Bracketology

In the board's opinion what 1 seed would we rather face? I mean obviously none of them are desirable, but what's the lesser evil?

Kentucky I wouldn't want any part of at all.
Gonzaga we already kind of know about since we've played them, and they are known for choking in the NCAAT. However, many say this is Few's best gonzaga team and maybe their best squad ever.
I don't know anything about virginia other than their defense is shut down and they force teams into some laughably bad scores.
I don't know much of anythign about Duke other than they have likely the #1 pick and maybe the best player in America.

Might be best to lose a few more and drop to the 12/13 range

2-2 and 1 win in the SECT and we'd get that 10 seed which would be sweeeeeet

Id rather a 10 any day. The difference between the 7s and 8s is minimal. The difference between the 1s and 2s this year seem to be vast

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Playing UK would be an automatic loss in the tourney.

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We aren't going to draw UK. We will play them twice and possibly 3 times if we meet in the SECT. They aren't to make the #1 overall seed play a team for the third/fourth time in the second round.

And true about the 7 seed quality. We could beat those teams and actual have a small chance against a 2.

Also...it's looking like we aren't getting a double bye in the tourney. We don't need to go one and done in the SECT if we are playing like the 12 seed or something. That could knock us out even if we go 2-2 down the stretch(and one of those wins not being UK.)

Like say we get the #5 seed(us and A&M are tied for 5th, although they have the easier schedule). We play the 12 or 13 seed which could be the Cocks or the Barn for a third time. Losing that would not be good for us.

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What 1 seed would we rather face

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A lot of that depends on the health of Virginia. If they get Perrantes and Anderson back before the tournament.....no thanks. We may not score 35 against that team and would get utterly humiliated. If neither of them is available, UVA is beatable.

Duke is starting to roll and in my opinion would beat us worse than Kentucky. We have no matchup for Okafor inside and he's much more skilled offensively than any of Kentucky's bigs. Tyus Jones is lightning quick and Quinn Cook is an outstanding 3pt shooter.

Kentucky has the highest ceiling of any team in this tournament, but they do struggle to score sometimes. Catch them on one of those days and anything can happen. They are undefeated, and they have put some bad beatings on people, but they have also been taken to OT twice and a shorthanded UGA team was down by 5 with possession with 2 min left in Lexington. This is a great team, but they aren't 1990 UNLV or 1996 Kentucky.

Gonzaga is the one I would want to see because they're so reliant on jumpshots and those teams can go cold in March. Gonzaga will also enter the tourney under a TON of pressure to finally break through to the Final Four and I'm not sure how well they'll handle that.

Of the two seeds, Wisconsin and Kansas would hammer UGA, Villanova would win comfortably, and UGA could hang with Arizona but probably not beat them.

didn't say we couldn't lose them, we could lose to anyone. Fact is that if we have our full starting 5 (which btw, we haven't had in either SC game or against auburn) we can easily win those.

it is a good thing we can't draw UK, not sure the committee would allow us to draw gonzaga either. Obviously any game vs a 1 or 2 is a long shot but I definitely think we would have a chance against Kansas, virginia if banged up at all, maybe Villanova.

But I'm honestly just worried about getting in first. A lot of bubbles can burst from conference tournament runs. Would love to get in and get at least 1 win in the dance.

K state beat #1 rpi Kansas. Don't know what that does for us