We love this bracket science stuff, which is reminiscent of some of the work we did when this site was in its infancy nearly three years ago. It’s good to see Peter Tiernan continuing to do this every year, now for CBS Sportsline. Maybe the NCAA Selection Committee should bring him on board. Here’s a taste: best team against seed expectation in the last decade? Florida. Worst? Wake Forest. Sounds about right.
If you’re lucky enough to live in an area with a select movie theater chosen by the NCAA overlords, the Final Four will be shown in living, breathing 3-D. Because nothing says March Madness like seeing Sherron Collins barreling down the court at you at 100 miles an hour. We have no idea if this will be incredibly awesome or incredibly lame, but we’ll make sure to send someone out there to check it out.
Speaking of all three dimensions, here’s Seth Davis’ 2010 All-Glue team. The headliner is Ohio State’s David Lighty, but we also love the Willie Veasley (Butler) and Rick Jackson (Syracuse) picks.
More conference awards today. POY – ACC: Greivis Vasquez, Maryland; Big East: Wes Johnson, Syracuse; SEC: John Wall, Kentucky. COY – ACC: Gary Williams, Maryland; Big East: Jim Boeheim, Syracuse; SEC: Kevin Stallings, Vanderbilt. FrOY:ACC: Derrick Favors, Georgia Tech; Big East: Lance Stephenson, Cincinnati; SEC: DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky. Some weird goings-on in the SEC there. First, how does John Wall win POY but not FrOY? Isn’t he a freshman, and isn’t he the best player in the league according to the voters? Second, how does Kevin Stallings win COY — DeMarcus Cousins was so shocked he didn’t even know who Stallings was!
Willfully misleading or delusional? Maybe a bit of both. Misleading because the NCAA has a major financial interest in expanding the tourney and is or has clearly researched the implications (except perhaps to fans), and delusional because folding the NIT into the NCAA would lower the quality of the competition on the court and could make for some really lousy basketball of interest only to those with money riding on the outcome. Based on RTC’s previous analysis, the kinds of teams that the selection committee would let in are about as deserving as W. was for a third term.
Willfully misleading or delusional? Maybe a bit of both. Misleading because the NCAA has a major financial interest in expanding the tourney and is or has clearly researched the implications (except perhaps to fans), and delusional because folding the NIT into the NCAA would lower the quality of the competition on the court and could make for some really lousy basketball of interest only to those with money riding on the outcome. Based on RTC’s previous analysis, the kinds of teams that the selection committee would let in are about as deserving as W. was for a third term.