Why announce top 16 teams in February?

[jimmykc]

I don't really see any reason to announce the top 16 seeds in the NCAA tourney so early. Does anyone think this is a good idea? I can't see how this adds anything to the interest on selection Sunday and the committee will have egg on their faces if one of the teams has a player injured and loses the remainder of their regular schedule and goes out early in their league tourney. Feel free to move this to the college hoops section if more appropriate since I don't think it will apply to the Huskers this year, but I did want to see if anyone is in favor of this since it seems so lame to me.

Edited January 25, 2017 by jimmykc

[jimmykc]

A closer reading of the LJS story seems to indicate that the teams will be updated weekly. I still think it is lame though since there are any number of bracketologists who do the same thing. If they are going to do this, might as well let Teddy Owens' son with the middle name "Bracket" publish his choices.

[atskooc]

This is dumb.

[Blindcheck]

And if you are going to do it...the most interesting part are last four in, first four out, etc.

 

Everyone already kind of knows the top 16

[49r]

9 minutes ago, Blindcheck said:

Everyone already kind of knows the top 16

 

Which is why this is kind of harmless.  The only people who really care about whether a team is a #3 or #4 seed in whatever region are nerds who are fans of those teams anyway.  For the rest it's maybe just a way to manufacture interest and debate on sports talk radio.

[atskooc]

This stuff is simply not important right now, and it's going to take away some of the fun of Selection Sunday.

 

Just because it's "harmless" (which I generally agree with), doesn't mean it's worth anything.

[HuskerFever]

Just wait until they start pre-season rankings on April 4.

[Silverbacked1]

2 hours ago, jimmykc said:

A closer reading of the LJS story seems to indicate that the teams will be updated weekly. I still think it is lame though since there are any number of bracketologists who do the same thing. If they are going to do this, might as well let Teddy Owens' son with the middle name "Bracket" publish his choices.

 

I think this i why they are doing it, they want to be part of the I know everything so you need to follow (BUY) my web page guys that have popped up over the last what 15 years?

[atskooc]

Honestly, I think bracketologists are dumb as well.

 

They don't know what is going to happen; they're just guessing. Why are they projecting who is going to make the tournament when there are still two months of the season left to go?  Lunardi had us in his first four out, right?  What kind of idiot was he?  We're not a good team.

 

All these guys do is tell us, in their own specific way, which teams are playing well at a specific time.  That's something we can see with our own eyes looking at box scores.

 

We bitch about weathermen making predictions about something that actually matters, but we eat it up when these guys make predictions that don't mean anything.

 

Sports fans aren't terribly bright sometimes.

 

Lunardi is a weatherman with no science to back up his predictions.  He and others like him are selling something no one needs.

[colhusker]

Not sure if it's a good idea or a bad idea, just wonder how it will affect the price of my beer!

[AuroranHusker]

Make it a top 72 with projected field and last four out. Otherwise, it's obtuse. And stupid.

[royalfan]

Yeah it doesn;t do any good at all unless a complete ranking, other than possibly force the members to be more dialed in earlier in the season, to not look like idiots.  The more familiarity they have, the better job I would expect them to do in seeding these teams.  Pretty useless in the grand scheme of things. 

[nebrasketball10]

It will draw viewership/clicks. $$$$

[swoof]

It's just to mimic the FBS playoff committee Top 10 they started announcing after the midpoint of the football season. Intended to make money and that is it.

[Blindcheck]

The Football playoff committee ranks the top 25, when they only need 4 teams for their playoff.

 

so, the committee should rank about the top 100 because they need 68 total teams (36 at large bids)