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March Madness Thread

Wrangor

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Now that the Deacs have been knocked out of the ACC tourney it is time to start a new thread for our next tournament, the NCAA Tournament. Rest up, heal up, and be ready to drop bombs in the first round. My prediction: #10 seed.

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10 or 11 is fine with me. Just don't want the play in game.


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Better be a 10 or solid 11. Would be disappointing if they are forced to go to Dayton or obviously snubbed completely.
 
Wake's in.
I'm ready for the Madness.
 
Based on the current brackets I'd rather get a non-Dayton 11. The 3 seeds are going to be so much softer than the 2's.
 
DCDeac said:
Based on the current brackets I'd rather get a non-Dayton 11. The 3 seeds are going to be so much softer than the 2's.
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Though we could run into a pretty tough 6. There's a nice little dropoff after the top 25 or so teams
 
wufu bufu said:
Shouldn't this thread be explicitly named the Wake Forest NCAAT Thread?
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Fine by me. Mods feel free to edit thread title. Either way, I am ecstatic that Wake is finally going back to the tournament.
 
Probably need an emergency backup too.
 
FiveThirtyEight says we're the most sure bubble team. Hopefully that translates to a good seeding:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/on-the-ncaa-bubble-heres-the-number-to-watch/



CURRENT RANKING AMONG D-I TEAMS
TEAMRPIBPIKENPOMSTRENGTH OF RECORDCHANCE OF MAKING TOURNEY
Wake Forest34303033>99.9%
Xavier3336433799.9
Marquette5529284188.6
Illinois State3160494685.7
USC3958614376.4
Vanderbilt4449405665.6
Providence5255534063.0
Kansas State6041324561.9
Rhode Island4239515458.1
Indiana8132465719.1
Houston5035415917.2
Clemson6333354915.7
Syracuse7931445312.2
California565255692.8
Illinois586368581.5
Iowa727767640.5
 
Unfortunately FiveThirtyEight's predictive cabapilities have been show to be, ahem, lacking (sad face). That said, it does seem that strength of record is what past committees have tended to emphasize and by that metric Wake is currently 35 - given the lack of other obvious marks against it does seem that Wake should be sitting around a 9 seed before today's games.
 
1 seed in the NIT with some home games. Write it down. You millennial turds are too concerned with a progressive HR policy. Sorry coaching is colorblind. Manning won four against NC State and BC this year. Sad.
 
Bras_is_Old said:
Unfortunately FiveThirtyEight's predictive cabapilities have been show to be, ahem, lacking (sad face). That said, it does seem that strength of record is what past committees have tended to emphasize and by that metric Wake is currently 35 - given the lack of other obvious marks against it does seem that Wake should be sitting around a 9 seed before today's games.
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No they haven't.

I'm going to keep refuting this every single time that I see it. Just because you repeat something ad nauseum doesn't make it true.
 
If Wake gets shut out of the NCAAT then NO bubble teams would have made it in and that's unheard of previously.
 
I'm thinking an 8 seed.

Depends on other conference champs, no upsets please.
 
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