April 6, 201412 yr Wow Jackson traveled big time there. Either way, UK finally makes a freshman mistake down the stretch.
April 6, 201412 yr What a great job by the selection committee. A #7 and a #8 seed in the national championship. That said, this Kentucky team is a lot of fun to watch and I hope they win it on Monday.
April 6, 201412 yr Jackson had the game in his hands with the free throw and 15 footer and didn't come through. Would have liked to have seen Kaminsky touch the ball there instead...don't care at all about the final game. Guess I'll be cheering against Calipari, but it is what it is. Edited April 6, 201412 yr by caulfield12
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:31 PM) What a great job by the selection committee. A #7 and a #8 seed in the national championship. Really?
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:21 PM) Dear lord, Iowa State could have won a national title this year if Georges Niang doesn't break his foot. I'm gonna go cry somewhere. It's about getting hot and a little lucky.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:31 PM) What a great job by the selection committee. A #7 and a #8 seed in the national championship. That said, this Kentucky team is a lot of fun to watch and I hope they win it on Monday. You clearly don't understand the concept of seeding.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:43 PM) It's about getting hot and a little lucky. That and matchups.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:34 PM) Really? Seriously. Kentucky has ended up on the right side of a 3 pointer for 4 straight games. They are playing the best ball of the year and they can't miss a shot in the last 5 minutes.
April 6, 201412 yr Awful choice to let Jackson to take last shot. Where did he get the clutch moniker? Huge missed FT, awful turnover earlier just losing dribble.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:34 PM) Really? I felt Kentucky was given a bad seed at the beginning. They gave UMass a #6 seed in that region.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 11:05 PM) I felt Kentucky was given a bad seed at the beginning. They gave UMass a #6 seed in that region. Given what they did in the regular season, they didn't deserve that much higher of a seed. They still needed late second magic to beat four of the best teams in the tourney. It's not about seeding, it's about momentum and luck.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:43 PM) You clearly don't understand the concept of seeding. Then please educate me on it. This national championship is the lowest combined seeding since the bracket started in 1979. I realize the selection committee can only have so much to go off of, but having a #7 and #8 in the final means they probably didn't do the best evaluation of the field.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 11:11 PM) Given what they did in the regular season, they didn't deserve that much higher of a seed. They still needed late second magic to beat four of the best teams in the tourney. It's not about seeding, it's about momentum and luck. They also have a ton of talent.
April 6, 201412 yr This is just a crazy year with loads of talent and parity. Can't explain it. Can't really blame the committee when we've had the greatest tourney in recent memory.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 11:13 PM) Then please educate me on it. This national championship is the lowest combined seeding since the bracket started in 1979. I realize the selection committee can only have so much to go off of, but having a #7 and #8 in the final means they probably didn't do the best evaluation of the field. They're not seeding based on what they think is going to happen, they're seeding on what has happened. Kentucky's regular season was extremely average and they absolutely belonged where they got seeded.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 11:13 PM) They also have a ton of talent. If you only seeded on talent. Wisconsin wouldn't have been a #2. Kentucky under achieved all year, and now they are stepping up to the plate, while they keep getting all the luck, it doesn't make their seeding wrong.
April 6, 201412 yr QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 11:20 PM) They're not seeding based on what they think is going to happen, they're seeding on what has happened. Kentucky's regular season was extremely average and they absolutely belonged where they got seeded. I feel as if the seeding has way too much correlation to RPI, which has its flaws (way too much emphasis on SOS). Louisville was ranked highly via BPI, coaches pools, etc., but they were ranked #19 in RPI. There's no other reason why they were a #4 seed. Kentucky was #12 in BPI, #17 in Kenpom (UConn was #25). I think that the methods the committee uses are too old fashioned and not descriptive enough. Edited April 6, 201412 yr by chw42
April 6, 201412 yr Kentucky six weeks before the end of the regular season looked like there was a 50/50 chance they wouldn't even make the tourney again. They came together, finally. After all, they were preseason #1, so they ended up #1 when it most counted as well. If you don't reflect the entire season's results, then why even have a regular season or pre-season, why not skip all the way to the NCAA's? Kentucky has been very fortunate, so far, but if you went through every championship team's six game run over the last twenty years or so, there's probably only a couple that weren't on the verge of getting knocked out in the first three.
April 6, 201412 yr I think Wisconsin wins the game if the one guy hit the three free throws, do u? Wisky would have been up by three with :12 left and could have fouled. I think Wisky had it had he just made all 3. Unlucky for him there was a LONG delay before his first free throw. TOO MANY FRICKING DELAYS.
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