Pre Bracket: How far do they get?

[silverbullet97]

I want to see how people feel before the brackets are created and then run another poll once we see our match ups.

Admin note: I consider the games in Dayton to be "Play-in" games and the round of 64 the 1st round.

Personally, I think we lose in either the second round or the sweet sixteen. My vote is sweet sixteen just because.

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ALL THE WAY!!! Projected last overall 2 seed, that would put us in Gonzaga's Bracket!!!!
P.S. I don't ACTUALLY think we'll make it that far, but we may come closer than you think.

[victor2111]

I'll go with loss in E8 right now.

This team is so unpredictable though. Could be a first round loss, could make a deep run. Gonna be fun to watch which one shows up!

[victor2111]

10 to everyone that prediction is right.

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Way too crazy of a year to tell. There really is not a great team out there, so it will all come down to match ups. One thing hurting OSU is their inefficiency against top 25 teams, but in a softer bracket, I could see them making a run, especially if Thomas gets hot.

[angrybaldman]

Elite 8

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I'm thinking Sweet 16 but hopefully further.

[Deleted]

FF

[Deleted]

My gut says Sweet 16, but I'm gonna vote Elite 8.

[mauricxe]

E8

but my bracket will have them winning it all

[buckeyebikerbabe]

Final Four. They seem to be getting their act together at the right time.

[WANG]

So hard to figure this one out.

With no "dominant" team, and OSU running hot right now, I'd like to pick them for an EE or FF easy.

That being said, if they regress at all, it could be a quick out....

F*CK IT, I PICK FF!

[ohstatefan]

I went with Elite Eight. The homer in me wants them to go much farther, but I don't think we have enough scoring threats or inside presence.

We seemed to not have any trouble with the teams we were supposed to beat, so it's hard to imagine them not making the S16, which would have been my pick a few weeks ago.

Now it seems we have the right guys stepping up and we're peaking at the right time. Even though the last two wins were really impressive, I'm trying not to overemphasize them. In both cases the opposing team's bigs got in foul trouble early, and it didn't seem like we caused that to happen (just kind of got lucky).

I was extremely close to picking Final Four, though.

Probably the most disappointing part of the Illinois game yesterday were the two stupid technicals. We can't keep doing that.

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Mar 11, 2013 10:02:30 GMT -5 ohstatefan said:

I went with Elite Eight. The homer in me wants them to go much farther, but I don't think we have enough scoring threats or inside presence.

We seemed to not have any trouble with the teams we were supposed to beat, so it's hard to imagine them not making the S16, which would have been my pick a few weeks ago.

Now it seems we have the right guys stepping up and we're peaking at the right time. Even though the last two wins were really impressive, I'm trying not to overemphasize them. In both cases the opposing team's bigs got in foul trouble early, and it didn't seem like we caused that to happen (just kind of got lucky).

I was extremely close to picking Final Four, though.

Probably the most disappointing part of the Illinois game yesterday were the two stupid technicals. We can't keep doing that.

In all fairness, one of the technicals was complete crap. The one for mouthing off was deserved. No excuse for that. The one on Ravioli was bogus. While it might not have looked pretty, he was going for the ball.

[ohstatefan]

Mar 11, 2013 10:05:55 GMT -5 @jtrbucks said:

Mar 11, 2013 10:02:30 GMT -5 ohstatefan said:

I went with Elite Eight. The homer in me wants them to go much farther, but I don't think we have enough scoring threats or inside presence.

We seemed to not have any trouble with the teams we were supposed to beat, so it's hard to imagine them not making the S16, which would have been my pick a few weeks ago.

Now it seems we have the right guys stepping up and we're peaking at the right time. Even though the last two wins were really impressive, I'm trying not to overemphasize them. In both cases the opposing team's bigs got in foul trouble early, and it didn't seem like we caused that to happen (just kind of got lucky).

I was extremely close to picking Final Four, though.

Probably the most disappointing part of the Illinois game yesterday were the two stupid technicals. We can't keep doing that.

In all fairness, one of the technicals was complete crap. The one for mouthing off was deserved. No excuse for that. The one on Ravioli was bogus. While it might not have looked pretty, he was going for the ball.

I imagine he was. But Ravenel needs to realize that if going for the ball means he has to reach around in front of someone running away, it's almost impossible to not hook him and do something that looks like he was trying to pull the player down.