Your SB Nation Printable 2011 NCAAT Bracket Has Arrived
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 13, 2011 7:58 PM EDT
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Madness? This.Is.March.
Your Louisville Cardinals drew a four seed from the selection committee and will head to Denver to face Morehead State on Thursday in the first (second?) round. Rick Pitino is not amused. Should the Cards advance, they would face the winner of Vandy-Richmond. Fake rumor: Edgar Sosa said he's already looking ahead to Kansas in the Elite Eight. I wouldn't advise you to do the same. Google "Kenneth Faried" and you'll understand why the Cards have their work cut out for them.
Let's get to the bracket. Our graceful landlords at Sports Blog Nation (SBN) have crafted the official printable 2011 NCAA bracket of Card Chronicle, and we urge you to consider it as your bracket of choice this week when making copies for your friends/coworkers/offices. At some point, the SBN bracket will include the URLs to the respective SBN blogs for each team that made the field. Probably.
There will be a separate post for this, but we're hosting a Tourney Pick'em contest on Yahoo! for CC readers again this year. Here is the link to the Yahoo! Tournament Pick'em Home. Once on Yahoo!, you'll need two things to sign up, the Group ID & Password. Our Group ID # is 79409 and the password is bridge. As a reminder, the play-in games (FYI: CBS is calling this the first round) are on Tuesday this year, meaning you have the next 36 hours to make your picks. Correction: Play-in games won't affect the Yahoo! Pick'em contest, you have until Thursday to submit your picks.
Now, let's discuss seeding, match-ups and who you think got screwed, cupcake'd or wrongly left out. Florida as a #2 seed is my obvious choice for WTF were they thinking? UAB getting into the tournament with their resume is another head-scratcher. And I would say that Duke and Pitt have the easiest paths to the Final Four.
What say you? Who has the easiest path to the Final Four? Which region is toughest? Softest? Who are your dark horse Sweet 16 picks? Will Louisville be able to contain Kenneth Faried on the boards and avoid the upset? Most importantly...who's going to Denver? More to come later this week on a possible Card Chron (stop) meet-up.
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As I said in the open thread
If I just knew we were a 4 and nothing else, I wouldn’t be upset. But seeing UF as a 2, UConn and Cuse as 3s is ridiculous. Seems like we got draws against teams that we will not match up well with. Should be interesting.
Get your attitude in the right place. Don't make me go here with you again.
by GOCARDSATTITUDE on Mar 13, 2011 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions
If I were rational, I would say the same thing.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 13, 2011 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Dick Vitsle is thinking about putting us in the Final Four on his sheet
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
IN
Let’s do this. 1 game at a time cardinal fans.
Pitt definitely got the best draw of the top four
The east is absolutely loaded. Provided we get past Morehead, Vandy could be a great game. Kentucky is really going to have to show up after their date with Princeton.
I read 11:15 AM
don’t know if that is Eastern or Mountain.
by Remote Cardinal on Mar 13, 2011 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
has to be Mountain. Games don't start until noon.
by CardinalDude on Mar 13, 2011 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Oi.
That’s 7:15am Hawaii time. (and the day I was planning on going to Pearl Harbor)
by Remote Cardinal on Mar 13, 2011 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions
God dang it
I won’t be able to watch it. Oh well, I hope we win.
"Marquise Teague Sucks!"
-Bryce Cotton
Is it odd that I'm trying to convince myself to have
the Sweet 16 in the Southeast regional be seeds 1, 10, 11, and 13
by Remote Cardinal on Mar 13, 2011 8:14 PM EDT reply actions
DICKIE V JUST SAID...
THAT LOUISVILLE MIGHT be his pick for the Final 4.. He’s thinking about it.. Believe guys believe! It’s not just us, the rest of the world knows it, we can do this!
So did Digger
which is not necessarily a good thing.
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
Serious Question: Who's planning on going to Denver?
I’m 85% positive I’ll be going & would love to purchase group tix in the same row/section with a few of you if that’s possible.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 13, 2011 8:23 PM EDT reply actions
just looked at the cost of changing my flight from louisville to tampa
to louisville to denver, and unless there is some sort of chronicle subsidy, probably not going to happen.
10,000 chron points =
free continental U.S. round-trip airfare?
by Leeroy Jenkins on Mar 13, 2011 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I live in Denver!
I reply here but this is to anyone who is planning on coming… I came to school out in Denver and stayed here after graduation. My family has had a box for as long as I can remember and I have always gone home for things like last game at freedom hall, opening game against Butler at the Yum, and the Sweet 16 in Indy in 09…… you can imagine how pumped I was when I found out the Cards were going to be playing here!!! I only say the above items so you know that I am a die hard card fan and will represent well during their games. If anyone is planning on making it out here for the games let me know and we can try to organize something with pregame and tickets. I know a couple of really cool places right next to the Pepsi Center. Also if anyone knows anything about the “Louisville Bar” that is usually picked (like it was for the BET) than please let me know that. I really think we have a good chance at the final four because of our team mentality alone… Lets do it cards!!!
by I WantReeceBack! on Mar 14, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Think about this...
…IF UofL had beaten UConn, they would definitely be above Florida for a 2-seed right? So, in other words, the loss to UConn cost UofL two seed-lines.
The East region is ridiculous. The Committee YET AGAIN doesn’t give the top teams a great path to the final four (remember UofL potentially playing OSU in Dayton in 2009 or UK getting the top #2 seed, WVU, last year?). I view the east as having clearly the best #1, #4 and #7 seeds and arguably the best #2 and #6 seeds. I’m not a UK fan, but I think they got the raw end of the deal. Spanked Florida and then gets two seed-lines worse? What about OSU? What did they do to deserve all of these loaded teams? Think about regions this way: which one has the most future NBA players? East by a mile.
Either that, or the Selection Committee just completely ignored the conference tournaments
outside of who won them
that doesnt explain why Uconn got a 3 seed
and we got a 4
by LouisvillePhysics on Mar 13, 2011 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions
If they just looked at the regular season then who won the conference tournament
and not who you played in the tournament, then it does. Louisville was viewed as a 4 seed after the WVU loss, and UConn got the 3 seed for winning that tournament, still not looking at who they beat, just that they won it
or Cuse who we own and walk around on a leash and collar in our arenas for fun in our spare time
by GOCARDSATTITUDE on Mar 13, 2011 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, if only that had been posted in a game-thread and went 'ville-viral!
How great would it be if our chant henceforth for all Syracuse games was “Bring! Out! The! Gimp! Bring! Out! The! Gimp!”
by Leeroy Jenkins on Mar 13, 2011 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Nervous about round 1
But if we can contain Farried, we win and then I like our chances against Vandy or Richmond, and then it’s Kansas………..I know we are definitely capable, I would cry myself to sleep for the next month if we lost this one…but then if we get past them, Purdue or ND? Hopefully Purdue. I don’t want any part of any BEAST team. Man I hope this works out.
GO CARDS, BRING IT HOME!!!!
We haven't been excessively outrebounded since the WVU game
I doubt Farried will be able to play the full game with no rest to keep getting rebounds, and even if he does, he won’t have the legs to keep it up whole game due to our defense and transition game.
I expect great defense vs Morehead,
specifically forcing turnovers. I don’t see this game as a problem at all. Faried is great, but he isn’t their whole team and that’s why they are a 13 seed.
by Get_In_My_BELLY_ on Mar 13, 2011 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I Don't Know Why
Everyone’s picking KU over U of L. Boston University’s totally beating them in the first…err second round
by Gettin Dieng-y With It on Mar 13, 2011 8:48 PM EDT reply actions
WTF
Bilas has Syracuse in the Final Four?
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
and losing to UConn in the semifinals
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
He's the only ESPN analyst that has us in the Elite 8
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
and Dickie V has us losing to Pitt in the semis
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
if we beat Kansas
we’re definitely beating Pittsburgh.
by RedBlueRadio on Mar 13, 2011 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Ofcourse! Can't wait to get ahold of Gibbs/McGhee and their TUDES
by GOCARDSATTITUDE on Mar 13, 2011 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
That's what I have right now.
Still tweaking though.
by CardinalDude on Mar 13, 2011 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I want the gametimes - anybody know when they come out? Or if they already are?
I’ve heard this 11:15 rumor on the board (would have to be Mountain time), but I have nothing to back it up.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 13, 2011 9:09 PM EDT reply actions
I hate this draw.
I think Kansas is the best team in the country. Occasionally the Morrises get lazy but that won’t happen in the NCAA tournament. with last year’s upset by Northern Iowa in mind, they aren’t likely to be overlooking anyone either.
I also hate that we’re playing Morehead in the first round. Morehead’s not just Kenneth Faried – there’s another player (Harper?) who’s really gotten his act together too. I don’t think they’ll beat Louisville, but I was really hoping that they would have a really deep run this year. Now I can’t pull for them. :(
I’m also amazed and furious that Florida is a 2 and that UConn and Syracuse are 3s, when we are a 4. The committee must have been smoking something illegal.
Sure they do.
I mentioned it. sometimes the Morrises get lazy. :) I still think they’re the best team in the tournament. The Nebraska thing is truly weird, but their loss to K-state was no disgrace. K-State is really good, but erratic. They’ve had some strange off-court junk going on this year, but Jacob Pullen is an All-American, the real deal. I watched their first and second games against Kansas, and K-State was a different team in that second game. They had their heads together and won. K-State was pre-season top ten, and would be a serious threat if they were consistent. They may yet be, and surprise everyone.
I still think, based on my limited viewership of games this year, that Kansas is better than Ohio State, Duke (lost to St.John’s by how much? Good God.) or Pitt.
Easy to forget how much muscle he's put on in the last two years.
Dude has worked hard. Deserves a nice run in the tourney.
by Joseph N'Sima on Mar 13, 2011 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Just filled out my bracket
It’s terrible. Weird thing about brackets is that I usually only fill out one (if that), never actually spend $$, and don’t really care about performance. And it shows.
All I really care about is our team, and how each and every other game affects our team. Mature, I know.
I think UK getting a 4 seed is the NCAA's way of punishing Calipari, without actually punishing him
by Chris Redman is my hero on Mar 13, 2011 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
The only way it is a punishment
Is him defeating FL today, and them receiving a 2. Other than that- I feel they are doing him a favor.
by GOCARDSATTITUDE on Mar 13, 2011 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Game time is 1:40 Thursday on TBS
according to the CBS Twitter feed. Announcers are Lundquist and Raftery.
Wow, Raf & TBS
Could be a lot worse.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 14, 2011 3:39 AM EDT up reply actions
They put it up when it reaches single digits.
Love ESPN always showing it though.
by CardinalDude on Mar 14, 2011 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions
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