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Committee did everything in their power to try and prevent an early Duke exit

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I have always loved Majerus. Here's a couple of my favorite quotes.

To Jay Bilas, wearing a polo shirt rather than the traditional Hawaiian shirt while covering a tournament in Hawaii...
"Jay, only a guy who gets out of the shower to take a piss would wear a shirt like that."
[ESPN, 01/04/2005, Quoted on DukeBasketballReport.com]
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About how the Utes' season keeps ending with a loss to Kentucky..
"When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time."
[New Orleans Times-Picayune 3/9/1999]
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He said that he had tried to arrange a home and home series with the University of Kentucky, but they refused. "I'd play Kentucky home and home every year. Book it right now. I'd do anything to get them there. They want to ski on a mountain, I can get them a mountain to ski on. For privacy I can get them to Redford's place and they can eat like kings. But Kentucky ain't coming to play us." "I also said I'd like to date Ashley Judd and you know, she ain't gonna do that either. That was her dad that was here with me before. He looked at me and he's happy I'm not dating her either." "I am like Kentucky's favorite punching bag. People in Kentucky love me. 'I'd like me too if I lost every game."
[Louisville, KY newspaper, 2000]
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On how he planned to stop the Kentucky Wildcats in a 1996 NCAA tournament match-up ...
"Food poisoning!"
[Houston Chronicle 3/20/1996]
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On wearing glasses on the court...
"I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies."
[Charlotte Observer 3/28/1998]
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About whether he would talk to Notre Dame officials about an open job ...
``If they call, I will listen. I'm not going to hang up on them. My [Catholic] mother would excommunicate me.''
But would he be interested? ...
"Notre Dame might call and say, `Look, we're going to give you the football stadium and you can coach golf,' and then I might be interested.''
[Chicago Sun-Times, 3/17/1999]
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On travelling to Hawaii for the Maui tournament ...
"We'll be there 10 days. We're going to snorkel and we're going to body surf. If I wanted a hotel with a projector, I'd go to the Alaskan Shootout."
[AP, 3/29/1998]
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Haha those are great. Miss the fat man. Sorry to pile on about beating Kentucky, everybody has to cap on whats good! Yall are amazing and i definitely respect that. Certainly deserving of a Natl Championship. I cant wait yo catch some of their games!
 
Carbon13 said:
Haha those are great. Miss the fat man. Sorry to pile on about beating Kentucky, everybody has to cap on whats good! Yall are amazing and i definitely respect that. Certainly deserving of a Natl Championship. I cant wait yo catch some of their games!
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Class post. I appreciate that. They are very hard to come by around here.
 
framer said:
BYU got a pretty decent draw. They are favored by Vegas in the play-in game and the ESPN picker has them beating Xavier. Better than snagging the 9 seed, I guess.
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BYU doesn't play defense and is usually horrible in the tournament. They'll probably lose the first game.

Gonna be a Robert Morris vs. Kentucky rematch in the finals!
 
BTP said:
I'd still like to know how the regional seeding works!
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It's not an exact science, but basically the NCAA selection committee ranks the top 8 teams, 1 - 8.
The overall #1 gets the regional that puts them closest to home. #2 gets the next remaining location closest to their home and so on through #4.

Same thing for 5 - 8.

From there the committee takes the remaining seeds and generally tries to do the same with a slight amount of not putting conferences together (to a small extent) and looking for potential story lines.

Basically, it's about ticket sales (keep the best teams with the likely strongest/most optimistic fanbase close traveling distance) and TV ratings (story lines).
 
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So the formula I came up with to pick my brackets this year so I don't just pick Wyoming/Gonzaga/BYU/Kentucky like I want to in the final four has 2 problems....

1) BYU is out in round one.

2) Utah makes the final four.

I don't know what to do. I can't actually go through with that.
 
Dr. Jones said:
It's not an exact science, but basically the NCAA selection committee ranks the top 8 teams, 1 - 8.
The overall #1 gets the regional that puts them closest to home. #2 gets the next remaining location closest to their home and so on through #4.

Same thing for 5 - 8.

From there the committee takes the remaining seeds and generally tries to do the same with a slight amount of not putting conferences together (to a small extent) and looking for potential story lines.

Basically, it's about ticket sales (keep the best teams with the likely strongest/most optimistic fanbase close traveling distance) and TV ratings (story lines).
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So basically it's as crooked as the NCAA is with everything.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
So the formula I came up with to pick my brackets this year so I don't just pick Wyoming/Gonzaga/BYU/Kentucky like I want to in the final four has 2 problems....

1) BYU is out in round one.

2) Utah makes the final four.

I don't know what to do. I can't actually go through with that.
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Utes aren't getting to F4. You're welcome.
 
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