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Reviewing My NCAA Hoops Predictions


The season is over, so it's time to review just how dumb I was in the fall with my predictions...

Conferences I Don't Care About Winners

America East: Vermont, Actual Champ: MABC
Atlantic Sun: Belmont, Got 'Em
Big Sky: Montana, Actual Champ: Porland St.
Big South: Coastal Carolina, Actual Champ: Winthrop
Big West: Pacific, Actual Champ: CS Fullerton
Colonial:UNC Wilmington, Actual Champ: George Mason
Horizon: Butler, Got 'Em
Ivy League: Penn, Actual Champ: Cornell
Metro Atlantic: Marist, Actual Champ: Siena
Mid-American: Akron, Actual Champ: Kent St.
Mid-Eastern: Coppin St., Got 'Em
Missouri Valley: Southern Illinois, Actual Champ: Drake
Mountain West: UNLV, Actual Champ: Got 'Em
Northeast: CCSU, Actual Champ: Mt. St. Mary's
Ohio Valley: Samford, Actual Champ: Austin Peay
Patriot League: Holy Cross, Actual Champ: American
Southern: Davidson, Got 'Em
Southland: Stephen F. Austin, Actual Champ: Texas Arlington
Southwestern: Southern, Actual Champ: Mississippi Valley St.
Summit: IUPUI, Actual Champ: Oral Roberts
Sun Belt: Louisiana Lafayette, Actual Champ: Western Kentucky
West Coast: Gonzaga, Actual Champ: San Diego
WAC: Utah St., Actual Champ: Boise St.

Overall Mid-Major/Small Conference Predictions: 5-18, Yes Shitty but who cares.

Important Conference Winners

Technically the winner in each of these conferences are their respective tournament victors. However this is meant to be a pick of whom will win the regular season as the Tourny is more of a crapshoot than a full seasons worth of conference games.

ACC Winner: North Carolina, Got 'Em

Atlantic 10 Winner: Xavier, Got 'Em

Big East Winner: Georgetown, Got 'Em

Big 10 Winner: Indiana, Actual Champ: Wisconsin. Getting your coach fired midseason doesn't help much.

Big 12 Winner: Kansas,Got 'Em

Conference USA Winner: Memphis, Got 'Em

Pac 10 Winner: UCLA, Got 'Em

SEC Winner: Arkansas, Actual Champ: Tennessee. Arkansas was atleast close.

Overall Important Conference Predictions: 6-2, I got most of the regular season winners right which in tune were half of the tournament winners as well.

First Team All-America

G Brandon Rush - Actual All American Team: 3rd team
G OJ Mayo - Actual All American Team: Didn't Make One
F Chase Budinger - Actual All American Team: Didn't Make One
F Tyler Hansbrough - Got 'Em
C Roy Hibbert - Actual All American Team: 2nd team

Actual First Team: Luke Harongody, Chris Douglas-Roberts, DJ Augustin, Hansbrough and Michael Beasley.

1 for 5. That's great, ha.

Seasonal Awards

Freshman of the Year: OJ Mayo, Actual Champ: Michael Beasley

Player of the Year: Tyler Hansbrough, Got 'Em

Coach on the Hotseat: Coach K, Actual Champ: A Lot of Fired Coaches

Coach of the Year: John Pelphrey, Actual Champ: Bruce Pearl and his playbook.

Sleeper Squad to Make Tourny: Penn St., They sucked...

Again 1 for. Hansbrough pretty much was my only saving grace here.

Final Four

Kansas - Got'em
Memphis - Got 'Em.
North Carolina - Got 'Em.
Georgetown - Didn't end up picking them opted for Kansas instead.

National Champion: Memphis Tigers

So god damn close.

Overall the top picks were on the money, but the majority of the selections were piss poor at best.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Wasn't Keno Davis from Drake Coach of the Year?

-t

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