Utah in tourney?

[Cali Coug]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

Lunardi seems to think so. He must be watching tapes from some other year's Ute team, because this Ute team is going nowhere.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

Lunardi seems to think so. He must be watching tapes from some other year's Ute team, because this Ute team is going nowhere.

Signed, he who guaranteed BYU was BCS bound.

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

Lunardi seems to think so. He must be watching tapes from some other year's Ute team, because this Ute team is going nowhere.

Utah is only in there because of their rpi right now. Lunardi is notorious for coming out way too early with his bracket. It means nothing. His bracket is not supposed to be about watching tapes or predicting how teams will do. It's supposed to be about looking at rpi's, quality wins and the other junk the committee uses to select teams. It's supposed to be about what would happen if the committee had to select today. The problem with Lunardi is that he comes out with his bracket so freaking early that it confuses the fans into thinking he actually knows anything other than number crunching. He's strictly a numbers cruncher and he's not even close to being the best at that. He's just got the biggest pulpit. Jerry Palm of collegerpi.com is way better and more accurate.

He also doesn't throw a fit on TV if the committee doesn't agree with him like Lunardi has been known to do. A few years ago the committee added a home/road adjustment to the way the rpi is calculated and the result for the most part helped non-major (BCS) teams. Certain teams got into the tournament that wouldn't have in previous years because their rpi was better under the new formula. So from Monday to Wednesday there was mass outrage on ESPN that teams like George Mason got in. Lunardi pretty much led the charge. It turned out that George Mason got all the way to the Final Four and most of those "questionable" non-major teams did well, proving the committee right. BCS conference homers like Lunardi were proven wrong.