Villanova a 2-seed in the South!

seriously we got a gift. But who’s complaining?

I live in Providence (less than 10 min from “The Dunk”) so if anyone knows where i can find some fairly inexpensive tickets please email me at vgirardi@stat.brown.edu.

Is the only team we gotta worry about right now. This team cant afford to take anyone for granted!

I’ll give you that Baylor might be a tough opponent, but nobody in Texas cares about basketball, especially not Baylor basketball.

2 Seed? Digger and Dickie V. having us in the Final Four? We are getting WAY too much credit. ‘Cats should take Robert Morris but either Richmond or St. Mary’s are quite capable and can take us. As always we will need three guards who shoot over 50% to beat either of these two. Gonsalves and Anderson of the Spiders gave Temple fits and will do so to us. St.Mary’s with Omar Samhan (6’11’ and their star) took it to Gonzaga and can do the same to Nova. As they say, first, it’s a two game tournament. As someone previously said, we really do need to take it one game at a time.

The committee said they wouldnt be weighing the last 10/last 12 games this year. And judging by our favorable seed they were right.

When you look at our total resume it’s not that bad. Look at the 3 seeds – New Mexico, Baylor, Pitt, and Georgetown. Put aside UNM and Baylor… Georgetown finished 3 games behind us in the Big East. They were 10-8 and got a 3 seed! Pitt finished with the same record, beat us at home without a return game @ Nova, and had more bad losses (Seton Hall, S. Florida, Indiana) that we didnt have.

Now look at the other 2’s. Ohio State lost @ WVU, we won @ WVU. WVU finished with the same regular season record as us, plus we split the head-to-head. K-State was in the same Puerto Rico tournament as us but lost to Ole Miss in the semis. Yes all these teams are playing better than us right now, but again the committee looked at the whole season and treated each game equally.