{"id":3269,"date":"2025-03-25T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2025-03-25T01:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T01:36:40","slug":"reseeding-the-bracket-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"Reseeding the Bracket &#8211; NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I have so much to blog about.  So much to rant about.  We will see how far I get before I remember that I have to handicap 8 Sweet 16 games and make my second chance picks.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But before I get into the things I left out last week while I was ranting about North Carolina and West Virginia, let me start with something that annoyed me today.  The main article on ESPN for college basketball was titled &#8220;Reranking the remaining 16 teams&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I opened the article almost knowing that I was going to be angry from it.  I have seen a few of these through the day, and knowing how the ESPN article pushed my buttons, I decided not to let any of the others draw me in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get that the media has four days to fill before the games start up on Thursday.  But this is such a lazy article.  Either you give a ridiculous ranking thaakes you sound stupid and that you don&#8217;t know anything about basketball, or you basically give the rankings the way they already are, with a couple of changes that were obviously your original disagreements with the selection committee.  Just say that you disagree with committee.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie was telling me on another one of these that the author put Purdue as 15th, and Arkansas as 14th.  That is my point &#8211; so because Arkansas beats St. John&#8217;s, they move from 37th on the selection curve pass the team that was 14th (OK &#8211; I don&#8217;t know what the Selection Committee was thinking when the 6th place team in the Big 10 was 14th &#8211; but that still doesn&#8217;t mean that the team going 8-10 and tied for 10th in the SEC passes them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, lets see what the geniuses from ESPN came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1) Duke (2) &#8211; All the polls had the Blue Devils as 1st &#8211; only the Selection Committee had Auburn there.  So, this is simply stating what everyone already believes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2) Florida (4) &#8211; Lets remember that the polls had the Gators as the top SEC team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3) Houston (3) &#8211; The Cougars stay where they are<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4) Auburn (1) &#8211; The Tigers fall down to where they sit in the polls.  As far as the bracket would be concerned, it is irrelevant &#8211; all of the #1 seeds are still #1 seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5) Tennessee (5) &#8211; No movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6) Alabama (6) &#8211; No movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7) Michigan State (7) &#8211; No movement &#8211; All the 2 seeds are still 2 seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8) Kentucky (11) &#8211; One of the 3 seeds had to move up &#8211; and they have to make some changes.  Of course, is it a surprise that ESPN would jump the 3 seed from the conference they have more of a TV contract with.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9) Texas Tech (9) &#8211; 3 seed is still a 3 seed.  Shocker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10) BYU (21) &#8211; The Cougars did look great against Wisconsin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11) Michigan (17) &#8211; A chance to remind everyone that the 2nd place team in the Big 10 that then went and won the conference tournament was probably not seeded correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12) Maryland (15) &#8211; This could have been a chance to make a switch between them and Arizona &#8211; since beating Colorado State by 1 is certainly not as impressive as beating Oregon by 4.  But they choose to keep the order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13) Arizona (16) &#8211; No real movement &#8211; the only 4 seed who stayed at a 4 seed, so they could move Michigan and BYU up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14) Ole Miss (24) &#8211; The Rebels 13 point victory over Iowa State was impressive, so I understand the desire to move them up.  So, they go from the 2nd worse team to make it to the 3rd worse team to make it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15) Purdue (14) &#8211; This has to be because the Selection Committee lost their mind when they ranked my Boilers 14th.  I don&#8217;t know how you ding them for winning by double digits against High Point and McNeese State in games that were never close.  Sure &#8211; they had probably the easiest path to the Sweet 16, but it is not their fault Clemson lost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16) Arkansas (37) &#8211; at least ESPN didn&#8217;t go crazy and put the 8-10 SEC team past all the other teams that made it.  They are the only double digit seed left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, to summarize, all the 1 seeds are still 1 seeds, all the 2 seeds (and a 3 seed to replace St. John&#8217;s) are still 2 seeds, the remaining 3 seed, the two Big 10 seeds that should have been ranked ahead of Purdue to begin with move to 3 seeds &#8211; and then one of the Big 12 teams since they are having a great tournament, and then everyone else is a 4 seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, a pointless article.  You either sound like an idiot by saying Arkansas should move from a 10 seed to a 3 seed just to be provocative.  Or you basically leave the order alone and state the committee did it right the first time &#8211; which is basically what ESPN did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day, there is nothing that the top 7 teams did last weekend to make us believe that they are not still the top 7 teams.  We could make some arguments on some of the other teams (I really was impressed with BYU and Kentucky &#8211; guess so was ESPN).  13 of the top 17 teams won &#8211; not sure why that should make me believe that their order has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have so much to blog about. So much to rant about. We will see how far I get before I remember that I have to handicap 8 Sweet 16 games and make my second chance picks. But before I get into the things I left out last week while I was ranting about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}