WTF? Carolina, a shitty team in a shitty conference, gets an at-large bid while Notre Dame and Villanova are left to play in the NIT? Why don’t they require all of Carolina’s games to be played in Dean Smith’s driveway, so at least they have a chance of getting somewhere in the tournament… And does anybody (besides Duke fans) really think Duke has a shot at winning the whole thing? I don’t get it so if someone can explain it to me, I’d appreciate it…
Forget Notre Dame at the moment. How in the world do they put in UNC over Virginia, a team that beat them twice during the regular season.
And don’t even get me started on the exclusion of Vanderbilt.
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Mullinator, I’m a Virginia fan. Lived most of my life in the Old Dominion, and got my Master’s at UVA. But I agree that they don’t really belong in the tournament. They had a weak schedule, and have played extremely inconsistently, beating UNC twice but losing to teams like Wake and NC State when it was clear that their shot at the NCAA tournament might be on the line.
Now maybe UNC shouldn’t have been picked either, but just because UNC went, doesn’t mean Virginia should get to go.
Enough of voting for the lesser of evils - vote Cthulhu 2000!
I agree that Carolina probably didn’t deserve selection. Being a die-hard Duke fan, yes I think they deserve a chance. The way it stands the winner of the ACC always gets a shot. I can’t remember the last time Duke didn’t go. They may be a young team, and they may not go far, but time will tell.
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LSU comes in at a 4 seed behind Arizona’s #1 in the West. This, despite the fact that LSU has a better record, played in a tougher conference, and beat Arizona by 26 points earlier this year.
And I agree that there is no way N. Carolina should have been selected.
Duke fan here. Yes, the selection committee botched it. On the selection special, they talked about Carolina’s “strength of schedule”, but guess what? Carolina lost all of those tough games. Vanderbilt or hell, even Delaware, should have gone to the tourney over UNC.
If the Committee just had to have a third ACC choice, Virginia should have gone.
And yes, KSO, not only does Duke have a shot, but Duke will win the tourney. They do have a tough bracket, though. If Temple and Duke make it to the regional final, it will be the third time a Duke team under Coach K and a Temple team under Chaney have met for a regional title. (Guess who won the first two meetings?)
Of the subject, ultress, would you prefer a Caribbean island, or perhaps something in the Mediterranean or the South Pacific?
South Pacific I believe would make a nice change from the Atlantic, don’t you?
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As a UNC fan… I agree.
The Tar-Heels should not have been invited to the big dance. They didn’t deserve it.
This selection was based on history rather than this season’s play. That’s my guess.
But I’ll take it - GO HEELS!
I have no problem with UNC getting in.
It’s the inclusion of UNLV over Notre Dame and/or Villanova that pisses me off.
At first I thought Dickie V was grandstanding last night, but then I got to thinking about it and looked at the stats and he’s damn right.
Vitale: “Name one good win for UNLV…”
Whatever his name is: “Um… Princeton?”
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Are you one of the UNC fans calling for Guthridge’s head on a platter, or do you want to give him some more time?
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I couldn’t agree more. I’ll start to work on those reservations. French Polynesia, perhaps?
As a Duke fan, I’ve gotta say that I have a lot of respect for the Big East this year (two of Duke’s four losses were to Big East teams), so I can understand the sentiment that more Big East teams should have made the tourney.
This year and last have definitely been down years for the ACC as a whole, and there’s a good argument to be made that there should only be two ACC members in the field.
I’m a tarheel fan, and wasn’t certain that UNC would be there–then, afterwards, I was surprised to see UNC at, what, 41 in the RPI?
Guthridge may have run out of time, but then Bersticker and Curry could have made a difference. Part of the mix, though.
Kzxzzwikyszi has made lemonade with his lemon.
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RMM:
I must protest your mangling of the name of a man who has coached at both of my parents alma maters. How hard is it to spel shu-chef-sky, anyway?
Tarheel!
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Dang, did I misspell it?
Anyway, I could have been spelling Knight, and just thrown some shit in there for kicks. Wait a minute, where’d you say your mom went to school?
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Dear old ma did her graduate work at Duke.
And everybody knows that the only thing Knight does with lemons is suck them into his sour-puss.
It’s nice to see that everyone was crying that Vanderbilt didn’t get into the tournament, yet they lose the opening game of the NIT. Their coach said on Monday that it was “an injustice” that they didn’t get in. So on Tuesday they lose to Wake Forest, NICE.
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It’s nearly game time. The paper this morning said that the North Carolina players were pretty relaxed. When asked why, they said, well, our season can’t get much worse, can it?
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So Carolina beat top-seeded Stanford today. Boy, those fucking Tarheels sure suck! I wonder what the selection committee was smoking when they put a team that shitty in the tourney!
Anyone still think UVA could have had a prayer of making it to 16?
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Blue Devils go go go wooohooo. It would be ironic if UNC and Duke play each other.
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Oh Satan…
Yoo Hoo…
What happened to St. Johns my deluded friend? Time to jump on the bandwagon, Old Scratch. (I mean, shouldn’t you be pulling for the Blue Devils anyway?)
(Damn me for not betting my soul on this tournament…) :mad:
[gloat] LSU in the Sweet 16! [/gloat]
I’m also proud of the other two SEC teams to make it this far.
Maybe I won’t be able to be so smug this time next week; but for now it sure is nice!