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Selection Day Surprises

Hit and run post of the year. Of the friendly fire variety no less.


Edit -- I thought you meant that Dayton would have gone 6-10 in the Big Ten schedule. Now I get that you mean a 6-10 seed. I agree. My apologies.
 
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ESPN has Vanderbilt listed as the most over-seeded team. By their strength of record metric, they say the team shouldn't even be in.
 
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But Wisconsin was an 8 seed, were ranked 24th, went further in the BTT and blew us out of the water. Seems like maybe just Wisconsin was not very highly respected I assume due to the way they finished the season.

Seems like the committee didn't really take into account Wisky's late B1G slate swoon being due in part to Koenig's gimpy leg.
 
ESPN has Vanderbilt listed as the most over-seeded team. By their strength of record metric, they say the team shouldn't even be in.
This doesn't account for their second half surge. They will be a formidable first round matchup for us - I don't think any of our bigs match up well defensively with their 7 foot center who can also shoot threes.
 
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