2015 NCAA Basketball champion - Kentucky vs the Field

[© tweed]

at last update Kentucky is going at just about even money to win.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Anyone who takes the field hasn't watched a single college basketball game this season. At least at this point, Kentucky is unstoppable.

[patrick1]

I'd take Kentucky.

[Brewer]

Anyone who takes the field hasn't watched a single college basketball game this season. At least at this point, Kentucky is unstoppable.

This. Notre Dame IMO has the best chance of knocking out Kentucky, but even then my money's on the latter.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Anyone who takes the field hasn't watched a single college basketball game this season. At least at this point, Kentucky is unstoppable.

Hardly.  Virginia has a solid chance to defeat Kentucky, as does Arizona.  I don't think it's likely, but it's certainly possible.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Kentucky.  A Kentucky loss in any round would ignite a massive explosion of hundreds of million brackets.  I think this year's bracket is the easiest in recent memory to predict.  That said, anything can happen, and I could be eating crow, but realistically Kentucky just needs to play Kentucky basketball and they're 40-0 with the trophy.

[King]

Kentucky is the Hillary Clinton of college hoops.

[Хahar 🤔]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Kentucky is the Hillary Clinton of college hoops.

And Hillary Clinton the John Calipari of politics - meaning all her accomplishments will be erased from history by scandal, mwahaha!

[SWE]

Buffalo

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

I actually think Virginia got lucky--Villanova is really it in terms of top tier teams.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

I actually think Virginia got lucky--Villanova is really it in terms of top tier teams.

Agreed, the only argument is that MSU is one of the best 7 seeds I have ever seen, but Oklahoma is a mediocre 3 so that makes up for it. Plus Georgia could easily knock off Sparty with the right effort.

And UVa beat a much better Michigan State team last year with all the motivation in the world as a 4 seed that was arguably the championship favorites. 

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

I actually think Virginia got lucky--Villanova is really it in terms of top tier teams.

Villanova continuously proves to be one of the worst March Madness teams ever though. They choke every single year. If Kentucky wasn't as good as they are this year, Virginia would be the favorite to win the title.

[bedstuy]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

I actually think Virginia got lucky--Villanova is really it in terms of top tier teams.

Villanova continuously proves to be one of the worst March Madness teams ever though. They choke every single year. If Kentucky wasn't as good as they are this year, Virginia would be the favorite to win the title.

What?  Villanova won the national title in 1985 and they've made a Final Four recently.  They're not one of the best college basketball programs, that's their main problem.  Aside from the team with Randy Foye and Kyle Lowry, they've never been extremely talented NBA prospect heavy teams.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Obviously the best thing about this bracket was seeing how badly the committee screwed over Virginia. Unfortunately that meant that Duke got a gift of a region, but I can live with that as long as Virginia loses.

I actually think Virginia got lucky--Villanova is really it in terms of top tier teams.

Villanova continuously proves to be one of the worst March Madness teams ever though. They choke every single year. If Kentucky wasn't as good as they are this year, Virginia would be the favorite to win the title.

What?  Villanova won the national title in 1985 and they've made a Final Four recently.  They're not one of the best college basketball programs, that's their main problem.  Aside from the team with Randy Foye and Kyle Lowry, they've never been extremely talented NBA prospect heavy teams.

I hate people bringing up that due to last year's performance. UCon, was the champion. 5 of the last 10 yrs we were knocked out by the champion. 1 year we missed the tourney and 1 year we had the Fisher/Reynolds fiasco that would never happen to this team. 2013 we were serious underdogs so you couldn't expect anything.

It's not that hard to explain the lack of success (really hard to call a Final Four in 09 and a narrow Elite 8 loss in 06 a lack of success) which I'd more than I can say for someone like Notre Dame (who I also have in my F4 because streaks can be broken especially with player turnover like college).

[Grumpier Than Thou]

If Hampton beats Kentucky, I would literally go there.

But they won't.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

It is possible John Callipari team can be defeated, his UMASS team of 1996 and Memphis 2008 teams were upset. Granted in 2008, they had Derrick Rose, who has been underperforming in NBA, but it is possible Kansas can do it again, too. In one of my brackets, I have that happening.

[bedstuy]

It is possible John Callipari team can be defeated, his UMASS team of 1996 and Memphis 2008 teams were upset. Granted in 2008, they had Derrick Rose, who has been underperforming in NBA, but it is possible Kansas can do it again, too. In one of my brackets, I have that happening.

You're crazy. 

[Grumpier Than Thou]

OC, I reckon you may know as much about basketball as NYE does about baseball. Have either of you considered accepting a Tim McCarver-esque role as a commentator?