Palm/CBS now has PU as an 11 seed in Portland
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I'm hoping for Seattle since that's where I live now, but I'll take the 3-hour drive to Portland 
. It will be sweet to cheer for the team in person for once, and especially in the tourney. Crossing fingers.
It seems like the B1G will get a min of 6 into the dance, and the only scary scenario is if a 7 seed or worse wins the B1G tournament. As top-to-bottom competitive as the conference is, it could happen, but the way the byes are set up, it is a tough thing to pull off.
. It will be sweet to cheer for the team in person for once, and especially in the tourney. Crossing fingers.It seems like the B1G will get a min of 6 into the dance, and the only scary scenario is if a 7 seed or worse wins the B1G tournament. As top-to-bottom competitive as the conference is, it could happen, but the way the byes are set up, it is a tough thing to pull off.
That bracket won't work because we can't play Maryland in the second round.
I don't worry too much about Lunardi. Give it 12 hours and he will change it again.
I don't worry too much about Lunardi. Give it 12 hours and he will change it again.
It won't surprise me to see Northwestern make a run in the tourney. And it won't surprise me to see the Boilers in the championship game. Glad to see PSU finally get a win.Originally posted by CRBoiler:
I'm hoping for Seattle since that's where I live now, but I'll take the 3-hour drive to Portland
It seems like the B1G will get a min of 6 into the dance, and the only scary scenario is if a 7 seed or worse wins the B1G tournament. As top-to-bottom competitive as the conference is, it could happen, but the way the byes are set up, it is a tough thing to pull off.
Purdue's made plenty of Northwest Tournament appearances! Portland and Spokane in the last several years.
Looking at the list of NCAA locations this year, they did a pretty poor job with variation, although I guess I wouldn't complain about too much Midwest presence. There's Louisville/Columbus/Pittsburgh (a relatively small swath of area). Then Portland AND Seattle are both hosting 2nd/3rd round games (feel like that's completely unnecessary).
The regionals hit a couple locations that have absolutely no 2nd/3rd round games with Texas and California both having sites, and Syracuse being the "east coast" spot. But if Arizona was a #1 seed, their nearest first game would be in Portland? Would make more sense to spread out the Seattle/Portland locations to somewhere a bit further south.
That being said, Purdue's ideal opening round (knock on wood) game location would be Columbus/Louisville. Pittsburgh and Charlotte are both easy to travel to and we have a good chunk of alumni around both locations, and Jacksonville obviously has a good chunk of alumni there too - but likely on the older side
Purdue's spring break falls the first week of the tournament - would love to see some student presence wherever we go (really Seattle/Portland are the only sites not "road-trip-able"). Would be nice to see Purdue reserve a block of 50 or so seats for students.
Looking at the list of NCAA locations this year, they did a pretty poor job with variation, although I guess I wouldn't complain about too much Midwest presence. There's Louisville/Columbus/Pittsburgh (a relatively small swath of area). Then Portland AND Seattle are both hosting 2nd/3rd round games (feel like that's completely unnecessary).
The regionals hit a couple locations that have absolutely no 2nd/3rd round games with Texas and California both having sites, and Syracuse being the "east coast" spot. But if Arizona was a #1 seed, their nearest first game would be in Portland? Would make more sense to spread out the Seattle/Portland locations to somewhere a bit further south.
That being said, Purdue's ideal opening round (knock on wood) game location would be Columbus/Louisville. Pittsburgh and Charlotte are both easy to travel to and we have a good chunk of alumni around both locations, and Jacksonville obviously has a good chunk of alumni there too - but likely on the older side
Purdue's spring break falls the first week of the tournament - would love to see some student presence wherever we go (really Seattle/Portland are the only sites not "road-trip-able"). Would be nice to see Purdue reserve a block of 50 or so seats for students.
It amazes me how little thought they put into some pretty obvious situations. If you aren't going to avoid obvious situations like that, then what's the point of placing them in specific locations. Just assign them seeds and put the top seeds in a location.
I saw another had Purdue/BYU playing a play-in game. Obviously that situation is a bit different, but doubt they'd pull a re-match.
I saw another had Purdue/BYU playing a play-in game. Obviously that situation is a bit different, but doubt they'd pull a re-match.
The bracket actually works. The NCAA changed the bracketing guidelines when the conferences expanded. It now states:
"Teams from the same conference may play each other as early as the third round if they played no more than once during the regular season and conference tournament."
Remember that the NCAA's "first round" is the "first four." That means Purdue & Maryland could meet in the round of 32 if they don't play each other in the B1G tourney.
Here is the guideline document: http://www.ncaa.com/content/di-principles-and-procedures-selection
"Teams from the same conference may play each other as early as the third round if they played no more than once during the regular season and conference tournament."
Remember that the NCAA's "first round" is the "first four." That means Purdue & Maryland could meet in the round of 32 if they don't play each other in the B1G tourney.
Here is the guideline document: http://www.ncaa.com/content/di-principles-and-procedures-selection
That's false..Marquette and another big East team played in that round just a couple years ago. Not sure when they changed it but it could happen. That would be a great draw for us if that was the final draw
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