ESPN “expert” picks for FF

[Gman544]

2 of 42 pick Purdue, 11 Marquette, the rest Duke,

42 ESPN experts weigh in on the Final Four and NCAA tournament champions

The field is a little more wide open this season than you'd think. And among our experts' predictions are a few surprises.

www.espn.com

 

[ChoiceBeef]

Remember experts picks for first #1 out tend to be wrong more times than not.

They make it seem inevitable for Duke to walk to the Final 4 but they are carrying at 10 game winning streak. That isn’t easy to maintain that pressure of constantly winning. Also most teams who have won the past 10 years were carrying 3-6 game streaks. I will laugh when they get bounced by ODU and Memphis loses to FAU.

 

[rgarlitz]

Remember experts picks for first #1 out tend to be wrong more times than not.

They make it seem inevitable for Duke to walk to the Final 4 but they are carrying at 10 game winning streak. That isn’t easy to maintain that pressure of constantly winning. Also most teams who have won the past 10 years were carrying 3-6 game streaks. I will laugh when they get bounced by ODU and Memphis loses to FAU.

Yeah, I'm not surprised that experts are going with Duke and Marquette. They are two of the hottest teams in the region. I'm kind of surprised there aren't a few more jumping on the Memphis bandwagon.

Purdue stumbled down the stretch, no doubt about it. Even Purdue's run in the B1G Tournament exposed continuing concerns about beating the press. Teams will try to press Purdue into fatal mistakes until Purdue shows it can make people pay for it.

 

[BoilerDaddy]

Duke has the most highly recruited players. It’s not surprising that they are a popular pick.

 

[PaBoiler78]

Duke has the most highly recruited players. It’s not surprising that they are a popular pick.

they also got better as the year went on

 

[collegehoopsfan123]

they also got better as the year went on

True. But the Boilers beat Duke by 19 in November.

Duke got better, Purdue did not regress that much.

If Duke / Purdue played today, Purdue comes out on top.

Marquette is more of a concern to me.

 

[collegehoopsfan123]

2 of 42 pick Purdue, 11 Marquette, the rest Duke,

42 ESPN experts weigh in on the Final Four and NCAA tournament champions

The field is a little more wide open this season than you'd think. And among our experts' predictions are a few surprises.

www.espn.com

Some people on our message board are better experts than many of those talking

heads at ESPN.

 

[PaBoiler78]

True. But the Boilers beat Duke by 19 in November.

Duke got better, Purdue did not regress that much.

If Duke / Purdue played today, Purdue comes out on top.

Marquette is more of a concern to me.

we beat them back when Fletch was shooting well

 

[TX4GB]

Why didn’t Clark make that pass a couple years ago against Purdue? I knew I should have picked Furman lol.

 

[collegehoopsfan123]

we beat them back when Fletch was shooting well

Jenkins is shooting well enough. Newman is better overall now, too.

Our front court still beats them up. I still say we win, just my opinion.

 

[TeddyValentineDidNothingWrong]

Our front court still beats them up. I still say we win, just my opinion.

Until they spread the floor with Filipowski at the 5 and destroy us from the perimeter.

 

[Gman544]

Let’s hope Newman picks Duke or Memphis for a good shooting. His “ improvement” in shooting is like the stock market- up and down.

 

[Schnelk]

Why didn’t Clark make that pass a couple years ago against Purdue? I knew I should have picked Furman lol.

Agree, that little shit's luck ran out today.

 

[BoilerAndy]

2 of 42 pick Purdue, 11 Marquette, the rest Duke,

42 ESPN experts weigh in on the Final Four and NCAA tournament champions

The field is a little more wide open this season than you'd think. And among our experts' predictions are a few surprises.

www.espn.com

Some of these people are such idiots, they think Coach K is still at Duke.