NCAA Tournament Watch

[HuskerFever]

Duquesne is up 24-9 vs. VCU in their conference championship game.

[hskr4life]

3 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

They are absolutely going to play in Omaha

ISU yes— sorry I meant if we are in Omaha.

[royalfan]

4 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Either way, I would assume ISU gets a later game in Omaha being further west than the east coast sites.  So we’d be the game before them I’d assume.  Which could be an early afternoon or late evening.  *If in Omaha.

My brain is telling me that typically the one seed gets the earlier of the two game session.  Could be a made up thing in my mind though.  

[unl]

I know how the bracket is announced on CBS. But when will we know if we’re session 1 or 2?

[No Place Like the Vault]

7 minutes ago, unl said:

I know how the bracket is announced on CBS. But when will we know if we’re session 1 or 2?

Not until later tonight most likely 

[jayschool]

24 minutes ago, royalfan said:

My brain is telling me that typically the one seed gets the earlier of the two game session.  Could be a made up thing in my mind though.  

The game times are determined by the television partners. They generally space out the top teams in terms of potential audience in order to max out ratings throughout the day.

 

For example, in the 2023 tournament, both No. 1 Kansas and No. 1 Alabama played in the 2-5 p.m. ET window on Thursday, while No. 1 Houston played after 9 p.m. that night. Kansas played the first game of that two-game session, but Alabama played the second. Houston also played the final game of its session.

 

The fourth No. 1, Purdue, played at 6:50 p.m. on Friday, the first game of the session. In other words, the 2023 top seeds:

1. Kansas played the first game in an afternoon session.

1. Alabama played the second game in an afternoon session.

1. Purdue played the first game in an evening session.

1. Houston played the second game in an evening session.

Edited March 17 by jayschool

[HuskerFever]

America East: #1 Vermont

American Athletic: #4 UAB

Atlantic 10: #6 Duquesne

ACC: #10 NC State

ASUN: #2 Stetson

Big 12: #2 Iowa State

Big East: #1 UConn

Big Sky: #5 Montana State

Big South: #5 Longwood

Big Ten: #2 Illinois

Big West: #4 Long Beach State

CAA: #1 Charleston

Conference USA: #3 WKU

Horizon League: #1 Oakland

Ivy League: #2 Yale

MAAC: #5 St. Peter's

MAC: #2 Akron

MEAC: #4 Howard

Missouri Valley: #2 Drake

Mountain West: #6 New Mexico

Northeast: #6 Wagner

Ohio Valley: #3 Morehead State

Pac-12: #4 Oregon

Patriot League: #1 Colgate

SEC: #4 Auburn

Southern: #1 Samford

Southland: #1 McNeese

SWAC: #1 Gambling State

Summit League: #1 South Dakota State

Sun Belt: #2 James Madison

West Coast: #1 Saint Mary's

WAC: #1 Grand Canyon

Edited March 17 by HuskerFever

[HuskerFever]

Brown with the late 1-point lead. Misses two free throws and Yale drops a bucket with time expiring.

[SkersHoops]

1 minute ago, HuskerFever said:

Brown with the late 1-point lead. Misses two free throws and Yale drops a bucket with time expiring.

They were 6-17 at one point.  Would have been cool story.  That was tough to watch.  

[HuskerFever]

Just now, SkersHoops said:

They were 6-17 at one point.  Would have been cool story.  That was tough to watch.  

 

Hitch into the Long Beach State wagon. Similar story. Went on a ~6 win run to close out the season. And on top of that, their coach has already been fired but still coaching.

[HuskerFever]

The confetti at the A10 conference championship just went streaming down from the rafter with 17:54 to go in the 2nd half.

[royalfan]

I think the rafters could only sustain so many bricks 

[Cazzie22]

56 minutes ago, royalfan said:

My brain is telling me that typically the one seed gets the earlier of the two game session.  Could be a made up thing in my mind though.  

CBS will put North Carolina and Duke, regardless of seed, in Prime Time.

[REDZONEDAN]

58 minutes ago, unl said:

I know how the bracket is announced on CBS. But when will we know if we’re session 1 or 2?

See above for answer from our resident funny guy.

[jayschool]

11 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

CBS will put North Carolina and Duke, regardless of seed, in Prime Time.

Yep.

Duke game first-round game times recently:

2019: 7 p.m. ET

2020: NO tournament

2021: 6:30 p.m. ET

2022: 7 p.m. ET

2023: 7:30 p.m. ET

 

[hskr4life]

 

[cipsucks]

6 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

 

I don't know what to think.  I know the committee loves storylines, but I also know they love to play Lucy holding that frickin' football....

[HuskerFever]

Duquesne punches their ticket to the dance for the first time in 47 years.

[hskr4life]

Duquesne dancing

[REDZONEDAN]

Duquesne going to the Tourney!

[REDZONEDAN]

Doesn’t really matter at this point, but it looks like Duquesne will have almost worked their way up to a Quad 2 win for us.

[Vinny]

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

 

One game out of 30+

And ISU only has one loss out side of Q1 in those 30+ games. NC has 4. ISU has passed NC in most metrics, even BPI that includes moon phases and the farmer’s almanac. It’s only non-con SOS where they’re behind them. I just really think they did enough to get the one seed, and yesterday made it so with an exclamation point.

[Cazzie22]

40 minutes ago, Vinny said:

And ISU only has one loss out side of Q1 in those 30+ games. NC has 4. ISU has passed NC in most metrics, even BPI that includes moon phases and the farmer’s almanac. It’s only non-con SOS where they’re behind them. I just really think they did enough to get the one seed, and yesterday made it so with an exclamation point.

All good points but they are Iowa St and Carolina is Carolina.

[hhcmatt]

10 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

All good points but they are Iowa St and Carolina is Carolina.

 

The same Carolina that didn't make the tournament last year?  Not everything is a conspiracy.

[HuskerFever]

Now the real show begins in 20 minutes.