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Kansas...

Actually, I think we did ok. Marquette took the last three seed, which surprises me a bit, but we avoided UL, IU, Duke, OSU, MSU and Wisky. VCU is a dangerous team, but you can't avoid everyone. I am very happy with our region.

UNC could also potentially give Kansas a run for their money. I'm not too confident against VCU or Kansas/UNC, though. And I know absolutely nothing about SDSU.

That UNC/Kansas matchup could be a good one to watch in the second round.

Bill Self owns Roy Williams.

I'm going with Kansas in this match-up.

But it will be better for Michigan if UNC pulls the upset.

Anyone see Pat Caputo tweeted that Nate Wolters, the PG for South Dakota State, is better than Burke?

He's wrong

Nate Wolters may not be better than Trey Burke but he's close (statistically).

Wolters (senior): 22.8 ppg / 5.6 rpg / 5.8 apg. He shot 49.3% from the field, 39.0% from the arc, and 81.0% from the FT line.
Burke (sophomore): 19.2 ppg, 3.1 rpg / 5.7 apg. He shot 47.9% from the field, 40.1% from the arc, and 7.3% from the FT line.

Wolters has a 124.8 offensive rating with a 30.2 usage percentage. Burke has a 124.4 offensive rating with a 28.9 usage percentage.

Honestly, this bracket isn't looking too good for us. We probably won't "walk" past South Dakota State and if we get by them, there will be some tired legs vs VCU and a loss is not far-fetched at all. And then in the Sweet Sixteen you would probably get Kansas who might be the tip to win the whole thing. Really getting to the 2nd weekend is all I really dare to hope for at this point.

And it's a self-inflicted wound, imagine being a #2 or even #1, which was perfectly doable, and how that would open up things.

It wouldn't shock me if this team lost to SDSU

It also wouldn't shock me if this team went to the final 4

I hate this team sometimes

To be honest, out of the other options at 13, I really didn't mind seeing SDSU pop up on the screen. They are a really small team, probably just as small as Michigan, and equally poor defensively/on the glass. It's going to be a shootout. I think Michigan has too much firepower for them. If they can shut down Wolters, they can run away with this game.

In the second round, it's a crap shoot. VCU is good, but I could also see Akron pulling the upset.

Its not their defense in the low scoring sense, its the get up in your face and disrupt you. Full court press and trap a lot. When you gamble like that, you give up points, the goal is that you cause enough turnovers and transition into even more points than you give up. Shaka Smart is an intense and aggressive coach, his teams play style mimics that. There's definitely reason to be concerned about playing them.