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JStaff21

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HagginHall1999 said:
Speechless.

I took zero time to read the article but noticed just the picks and there is no 1996, 2012, 2015...unreal.

1996 is the best college basketball team of my lifetime and it isn't close.
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Shocking that an ESPN tournament ends up with Duke/UNC for the title

Of course this couldn’t happen if any of the above Kentucky teams are in the field.
 
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Just a bad way to fill out a bracket from the past 25 years. Not the best 64 teams but the best 4 teams from each seed line. So the best four 16 seeds are in but the fifth best #1 seed is out. To me that’s a lot more work for a bracket that isn’t as interesting as a best 64 team one would be.
 
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Made by someone who probably hasnt even been alive 25 years to know anything but the last 10 years. I imagine the editor saw a Duke UNC final and hastily ran it without even proofing it. Amazed how some people are even employed.
 
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Hollcat said:
Just a bad way to fill out a bracket from the past 25 years. Not the best 64 teams but the best 4 teams from each seed line. So the best four 16 seeds are in but the fifth best #1 seed is out. To me that’s a lot more work for a bracket that isn’t as interesting as a best 64 team one would be.
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Either way it is crap.

I'd love to see 2001 Duke against 1996 Kentucky.

Blood Bath.
 
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YaySports said:
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b.../picking-all-ncaa-tournament-bracket-25-years

Click at your own risk. It has potential to be good content but is abysmally executed, something we’ve come to expect from the hacks at ESPN. Only team is 98 cats (not even a 1 seed) and they lost to 2015 MSU in 2nd rd... lol
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Very similar to the lack of intelligence and homework done when making a list of the 25 greatest college basketball players and leaving Dan Issel off the list in favor of guys like Grant Hill, Len Bias, Ralph Sampson (none of which had better college careers than Issel), and several others. Are you kidding me? There are not 25 total college players of all time better than Dan Issel.
 
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HagginHall1999 said:
Speechless.

I took zero time to read the article but noticed just the picks and there is no 1996, 2012, 2015...unreal.

1996 is the best college basketball team of my lifetime and it isn't close.
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Agree, I'm not sure there are 3 teams in that whole bracket that could even stay close to that 96 bunch.
 
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fatguy87

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The bracket isn't the 64 best teams to ever play in the tournament. It says as much in the article.
 
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Rideordiewildcat

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YaySports said:
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b.../picking-all-ncaa-tournament-bracket-25-years

Click at your own risk. It has potential to be good content but is abysmally executed, something we’ve come to expect from the hacks at ESPN. Only team is 98 cats (not even a 1 seed) and they lost to 2015 MSU in 2nd rd... lol
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I saw that the other day and just laughed. All the teams they used multiples of and we only get the 98 team in over 2012's 38-2 squad, the 38-1 squad who was destroying people and the 97 title team that was just nasty and on a different level. There are so many great teams during that time period since it is also teams that didn't win a title we should have the most teams in it by far yet this dipshit picks one that's not even our best team during the span. Maybe not Top 3. Joke!
 
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fatguy87 said:
The bracket isn't the 64 best teams to ever play in the tournament. It says as much in the article.
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Where does it say that? It says how he came up with it but he claims he didn’t get cute. Leaving out two of the arguably best teams to play is being cute. Look, I love the ‘98 team. It’s my favorite title team at UK but 96 and ‘12 would probably wax the floor with them.

He’s either trolling UK fans or is just an idiot
 
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kats23 said:
Where does it say that? It says how he came up with it but he claims he didn’t get cute. Leaving out two of the arguably best teams to play is being cute. Look, I love the ‘98 team. It’s my favorite title team at UK but 96 and ‘12 would probably wax the floor with them.

He’s either trolling UK fans or is just an idiot
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If you noticed, the seeding in the bracket corresponds to the actual seeding the team had in their respective tournament. UK 1996 didn't get in over UK 1998 because the 96 team is in the pool of 1 seeds and the other is in the pool of 2 seeds.
 
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dlh331

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fatguy87 said:
If you noticed, the seeding in the bracket corresponds to the actual seeding the team had in their respective tournament. UK 1996 didn't get in over UK 1998 because the 96 team is in the pool of 1 seeds and the other is in the pool of 2 seeds.
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So name four #1 seeds better than 1996 UK
 
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Wait. Please someone correct me. I cannot be understanding that right. They’re saying the 2015 Michigan State team is better then our 98 team? The same Michigan state that wasn’t even close to our team that same year??
 
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‘96 team getting no respect. 34-2. one loss to umass (final four) one loss to msu (final four). it’s the most dominant team of the last 25 years. it’s really not close.
 
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dlh331 said:
So name four #1 seeds better than 1996 UK
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The only 1 seed that may have been on par with 96 UK was 01 Duke.

But yeah, I agree with you. I think 96 UK was better than those UNC and Villanova teams for sure. The author used SRS and eFG% to rate the teams. That 96 team didn't shoot as well as any of those teams so they got the shaft.
 
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Hollcat said:
Just a bad way to fill out a bracket from the past 25 years. Not the best 64 teams but the best 4 teams from each seed line. So the best four 16 seeds are in but the fifth best #1 seed is out. To me that’s a lot more work for a bracket that isn’t as interesting as a best 64 team one would be.
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This. The explained it pretty clearly in the article but some folks just disnt seem to grasp it apparently. Its an interesting idea.
 
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hotelblue

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fatguy87 said:
The only 1 seed that may have been on par with 96 UK was 01 Duke.

But yeah, I agree with you. I think 96 UK was better than those UNC and Villanova teams for sure. The author used SRS and eFG% to rate the teams. That 96 team didn't shoot as well as any of those teams so they got the shaft.
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margin of victory is going to trump any singular stat. there’s no defensive stat that quantifies what our depth did to people either. domination.
 
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hotelblue

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fatguy87 said:
That's what SRS is. It's margin of victory against SOS.
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but equal with fg%? that’s going to skew what we did defensively. our % would be lower if were shooting 3’s and getting 20 more shots than our opponent.
 
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hotelblue said:
but equal with fg%? that’s going to skew what we did defensively. our % would be lower if were shooting 3’s and getting 20 more shots than our opponent.
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It seems so. I don't know the intricate details, but the author states they are components of his formula.
 
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