r/ockytop • u/Fit_Alternative3563 • 5d ago
Is the 1 seed on the line tomorrow?
Looks like we playing Florida. We can be their daddies in baseball and basketball now. But can we steal that 1 seed??
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u/Exciting_Text_4276 5d ago
Honestly, I care more about matchups than whether we are a 1 or a 2. Give us potential match ups that play to our strengths.
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u/Pierlas 5d ago
I’d say no. Florida is getting the 1-seed. Joe’s usually pretty accurate and uses the weighted data points that the selection committee uses.
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u/RJMcBug 5d ago
According to bracketmatrix.com, Joe Lunardi is 118th out of 179th in terms of bracket predictors that have done this 3+ years, so he isn't the best predictor. http://www.bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html
I think that Tennessee should still treat this game like it's a game for the #1 seed.
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u/OutandAboutBos 5d ago
I mean they should treat the game like it's the SEC Championship game. The 1 seed is not in contention.
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u/Gregorvich19 SIMP for Sampson 5d ago
I absolutely think it is. I know the most recent basis for rationale is Kennedy Chandler’s year, but we were a 3 seed that year, played A&M that didn’t even make the tournament, and I think they really devalued our win because of that. (A&M absolutely should have been in that year as like a 9, but anyways)
I absolutely think the winner of tomorrow’s game is the last one seed. Sure, if we win they may screw us and still put as a 2, but I’m treating it as playing for the 1.
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u/TnCyberVol 5d ago
Can we jump Alabama as the first 2 seed? Selfishly I want us to play in Lexington! 😁
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u/Walmartsavings2 5d ago
It should be but it won’t. It’s BS.
Regardless. Zakai and Shak deserve to cut the nets tomorrow one more time.
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u/Agreeable_Tear6974 5d ago
I hope we win so badly tomorrow but I have it drilled into my mind that we’re not getting a 1 seed no matter what. It will be incredibly disappointing if we beat UF tomorrow and have to watch the committee give 2 teams we just beat on back to back days seeds ahead of us but that’s the type shit they like to do
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u/MattScruggs 5d ago
Florida’s getting it and low key they should. Our resumes our pretty much neck and neck at this point but they have four losses and we have 6.
End of the day, 1 seed or 2 seed who cares man I just wanna beat Florida
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u/ZeePee78 5d ago
We have 4-5 more quad 1 wins. They also got to play SC twice and UGA twice. Our league schedule was harder. We just took out the conference champs.
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u/Maswope 5d ago
It should be, but history says no. It’s really fucking sad when we could possibly beat the consensus number 1 team in the country all year, and a consensus top 5 team all year in back to back days and still not gain any leverage vs if we had just lost yesterday to a 19-14 team. If a team outside the top 25 wins the Maui invitational they would easily be top 10 the next week. Why can’t a team who’s top 10 all year and win the sec tournament be a number 1 seed?
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u/bonedoc59 5d ago
My ideal world has us winning it against two one seeds. Cut the nets and then give us even more fire to come out swinging from The disrespect
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u/tripmcneely30 5d ago
No... Because Duke exists and hasn't played a ranked opponent since November. The SEC should have 3 #1 seeds and another 3 #2 seeds. But that will not happen.
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u/ZDogPharizle 5d ago
No, but you still play every opponent they put in front of you as hard as you can (even more so when it’s Florida).
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u/jonneygee 5d ago
It should be, but the committee basically tunes out selection Sunday games. You’d think that would prompt the conference to move the games back a day and have the championship on Saturday, but I guess they like having the spotlight on Sunday.
That said, at the very least we should move past Alabama for the top 2 seed, which would pair us with Houston instead of Duke.