issues I'm showing:
Baylor - St. Louis
Kansas - Omaha
Gonzaga - Spokane
San Diego St - Sacramento
Maryland - Greensboro
Duke - Greensboro
Dayton - Cleveland
Creighton - St. Louis (hosting the Omaha pods, thus ineligible)
Louisville, Kentucky, and West Virginia may also be in contention for St. Louis if the Cleveland/Greensboro pods are taken.
I do wonder if the committee will just send both Kansas and Baylor to Omaha to open up an extra slot in St. Louis since it fits better geographically with the 2-4 seeds.
Baylor - St. Louis
Kansas - Omaha
Gonzaga - Spokane
San Diego St - Sacramento
Maryland - Greensboro
Duke - Greensboro
Dayton - Cleveland
Creighton - St. Louis (hosting the Omaha pods, thus ineligible)
Louisville, Kentucky, and West Virginia may also be in contention for St. Louis if the Cleveland/Greensboro pods are taken.
I do wonder if the committee will just send both Kansas and Baylor to Omaha to open up an extra slot in St. Louis since it fits better geographically with the 2-4 seeds.
In a year like this (or really most years) 4 seeds from elsewhere often get sent to places like Sacramento and Spokane because there aren’t enough top seeds from nearby those areas.
Ever since the P12 has fallen off and the Mountain West has declined, there haven't top 15ish teams to support multiple west coast pod sites. I'd like to see them do more in places like Boise, Colorado, or somewhere in Arizona that would be more middle ground for B12 or the western B1G schools (plus any top seeds from the MWC or WCC)
Let's be real - West is West. Denver and maybe Cheyenne WY are the only "West" cities remotely "drive-able" from the Miss River for a long weekend. Otherwise you might as well be in a big city on the West Coast that is a lot cheaper to fly to and where you might have a fairly good-sized alumni base. LA, SF, SD, Seattle, Vegas, Phoenix all good. It's places like Spokane, Boise, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City that are horrible, even for most West Coast teams.
Another option would be to highly alter what "West" really is. If they've had Memphis and St. Louis as "South" cities, then why not have Dallas, Kansas City, Omaha and Oklahoma City as "West" cities?
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