If I'm Auburn, I'm pissed

[She Mate Me]

Win the SEC Tourney. Beat UT twice in a week.

Reward...

5 seed just like Mississippi State against a tougher opponent.

Win that and likely Kansas is next.

Win that and it's really likely to be UNC.

That said, I sure wouldn't wanna play Auburn right now.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

my guess is the committee doesn't like Pearl.

I think they make it a good way, but remember they live by the three. They were hot at the tournament. They could just as easily get cold again, and get their butt kicked in the 1st or 2nd round.

 

[maroonmania]

Happens every year but people don't seem to remember that about all the conference tournament does is get a few teams in by winning the tourney that wouldn't have gotten in otherwise. Pretty much the seeding you go in with is what you come out with. If you go in on the bubble and win a couple of games it doesn't get you off the bubble.

 

[msstate7]

VT is better than Kansas

 

[patdog]

Yeah. Conference tournaments are basically just exhibitions. You're not going to do much to improve or drop your seeding in them. The selection show started just 3 hours after the SEC title game ended. The committee isn't going to re-work their bracket in that short a time frame.

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

Agree about VA Tech
Playing Kansas is a helmet game — in this case name on the blue jersey only.

 

[maroonmania]

Yeah. Conference tournaments are basically just exhibitions. You're not going to do much to improve or drop your seeding in them. The selection show started just 3 hours after the SEC title game ended. The committee isn't going to re-work their bracket in that short a time frame.

Wasn't it 2010? where we basically went into the SEC tournament on the NCAA bubble and made it to the SEC championship game where we lost to KY in OT (the game with the famous John Wall lane violation) and STILL didn't get an NCAA invite? That right there showed me that if you weren't going to make the NCAAs prior to the SEC tournament and don't win the SEC tournament you still aren't getting in. Pretty much the same argument for seeding as well, the conference tourney will do little to nothing for you in that department.

 

[VegasDawg13]

VT is better than Kansas

This is correct, and it's really not even close.

I also disagree that they didn't improve their seed at all. They were likely a 6 if they had lost to Florida on Saturday.

 

[$altyDawg]

Aubbie is live by the 3, die by the 3. Not very much unlike us.

 

[GTAT]

Tournaments are worthless in regards to the NCAA seeding that matters, and they shouldn't matter at all. They are exhibitions for fans and an extra money maker for the conferences. They should allow regular season champs to get the auto-invite rather than tournament champs, would make for a better national tournament. Same goes for baseball. I guess at the end of the day they don't really hurt anything, just another trophy for someone to win I suppose, and provides a little excitement.

Football is a different animal entirely.

 

[She Mate Me]

I agree with most of what's been said here.

Did find it interesting that Arkansas's Women made the "Debateable Eight" list of the Committee's final 8 teams under consideration for the final 4 spots. They clearly would not have been on this list without their SEC Tourney run.

 

[She Mate Me]

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-...26291567/tennessee-seven-tourney-bubble-teams

 

[patdog]

Two differences:
1. The selection committee has a full week to consider the results of conference tournament games before they announce their bracket, not a few hours.
2. Who knows how much emphasis the actual women's committee will put on the conference tournament games anyway. Just because some analyst at ESPN says Arkansas is in something called a "Debatable Eight" doesn't mean a thing.

 

[She Mate Me]

Two differences:
1. The selection committee has a full week to consider the results of conference tournament games before they announce their bracket, not a few hours.
2. Who knows how much emphasis the actual women's committee will put on the conference tournament games anyway. Just because some analyst at ESPN says Arkansas is in something called a "Debatable Eight" doesn't mean a thing.

Agree with #1. On #2, it's the NCAA Committee that released the list.

 

[fishwater99]

I agree with most of what's been said here.

Did find it interesting that Arkansas's Women made the "Debateable Eight" list of the Committee's final 8 teams under consideration for the final 4 spots. They clearly would not have been on this list without their SEC Tourney run.

Who cares...

 

[She Mate Me]

Who cares...

Have you visited that therapist yet? It really needs to happen soon.

 

[tatedog]

Yeah. Conference tournaments are basically just exhibitions. You're not going to do much to improve or drop your seeding in them. The selection show started just 3 hours after the SEC title game ended. The committee isn't going to re-work their bracket in that short a time frame.

Exactly this. All this talk about the committee burning the midnight oil, poring over numbers and resumes etc. in championship week is a bunch of baloney. The field is set by Friday at the latest, and they simply drop teams out of the bottom if bid stealers like Oregon and St. Bonnie happen. The process is probably the most overblown thing ever to make a bunch of back slapping empty suits feel like they are playing God.

Michigan State has as many wins over Michigan as Gonzaga has total Q1 wins. Explain to me why going 20-0 against Q3/4 in the ultra weak west justifies a 1 seed. If beating Duke is the reason, then give Syracuse a 1 seed too.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

Two Words



























17 Auburn!

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

No real problems with the 5 seed, but having to play on Thursday after 4 games in 4 days, this is going to be a physical challenge. A lot like our 09 team that won the SECT, and then had the opening game on the west coast. I still think we could have competed if that had been a Fri start