The ESPN broadcast crew told us early in last night’s Big Monday matchup that bracketology guy Joe Lunardi didn’t think Virginia’s seed line would be impacted win or lose.
The Tuesday morning update from Lunardi, after Virginia’s historically ugly 75-41 loss to a meh Virginia Tech team, has the brackets maestro still seeding the ‘Hoos as a nine.
I’m going to insert a caveat here: the computers seem to agree with the eye test that Virginia failed miserably last night.
| Metric | Previous Rank | Rank Today | Change |
| SOR | 26 | 33 | -7 |
| ELO | 25 | 30 | -5 |
| KPI | 28 | 34 | -6 |
| NET | 40 | 50 | -10 |
| BPI | 38 | 44 | -6 |
| KenPom | 51 | 65 | -14 |
| Average | 34.7 | 41.0 | -6.3 |
An average at 41.0 translates to 10 seed territory, inching down toward the line of Last Four In more than we’d like for a group that was a solid seven a week ago.
Good news is there’s four games to make up ground, starting on Saturday with North Carolina (20-6, 12-3 ACC, avg. computer ranking: 9.5).
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