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Jon RothsteinMaryland will make a deep run to the Elite Eight in the 2019 NCAA Tournament
I think Maryland is vastly forgotten because of the way they played in the Big Ten tournament... [Matt Painter] thought, aside from Purdue, Michigan, or Michigan State, he thought Maryland could make the deepest run... I'm going to take Duke over Maryland in the East Regional Final.
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PFT CommenterBracket regions should be named Top Left, Bottom Left, Top Right, and Bottom Right to be standard across all websites
I don't like [the pod system]. Let's make it standard because my biggest problem with March Madness and the whole bracket system in general is it's usually not standard across all the different sports websites out there. It should be called top left, bottom left, top right, bottom right. Make it easy for me.
Big CatOregon will upset Wisconsin in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament
Check out that Oregon-Wisconsin game, which is a one-and-a-half-point underdog for Oregon. Huge upset coming. I've been betting on them a bunch... I was basically putting Oregon in and going to sleep.
Big CatConference championship games on Selection Sunday do not matter for NCAA tournament seeding
Everyone thinks that the conference championship games matter a ton, but if you think the committee... The committee's just like us. They're fucking lazy. They're not going to sit there and watch the Big Ten championship and be like, well, now we've got to change everything we've done all weekend. They filled it out. They're ready to go.
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View profileJon RothsteinUNC getting into the tournament is the biggest miscarriage of justice in 20 years
This is one of the biggest miscarriage of justices that I have seen in all my years covering college basketball... North Carolina was one and 12 against quad one opponents. That is just a fact of life... My heart breaks for West Virginia, it breaks for Indiana that North Carolina got this opportunity instead of them.
Jon RothsteinAutomatic Qualifiers (AQs) should always play on Thursday/Friday, while at-large teams play in the First Four
I think if you're good enough to get an automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament, you deserve to partake in the Thursday and Friday of the first week... put the last eight at large teams in the first four, it would reward these programs again at the lower level and give them the NCAA tournament experience.
Jon RothsteinTom Izzo and Michigan State will return to the Final Four this year
I've got Auburn against then Michigan State in a regional final Atlanta. And I've got Tom Izzo getting back to the final four.