ESPN bracketology

[elmerb]

I have more faith in the weather man, than I do in the media "experts".

[Go_Braves]

agree- every one of these predictions is always wrong -- pure speculation and sometimes laughably wrong-- but what they do it they revise it over and over as teams get upset or surprises occur...so that the final version of their "bracketology" that they issue immediately before the Selection Committee releases the real Bracket - is usually close - but that's after a zillion revisions.

And let's not forget one of the biggest FOPAs by the CBS NCAA TV Announcers "Billy (always ACC) Packer" and Jim Nantz in 2006 - FIRST - Billy Packer's strong objection - when 3 Missouri Valley Teams were selected to the 2006 NCAA Tournament and SECOND - Jim Nantz days later admitting that the Missouri Valley (Wichita State and Bradley) proved a lot of people wrong - "including 2 people sitting here at court side" (stated during the Arizona - VIllanova 2006 TV coverage) .... Billy Packer just kept quiet.

https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-20...660-story.html

[tornado]

then they showed a graphic of the state of Indiana with a star in the middle labelled Bradley University

[Tommy]

Fox Sports now shows a bracket with Bradley as a #14 seed, and has them playing against #3 seed Houston in the Midwest Regional.

https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1106560662925279232

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That would be outstanding.

[tornado]

and in the "let's just prove how accurate these Bracketology" jokes are -......

One of the 247Sports writers said he spent a whopping 15 minutes before the selection show and drew up a Bracketology prediction-
he got 67 of the 68 teams correct...so he says...
"For the record I spent a quality 15 minutes on my "mock bracket" and got 67 of 68,
only missed TCU, when Temple was selected. Don't give these guys too much credit,
it isn't that complex if I can do this in 15 minutes"

https://twitter.com/BSnow247/status/1107411512833003520

[tornado]

ESPN's Joe Lunardi just updated his projected BRACKETOLOGY for 2019-2020
and he has Drake as the only representative from the MVC and they get a 15-seed to play Houston in Omaha in the Midwest Regional

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[bradleyfan124]

ESPN's Joe Lunardi just updated his projected BRACKETOLOGY for 2019-2020
and he has Drake as the only representative from the MVC and they get a 15-seed to play Houston in Omaha in the Midwest Regional

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That guy is so far out of touch with reality why do they even give him any credibility

[bradleyfan2003]

He also has Penn state as a 10 seed and I'm pretty sure Lamar Stevens is leaving.

[bradleyfan2003]

Leaving as in declaring for the nab draft

[tornado]

ESPN's Joe Lunardi files his June early Bracketology prediction
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...rc=desktop&wjb

of course it is just a wild guess - and of course he will change it virtually every week between now and next March...
..just how valuable or worthwhile can any "prediction" possibly be if you change, alter, adjust and amend it 40 or 50 times between now and then?
Heck, just look 3 posts above and note that a few weeks ago he had Drake getting in but now changes it to UNI.


Anyway - he lists 68 teams.....but only TWO mid-major at-larges!!!
Only the West Coast Conference & the A-10 get a single at-large with the Power Conferences getting the other 34 at-large bids.
He's got 8 Big Ten teams, 7 each from the SEC & Big 12 and 6 each from the ACC and Big East.
He even has four teams getting in from the Pac-12 which was so totally miserable last season!!

He has Northern Iowa getting in from the MVC as a #13 seed.

[bradleyfan124]

ESPN's Joe Lunardi files his June early Bracketology prediction
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...rc=desktop&wjb

of course it is just a wild guess - and of course he will change it virtually every week between now and next March...
..just how valuable or worthwhile can any "prediction" possibly be if you change, alter, adjust and amend it 40 or 50 times between now and then?
Heck, just look 3 posts above and note that a few weeks ago he had Drake getting in but now changes it to UNI.


Anyway - he lists 68 teams.....but only TWO mid-major at-larges!!!
Only the West Coast Conference & the A-10 get a single at-large with the Power Conferences getting the other 34 at-large bids.
He's got 8 Big Ten teams, 7 each from the SEC & Big 12 and 6 each from the ACC and Big East.
He even has four teams getting in from the Pac-12 which was so totally miserable last season!!

He has Northern Iowa getting in from the MVC as a #13 seed.

It is amazing this guy gets paid for expressing useless nonsense

[tornado]

and this is all he does - so gotta wonder what does he do the other 23.5 hours a day, 365 days a year?
..But then, that's what I had been wondering about Kirk Wessler or Dave Reynolds who write maybe
one short column every week or two.....

[Chico]

It is amazing this guy gets paid for expressing useless nonsense

It’s amazing you keep reading him.

[bradleyfan124]

It’s amazing you keep reading him.

I dont read him. I read the thread

[Mikovio]

Lunardi is good at taking game results and projecting what the bracket will look like based on that, but I wouldn’t buy his preseason analysis. Blue Ribbon is the best preseason source and that’ll be another month or two.