Jason Evans

I didn't take a nap, so we're going to try to go to bed early tonight. We'll see how that goes, but I'm excited about this bracket. It's a loaded one, but that's why we play the games. It is quite loaded. Yeah, I'm not thrilled with the bracket that Duke got. I've done a little bit of a dive, and we're going to get into it, but before we get to that, we have another person on the podcast with us, our frequent guest, fill in, whatever you want to call him. Scott Rich is here. Scott is joining us because Scott is a real bracketology expert. He dives into this stuff. He knows it really well.

Okei, niin kaverit, mennään siihen. Ja niin, että ihmiset tiedättävät, miten me rakennamme tämän, ensimmäisen puheenvuoron kanssa puhumme yksilöllisesti Duke's Pathista, Eestin alueelta, mitä me koemme siellä. Pidämme hieman loppua, ja sitten puhumme muutakin. Haluamme myös puhua Duke-yksilöistä, jotka tulevat olemaan no. 3.

The headline of course from all of this is that Duke is the overall number one seed, the top seeded team, the best team in all the land, and a reward for it is the toughest bracket. I think everyone agrees. The East is far and away the toughest bracket. It is the toughest, I would say,

Ensimmäinen tai toinen on 16. Ensimmäinen on no. 8. Se on pelkkää. Se on epäonnistunut. Meillä on no. 5, joka olisi todennäköisesti ollut no. 3. Olen todella rauhoittunut, että komitea on tehty tämän Dukelle, jotta meidät onnistuisi olemaan ensimmäinen no. 1. Se on epäonnistunut. Donald, miksi et menet ensin? Oletko sinä ylpeä, että tämä on pelkkää, että Dukelle on tehty no. 1?

All right, so let me dive into a couple of these teams that I think they screwed up. I'm going to start with Siena. And look, I'm not saying that Duke is in any great danger of losing to Siena, a 1 versus 16. But if you look at where Siena is in Ken Pomeroy in the predictive metrics, because we've heard many times, the committee's own chair said that

They use the performance metrics, things like wins above bubble, strength of record, those kind of things. That's what they use to determine which teams make the field. But when it comes to seeding those teams, they like to use the predictive metrics, Ken Pomeroy being the most respected of those predictive metrics.

Sienna ja Ken Palm ovat kaksi parhaimmista 16-alaisista. Ja haluan mainita, että ei ole neljä 16-alaisista, vaan kuusi 16-alaisista. Miksi voit antaa Dukelle yleensä yksi parhaimmista 16-alaisista? Siinä on 15 alaista.

that are like Furman and Tennessee State, basically the same as Siena. I don't understand why Lehigh and Prairie View, who are far and away, they are an order of magnitude worse than every other team in this field, the two of them are playing each other, and then the winner of that gets Florida, the worst of the number one. Why is Florida rewarded with two teams that are in like the 280s in Ken Palm, while Duke gets a team that's in the 190s?

En sanoisi, että Siena voisi vahvistaa Dukea, mutta Dukea on tullut hankalampi 16-vuotias. Ohio State on 8-vuotias. Ohio State ja Ken Palm ovat 26-vuotias. Toiset 8-vuotias ovat 32-vuotias Georgia, 33-vuotias Villanova ja 36-vuotias Clemson. Olemme tullut hankalampi 8-vuotias muutamilla paikoillaan.

Georgia got upset. Villanova is injured. Clemson's also injured. We just, you know, we showed Clemson what they... It's ridiculous that Ohio State's on the same line with Georgia, Villanova and Clemson. TCU is the worst of the nine. So, you know, do we get a break there? Not really, because I think Ohio State's going to take out TCU. That's nothing. I'm going to get to St. John's for a second.

St. John's on viisikin, se on väärä. Se on väärä, se on raskasta. He just de-pantsed Yukon. I mean, what they did, they beat Yukon by 20 points in the final of the Big East. Sorry, St. John's record over their past 20 games, they're 19-1. 19-1 over their past 20 games. I sorted on Bart Torvik. Torvik is another one of the predictive metrics.

Since, over the past 20 games, since January 5th, St. John's is the number 10 team in the land. 10th best team in the land over the past two and a half months. And you're making them a five seed in our region? This is ridiculous. It's absurd. It is unfair. It is not a reward to Duke. It is a penalty to Duke.

Pomeroyissa St. John's on parempi kuin UConnissa. UConnissa on no. 11 tiimissä. Mielestäni Duke Brackettin toisella puolella,

Like I was looking at it, I'm like, first of all, even though UConn was the second of all the number two seats, I'm like, honestly, I think UConn deserved to be a number three. I don't think that much of this UConn team. They are not the UConn teams we've seen in the past couple of years. The rest of the bottom half of the bracket, Michigan State's good, but I mean, as a three, I'm not like, oh, I'm not like terrified of them. I actually think UCLA and Louisville, who are seven in the six,

Voisin valita yhden niiden joukkueen, joka tulee loppuun. Luulen, että loppujen loppu ei ole se. Duke-loppu on todella vaikea. Loppujen loppu... Jokainen, joka tulee Duke-loppuun, tulee loppuun. Scott, käy.

I'm with you. I think that Duke's hardest game is most likely to be in the Sweet 16 than it is in the Elite Eight. I've watched a lot of UConn basketball living stories. By the way, sorry, really quick. We haven't said it yet, but the four seed is Kansas, who is obviously... Yeah, I mentioned Kansas. Because again, it could be a rematch, but this could be one with Darren Peterson this time. Yeah, exactly. That's the rub. Kansas with or without Darren Peterson. Yeah.

Kyllä, eihän siinä ole mitään ylipäätänsä. Tämä on kuitenkin ylipäätänsä minun yllättäminen, ja minä en oikein tykkää mahdollisista reissuista. Luulen, että Duke on vaikea valmistaa. Luulen myös, että Cameron Boozer on erittäin vaikea valmistaa.

A team like Kansas, a team like Louisville, a team like Michigan State, these clubs that have played Duke already this year, it gives them a little tiny bit of an advantage in terms of, you know, sort of knowing what worked and what didn't work the last time they played, even though a lot of those games are a long, you know, at least a couple months ago. But bottom line, I'm not saying I think that...

Duke's not going to come out of these regions. I'm just a little upset that I feel like the path is tougher than it needed to be. Scott, last word on Duke's region.

Tämä on hyvä asia. Voimmeko saada sinut seurakunnalle? Se olisi todella mukavaa. Oikeastaan on tärkeää huomioida, ettei ACC-opiskelija, AD tai jokainen muu ole ollut seurakunnassa. Bubba. Bubba, kyllä. ACC-opiskelija ei ollut seurakunnassa seurakunnan keskusteluissa, eikä Big 12-opiskelija ole ollut seurakunnan keskusteluissa. Se on todella mielenkiintoista. Oli paljon pienempiä konferensseja, jotka ovat nyt aloittaneet seurakunnan paikoille. En tiedä, onko se erilainen vaihtoehto? En ole varma.