Official 2010 PLAYOFFS reaction thread

[K-Mack]

Brackets just revealed on ESPNnews. View the 32-team field here.

They skimmed through those more quickly than I've ever seen, so if you need some time to process it, that's what we're here for.

Instant reactions & analysis via the Daily Dose here.

On Twitter, use hashtag #d3fb32 on tweets about the selection process and playoffs. We also have a blog post on the Daily Dose open for comments.

If you prefer to react here on Post Patterns, the floor's yours.

[sflzman]

Howz Whitewater a #2, that's what I'm amazed about! 

[Las Vegas Wildcards]

Brackets just revealed on ESPNnews. View it here.

They skimmed through those more quickly than I've ever seen, so if you need some time to process it, that's what we're here for.

Instant reactions via the Daily Dose here.

On Twitter, use hashtag #d3fb32 on tweets about the selection process and playoffs. We also have a blog post on the Daily Dose open for comments.

If you prefer to react here on Post Patterns, the floor's yours.

Very disappointing presentation by ESPN, only six minutes this year, and lack of variety on the video clips. The director and/or graphics person screwed up the bracket placement, and the anchor didn't seem to care about d3 football. In past years, ESPN made a greater effort, and the presentation was superior.    

[footballdaddy]

I can understand changing the West bracket to avoid a Wartburg-Coe match in the 1st round, but shouldn't Wartburg move up to a #2 and Coe down to #8 instead of the opposite?

[Toby Taff]

Never expected Christopher Newport to be coming to Belton.  Also, it seems odd to me that if UMHB and UWW were to meet in the semi's UWW would come to Belton.

[MasterJedi]

As i've said elsewhere I'd be scared if I was North Central. Getting screwed out of a number one seed is going to light one big fire in the stomachs of UWW. They're going to be heading to NCC looking for blood!

[K-Mack]

Howz Whitewater a #2, that's what I'm amazed about! 

Click the link to the Dose, there's an item, either No. 1 or No. 2 where I explain how that's possible. Also see No. 4, where it deals with SoS.

The takeaway though, is that Whitewater has the exact same look it would have if it switched seeds with North Central. Except I guess a home game in the quarterfinal round.

It plays at home, has to beat Franklin and then either DePauw or Trine, then would have to take a short trip to North Central where all UW-W's fans could make the drive & support them like it's a home game.

And if you want to, you can argue that all this does us tick UW-W off and makes them even more dangerous.

[oldtiger]

ESPN's effort mirrored that of the selection committee.

[retagent]

The anchor mentioned at least twice, that Wesley was the "overall #1 Seed." Is that correct?

[K-Mack]

The anchor mentioned at least twice, that Wesley was the "overall #1 Seed." Is that correct?

Yes, the brackets are seeded: Wesley, St. Thomas, Mount Union, North Central.

SoS figures of the six monster 10-0 teams:
Wesley .608
St. Thomas .548
N. Central. .523
Mount Union .512
UMHB .502
UW-Whitewater .487

There's a correlation. And it works because if UW-W were to play UMHB, as noted above, the seeding of Wesley No. 1 overall means all the seeds in that bracket break all ties with seeds in the North Central bracket. (I think)

[K-Mack]

ESPN's effort mirrored that of the selection committee.

I don't see how.

One did one of its best jobs in years, and the other did one of its worst.

[Gray Fox]

They put the seed numbers on the bracket this year.  I guess they got tired of all the complaints last year.

[RFB]

What a joke! No West Coast bias? Yeah right, SCIAC gets bent over again.

[Mr. Ypsi]

The single most surprising seed to me was DePauw #3 in the NCC bracket, over also 9-1 (but far more impressive) #4 ONU, undefeated #5 Witt (whose point differential against Wabash vis-a-vis DePauw was SIXTY-FOUR points, separated by only ONE week)), and undefeated #6 Trine.

Perhaps the selection committee didn't hear the Monon Bell result?!

[02 Warhawk]

I wanna hear what UWW could of done differently this year to avoid a #2 seed.