So, you thought your bracket was irreparably busted? Mine blew up in the first round when my selected champion – the Fightin’ Izzos, went down in flames to the Middle Tennessee Whoevers. But there’s good news.
- If you thought your bracket was bad, remember that the so-called experts of Sports Illustrated picked 6 of 16 correctly. Most of you did better than the experts!
- There’s a SECOND CHANCE bracket at ESPN. Doug set it up for us and you still have time to get in for a Sweet Sixteen on busted bracket challenge. Here is the link. SBC Voices Second Chance Bracket. The password is the same as it was before…sbcvoices…go and fill out your bracket.
Last year’s champion (Adam in NC) has passed me for the lead in the big bracket, but there’s some bad news for the gloating fans of the ACC. They will actually have to play a team with a higher seed than 9 this weekend. That’s right. When the ACC tells you “We’ve got 6 teams in the Sweet Sixteen” realize that not a single one of those teams beat a team above a 9 seed to get there. Some of them almost lost to 9, 11, 14 seeds. So, this weekend will be the real test.
Go sign up and join our second chance bracket challenge.
David: You have evidently forgotten how oriented the ACC is to basketball and how on any day the sorriest team can show up and beat the snot out of the number one seed. I have been watching ACC teams for over 40 years (My wife usually sends me out of the room because I get to excited). Wouldn’t it be funny, if two of the ACC teams (like Chapel Hill and Duke) wound up in the last game for the championship.
I will take this opportunity to point out that the reason they have not played higher seeds yet – is because THEY ARE THE HIGHER SEEDS!
Something each of them earned by means of doing well over the course of the season and specifically because they successfully navigated a grueling conference season.
When a conference is far and away better than most of the others the high seedings tend to happen.
Go Heels!
Go Canes!
I failed to get into the first bracket, but I’m in this one. Going full homer mode… BOOMER!
Acc didn’t just lose 2 today, they got blown out 2x
The Miami loss to Villanova was shockingly similar to Iowa’s loss to Villanova.
Funny. The ACC set a record for the most teams in the Sweet Sixteen. So two are out. So what?
Dr. J.,
Its sad to watch but…
Some people whose teams are never realistically in the hunt for the basketball national championship just like to revel in the temporary downfall of ACC powerhouses.
Dear Taarheel: I told David he had forgotten how basketball devoted the ACC is. Now three of the teams have made it to the Elite Eight. Who knows what they will do? Only the Lord.
whoa, is it four?
Last 10 national champs by conference:
ACC – 4
SEC – 3
AMERICAN – 2
Big 12 – 1
You have to go back to 1999/2000 season to find a Big 10 national champ.
….and the other Iowa team is now gone. (everyone please contain your shock)
Meanwhile – – two ACC teams – – Notre Dame and Virginia – Advance to elite 8
Add 2 more ACC teams to the elite 8.
The UVA and The…..TARHEELS!
Hey, that means the ACC is representin’ 1/2 of the elite 8!
🙂
I Only wish it were possible to have for ACC teams in the final four!
B1G=utter collapse
embarrassing
Bye felicia
I’ll just leave this right here: BOOMER!
My, there is so many ACC teams in the final four that they are forced to play each other. David I told you that the ACC is basketball focused. Now and then a team in some other conference gets a coach and teams that are given to winning, but the players graduate and others stop applying. Usually because the coach has left, retired, or died. The ACC, however, keeps pumping the program with good coaches and players and you can see the result.
BTW,
The ACC IN THIS TOURNEY
7 of 64
7 of 32
6 of 16
4 of 8
2 of 4
1 of 2
(Absent Louisville voluntary post season ban the ACC would have started with 8 teams.)
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/3/26/11308106/acc-ncaa-tournament-elite-eight-records
The ACC will also be reppin’ 1/2 of final four and 1/2 of final – and hopefully one of them will be hoisting the trophy an April 4.
TAR
HEELS
TAR
HEELS
TAR
HEELS
I had 11 right of the sweet sixteen, but now have O of the final four! Woe is me.
Lesson:
Never make a bracket that underestimates the Tarheels and the ACC.
😉
First rule of bracketology is to get all PAC-10 teams out as soon a possible. They’re going to lose. Second rule is never have the BIG 10 winning the championship. It just doesn’t happen since Indiana got a conscience and fired Bobby Knight.
As for as the mighty ACC is concerned, and I am a fan of the ACC, as a basketball purist 🙂 is see one big twelve team, one ACC team and two Big East teams in the final four. Big East Monday made Monday night the greatest night for college basketball back in the day.
“I see”
Well you see it wrong.
If the Big East was so great – why did they jump ship and beg (literally for years) to get into the ACC?
The ACC is where it is for college hoops. It’s where everyone wants to be. Period.
The fact that a middle rung 10 loss ACC team (because they had to play other ACC teams) and a #10 seed in the big dance is in the final four demonstrates this.
Middle Rung ACC teams are better than many top tier teams in other conferences.
The Big East dissolved from what it once was for one reason – football. The Big East put 3 teams in the final four one year during their heyday. Boheim is on record saying he preferred to stay in the Big East as it was when it was a basketball conference but it changed when it became a football conference. But I will shoot him an email telling Boheim he is wrong, Tarheel, said he wanted to be in ACC because everyone wants to be there.
Syracuse is a 10 loss team because their coach was suspended for 9 games and went 4-5 during that time.
Correction – Syracuse is 13 loss team which will be 14 after thier next game. 🙂