Joe Lunardi predicts Kansas will be the first team to earn 2 bids to the NCAA tournament

[u/finemenot_hereiam]

[u/Koppenberg]

Tired: "experts" phoning in their brackets.

Wired: "experts" having LLMs generate brackets for them.

[u/footdragon → u/Koppenberg]

Lunardi sucks...and there will be apologists who say "lunardi doesn't create these brackets, they're computer generated"

then don't put his fucking name on these brackets.

[u/MrAtlantic → u/footdragon]

then don't put his fucking name on these brackets.

It may be at this point more akin to "Dick Clark's rockin' new years eve with Ryan Seacrest" where his name is more of a brand than literally his personal work.

[u/Koppenberg → u/MrAtlantic]

I think it's also more of a case that the demaind for actual analysis or writing on College Basketball was shrinking and lots of talented writers were losing work, but running the Bracketology grift 12 months out of the year still payed. Lunardi had a choice between not working or putting his name on this garbage. He made the choice almost all of us would make. The work is definitely garbage, but <shrug>.

[u/Koppenberg → u/footdragon]

<shrug> you can't blame Lunardi when people demand what he's giving them. It's dumb and meaningless and it undervalues the games being played but people insist.

Anyway, the problem is not that Lunardi is generating garbage predictions, the problem is that the whole idea of predictions is garbage in the first place.

[u/INtoCT2015 → u/Koppenberg]

Bingo. I can’t count how many times I roll my eyes when I see “Lunardi Bracketology: Week __” posted to this sub, and then the comment section full of flairs of whoever’s in the final saying “this pleases me”.

Our own sub loves this crap. They gobble it up. Especially whoever’s team happens to be hot right now

[u/Defiant_Drink8469 → u/INtoCT2015]

My favorite part about those sims is not who wins but what major upsets happen. I remember one of the sims had two 16 seeds winning the first game

[u/No-Independent3984 → u/INtoCT2015]

I check it from time to time when I'm bored, but putting any stock in it is a mistake

[u/randomfella69420 → u/Koppenberg]

I mean, he used to really put the work into it. I remember reading the old “Nitty Gritty Report” where he would go into the details of how he calculated where each team would be. It was really cool.

And I don’t blame him for not doing it, I’m sure ESPN ran the numbers and said “hey don’t bother, just slap your name on something to bring in the clicks”, but it’s a shame. A larger indicator of how all media has gone, but a shame nonetheless.

[u/ukeBasketball → u/footdragon]

Then maybe you need some sort of line in your program like if(count(team)>1) then publish_bracket := false

[u/Coldcheeze]

I want a 136 team double-elimination bracket. Instead of having a loser’s bracket, each team would have two different paths to the championship.

[u/BramptonBatallion → u/Coldcheeze]

Last year UConn would play themselves in the Final

[u/Coldcheeze → u/BramptonBatallion]

Could you imagine a 2 seed losing to two different 15 seeds in the same tourney?

[u/dawidowmaka → u/Coldcheeze]

No because Calipari left Kentucky

[u/One_Storm5093 → u/dawidowmaka]

This is the correct answer

[u/Latvia → u/dawidowmaka]

He doesn’t need Kentucky to pull it off, it was inside him the whole time ❤️

[u/Briggity_Brak → u/Latvia]

He needs Kentucky to get the 2 seed

[u/Gamecat235 → u/Coldcheeze]

Listen here… I don’t want to imagine, but if it was going to happen? We are a top candidate (maybe not this year, but…)

[u/finemenot_hereiam → u/BramptonBatallion]

I don’t think I could have emotionally handled watching us play UConn twice

[u/StrykerNightowl → u/finemenot_hereiam]

Does that mean we have 2 different versions of a 30-0 run?

[u/InitiativeSavings797 → u/StrykerNightowl]

If he scores 100, he scores 100. We are gonna keep going at him

[u/Briggity_Brak → u/Coldcheeze]

What i want is the NIT and NCAA Tourney to swap and converge.

NCAA Tournament is 32 Conference Champions.

NIT Tournament is 64 At-large bids (maybe keep the Regular Season champ auto-bids?)

Winners of both meet for the National Championship.

[u/fancycheesus → u/Coldcheeze]

do a completely open, national tournament. Each round will be double elimination (2 out of 3). The quarter finals and beyond will be best out of five.

It will take 4 months to complete.

[u/DanTilkin → u/fancycheesus]

All 2000+ teams? Since it's more than 2048 teams, you'd need 12 rounds. At 1 round per week, that would be 3 months.

[u/CountBleckwantedlove → u/Coldcheeze]

Double elimination would be amazing. Not series, though. Series are boring. Oh, you play the same team 3-5 games in a row (how exciting! /s).

But double elimination would see a lot of variety of teams playing and it would be fun.

[u/Peytonhawk]

You’re just jealous that we are making history smh

[u/redcobra80 → u/Peytonhawk]

Idk if I have it in me to watch us get bounced early twice

[u/LouBerryManCakes → u/redcobra80]

Bradley in the West, Bucknell in the East.

[u/ClaudeLemieux]

He makes basic errors on nearly every bracket he makes. We really need to stop giving him the time of day on this sub. if you desperately want Lunardi, you know where to find him by now.

[u/Gophurkey → u/ClaudeLemieux]

Let's make Lunardi a new term to describe any sports commentary or report with obvious mistakes. 'Gosh, this bracket has two conference teams playing in the round of 64, what a Lunardi!' 'Wow, this Lunardi of an article called Michigan "the Spartans," how can they mess that up?'

[u/Zorak9379 → u/Gophurkey]

He Britta'd it

[u/Gophurkey → u/Zorak9379]

But Britta is the heart and soul of Greendale! I refuse to use her name to mean 'make a small mistake!'

[u/H0b5t3r → u/Gophurkey]

Baseball reporter Bob Nightengale is notorious for that kind of stuff, the news he "breaks" seems to be the opposite of reality as often as it is accurate.

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

I am the second Kansas. Ask me anything

[u/Latvia → u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

I thought we were the other Kansas

[u/StrykerNightowl → u/Latvia]

No you’re the pirate Kansas.

[u/Latvia → u/StrykerNightowl]

I like that

[u/tripsd → u/Latvia]

no youre our Kansas

[u/RepealMCAandDTA → u/tripsd]

I also choose this guy's Kansas

[u/Latvia → u/tripsd]

Probably going to be, unfortunately

[u/BLSmith04]

So that’s why he had #10 ranked Texas A&M just completely missing the tournament

[u/FinsFan93]

Why do we give this clown a platform? Ignore him.

[u/TICKLE_PANTS]

Well, there are two Kansas's. The one that Just wrecked UCF and beat Duke and Michigan state. Then there's the one that shouldn't even be D1, who got destroyed by Creighton Mizzou and WVU. Not sure how that one got a three seed. Probably the name on the jersey.

[u/Particular-Nature400 → u/TICKLE_PANTS]

the WVU one was at Kansas btw

[u/boboguitar]

He left Texas A&M completely out

[u/peterpeterllini]

My worst nightmare!

[u/GoLionsJD107]

Nice to see the second Kansas has improved. The first Kansas is staying stable on the 3 line

[u/collegesports2021]

supposed to be Texas A&M

[u/natestate]

Maybe he meant Kansas State

^{cries in CBI}

[u/weealex]

Ya know, i don't think this Kansas team is particularly good, but if the can earn two seeds maybe they have a chance?

[u/OllieQueen17]

I don't understand how he makes an error like this on nearly every bracket and they still haven't assigned an intern to proof read these.

[u/Podoboo322]

I mean I understand making mistakes but this if you're supposedly the tournament guy then the least you can do is check for basic fuck ups

[u/Sufficient_Two7499]

Where dafuq is Texas a&m? He has 13 bids from the SEC and only names 12. How do you leave a current top 10 off your bracket that updated weekly?

[u/flynnhicks03]

That's what we love about him: his attention to detail...

[u/jayhawk03]

Hey at least we play in Wichita for both.

[u/CRoseCrizzle]

They'll get upset by both 14 seeds.

[u/Sir_Brodie]

Good Jayhawks under-seeded, Bad Jayhawks would be lucky to be seeded at all.

[u/AngryQuadricorn]

Varsity and JV. What you don’t realize is their JV team is Kansas State.

[u/I_Hate_Humidity]

Better have a deep bench if you're going to be playing back-to-back games.

[u/idoma21]

This is only fair since everyone can pay players now.

[u/C_Beeftank]

Big 12 must be having an amazing year that kansas qualified twice without winning the conference

[u/skesisfunk]

Nice. This way we can lose in the round of 32 twice!

[u/kellyraycampbell]

He’s always been a clown

[u/Particular-Nature400]

Next: Charlie Creme predicts UConn will be the first team to earn 3 bids to the women's NCAA tournament

[u/Herbdontana]

As long as the Bonnies are in, I can live with it

[u/ConsiderationOld9897]

Just have Mizzu play both of them.

[u/cheneyeagle]

Well if you've watched kansas they basically are 2 different teams this season.

One is the overall #1 seed and one is an 11 seed

One wins a road conference game by 51 and one loses at home

Definitely doing some jekyll and Hyde type stuff

[u/Shadowcaster_Spark]

University of Southeast Kansas might be one them. Got shortened back years ago to Ar-Kansas.

[u/dirtywater29]

Straight up TRASH

[u/HoosierCheesehead]

There are lots of split squad games in March. /s

[u/YupThatsMeBuddy]

That will be huge if that happens.

[u/Ancient-Village6479]

He randomly fell in love with us after the loss WV it’s weird. I thought it was odd but maybe he’s right and every game from now on will be like UCF was lol.

[u/finditplz1]

Sounds good.

[u/sean-thebean]

Unbelievable that I have to see Lunardi’s bracketology on this subreddit every day

He’s terrible at it but it has pretty logos so everyone knee jerk upvotes it

[u/rounder55]

Wonder how the Jayhawks will go about this. Do you split your team up based on the opponents weaknesses? Do you split your better players up and risk losing a sense of on court chemistry? Do you have 13th year senior Dickenson on a lone wolf mission take on Yale and get the 411 on ex Yale player Daniel Wolf prior to a game against Michigan and Daniel Wolf? 

[u/CountBleckwantedlove]

I'm really hoping both of those games are the same time slot. Please let it happen!

[u/JustforthelastGOT]

Ctrl + F “Kansas”

[u/swirleyhurleyhusky]

And still won’t win a natty