Lunardi's Bracketology - Arkansas Region

Beating Altman to finally get back to the sweet 16 would be poetic.

Then Houston and the coach we chased before Muss. Lots of storylines there.

I’m down but I bet they’ll give us some unfavorable regional matchup like Oklahoma in the second round.

Lunardi doing us no favors now. Damn.

Villanova is in a bad spot right now. I'd take that draw in a heartbeat.

Is lunardi ever even that accurate? Feel like he always misses quite a bit. At least as of late

I hope they try to avoid rematches and don’t stick us with Abilene Christian or North Texas in the first round. They seem to be the best teams in the 14+ seed range.

Most of the SEC teams are seeded in that 5-8 range so there’s a limited number of options that we’ll be looking at in our second round game if we win our first game. I’d say the odds are we’ll be paired with a team from out west in the second round. Oregon, USC, Colorado or BYU would be my guesses. Since everyone is playing in the same geographical area, I think they’ll embrace some of the weirder matches you wouldn’t normally see that often.

That’s what sucks, normal year we’re gonna rob playing somewhere close enough to get a good home field advantage.

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I hope they try to avoid rematches and don’t stick us with Abilene Christian or North Texas in the first round

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We shouldn't have to worry about that, they always do unless they are basically unavoidable

Would not feel awkward booking Arkansas to the Elite 8 in that one. Naturally we’ll play North Carolina on the way.