WAY Too Early Bracketology--BYU =12 Seed

[snoscythe]

Joe Lunardi has BYU as a play-in #12 seed (playing co-12 seed ND for the chance to play #5 seeded Ohio St. in Louisville.

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Way too early, yes. But fun to see BYU in the mix already.

[SpiffCoug]

The way I figure, BYU will always be a 12 seed, unless they are having a truly special, Jimmer type of season.

[Gunk]

I will gladly take a 12 seed.

Some other insanely early bracket has us as an 11th.

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[BYUBALLIN]

BYU got some good non conf match that could really pay off come march. Winning the Maui would be nice. Utes at 5 seed seem awfully high, we shall see.

[Cougs_Rule]

I wonder if a lot of Cougar fans are uncertain if not wary of this team. Certainly I don't see any hype notwithstanding one honerabke mention all American and one
PlAyer who may be even more valuable to this team in KC. If fisher is consistent and we don't have to rely on post scoring (isn't that a classic Rose team) it could allow the very active but unrefined Kaufusi to really add to the mix. (I know that was kind of a random stretch point). But if BYn is stuck starting Sharp at the four--BBYU is in trouble. Nixon is an intriguing, and quite frankly surprising early show up. His stretch four and hustle on D, if it translates to better competition, could be a huge pickup given Aytes outs.
At any rate, looks like several prognosticators have more confidence in this team than many of us.

[Schmoe]

I'll be happy this season if we simply make the big dance.

[scott715]

What? We have something to play for.

[BYUBALLIN]

Senior lead team I like are chances...

[Gunk]

I wonder if a lot of Cougar fans are uncertain if not wary of this team. Certainly I don't see any hype notwithstanding one honerabke mention all American and one
PlAyer who may be even more valuable to this team in KC. If fisher is consistent and we don't have to rely on post scoring (isn't that a classic Rose team) it could allow the very active but unrefined Kaufusi to really add to the mix. (I know that was kind of a random stretch point). But if BYn is stuck starting Sharp at the four--BBYU is in trouble. Nixon is an intriguing, and quite frankly surprising early show up. His stretch four and hustle on D, if it translates to better competition, could be a huge pickup given Aytes outs.
At any rate, looks like several prognosticators have more confidence in this team than many of us.

I'm wary of this team.

No PG. No post player. I'm not a fan of stretch 4s. That's basically a big man that doesn't play like a big man; a big man that aspires to be a guard. We have plenty of shooters.

I want to be optimistic. I really do, especially with Haws on the team. But Haws, more than any other player, really benefited from Carlino and a PG that could feed him the ball. We don't have that player. I go back and forth on Haws. Sometimes I think he'll do better this year. Other days I'm sure we'll see a drop in his production.

KC will be limited the first half of the season. KC wasn't nearly as good at getting Haws the ball as Carlino was. Carlino also had the ball handling skills that required defenses attention. We don't have that this year. Teams will be able to play a lot of zone against us. They'll force us to beat them inside and I have doubts about our ability to do that.

The one hope I have is our defense. I liked what I saw from our defense so far this season. If we can pressure, get after it, and push the ball we have a shot of running people out of the gym.

Once again, though, we'll have no half court set. Any team that slows us down to a half court set will wreak havoc on us.

[Wolverine]

I am placing myself in the "I am optimistic about this team and they will be in the Field of 68 come March" camp. I like what I have seen in the two scrimmages thus far. This team will be better defensively and I think the overall chemistry of the team will be better as well. I personally think Mika's absence will be felt greater than Carlino's, and I was a huge fan of Matt. Wish he would have stuck it out, but wish him nothing but the best at Marquette. I like how BYU's major OOC games are all at home aside from the Maui invite and USU. I hope I still find myself as optimistic come mid-January