Thursday at approximately 330 ( UK / Missouri @1 )
Saturday at 5
Regionals set
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Thursday at approximately 330 ( UK / Missouri @1 )
Saturday at 5
Mike, what the hell is it with committee’s obsession’s with the SEC? The CFP, March Madness, now volleyball. I’m starting to detest everything SEC like I do Penn State.
What? If SMU holds chalk and beats Missouri, then the ACC has 4 and the SEC has 4. I don’t see any bias there.
Additionally 2 #6 SEC teams beat #3’s last night. More power to them.
I know, i’m just venting my frustration because I know that Alabama is going to make the CFP, and SMU is going to get screwed out of it.
Yeah I’m reading that SMF thread now and frustrated by it too.
The basketball league looks to be pretty darn good though.
Question about Elite 8 game times:
I have tickets to the Saturday's Elite 8 game. I'm banking on Pitt winning it's Sweet 16 game vs. Oregon.
I'm flying in to Pittsburgh on Saturday...my flight doesn't get in until 1:30PM.
I see that ESPN is televising the Sweet 16 games (back-to-back), the earliest starts at 1:00PM.
Has anyone seen the scheduled start time of Saturday's Elite 8 Pittsburgh Regional Final?
I'm now afraid that ESPN might schedule those games at 1 and 3, rather than 5 and 7...
I have tickets to the Saturday's Elite 8 game. I'm banking on Pitt winning it's Sweet 16 game vs. Oregon.
I'm flying in to Pittsburgh on Saturday...my flight doesn't get in until 1:30PM.
I see that ESPN is televising the Sweet 16 games (back-to-back), the earliest starts at 1:00PM.
Has anyone seen the scheduled start time of Saturday's Elite 8 Pittsburgh Regional Final?
I'm now afraid that ESPN might schedule those games at 1 and 3, rather than 5 and 7...
Regional final Pittsburgh on Saturday....December 14th....at 5 PM. Go to the top of this thread which @PittMBA posted late last night.
It is set for 5 PM, you can see in the graphic posted above
Mike,
I initially thought the same thing, but the layout of the seeding created the 2 sides. With Pitt as the overall 1 we earn the right to play the 4th seed which was either Louisville or Stanford. That put the 3 best ACC teams on one side (#1, #4, and #5). With Neb and PSU as the 2 and 3 overall seeds - they are on the other side.
So those 5 top teams are separated completely by seeding and nothing set-up by the committee. Creighton earned the 6th seed ahead of Wisc and SMU putting them on the Nebraska side.
The only decision is then where Wisc and SMU get seeded. Pretty clear Wisconsin earned the 7 seed which puts them in the Nebraska regional leaving SMU in Pitt's region as the 8th seed. You could argue that SMU doesn't deserve the 8th seed, but they'd still be on Pitt's side as the overall #9 seed anyway.
So it appears the committee intentionally put all ACC teams on one side and all Big 10 teams on the other - but it's pretty much how the seeding and resumes of the teams actually created it.
Just an observation but the SEC, while not having many high seeds, somehow saw a lot of overrated Big12 and B1G teams in the brackets.
I think the SEC overperformed the first week. I didn’t expect Missouri to advance to the Regionals; I didn’t expect Mississippi to beat FSU; and I thought either Florida or Kentucky would lose. They earned their 5 spots. On the other hand, I don’t expect them to have one team in the final 8.
It’s hard to argue that they didn’t deserve to have all those teams get in when five advanced, Mississippi and Oklahoma won their first round matches and Tennessee took GT to 5 sets.
I agree that the way they seeded the teams created this scenario, but to me that’s not a defense of it because the seedings were not consistent.
If you listen to their rationale for seeding Louisville 4th overall ahead of Stanford and Creighton, it was the schedule they played. They played more top ten and top 25 teams and had a tougher strength of schedule and a higher RPI. That was the rationale explained to the press.
But, by that rationale, PSU should be the 5 seed. They played the least top 10 programs out of conference (3) and they played zero out of conference top 11-25 teams. That is counting Kentucky as a top 10 team. If you don’t, then they played 2 top 10 teams and one top 25 team out of conference. Pitt played more top 25 programs the opening weekend than PSU did all season. And, their RPI was #5. They played 13 non-ranked teams in their conference. We played 11 matches against ranked ACC teams and 9 against unranked teams. We played two of the three top 10 ranked ACC teams twice. They didn’t play any of the top ten ranked B10 teams twice. They didn’t play and of the Big Ten teams ranked 11-25 twice either.
They found time to play Temple and Princeton and St John’s and James Madison and Yale. They could have found time to schedule a couple more good out of conference teams instead.
To me, they were the #5 seed, with Stanford and Louisville 3 and 4 in some order. That at least gets the brackets a little more balanced although it doesn’t eliminate us playing Louisville three times unless they are the 3 seed.
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