canderson said:All these non-alum people picking SFA freaks me out.*
* Their home guy vs Duke would be amazing.
DukeSox said:Wait what do you mean by "class sized"?
Mloaf71 said:
Someone talk me out of Iowa St in the final 4. I've got Kent, Zona, and Nova in and am trying to not include Duke (have no faith in Zaga to make it). Am I trying to hard to get an underdog in there?
wibi said:
I thought SFA was a much smaller school than it turned out to be. I didnt realize they had almost the same enrollment as Duke does. I was trying to make an enrollment size point but ...
canderson said:Utah plays into SFA's strength regarding pace, which is good. SFA's biggest weakness is allowing dribble penetration, but on offense ll put them against anyone in the country at generating scoring. Their ball movement is unbelievably good.
Underwood is an absolute beast of an X and O coach. This team is much! deeper than last year's, I feel like they have a swinging shot at the upset.
Utah's guard looks great, but I think SFA can frustrate their big man and get in in foul trouble. But if SFA isn't crisp with passing those guards could eat them alive.
DukeSox said:
Almost? SFA is much bigger - almost twice as large.
SFA has 11,000 undergraduates. Duke has 6,600 undergraduates.
Haha, wow, the national bracket has exactly 4 upsets in the first round. Two of which are a 8/9 and 5/12.DukeSox said:Duke v Kentucky in the ESPN national bracket right now
http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2015/en/nationalBracket
As it should. Each individual upset is a low probability outcome. It makes sense to choose a few, but everyone is unlikely to pick the same few.PC Drunken Friar said:Haha, wow, the national bracket has exactly 4 upsets in the first round. Two of which are a 8/9 and 5/12.
Baylor was the only blowout. They were within 4 or 6 of Xavier until 2:45 or so left. Baylor was a terrible performance and a very strong team.Cellar-Door said:Utah is a really good team. I think people are putting way too much emphasis on momentum. It's a team that finished top 20 in both adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, they played Kansas and Arizona close and beat Witchita State.
Stephen F Austin is a fun team, but they only played 3 good teams all year and lost all 3, two of which were blowouts.
They scored 2 points in the last 5:42 and lost by 18, that's a blowout. They never got closer than 8 in that time period, and the lead in the second half was less that 6 for one possession only.canderson said:Baylor was the only blowout. They were within 4 or 6 of Xavier until 2:45 or so left. Baylor was a terrible performance and a very strong team.
Whoops. Oh well I'll take it!!DukeSox said:I agree. ISU is on one of those magical runs that no one is recognizing, but will become fully evident in the rear-view mirror when they make the elite 8 or beyond.
I have ISU in my FF.
I hope Gonzaga shows UCLA no mercy. A little payback for 2006 is very much in orderjschip1 said:Ken Pomeroy shows Gonzaga-Duke-Utah as the fourth-fifth-sixth best teams left in the tournament with UCLA 16th. He gives Gonzaga a 76.8% chance of advancing with Duke-Utah basically a tossup (Duke 54.4%). His system has loved Utah all year, mostly because of its elite defense.
Fivethirtyeight gives Gonzaga essentially the same chance of beating UCLA (76%), but likes Duke to win a lot more (66%).
Utah has the bigs (Poeltl and Bachynski, both 7 footers) to defend Okafor and maybe slow him down and give themselves a chance. I think Gonzaga rolls UCLA pretty good.
DukeSox said:Utah has 2 guys projected to go in the first round of the NBA draft. Them being a 5 seed was always so much bullshit.