Kansas

[deanvogs]

A 3 seed making the sweet 16 is playing to seed. Theoretically they should have lost to the 2 there, but a three seed should make the sweet 16 and lose there if everything played to seed.



ISU was a 5 seed and lost to a 4 seed. Again, that's exactly playing to seed.

I was just going by Clone fans here. They all said that Purdue sucks and won't even give ISU a game. Heck Chrissy Williams said as much.

 

[DDThompson]

I guess I don't agree. If a 3 seed loses to a 7 seed, they did not play to seed. The word theoretically was the key word in your sentence.

Depends on the context of "playing to seed"

Head-to-head a 3-seed should beat a 7-seed.

Overall view, a 3-seed into Sweet 16 is playing to seed -- doesn't matter who they lose to in that round. The committee guessed, based on their season's body of work, they were anywhere from 9th-16th best team.

A 5-seed to final 32 is playing to seed.

 

[Robowe]

Depends on the context of "playing to seed"

Head-to-head a 3-seed should beat a 7-seed.

Overall view, a 3-seed into Sweet 16 is playing to seed -- doesn't matter who they lose to in that round. The committee guessed, based on their season's body of work, they were anywhere from 9th-16th best team.

A 5-seed to final 32 is playing to seed.

I consider playing to seed in the context of who you actually played, not who you theoretically were supposed to play. Not a big deal.

 

[mrolympia]

when filling out brackets I follow 3 rules: don't pick kansas beyond the sweet 16, don't pick duke beyond the sweet 16, don't pick an alford coached team to go very far. I'm usually right a lot more than I'm wrong about those 3 things. Of course it's the other games that give me issues. I tend to get a little upset crazy in the first round which bites me in the arse.

 

[FirstDownHawkeyes]

You might be right. They have tied 4 times during the 13 years. I will say KU has been more consistent than those teams. The last time KU won less than 25 games was 2005. That's just insane.

As far as the conference underperforming it's seeding, the only team that didn't perform exactly to their seed is KU, who didn't make the Final Four. Every other team played exactly to seed.

You are right about the seeding. That being said with all the 3-5 seeds, you would expect to have one make it through. Those 2/3 and 4/5 games are essentially a coin flip. Sometimes those seeds are even flipped by the committee to where they would prefer to seed teams depending on geography. But, that is splitting hairs. The only reason this is even being discussed is bc of all the talk during the last 2 regular seasons about how tough the Big 12 is. It simply hasn't lived up to the billing in March. Then you add all the trash talking re the B1G this year and you get this conversation.