2022 March Madness

[Chuck Taylor]

FYI, we were the 9th team out on Bracket Matrix in 2018, only 4 out of about 150 brackets listed us:

 

http://bracketmatrix.com/matrix_2018.html

 

 

[HuskerFever]

12 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

IIRC, we weren’t even a “first four out” team right?

 

First Four Out automatically go to the #1 seed in the NIT.

[hskr4life]

Just now, HuskerFever said:

 

First Four Out automatically go to the #1 seed in the NIT.

What a disgrace it was to not even be mentioned really.  You could have made a case for us to be in or not, but it doesn’t even look like we received a look.

[AuroranHusker]

41 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

IIRC, we weren’t even a “first four out” team right?

 

Dude, NU was a 5th seed in the N.I.T. -- it was craptastic.

 

 

[hskr4life]

12 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Dude, NU was a 5th seed in the N.I.T. -- it was craptastic.

 

 

Oh i remember that.  Fricking sent us to a team we had already played in a scrimmage.

[The Polish Rifle]

2 hours ago, brfrad said:

Our RPI was 51.  At the moment, I was upset that we didn't make the big dance.  Looking back, we were probably a bubble team.  The thing that still upsets me is nearly missing the NIT.  There is no reason that we were sent on the road for the 1st round.  We should have been a 1 or 2 seed in the NIT at the very minimum. 

Things outside our control pretty much cost us. We had 0 quad 1 conf games at home, and we were really good at home. For comparison Rutgers had 7 quad 1 conf games in Piscataway this year. Makes it way easier to stack good wins. 

[HuskerFever]

 

[Huskerpapa]

46 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Wowser.  I couldn't agree more with his comments/opinion.  If bias plays a role, that needs to be ferreted out immediately!

[HuskerFever]

6 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Wowser.  I couldn't agree more with his comments/opinion.  If bias plays a role, that needs to be ferreted out immediately!

 

March Madness brackets is already an imperfect system which doesn't include the best 64 teams. But many are willing to concede in that in exchange for (more) equal opportunities.

 

There's no way to completely eliminate bias. All situations are different and may require deeper analysis. But even if there's a magic formula, there's bias in the way that model was developed.

 

For every team that "deserves" to be in the tournament and makes the cut, there's another team like Texas A&M that "deserves" to be there. So until we have a 365 team bracket, there's grey area and people who are going to be upset.

 

All that said, there's always opportunity to improve the system.

[HuskerFever]

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

 

 

Cc'ing  @hskr4life and @AuroranHusker in particular to watch this clip (likely similar sentiments to what you've felt about our prior team)

[hskr4life]

That was amazing and really proud of that coach for saying something.  However, like you said, there's always going to be the "first four out" unless you include everyone.

 

Our 17-18 team deserved to be in the conversation.  100%.  You could have even made a case for us to dance.  But we didn't... and after seeing the first four out, it doesn't appear that we were even in the convo and that was the biggest issue I had.

[Huskerpapa]

Yeah, I am one of the few who believe there are WAY too many small schools in the tournament.  Small school novelty is not a reasonable exchange for Power 5 type teams that may have had a rough patch during a season that may currently keep them out.

Just one man's humble opinion. 

[hhcmatt]

Give me a break.  Yeah A&M probably should have been the last team in but he wants all the people on the ncaa committee to come and talk to him like this his first year doing this? Talk about what, playing a soft non-con and losing to Missouri and South Carolina at home?

[brfrad]

The other issue I have is what happened if we beat KU that year?  Do we make the dance?  Or, if we beat win at PSU and Illinois to go 15 - 3 in conference.   Do we make the dance? I have big doubts in both instances considering our NIT seed.

[AuroranHusker]

3 hours ago, brfrad said:

The other issue I have is what happened if we beat KU that year?  Do we make the dance?  Or, if we beat win at PSU and Illinois to go 15 - 3 in conference.   Do we make the dance? I have big doubts in both instances considering our NIT seed.

 

Nebraska's definitely in that scenario, if not then the Big Ten really hates us. They fought for Rutgers, for heaven's sake....

 

 

[uneblinstu]

11 hours ago, brfrad said:

The other issue I have is what happened if we beat KU that year?  Do we make the dance?  Or, if we beat win at PSU and Illinois to go 15 - 3 in conference.   Do we make the dance? I have big doubts in both instances considering our NIT seed.

Losing to UCF in the holiday tournament was killer, too. Not just because they weren’t anything special, but also cost us two games vs quality competition. Really narrowed our margin for error, too. 

[hskr4life]

11 minutes ago, uneblinstu said:

Losing to UCF in the holiday tournament was killer, too. Not just because they weren’t anything special, but also cost us two games vs quality competition. Really narrowed our margin for error, too. 

Yep— the saying goes “you can only beat who is on your schedule” which we did for the most part in the Big 10.  We couldn’t control that schedule.  But the UCF loss really hurt our non con SOS based on the next few games.

[Nebrasketball1979]

Down in Fort Worth with my son in our Nebrasketball gear and we have already had several Creighton fans tell us "Go Big Red".  The reply back is Go Aztecs, correct? 

 

F Creighton seems too vulgar with my son. 

Edited March 17, 2022 by Nebrasketball1979

[hskr4life]

Is it too much to ask for us to just get a team like Colorado State?

[hskr4life]

Also— get Baylor back here if at all possible.  Kid is a gamer.

[hskr4life]

SDSU is fun to watch.

[49r]

30 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Is it too much to ask for us to just get a team like Colorado State?

 

Love the way they're defending Michigan's bigs.

[The Polish Rifle]

College reffing costing SDSU a chance, and costing the fans a fun ending. Atrocious call late. 

[hskr4life]

Mountain West hype was a little much.

[hhcmatt]

Disappointed they didn't interview the vein in Fran's head at halftime