NCAA Tournament Preview Portal
Posted by rtmsf on March 16th, 2009Ed. note – check back often as this post will be updated regularly…
How about those brackets? If you’re like us, you’ve already figured a way that just about every team will both win and lose its first round game. For example, Arizona has better talent than Utah, but which Wildcat team will show up – the one from mid-season or the one from the last three weeks? Decisions, decisions…
To help you think more clearly about your bracket as well as to institute some fun into the analysis that you’re no doubt already obsessing over, we have put together a nice breakdown of each region for you. We’ll give you the teams that are overseeded, underseeded, and are guaranteed to advance. The best games to watch in the first round and in the later rounds. The juiciest match-ups for purists and casual fans. Some sleeper teams for both the Sweets and the Four. Upsets. Thanks to the RTC Region correspondents, basically, you name it, we’ve got it.
We will be doing Boom Goes the Dynamite! all weekend starting with Thursday’s games, as appropriate. Since our manpower will be lower than usual, we’ll be relying on you guys to help us out in the comments as we move through the first 48 games.
We are also privileged to have RTC Live at the Philadelphia pod this weekend. The games we will be covering are:
- #8 BYU vs. #9 Texas A&M – 12:30pm Thurs. 3/19
Here are the links for each QnD Region Analysis (+ correspondent), which will take you to another page on the site called 2009 Tourney Previews (which can also be accessed through the handy-dandy tab above):
We also have Game-by-Game Analysis for the entirety of the First Round…
- East (Thu. games and Fri. games)
- South
- Midwest
- West (Thu. games and Fri. games)
Here are some of our other features celebrating what we like to call, “Christmas in March“:
Mascot Death Match – First Round (vote for which mascot would win a battle to the death!)
The Top 3 Sweetest NCAA Moments
- #1 – The ’79 Tourney – More than Just Magic & Larry
- #2 – The Open Road Leads to the Final Four
- #3 – Loved, Hated But Never Ignored
Behind the Lines – NCAA Tourney
Some Hooponomics
- Why You Should Be Wary of Pitt
- Pythagorean Consistency
- Offensive Variation and A Short Word about Defense
Columnists
- Beware Bracket Advice! (John Stevens)
- It’s Christmas in March (Dave Zeitlin)
- NCAA Basketball 2009 – the BCS Version (nvr1983)
John Stevens from Las Vegas – coming soon…
… and more.
2009 Team Tourney Previews: We enlisted the help of our legion of correspondents and readers to put together previews for all 65 teams in order to give you the most insightful analysis you will find anywhere. We’ll be uploading previews over the next 24 hours so check back frequently.
