{"id":1484,"date":"2019-03-17T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T15:03:19","slug":"selection-sunday-is-here-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Selection Sunday is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh &#8211; and happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!!!!<\/p>\n<p>There are just 6 games left &#8211; all the winners earn a ticket to the dance &#8211; all the losers hope that they are still good enough to get invited.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I am behind my normal schedule with my bracketology &#8211; I have been having a real hard time with seeding teams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will the committee consider Gonzaga&#8217;s loss to St. Mary&#8217;s &#8211; it is one thing to only have 4 wins in the Top Tier if you blow everyone else out &#8211; but you have to blow everyone else out.<\/li>\n<li>How will the committee handle LSU &#8211; will they punish them a seed or two because their head coach won&#8217;t be there (or simply because they feel LSU needs to be punished).<\/li>\n<li>How will the committee leverage the NET ranking &#8211; will a team like NC State that would not even be in consideration with the RPI now actually get a bid for beating weak competition but not winning against their tough opponents.<\/li>\n<li>Will the committee be willing to give 3 ACC teams a top seed &#8211; or would victories today by Tennessee and Michigan State be enough to bring them to the top line.<\/li>\n<li>And I haven&#8217;t even figured out the bubble (I made the mistake of thinking that I should simply rank the teams and then that will decide the bubble &#8211; but now I am stuck ranking the top part of the bracket).<\/li>\n<li>Why do I do this crazy bracketology exercise each year?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know why I am going to spend most of the afternoon looking at basketball profiles.\u00a0 I must be insane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be some great games today &#8211; and while I will be watching them, I will likely not be blogging &#8211; have to finish my bracketology efforts&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to do their own analysis, I have updated the research sheets through all of Saturday&#8217;s games.\u00a0 For the fans of the last 12 teams still playing, good luck in your conference championship games!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the games &#8211; and of course the Selection Show!!!!!\u00a0 The Tournament is almost here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh &#8211; and happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!!!! There are just 6 games left &#8211; all the winners earn a ticket to the dance &#8211; all the losers hope that they are still good enough to get invited. As for me, I am behind my normal schedule with my bracketology &#8211; I have been having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}