[Hieronymus]

Besides Stanford, I am pulling for UW in the tournament for the obvious, heartbreaking reason. 

Stanford and UW could in theory meet in the semifinals.

Can’t really root against UWash this year, agreed. Except against us.

I hadn’t checked, but Milwaukee already played Michigan St this year - and lost 9-0. Not a typo. My 12-0 might have been too low.

And I am not sure there actually is a true top #1 seed/overall #1 seed and that geography isn’t a bigger part. ND I believe is still the top RPI but Stanford is #1 in the coaches poll, TDS’s poll and Massey, and looking just at RPI it isn’t that clear. We have 6, 8 and 22 in our bracket. ND has 12, 10 and 23 in theirs - and yes that order is correct; FSU is rated higher than the 2 seed Georgetown. And I still like ours better.

Washington btw is 27. Side thought is there are some really weird choices with the 4 seeds based on RPI.

Massey as usual I think is more sensible. There we have in order 12, 10 and 14 which lines up with how I feel about our bracket - good teams but no real contenders. The rest of our seeds are BYU 26, Xavier 22, WF 27, annd Alabama 33. Cal Poly is 91. There are also no UNC-type deep sleepers - see below. So by Massey, we have far and away the worst next best team in our bracket and no obvious spoilers. Again sounds about right.

Other Massey stuff:
- UW is 13 not 27 and the other UW (Wisconsin) is 16 not 23. Suddenly with UCLA at 14, the 4 seeds look reasonable.
- Duke is 3 and FSU is 6 and those are the two I didn’t want in our quarter bracket as a 2 or 3 seed.
- The hilarious sleeper is UNC is 8 in Massey and unseeded in the actual bracket. Maybe we can get an all ACC final. And if I am Tennessee, I am really, really pissed off with my opening 3 seed game.

[Hieronymus]

Besides Stanford, I am pulling for UW in the tournament for the obvious, heartbreaking reason. 

Stanford and UW could in theory meet in the semifinals.

Can’t really root against UWash this year, agreed. Except against us.

I hadn’t checked, but Milwaukee already played Michigan St this year - and lost 9-0. Not a typo. My 12-0 might have been too low.

And I am not sure there actually is a true top #1 seed/overall #1 seed and that geography isn’t a bigger part. ND I believe is still the top RPI but Stanford is #1 in the coaches poll, TDS’s poll and Massey, and looking just at RPI it isn’t that clear. We have 6, 8 and 22 in our bracket. ND has 12, 10 and 23 in theirs - and yes that order is correct; FSU is rated higher than the 2 seed Georgetown. And I still like ours better.

Washington btw is 27. Side thought is there are some really weird choices with the 4 seeds based on RPI.

Massey as usual I think is more sensible. There we have in order 12, 10 and 14 which lines up with how I feel about our bracket - good teams but no real contenders. The rest of our seeds are BYU 26, Xavier 22, WF 27, annd Alabama 33. Cal Poly is 91. There are also no UNC-type deep sleepers - see below. So by Massey, we have far and away the worst next best team in our bracket and no obvious spoilers. Again sounds about right.

Other Massey stuff:
- UW is 13 not 27 and the other UW (Wisconsin) is 16 not 23. Suddenly with UCLA at 14, the 4 seeds look reasonable.
- Duke is 3 and FSU is 6 and those are the two I didn’t want in our quarter bracket as a 2 or 3 seed.
- The hilarious sleeper is UNC is 8 in Massey and unseeded in the actual bracket. Maybe we can get an all ACC final. And if I am Tennessee, I am really, really pissed off with my opening 3 seed game.