Why is North Carolina getting so much hate?

[Bevo92]

Glad Texas isn’t getting the hate but seems odd why so much negative hate solely on North Carolina for not deserving NCAA bid when Xavier looks similar as another team that barely snuck in, along with our longhorns. 

Xavier and NC both only won 1 quad 1 game and North Carolina Net ranking is 10 spots higher than Xavier.  Other stats in favor of NC over Xavier.    It does seem like WVI got screwed but you could argue Xavier is less deserving than NC.   What am I missing? 

https://bballnet.com/teams/xavier
https://bballnet.com/teams/north-carolina

Edited yesterday at 03:54 AM by Bevo92

[cdibbs]

North Carolina has only beat 2 teams in the field of 68 with ample opportunity to do so. Their AD was head of the committee. Just a couple more reasons in addition to their 1-12 quad 1 record. 

[GQ03]

Plus I think it's as much about what UNC represents....the big school/blue blood that is "always" given preferential treatment even when they don't deserve it over the smaller schools. Xavier doesn't quite fit that narrative in the way that UNC does.

[Gerry Hamilton]

UNC is not only 1-12 in Quad 1 games ... they are 1-10 against teams in the NCAA Tournament ...literally o-fer vs teams in the NCAA Tournament in ACC play. It's a complete joke they got selected. With that said, now that they are in the tournament, anything can happen in the tournament. But they barely had a pulse this season against Quad 1's or NCAA Tournament teams. 

 

Xavier won games vs. UConn, Creighton and Marquette in conference play. They had more of a pulse. 

[Bevo92]

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

UNC is not only 1-12 in Quad 1 games ... they are 1-10 against teams in the NCAA Tournament ...literally o-fer vs teams in the NCAA Tournament in ACC play. It's a complete joke they got selected. With that said, now that they are in the tournament, anything can happen in the tournament. But they barely had a pulse this season against Quad 1's or NCAA Tournament teams. 

 

Xavier won games vs. UConn, Creighton and Marquette in conference play. They had more of a pulse. 

Makes sense re: NC.  

Even though our horns also barely snuck in, I’m hoping we are energized with full healthy roster and Mark now playing at point.  

[CJ Vogel]

All of this said, North Carolina -4.5 tonight is staring me right in the face lol

[Joe Zura]

11 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

All of this said, North Carolina -4.5 tonight is staring me right in the face lol

Do it CJ 

[Gerry Hamilton]

25 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

All of this said, North Carolina -4.5 tonight is staring me right in the face lol

Haha. San Diego State struggles to score ... perfect team for UNC to beat

[ArizonaLonghorn]

In addition to what's been mentioned I'll add that it looks terrible that the Chairman of the NCAA Selection committee is Bubba Cunningham who just happens to be the Athletic Director at UNC.  In theory he cannot even be in the room when UNC is discussed for an at-large berth but it sure looks suspicious. 

[Tuco Ramirez]

16 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

In addition to what's been mentioned I'll add that it looks terrible that the Chairman of the NCAA Selection committee is Bubba Cunningham who just happens to be the Athletic Director at UNC.  In theory he cannot even be in the room when UNC is discussed for an at-large berth but it sure looks suspicious. 

Yeah, the optics look bad on this even though he allegedly recused himself. I don’t know why ADs are on the selection committee anyway.

[Hashtag]

6 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

UNC is not only 1-12 in Quad 1 games ... they are 1-10 against teams in the NCAA Tournament ...literally o-fer vs teams in the NCAA Tournament in ACC play. It's a complete joke they got selected. With that said, now that they are in the tournament, anything can happen in the tournament. But they barely had a pulse this season against Quad 1's or NCAA Tournament teams. 

 

Xavier won games vs. UConn, Creighton and Marquette in conference play. They had more of a pulse. 

but at least the chairman of the selection committee got a 100k bonus for it!

[BobInHouston]

46 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

In addition to what's been mentioned I'll add that it looks terrible that the Chairman of the NCAA Selection committee is Bubba Cunningham who just happens to be the Athletic Director at UNC.  In theory he cannot even be in the room when UNC is discussed for an at-large berth but it sure looks suspicious. 

I don't think he was, but as I have explained to people for years, the hard thing is not to talk about his team when he is out of the room, but to explain to him when he gets back in the room that his team is OUT and this is WHY it's out.

I am not sure that a team under consideration that has had a rep on the committee has ever been left out. I'm sure it has happened but it is rare.

First thing I thought of when I saw that they were in. And they were the last team in. The vice chair said UNC would have been out if Memphis had lost, but I wonder.

[jkates]

I don't see much UNC "hate" but it's easy to see how others belonged in over them. 

[CJ Vogel]

1 hour ago, Joe Zura said:

Do it CJ 

Bet has been #placed.

[ArizonaLonghorn]

3 hours ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

In addition to what's been mentioned I'll add that it looks terrible that the Chairman of the NCAA Selection committee is Bubba Cunningham who just happens to be the Athletic Director at UNC.  In theory he cannot even be in the room when UNC is discussed for an at-large berth but it sure looks suspicious. 

Just noticed that Bubba gets a $104,000 incentive bonus for UNC making the tournament - nothing to see here folks, move on ...

 

[bierce]

Because the world feared another poorly seeded UNC juggernaut?  87-52 with under 4 left.

Edited 2 hours ago by bierce

[ArizonaLonghorn]

If UNC beats # 6 Ole Miss Thursday a lot of talking media heads are going to go silent.  That was an epic beat down tonight

[ArizonaLonghorn]

35 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

If UNC beats # 6 Ole Miss Thursday FRIDAY a lot of talking media heads are going to go silent.  That was an epic beat down tonight