Here’s a question for you:\u00a0 How does a conference that is so clearly a one-bid league improve to a league that might get as many as FOUR bids, without playing anyone outside of said league?\u00a0 I can’t stand it.\u00a0 After the non-conference schedule (when the league went 0-458 against Top-50 RPI teams), everyone was in agreement that this league didn’t deserve a single at-large bid.\u00a0 Now, after two months of just playing each other (ya know, just like 20+ other one-bid leagues), they all of a sudden have four potential at-larges?\u00a0 “Washington has to get in – they won the Pac-12.”\u00a0 Well, the Pac-12 SUCKS.\u00a0 Wins over Oregon aren’t that impressive when you look at Oregon’s actual RESULTS.\u00a0 Ugh…<\/p>\n
The Pac-12 CTC is as wide open as I have ever seen a conference.\u00a0 No one team has more than 6 people picking them to win the title, with 5 teams receiving multiple backers.\u00a0 One entry, in particular is hoping for total chaos.\u00a0 J has none of the top 4 seeds in the semifinals.\u00a0 In fact, if he hits his bracket perfectly (which includes UCLA beating Stanford for the title), he will get 635 points.\u00a0 Now, that is…Onions!<\/p>\n
Championship Picks Biggest Upsets Previous CTC Champions #8 Washington St. vs. #9 Oregon St. #5 UCLA vs. #12 USC #7 Stanford vs. #10 Arizona St. #6 Colorado vs. #11 Utah Here’s a question for you:\u00a0 How does a conference that is so clearly a one-bid league improve to a league that might get as many as FOUR bids, without playing anyone outside of said league?\u00a0 I can’t stand it.\u00a0 After … Continue reading
\n<\/em>6 for #1 Washington
\n4 for #2 California (Bry, Dave, Mac, RSmith)
\n5 for #3 Oregon (Lil Lohse, Lohse, Lynch, Teddy, Waters)
\n2 for #4 Arizona (Doogan, Gross)
\n2 for #5 UCLA (J, RDoc)<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>R1 – #12 USC (Dave, Primm)
\nQF – #9 Oregon St. (RDoc)
\nSF – #7 Stanford (J)<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>2011 – Lynch
\n2010 – Stri
\n2009 – Alexi
\n2008 – Doogan<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Both of these teams are boring, middling, irrelevant teams that I don’t want to waste time on.\u00a0 The winner here gets #1 Washington in the quarters.\u00a0 We’re essentially all split on this one, as 9 people have the mild upset of OSU (Bry, Dave, Doogan, Gross, KA, Mac, Rikey, RDoc, Waters).\u00a0\u00a0Someone is going to lose a semifinalist here as, RDoc has OSU beating UW tomorrow, and J has Wazzu doing it.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>It’s almost not fair to count Pac-12 teams as part of the “major conference” contingent, so I might not be able to claim USC as the worst major conference team.\u00a0 So, let’s just say that they are really, really bad.\u00a0 They would have trouble finishing .500 in any more than 6-7 conference in the country.\u00a0 UCLA is a mess, but I would still hire Howland in a heartbeat.\u00a0 The winner of this game gets Arizona tomorrow in the quarters.\u00a0 This game could make some real impact on the CTC, as two people (Dave and Primm) have a huge 80-point upset here, while two other people (J and RDoc) have UCLA winning this entire tournament.\u00a0 A slew of others have the Bruins reaching the semis, while Lohse, Lynch, and Teddy all have them reaching the finals, but losing.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>The fact that ASU finished ahead of two other teams in this conference is probably the most damning evidence of this league’s atrociousness of all.\u00a0 Suprisingly, I don’t mind this Stanford team, so I’ll leave them out of my anti-Pac12 ire.\u00a0 #2 Cal awaits the winner of this game in the quarters.\u00a0 Surprisingly, in such a wide open conference, that no one took a shot at Arizona St. in the upset here.\u00a0 Alexi, J, Lohse, and Lynch, though, have Stanford in the semis.\u00a0 J has them reaching the finals.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>I think Utah would finish in last place in at least a dozen conferences in America, so the fact that they didn’t in a “major” conference is a joke.\u00a0 Colorado – the other new team to the conference – looked pretty good all year…at home.\u00a0 They were terrible out of the altitude.\u00a0 If I hear anything about their “bubble chances,” no matter what happens in this tournament, I might vomit.\u00a0 The winner will face #3 Oregon in the quarters.\u00a0 RSmith is the only one that took Utah here in a nice upset pick.\u00a0 Dave, Gross, J, Mac, and Scoot all have Colorado reaching the semis, though none of them took them to the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"