Big East folks seem upset. Guess they were ranked the #2 conference behind the Big 12 and all of their bubble teams got snubbed.
While watching conference tournaments, I figured there would be a lot of people winding up upset with how things turned out due to how it seemed there were a TON of teams with 18-21 wins who all had their ups and downs where they all had some merits, but also had red flags. Like, in just the Big 10, you had Northwestern (haven't been the same since Ty Berry got hurt), Wisconsin (good recovery in conference tournament, but had a long "they suck" stretch late in the regular season), Michigan State (played a brutal schedule and lost most of those tough games -- meaning they are totally that team pundits will be all like "It's Izzo, it's March, no one wants to play them" and then they'll lose 78-69 in a game where they were down by 10 for 35 of the 40 minutes), Indiana (somehow won 19 games despite seemingly having no impact on anything that happened in the sport all year), Ohio State (good finish under Diebler, but those last two months of Holtmann were a killer that gave them no margin for error), Iowa (finished with two losses in back-to-back must wins) and Minnesota (surprisingly in some sort of "barely in it" contention until faltering down the stretch) all in this sort of gray area where you knew which of them were likely in and which ones needed some/lots of help, but none of them felt overly inspiring.
And with there being a lot of teams like that in most conferences, I'm totally looking forward to seeing just how quickly my bracket gets busted to hell! At least let me have fun with it for Thursday, guys! I'll even take a year like one of my friends had a decade or so ago where he was 16-of-16 the first day and then lost his champion in the noon game on Friday because he at least had one awesome day before it all went to shit.