Early NCAA tournament predictions

[81spacetiger 157]

One place had predictions for all 63 games:

- UK goes out in round 2 (32)

- Auburn exits in the sweet 16

- UT goes out in the sweet 16

- turds make it to elite 8 round

Our write ups:

They have UConn beating Purdue for the NC (This will be wrong because Purdue will NEVER get this deep). I still believe we can beat UConn because they have not played a team like us (but we will have to have our 3 ball and FT's working + low TOs).  

Link: Predicting All 63 Games For The 2024 March Madness Bracket (msn.com)

 

Edited March 19 by 81spacetiger
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[AURex 2,000]

Love my Tigers, but seeded 4 in the toughest bracket is not an avenue to the championship. If Auburn makes it that far, can our Tigers knock off UConn? Personally hoping UConn gets upset before then. hahahaha

 

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,673]

UConn's seen basically everything tbh. Texas, Kansas (when they had a bit more juice), UNC, Gonzaga, Seton Hall, St Johns, Creighton, Marquette. Clingan, Newton and Alex Karaban were all on last year's team too iirc. I still think we can win, but we aren't gonna be on a different level of talent than anything else they've seen to date 

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,673]

Jaylin really needs to be in a position to win that Karaban matchup. The frames on their guards just don't make me very excited on how we match up with them there. Clingan is a monster of a defensive big by himself; I don't want to see a world where they can have him + another big providing consistent help in the paint 

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,673]

In the St John's game, they did give up 34 rebounds (Joel Soriano is a big, big mofo) and 45% from 3 from what I'm seeing. Only problem is Conn shot 57% from the floor, 50% from 3, and 92% from the stripe. (Not like SJU at this point in Pitino's rebuild has a TON of talent but still)

About to put the game on now and watch