March Madness 2021

[HuskerFever]

AUTOMATIC BIDS

America East: #4 Hartford

American Athletic: #2 Houston

Atlantic 10: #1 St. Bonaventure

Atlantic Coast: #4 Georgia Tech

Atlantic Sun: #1 Liberty

Big 12: #3 Texas

Big East: #8 Georgetown

Big Sky: #2 Eastern Washington

Big South: #1 Winthrop

Big Ten: #2 Illinois

Big West: #1 UC Santa Barbara

Colonial Athletic: #6 Drexel

Conference USA: #3 North Texas

Horizon League: #1 Cleveland State

Ivy: Season was not played due to COVID-19

Metro Atlantic Athletic: #9 Iona

Mid-American: #5 Ohio

Mid-Eastern Athletic: #2 Norfolk State

Missouri Valley: #1 Loyola

Mountain West: #1 San Diego State

Northeast: #4 Mount St. Mary's

Ohio Valley: #2 Morehead State

Pac-12: #5 Oregon State

Patriot: #2 Colgate

Southeastern: #1 Alabama

Southern: #1 UNC Greensboro

Southland: #2 Abilene Christian

Southwestern Athletic: #3 Texas Southern

Summit: #4 Oral Roberts

Sun Belt: #4 Appalachian State

West Coast: #1 Gonzaga

Western Athletic: #1 Grand Canyon

[HuskerFever]

 

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[HuskerFever]

Make your own inferences, but this scenario popped up when I was looking through the brackets this year and it took my back to 2018:

 

Syracuse (2020-2021)

16-9 (13-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-7

Quad 2: 6-1

Quad 3: 6-1

Quad 4: 3-0

8 seed in ACC tournament

#11 seed in March Madness

 

Nebraska (2017-2018)

22-10 (16-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-6

Quad 2: 2-3

Quad 3: 9-1

Quad 4: 10-0

4 seed in Big Ten tournament

Not selected to March Madness

[HuskerFever]

I can't imagine this is good... Better have a deep bench of refs available.

 

 

[Cazzie22]

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

I can't imagine this is good... Better have a deep bench of refs available.

 

 

Hope he will be OK but home is a good place for Ted Valentine who tries to make the show about him.

[jason2486]

6 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Make your own inferences, but this scenario popped up when I was looking through the brackets this year and it took my back to 2018:

 

Syracuse (2020-2021)

16-9 (13-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-7

Quad 2: 6-1

Quad 3: 6-1

Quad 4: 3-0

8 seed in ACC tournament

#11 seed in March Madness

 

Nebraska (2017-2018)

22-10 (16-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-6

Quad 2: 2-3

Quad 3: 9-1

Quad 4: 10-0

4 seed in Big Ten tournament

Not selected to March Madness

Still one of the biggest F jobs, but just a taste of the curse that our program seems to be under. Any blue blood program replacing our name gets in, no questions asked. Instead, "the B1G is down". Imagine if we throttled that year's B1G tourney champs, who also made the national championship game in a "down year for the B1G"...Oh, wait, that's right, we did!

[HuskerActuary]

17 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Make your own inferences, but this scenario popped up when I was looking through the brackets this year and it took my back to 2018:

 

Syracuse (2020-2021)

16-9 (13-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-7

Quad 2: 6-1

Quad 3: 6-1

Quad 4: 3-0

8 seed in ACC tournament

#11 seed in March Madness

 

Nebraska (2017-2018)

22-10 (16-1 at home)

Quad 1: 1-6

Quad 2: 2-3

Quad 3: 9-1

Quad 4: 10-0

4 seed in Big Ten tournament

Not selected to March Madness

You are who you beat. Based on those quad records, Syracuse was between a Quad 1 and Quad 2 team, and Nebraska was between a Quad 2 and Quad 3 team. Having a losing record against Quad 2 is a tournament wannabe, unfortunately.

[HuskerFever]

Going into the First Four "Dayton" games, here's a look at the current conference representation for the tournament:

 

Rank    Conference    # of Teams
1    Big Ten Conference    9
2    Atlantic Coast Conference    7
3    Big 12 Conference    7
4    Southeastern Conference    6
5    Pac-12 Conference    5
6    Big East Conference    4
7    American Athletic Conference    2
8    Atlantic 10 Conference    2
9    Missouri Valley Conference    2
10    Mountain West Conference    2
11    West Coast Conference    2
12    America East Conference    1
13    Atlantic Sun Conference    1
14    Big Sky Conference    1
15    Big South Conference    1
16    Big West Conference    1
17    Colonial Athletic Association    1
18    Conference USA    1
19    Horizon League Conference    1
20    Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference    1
21    Mid-American Conference    1
22    Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference    1
23    Northeast Conference    1
24    Ohio Valley Conference    1
25    Patriot League    1
26    Southern Conference    1
27    Southland Conference    1
28    Southwestern Athletic Conference    1
29    Summit League Conference    1
30    Sun Belt Conference    1
31    Western Athletic Conference    1

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[hhcmatt]

 

[HuskerFever]

Conference performance through the round of First Four:

 

Rank    Conference    W    L    Pct
1    Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference    1    0    100%
2    Missouri Valley Conference    1    0    100%
3    Pac-12 Conference    1    0    100%
4    Southwestern Athletic Conference    1    0    100%
5    American Athletic Conference    0    1    0%
6    Big Ten Conference    0    1    0%
7    Northeast Conference    0    1    0%
8    Sun Belt Conference    0    1    0%

[Navin R. Johnson]

 

[REDitus]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31087162/eight-total-positives-more-9100-covid-19-tests-ahead-ncaa-tournament 

[skerbball]

Barry Collier needs to close the window shades in this Virginia tech/Florida game 

[colhusker]

On 3/15/2021 at 8:23 PM, jason2486 said:

Still one of the biggest F jobs, but just a taste of the curse that our program seems to be under. Any blue blood program replacing our name gets in, no questions asked. Instead, "the B1G is down". Imagine if we throttled that year's B1G tourney champs, who also made the national championship game in a "down year for the B1G"...Oh, wait, that's right, we did!

Didn't help our own conference Network was saying we didn't deserve to be in instead of promoting us like the $EC network was with their teams.

[HuskerFever]

It sure didn't take long in this tournament to get our first overtime game!

[HuskerFever]

[hhcmatt]

Wow big shot and big win for florida

[atskooc]

tOSU...yeesh!

[49r]

Big Ten not looking so B1G right now.

[The Polish Rifle]

9 minutes ago, atskooc said:

tOSU...yeesh!

Felt like I was watching Nebraska with that FT shooting. 

[HuskerFever]

10 minutes ago, 49r said:

Big Ten not looking so B1G right now.

 

The Big Ten is down this year.

[HuskerFever]

#12 Oregon State (the team who wouldn't have been in the tournament without a Pac-12 tournament championship) is up 44-25 against #5 Tennessee with 16 min to go.

[tcp]

B1G better pick it up. OSUs loss is appalling. 

 

But Husker fans can relate.