Well... Bye.

[mathboy]

See ya UK. Nice perfect season. Oh well.

Good for Whisky!

MSU gets embarrassed tonight. Too many fouls. Duke just better.

 

[DrEss]

A great night, Wisky wins and both Kentucky and Tom Dirt get beat.
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[Cleanface]

 

[Cleanface]

Originally posted by DrEss:
A great night, Wisky wins and both Kentucky and Tom Dirt get beat.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

Exactly.

Win-win for all!!!

 

[purdue4sure]

Consolation for the UK guys is the NBA.

 

[vilehoopster]

Well, one good thing for all those UK student athletes, they will have no problem being in their classrooms on Monday and Tuesday morning.

Now they can get back to studying and earning their degrees.

 

[lbodel]

While it's never easy to make the Final Four, MSU didn't have the toughest route. Virginia was sputtering, Big 12 overrated and Louisville wasn't that great. These were also good match-ups for MSU as they aren't high scoring teams.

But that's part of it - getting a friendly bracket.

 

[Augie85]

Originally posted by lbodel:
While it's never easy to make the Final Four, MSU didn't have the toughest route. Virginia was sputtering, Big 12 overrated and Louisville wasn't that great. These were also good match-ups for MSU as they aren't high scoring teams.

But that's part of it - getting a friendly bracket.

It seem MSU usually gets a good bracket.

 

[Heller]

And Duke seems to get an inordinate amount of games in North Carolina.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Originally posted by Heller:
And Duke seems to get an inordinate amount of games in North Carolina.

only if you count 16 out of the last 30 years as inordinate, with a seventeenth in Greenville, South Carolina.

('15, '14, '12, '11, '09, '06, '05, '04, '02, '01, '00, '99, 97, '92, '89, 88, '86)

I had always wondered about this, so I decided to actually look it up.

Duke seems to have benefited as much as any team from the "pod" system change (in 2002), although it appears they were getting good sites even before that, but not nearly as often. To be fair, Duke has been a # 1 or #2 seed, twenty-two of those years (#1 thirteen times), and the top seeds are going to get better geographic draws usually.

They have had really good teams, but I don't know if any other team has had better "location" advantage over that span. Add in that there are four sites in that area that can host tournaments (Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Chapel-Hill, and Winston-Salem) in and around "Tobacco Road," and that might explain it too.