He was on the floor for one of the greatest college basketball games ever, but no one remembers that. The next, you’re making a call that might end up as a line in your obituary.Ĭlougherty officiated his first NCAA men’s national championship game in 1985. John Clougherty doesn’t speak publicly about 1989 often, mostly because “everybody treads water when they want to talk to me about it.” That’s the thing about making the big call in the big moment: It becomes part of your life. As Goethe said, be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid! You may follow my lead at your discretion. Being wrong is half the fun! So here is the way I filled out my bracket in Studio 43 in New York City on Sunday just before 6 p.m. That way if you’re wrong, you don’t keep paying for it. Since most of you are in pools that reward picking higher seeds to win, the best strategy is to look for highly-seeded teams you don’t think will get past the Sweet 16 - and then you pick those teams to lose in the first two rounds. As you can see, I went aggressive on the early upsets and then got chalky for the Final Four.)įinally, a little bracket strategy. 2, and then a sleeper for your Final Four. 2 seeds have gotten there and 18.2 percent of teams seeded No. 1 seeds have gotten there, 21.6 percent of No. The Final Four breakdown goes like this: 40.5 percent of No. So if you want to pick one of those guys to pull off a stunner, you’ve got math behind you.
15 seeds have won at least a first-round game.
So you’re looking at picking one to two No. 12 seeds won their first games, and 20.9 percent of No. I asked CBS research guru Wayne Fidelman to run some numbers for me from the last 20 years. First, your best chances for significant upsets are in the 12 versus 5 and 13 versus 4 games. Here are a couple of thoughts as you get ready to fill out your bracket(s). (Illustration: John Bradford / The Athletic photos: David Jensen, Lance King, Jonnie Izquierdo / Getty Images) I certainly think that’s a big part of where we are – our whole team appreciates it.” I’m not sure how much everyone really appreciated the opportunity to be at the University of Pittsburgh, being in the ACC, to have a chance to compete at this level. “That’s one of the things that we’ve dealt with because we haven’t won. “The biggest problem that people don’t understand is that when you (rebuild), most of the guys that you’re able to get, they feel like they’re doing you a favor,” Capel says. And it got here without a moment to spare.
The offense is top 30 in adjusted efficiency and the defense has enough connectivity to produce usually adequate results. Pittsburgh resembles what successful modern teams often look like: a bunch of interchangeable, broken-in players who aren’t overly careless with the ball and shoot a high rate of 3s with a good amount of success. While Jeff Capel’s bosses were looking for reasons to continue to employ him, and not the other way around, he knew he had to provide some reasons.Įveryone brought their own version of desperation into the room. The head coach, meanwhile, started his fifth season 18 games under. (Leading scorer Blake Hinson hadn’t played in two years, period.) All but one exhaust their eligibility this spring. None of Pittsburgh’s top five scorers started their college basketball careers at Pittsburgh, and three of them hadn’t played for the Panthers before November.
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