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trumper:
I don't see Temple over cal or South Dakota over Baylor, but the others are possibilities and I think NCSU over SDSU is almost probable.
With the exception of ISU, all of of Baylor's losses were against ranked (or recently ranked--KSU moved in and out of rankings) opponents. South Dakota struggled to beat a Western Illionois team in the conference championship winning in OT. Show me their strong wins. And they're 50% on road games.
Btw, I'm down on Syracuse now too with Melo out. Give them two, maybe three rounds if they're lucky.
Don't be hatin' on WIU.
<----is a WIU alum.
I was just excited to see them on TV. Had they won that game, I assume as they had a weaker RPI than South Dakota St., they would either have been a normal 16 seed or one of the play-in 16s. If they were playing in Dayton, I would have been very tempted to see if I could pull off driving over to Dayton (probably like a 10 hour drive or so for me) and getting a ticket.
And for the others: No upset "points" for picking a 9 over an 8 or a 10 over a 7. It's not a true upset until you're in the 6/11 matchup or higher.
The big one I had is that I have NC State going to the Sweet 16. Otherwise, my upset radar has been bad. I had Davidson over Louisville as my biggest one. Clearly, while Davidson at least kept it close, but there's definitely different ways you get to a 7 point win, and Louisville in that game (from the highlights I saw anyway) never looked in danger of losing.
My bracket's hurting points wise so far, as most of my upsets were 2nd round upsets, but my Elite 8 and Final 4 are basically as good as everyone else's. I had Missouri in the Elite 8, but then losing to MSU. So in general, I'm feeling about as good as I possible can for the fact that I'm currently playing from behind in my bracket.