NCAA Tournament seeding

[ghostzapper]

Nice to finally meet you yesterday. Question. How come you say we basically have no shot at final 4 and elite 8 would be an achievement?

An Elite Eight is an accomplishment. That means three tournament wins for a team that has no tournament wins in a quarter of a century. That said our last elite eight loss in 1999 against Ohio State still sticks in my craw.

I am interpreting LMF's no shot to the final four comment as his belief that Florida is the best team right now. That may be true, but there are so many moving parts to this and there is no certitude that Florida will advance to the elite eight either.

I also believe LMF thinks our potential second and third round matchups will be tough. To get to the final four we have to advance against Omaha and them we'd have to beat Kansas or Arkansas, then possibly Texas Tech and then possibly Florida. Not a joy ride for sure, but given the way we are playing it is definitely doable.

 

[SJU2000alum15]

Jay bilas also gave us a lot of props on ESPN said Florida has toughest path to final four of the number one seeds cause of us!

 

[Eric]

An Elite Eight is an accomplishment. That means three tournament wins for a team that has no tournament wins in a quarter of a century. That said our last elite eight loss in 1999 against Ohio State still sticks in my craw.

I am interpreting LMF's no shot to the final four comment as his belief that Florida is the best team right now. That may be true, but there are so many moving parts to this and there is no certitude that Florida will advance to the elite eight either.

I also believe LMF thinks our potential second and third round matchups will be tough. To get to the final four we have to advance against Omaha and them we'd have to beat Kansas or Arkansas, then possibly Texas Tech and then possibly Florida. Not a joy ride for sure, but given the way we are playing it is definitely doable.

Yes making the elite 8 is an achievement for sure. But this team can beat any team in the country so let’s not stop there. We can achieve more in this bracket or any other one.

 

[NCJohnnie]

For me, anything less than sweet 16 would be a small disappointment, but it's been a great year no matter what. Anything beyond Elite 8 should and would be a huge dream come true!!

 

[Henry050120]

Yes making the elite 8 is an achievement for sure. But this team can beat any team in the country so let’s not stop there. We can achieve more in this bracket or any other one.

We just won 3 games in the Big East tournament by double figures. We can play with anyone. I’m not sure teams want to play us

 

[Eric]

I kind of feel no matter what bracket we got and potential matchups, plenty would say the same concerns about difficulties etc no matter the team against us. It’s time to think differently guys. We are the team nobody wants to face and if they are not saying it yet it’s because they don’t know what’s gonna hit them. Or they think they can handle it. It’s like saying they want to fight Mike Tyson in his hey day until they get hit in the mouth.

 

[Anthony Mattia]

Is Bubba Cunningham related to Opie Cunningham?

Opie's last name was Taylor

 

[mattc]

Give me a mentally soft team like Kansas with less than 48 hours to prepare for us.

 

[Section3]

Opie's last name was Taylor

He changed it when he went to Happy Days

 

[paultzman]

Give me a mentally soft team like Kansas with less than 48 hours to prepare for us.

Or let Rick coach pants off fading Cal if Arkansas

 

[redstorm to redmen]

St. John's will meet Creighton in the Elite 8, and St. John's will go to the Final 4.

 

[Spocky Ramone]

Opie's last name was Taylor

I was actually referring to an SNL skit when Ron Howard hosted. On “Focus on Film”, Raheem Abdul Muhammad (Eddie Murphy) kept calling him Opie Cunningham.

 

[paultzman]

Texas Tech very dangerousl

 

[rlogazino]

St. John's will meet Creighton in the Elite 8, and St. John's will go to Final 4.

It’s UConn that we would face not Creighton.

 

[kranmars]

Do you guys go on back to back?

We are headlining the Catskills this summer.

Taste the veal…

 

[Spocky Ramone]

Pundits all going chalk…

 

[Mean Gene]

The Omaha coach is going to be on CBSSN in two minutes.

 

[mjmaherjr]

Evening session

Tickets bought

 

[sjc88]

I get people thinking N Carolina doesn’t deserve bid but if you look at first 4 out it’s not like they kept a deserving team out. Actually had better record and reportedly had tough OOC schedule.

Wasn’t just posters on this board. Even the talking heads were a little surprised. playing a tough OOC schedule is great but shouldn’t they have to win some of them. 1-12 in Q1. Lost to Duke 3x once when they were missing the POY and another Starter.

Some of it is they are able to schedule all those big games. So they blew their opportunity. Now look at their wins in the ACC. Very few “good” wins. Not a great ACC this year.

 

[bamafan]

Wasn’t just posters on this board. Even the talking heads were a little surprised. playing a tough OOC schedule is great but shouldn’t they have to win some of them. 1-12 in Q1. Lost to Duke 3x once when they were missing the POY and another Starter.

Some of it is they are able to schedule all those big games. So they blew their opportunity. Now look at their wins in the ACC. Very few “good” wins. Not a great ACC this year.

I realize all that and agree but my point is who was so aggrieved by being left out. It’s like when they pick the all star team and people name 5 guys who should have been selected but then you ask them then who are you taking out. In other words maybe based on their season you may think they are undeserving but maybe they got in because as 68th team there wasn’t a team more deserving. And I’m just asking I don’t do a deep dive into bubble teams to judge for myself.