Selection Committee - Top 16 seeds

[Buffnik]

1st release today. Selection Sunday is March 11th, so we're just a month away.


South
No. 1 Virginia (1)
No. 2 Cincinnati (8)
No. 3 Michigan State (11)
No. 4 Tennessee (13)

East
No. 1 Villanova (2)
No. 2 Duke (7)
No. 3 Texas Tech (10)
No. 4 Ohio State (14)

West
No. 1 Purdue (4)
No. 2 Kansas (6)
No. 3 North Carolina (12)
No. 4 Arizona (15)

Midwest
No. 1 Xavier (3)
No. 2 Auburn (5)
No. 3 Clemson (9)
No. 4 Oklahoma (16)

(That East Region would be a blood bath!)

 

[CarolinaBuff]

Michigan State seems a little low and surprised that Rhode Island isn't there

 

[Buffnik]

Michigan State seems a little low and surprised that Rhode Island isn't there

Problem for RI is that there isn’t a good win in its conference this year

 

[Medford M.]

Michigan State seems a little low and surprised that Rhode Island isn't there

MSU spot in line with their RPI. Tells me committee still values that over BPI and KP. Which I think is correct.

BPI is a trash formula.

 

[CarolinaBuff]

MSU spot in line with their RPI. Tells me committee still values that over BPI and KP. Which I think is correct.

BPI is a trash formula.

Fair enough, but at the same time Rhode Island's RPI is 5

 

[Goose]

Rhode Island got screwed. Same with Gonzaga.

Arizona doesn't deserve their spot right now, but I feel like they'll have earned it by the end of the year. Oklahoma is getting the Trae Young excitement bump. No way they deserve a top 4 seed right now.

 

[Buffnik]

Rhode Island got screwed. Same with Gonzaga.

Arizona doesn't deserve their spot right now, but I feel like they'll have earned it by the end of the year. Oklahoma is getting the Trae Young excitement bump. No way they deserve a top 4 seed right now.

Oklahoma is trending in the wrong direction. Gonna be interesting to see how far they drop. I think they will end up being a very dangerous 6 seed that will scare the hell out of the 3 in its region. You catch OU on the wrong night and there's not much you can do. There's no defense for a team shooting 40%+ on 3 pointers raining down on you from up to 30 feet away.

 

[BuffLuke80]

The last few times I've seen Trae play, he's been way streaky. Shooting the ball from the distance he does, it's not really surprising. He turned it over alot in the games I watched as well. Like you said, any given night, he'll go nuts on ya.

 

[buffgal]

Watched Iowa State beat Oklahoma this weekend. Iowa State has 8 healthy players. Iowa State most likely will not finish above .500

Oklahoma is not a #4 seed

 

[BuffLuke80]

Probably right, they'd be a dangerous 5.