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ESPN GOAT Brackets - We correct their mistakes

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Anyone care about the brackets created by ESPN for letting the Twitterverse determine the College BB GOAT? It would have been nice if they'd done separate ones for the men and women. Having said that, who are your nominations for:

Biggest omission:
Most over-seeded:
Most under-seeded:
Biggest joke of an inclusion:
Dookies who should not have been included:
Who should win:
Who will win:
 
Once I saw Bilas bitching about some seeding crap, I turned it off. Not watching ESPN talking heads argue over nothing.
 
Zion (9) vs DFL (8) in the first round. Winner plays Laettner (assuming he cruises over Jimmer).

It's having to support DFL or a Dookie. We're fucked either way.
 
Meh. We used to bitch about our NCAAT seedings.

But since [NR] and DFL can't even get close to regular NCAAT bids.... :(
 
To clarify, this thread is about the GOAT players. It's an interesting concept to give us something to discuss when nothing much is going on. Too bad ESPN ha botched the execution of it.
 
The seedings are terrible. Jordan was good in college but not Top 20 of All Time in college for men. He might not even be Top 25 or 30 in college.

Also, one year guys are tough to take over people who played more.

Let's try :

Alcindor
Walton
Thompson
Robertson
Hayes
Laettner
Gola
Russell
Duncan
Maravich
Bradley
Murphy
Pettit
West
Bird
Magic
Austin Carr
Danny -yes he was as a player
Jerry Lucas
Sampson
Lionel Simmons (3000 points, well over 1000 boards)

I'm probably missing a couple. Having Marcus Camby on ESPN's list is insane. He's not close to being a Top 100 college player.

If you are going to include women:

Nancy Lieberman (is way underrated on ESPN)
Annie Myers-Drysdale
Cheryl Miller
Anne Donovan
Diana Taurasi
Sue Bird
Brittney Greiner
Sabrina Ionescu
Lisa Leslie
Brianna Stewart
Tamika Catchings
Swin Cash
Dawn Staley
Pam McGee (I forget her sister's name)
Holdsclaw
Cynthia Cooper

I know I'm omitting a bunch.
 
For ESPN to have Jay Williams over Phil Ford shows a bias toward recency/Dook/current employees.
 
Hadn’t looked at all but putting Zion as a 9 and Manning as a 8 makes no sense. I guess that was the point.
 
Hadn’t looked at all but putting Zion as a 9 and Manning as a 8 makes no sense. I guess that was the point.

if Zion had played a full season, they would have had him as a top 4 seed. Ridiculousness.
 
For me:

#1 Seeds:

Alcindor
Thompson
Russell
Walton

#2 Seeds:

Maravich
Laettner
Roberston
Manning

#3 Seeds:

Hayes
Bird
Magic
Sampson


#4 Seeds:

Tim
Lucas
Calvin Murphy
Gola

If there had been a three point shot, Pistol Pete's and Calvin Murphy's numbers would have been totally off the charts. Pistol would have averaged over 50 ppg. Calvin probably would have been over 40 ppg.

I should have put Wilt on my first list. I think there is a legitimate argument could be made for Dickie Hemric to be in the Top 30-40 of all time.
 
The seedings are terrible. Jordan was good in college but not Top 20 of All Time in college for men. He might not even be Top 25 or 30 in college.

Also, one year guys are tough to take over people who played more.

Let's try :

Alcindor
Walton
Thompson
Robertson
Hayes
Laettner
Gola
Russell
Duncan
Maravich
Bradley
Murphy
Pettit
West
Bird
Magic
Austin Carr
Danny -yes he was as a player
Jerry Lucas
Sampson
Lionel Simmons (3000 points, well over 1000 boards)

I'm probably missing a couple. Having Marcus Camby on ESPN's list is insane. He's not close to being a Top 100 college player.

If you are going to include women:

Nancy Lieberman (is way underrated on ESPN)
Annie Myers-Drysdale
Cheryl Miller
Anne Donovan
Diana Taurasi
Sue Bird
Brittney Greiner
Sabrina Ionescu
Lisa Leslie
Brianna Stewart
Tamika Catchings
Swin Cash
Dawn Staley
Pam McGee (I forget her sister's name)
Holdsclaw
Cynthia Cooper

I know I'm omitting a bunch.

I'd include Lobo and Delladona on the women's list.
 
The seedings are terrible. Jordan was good in college but not Top 20 of All Time in college for men. He might not even be Top 25 or 30 in college.

Also, one year guys are tough to take over people who played more.

Let's try :

Alcindor
Walton
Thompson
Robertson
Hayes
Laettner
Gola
Russell
Duncan
Maravich
Bradley
Murphy
Pettit
West
Bird
Magic
Austin Carr
Danny -yes he was as a player
Jerry Lucas
Sampson
Lionel Simmons (3000 points, well over 1000 boards)

I'm probably missing a couple. Having Marcus Camby on ESPN's list is insane. He's not close to being a Top 100 college player.

If you are going to include women:

Nancy Lieberman (is way underrated on ESPN)
Annie Myers-Drysdale
Cheryl Miller
Anne Donovan
Diana Taurasi
Sue Bird
Brittney Greiner
Sabrina Ionescu
Lisa Leslie
Brianna Stewart
Tamika Catchings
Swin Cash
Dawn Staley
Pam McGee (I forget her sister's name)
Holdsclaw
Cynthia Cooper

I know I'm omitting a bunch.

Your top four men are spot on. I don’t know who I’d rank as the overall tournament #1 from among those four. I’d lean toward David Thompson, but that may be because he’s the only I saw in person.

I’d add Len Bias to your list. He was incredible.
 
Probably need to have Wilt somewhere near the top.

And second the motion on Len Bias.
 
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