baseball wrote:huge upset yes, but nothing remember has one of the greatest in history. UNI is 30-4..hardly a slouch team. deserved higher then a 9 seed IMO. Kansas still scored 15 points more then UNI gives up on average.
My question...why is Ali shooting that 3 with 30 seconds left?!? if he misses that the UNI fans would end his life before he even left the court....
Indy5 wrote:baseball wrote:huge upset yes, but nothing remember has one of the greatest in history. UNI is 30-4..hardly a slouch team. deserved higher then a 9 seed IMO. Kansas still scored 15 points more then UNI gives up on average.
My question...why is Ali shooting that 3 with 30 seconds left?!? if he misses that the UNI fans would end his life before he even left the court....
I'm sorry baseball. I know that one must have hurt.
baseball wrote:When Bryce Drew hit that winner for Valpo to upset Ole Miss it was like they just won the national title. although they still put together a good celebration, aa 13 beating a 4 isnt as uncommon as it was in the past.
Flip wrote:baseball wrote:When Bryce Drew hit that winner for Valpo to upset Ole Miss it was like they just won the national title. although they still put together a good celebration, aa 13 beating a 4 isnt as uncommon as it was in the past.
The ending made the celebration, not the upset.
The Schwab wrote:Well it's up there, off the top of my head some bigger ones
Duke beating UNLV in 91
Nova beating Gtown in 1985
Jimmy V, enough said
Texas Western beating Kentucky
Now I know that these seeds were all higher seeds, but the teams loosing on this list were supposed to walk through the tournament
baseball wrote:The Schwab wrote:Well it's up there, off the top of my head some bigger ones
Duke beating UNLV in 91
Nova beating Gtown in 1985
Jimmy V, enough said
Texas Western beating Kentucky
Now I know that these seeds were all higher seeds, but the teams loosing on this list were supposed to walk through the tournament
Kansas over Oklahoma in 88. I guess this makes up for it haha....Danny and the Miracles were given no chance to win the title (8 seed), yet pulled it off. what goes around comes around i guess.
InTheKnow wrote:The only reason there are so many upsets so early in the tournament is because the committee doesnt follow their own rule of thumb and use the RPI closer for seeding.
baseball wrote:thats where youre wrong. The committee does NOT use the RPI at all for deteremining seeds. its nothing more then something for fans to talk about....it plays no effect at all on the seeding. Its not a rule of thumb, but it should be.
The selection committee uses a number of factors to place teams on the S-curve, including record, strength of schedule, the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), and a team's overall performance in recent games. The RPI rating is often considered a significant factor in selecting and seeding the final few teams in the tournament field, though the selection committee stresses that the RPI is used merely as a guideline and not as an infallible indicator of a team's worth.
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