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How are they a 2 seed with 10 losses and lost 3 of their last 5 games. F’ing ridiculous that they got to play in charlotte with the easiest walk. I guess it pays to cheat. Working good for them.
Some of the logic is just baffling....syracuse and Oklahoma should not be in....a 2 seed with 10 losses....so many bad calls on this seeding. But one thing is for sure its going to be a wild ride because there isnt one bracket that is stacked over another. And really...MSU again in Dukes bracket....every other year it seems
UNC got a 2 for the same reasons you guys got a two last year. Really tough schedule and a nice tourney run. UNC def got a great draw though. However Michigan is really coming on.
On the flip side, OK is a good draw for you guys. They shouldn’t even be in the tourney. And K owns Self.
Come on boys. Carolina fans cry about the refs and the seating. Not Duke fans. If we would have beat Carolina we would have been in Charlotte. But we didn't bring it.
Play that way in Pittsburgh and we will be coming home early.
Play that way in Pittsburgh and we will be coming home early.
Mich. St could very easily beat Duke if that happens. We have to get there first. We stayed the same from the first matchup Mich St improved and they are men. You can’t even compare this game to the 1st game 5 months ago.
We won the acc tournament last season, y'all didn't this season, and your Holes have 10 losses. By this logic, last season we should have been a 1 seed.
I agree....Sparty worries me some because of all the success we have had against them. At some point, they get us. Hope it's not this year!!
Do they not realize K owns Izzo, but it’s the NCAA tournament and anything is possible
TBS guys definitely want us to lose...be nice to make them eat those words. Dont mind playing KS as I dont think the B12 was that strong this year and they got blown out a few times. On that note...how does OK ST get left out having beaten KS twice and OK twice....that has to hurt.
We haven’t improved since the first time we played them!? Have you watched any Duke games this season?
Seriously?! No offense if we can’t beat Iona with all of our guys, then we deserve to be laughed at!
If anybody should be pissed it’s UVA. The number one seed and look at the **** they have to swim through to make the FF
I was being sarcastic...read before that post when I said I didn’t like that matchup...had the usual internet tough guy response....
But you also finished tied for 5th in the league with 9 total losses and the 9th hardest schedule overall. UNC had the number 1 schedule this year and had one more loss and finished tied for 3rd in the acc. Both seedings, if anything, were a little generous. But not egregious
Totally agree...they have a tough road to go...Still I’ve been consisten saying they can’t win anyways...besides the fact they have got a lot of really good breaks this year...you can’t win six games the way they play IMO...somewhere you have to score...and 60 won’t cut it...
That's funny. Duke won the ACCT last year and played much of the year with guys on the bench injured. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. UNC got another huge gift, just say thanks and move on.
Of course they could but I don’t agree with the rest of your post. They just lost again to their rival. A lot of people pissed their pants when st was the three seed in 13 and Duke controlled them. Michigan st is very similar to Duke. Turn it over a ton and aren’t great from the outside. All we know is when they played Duke won without Bagley. Everything else is speculation.
Every damn one of em. Dukes defense improved going to zone but that’s not Duke Basketball and it’s still shaken as hell at times. UNC carved it up like it thanksgiving.
Egregious is exactly what UNC getting a 2 seed and playing in Charlotte is. Egregious and inexplicable.
The only ACC team that didn't get a tough draw is the Cheats. I guess they scared the NCAA about the cheating scandal so bad with a law suit, that they figured they better give them an easy path to the final four!
OFC
OFC
Is it possible your bias might be talking here?
My first reaction to Duke getting a 2 seed last year was similar to yours. But then people like @dukiejay pointed out the effects of SOS and unbalanced league play coupled with acc tourney play and it made sense. Same applies to UNC this year.
A few points....
We had eight losses last year going into the NCAAT. You have 10 this season.
We won the ACCT. You guys didn’t.
We finished 5th last season....you guys were 6th this year.
As for egregious....no team has ever been a two-seed with nine losses. There’s now one team that has been a two-seed with 10 losses and that same team lost three of their final five games. That team also got a very favorable bracket. I’ll say this....it’s been one helluva year being a UNC fan. First, you win a national championship, then you get off on a technicality after cheating for 20 years and now the committee said, “here, we’re sorry for how we’ve treated you the last five years.” Like I said....a great time to be a Tar Heel fan.
No bias. There isn't a non-UNC fan in the country not shaking their head at UNC's gift. You can try and justify it any way you want, but it makes zero sense on any level. Course getting a walk for committing academic fraud for 20+ years made no sense either. Guess y'all are just really lucky when it comes to NCAA decisions.
Probably not the wisest decision to come on here Ticket and expect us to buy the bag of crap you're trying to sell. 10 losses. And your team didn't win the tournament. Then you're in Charlotte and in an easier bracket.
Just man up and admit it. Your team has been luckier than a dog with 2 di%#s.
Just man up and admit it. Your team has been luckier than a dog with 2 di%#s.
Rhode Island may give us a good first half but no way we should lose to them...sure stranger things have happened but I'm not worried about the Rhodys..
He did say it he would be UNC's Laettner..which to be fair is a poor mans version of Christian
- you had 8 and we had 9 going into the tourney
- correct
- we finished tied for 3rd this year. You finished tied for 5th last year.
- UNC played the hardest schedule this year. Duke had the 9th rated schedule last year.
- maybe you misread me. I said neither team’s ranking was egregious. Both got generous draws. UNC clearly got a great draw this year. But it’s also been one of the flukiest years I can remember. The amount of losses too 20 teams have is crazy.