It’s almost here. It’s almost time for the selection
committee to pick the best 68 teams that define college basketball. It’s a day where
your bracket selections can measure your manhood. It’s a day where your pride
will be inflated or it’s your nightmare of not being asked to the big dance.
Teams will rise and most teams will fall short in your bracket dreams, but
first your team has to make the field of 68.
Joe Lunardi and his bracketology madness have created more havoc
than VCU defense in the world of college basketball for teams and the fans.
According to Lunardi here are the last four teams in and the last four teams
out.
Last four in: La Salle, Boise State,
Kentucky, and Virginia
First four out: Tennessee,
Middle Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Baylor
The Atlantic 10 should have two lines taken on the bracket
without much consideration.
Both VCU 24-7 (12-4) and Butler
24-7 (11-5) have had there claws in each match up, even if Butler
turned into puppy chow against Shaka’s ‘Havoc’ defense in Richmond. (Side note VCU lost to Missouri.) With stronger
teams in the Atlantic 10, my fingers are crossed the selection committee pops
the bubble for La Salle 21-8 (11-5) and
recognizes that 16 of their 21 wins were against teams ranked outside of the
RPI top 100.
Boise
State 21-9 (MWC
9-7)- we’re not playing on the blue
field anymore. Who knew Boise
State even had a
basketball team and with four locks from the Mountain West Conference the
bracket doesn’t need a fifth addition from MWC.
Kentucky 12-6 (21-10) this was not the same team without
Freshman Nerlens Noel and the wildcats struggled to finish the last eight games
with a 4-4 record and all four losses of those were lost on the road. Every
team has suffered injury, but not all teams have been able to win with players
off the bench. Just because your name is “Kentucky” that doesn’t mean you should be given
a seed. Coach Calipari thinks he is a Prince and that he is the chosen one of
college basketball. I can’t be the only one who hopes he gets the royal
treatment in the NIT.
Virginia
is an ACC bubble team for me. They have three losses to the CAA (GMU, Delaware, and ODU) and
losing four of their last seven games makes me wonder if they have just ran out
of gas. Then again, Joe Harris’s 36 points against Duke was pretty impressive.
Mr. Lunardi, how is the University of Tennessee
on the first four out? Tennessee 19-11 (SEC
11-7) the same SEC record as Missouri who according
to Lunardi’s science is a lock for the tourney, but they have losses to Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee.
The VOLS are peaking a the right time and they beat Missouri
their last home game of the regular season along with Wichita Sate, Florida,
and spanked Kentucky by a solid 30 points. The VOLS finished 4-4 against top 50
teams, 9-9 against the top 100 teams. Strength of schedule, the quality of
wins, and the duel threat of Jordan McRae and Jarnell Stokes gives UT a resume
that is bracket worthy.
The selection committee should take a tip from the world of
fashion; ORANGE
is in this season make a statement! #GoBigOrange!
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