Lunardi's Recent Bracket

[depthcharge623]

Has Nova and Louisville in our region. Would be interesting in that we would have to beat one or both of them to make the FF. I know Nova was in our region in the last iteration, but can't remember if Louisville.

Which of those teams would be harder to beat in a rematch?

 

[Boiler Buck]

Well given history the toughest Purdue opponent would be the opponent in the first tourney game....

So let's get through the first weekend before we tackle the #1 & #2 seeds for the ff

 

[*4purdue*]

Lunardi's brackets are like the weather... It will be different tomorrow.

 

[depthcharge623]

Neither of you answered the question. You suck.

 

[SIBoiler2]

Doesn't matter. You've got to win them all to advance.

 

[Do Dah Day]

I'll answer - definitely Louisville

 

[BoilerBulldog]

Cincinnati.

 

[depthcharge623]

Cincinnati.

I hate Cincinnati so much. Hope we DESTROY them if we see them.

 

[chaspark]

I'd rather face Louville than Villanova. We lost to Villanova by the smaller margin but they remain tough. I think Louville just outpaced us that one game. We will beat Louville next time.

 

[arcb102000]

Lunardi now has Butler as a 3 while Purdue is a 4. That is a joke. The idea that the Big East is tougher top to bottom relative to the B1G is simply ridiculous.

 

[FirstDownB]

Nova due to their tournament experience.

Off topic- I find it hard to believe the committee would send Notre Dame to Indy as a 6 seed per Lunardi's bracket. In theory that would put them at a slight geographical advantage over UK in the second round. Obviously UK fans would travel extremely well, but is the committee to take that into consideration? Not that I would cry any tears for them.

 

[BoilerinLouisville]

We actually match up better to Nova than Louisville, who has the front court to give us trouble. Several long athletic type players, their guards are much quicker than ours as well. Louisville, Kansas, Florida State and Cincy are the teams that are very athletic that would cause us fits in the tournament

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Nova due to their tournament experience.

Off topic- I find it hard to believe the committee would send Notre Dame to Indy as a 6 seed per Lunardi's bracket. In theory that would put them at a slight geographical advantage over UK in the second round. Obviously UK fans would travel extremely well, but is the committee to take that into consideration? Not that I would cry any tears for them.

FDB,

Higher ("protected") seeds are supposed to be also "not at a geographical disadvantage." Not sure if this really would be one as Lexington isn't that much further, but I think if it's more than 100 miles, I guess it could be. Even with that, Lunardi's bracket routinely doesn't follow all the committee protocol. For instance, sometimes he'll have conference foes scheduled to potentially meet before the regional final when they could be in another bracket or at least different side of the same bracket.

To close the loop on Kentucky.....in reality, they are almost never at a disadvantage.....at least from the crowd perspective......they pack just about every regional site like crazy. Some interesting headware and face painters as well.

 

[FirstDownB]

FDB,

Higher ("protected") seeds are supposed to be also "not at a geographical disadvantage." Not sure if this really would be one as Lexington isn't that much further, but I think if it's more than 100 miles, I guess it could be. Even with that, Lunardi's bracket routinely doesn't follow all the committee protocol. For instance, sometimes he'll have conference foes scheduled to potentially meet before the regional final when they could be in another bracket or at least different side of the same bracket.

To close the loop on Kentucky.....in reality, they are almost never at a disadvantage.....at least from the crowd perspective......they pack just about every regional site like crazy. Some interesting headware and face painters as well.

I think it is lack of attention to detail at this point in the process. Lunardi knows most people are just looking at bubble teams and #1 seeds right now. The borderline mentally ill are looking at POD location of a 3 seed!

 

[TC4THREE]

Lunardi now has Butler as a 3 while Purdue is a 4. That is a joke. The idea that the Big East is tougher top to bottom relative to the B1G is simply ridiculous.

Butler has many good wins both in and out of conference. I can't argue with them being ahead of us right now.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

I think it is lack of attention to detail at this point in the process. Lunardi knows most people are just looking at bubble teams and #1 seeds right now. The borderline mentally ill are looking at POD location of a 3 seed!

Call me crazy, then.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Butler has many good wins both in and out of conference. I can't argue with them being ahead of us right now.

Two wins against Nova and a win against Arizona? Yeah, that will buy the Bulldogs some serious seed credibility. And...."good/great wins > bad/poor losses"

 

[BoilerBulldog]

Two wins against Nova and a win against Arizona? Yeah, that will buy the Bulldogs some serious seed credibility. And...."good/great wins > bad/poor losses"

They have 6 wins against the top 25. No team has more. They also have I believe 12 wins against RPI top 100.

 

[tjreese]

I'll answer - definitely Louisville

if the previous games are indicative of the future...absolutely Louisville...NEVER really in that one...