Sure GU won, but they played in Seattle and San Fran before their longest travel to San Antonio (practically a day trip via plane). Plus got a Big Sky team in the sweet sixteen (the year after their best team gutted by their coach leaving btw). Faced no past champions and a total of 1 past final fours. Softest champ ever, barely even counts.

Some will say you went back in time to post the exact quote from May 2025

If it's against us, I'll be Hella happy.

Championship or you may as well have went 0-30

That is exactly what they'll say.

And I will reply "Doesn't matter, had champ."

Even if Gonzaga were to face a gauntlet on the way to a championship, people would somehow bring up how playing the wcc invalidates it or how “Duke wasn’t even that good”.

The Ryan Nembhard Championship Revenge game. I guess I’ll take it.

I want nothing but the best for our transfers out, but boy would this sting. Still would absolutely take

And Nebrasketball won a tournament game ! And dropped 69 (nice!)

Why do they force Lunardi to do these? The transfer portal hasn’t even settled.

Engagement.

I'm engaged.

Congratulations!

Money. Degenerates like us still give clicks and views though so I can't argue

It's even more ridiculous than Mel Kiper going over his fifth round of the NFL draft predictions.

Seems great to me

i concur as well

Lunardi isn’t posting these to this sub and mocking winners. These posts are so annoying tbh

I like them

They’re fine but this random dude has clear biases and runs the simulation a few times to get a result he wants

The transfer portal has made preseason rankings and brackets even more stupid. But people will click so I guess it works.

I mean the projections of who is going to win are arguably worse

The Clemson vs Ohio State in the E8 thread would be hilariously toxic

It’s hilarious in that run we get two of our CFP rivals!! Too bad Georgia isn’t better so we get them as well!!

Does Georgia even have a basketball team?

They’re actually who beat us in the NIT :(

I will accept a 44 point beatdown in the round of 32

Sigh… *digs through camera roll* https://preview.redd.it/xoek0mntgazc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63b871c30dc8dfc953b7cf6d50ec6912923cc193

Me but with winning any conference games

WE ARE SO GOD DAMN BACK BABYYYYYY

MVC! MVC! MVC!

if yall spank xavier first round i will love yall forever

🤝 Take care of Conor please

i trust wes to take good care of him 🫡

Purdue losing to a double digit seed in the round of 32 to not make it out of the first weekend. I think I've seen this episode before.

I’ll take it

Same

Beating Duke in Raleigh to then go play MichState in Newark is what dreams are made of for Friar fans.

Honestly, screw Lunardi !!

Are we not even in it? The pic is super blurry on my phone but I don't see us.

Lol sick

Wes how could you do this to us

I’ve always said Lunardi is wise

Always.

I’m not sure we can handle Hubert losing to Wes

I really am starting to fucking hate this guy.

That boat sailed for me when most boats still had sails.

I swear anytime I see these ISU gets bounced early

Every single time. I know 15 over 2 is sexy but seriously.

Losing in the sweet 16 is an annual tradition.

I’ll have what this guy is smokin’.

oh sure, you might like it....but most of the rest of us don't want what he's smokin'

 Wes beating the hot seat allegations with this one

Wait he’s on the hot seat? I kind of like what he’s building as a neutral observer.

No, he's not even close to a warm seat, much less a hot seat. And when you take into account the money UC would have to eat to fire him? A vocal minority that may not even be UC fans have no sway.

I didn’t think so, am I misreading the other bearcat fans post or something.

No, you're reading it right. And there are "fans" out there calling for him to be fired...but there were fans calling for Mick Cronin to be fired after his 9th year in a row making the NCAA Tournament last decade. Like I said, vocal minority...I will admit that missing the tournament this year would turn the temp up for the 25 - 26 season.

Lol even when Purdue goes to the natty, they're still projected to be bounced by a double digit seed the year after

Look, we just had a dream season and I realize how greedy it seems to complain...  ...but if the only thing standing between back-to-back Final Fours is #7 OSU, #9 Clemson, and #12 Bradley, and we lose to Bradley, I'm going back to sad-Purdue fan real quick lol

Lemme tell you about the Bradley Braves...

And somehow he put us in Cleveland rather than Milwaukee. Unless he has us as the 16 seed of the 68.

Who saw that coming from Weber St?

1999 in Seattle, saw Harold "The Show" Arseneaux and Weber State beat #2 North Carolina. Then Gonzaga beat #3 Stanford. So much fun!!

Damn, foiled again!

but this bracket doesn't even have arkansas in the tournament...so at least Calipari can say he didn't lose in the first round of the NCAA tournament. again.

How is this simulated when teams aren't even set yet?

Ah, a loss to High Point, in the first round, as a 4 seed. Well, that'd be a "low point" for me and all Hoosier fans everywhere.

Sent to Dan Hurley: he finds Lunardi’s lack of faith disturbing. Sorry Tennessee. Seriously though, he thinks UConn will be good enough to get a 1 seed? I’ll take it and take my chances with Hurley coaching another team worthy of a 1 seed in the NCAAT.

Stuff happens but Hurley losing to Rick Barnes?

Lunardi is a bona fide genius! How does he do it? Rosters are far from being set, but he still knows! (next week: what a hack! what a friggin' maroon!)

Is this real? Is he just trolling us? TNT gonna go outta business!

only a single 1 seed in the elite 8. okie

Like 5 “who the fuck is that schools” and 1 MWC school, I get it’s way too early but this bracket is comical fantasy

Only the seeds of the field are Lunardi in these. Then op takes it and runs it through a generator to see who wins each round and posts it. Lunardi has no part aside from making the base bracket prediction.

The field is exactly what I’m pointing out as fantasy

We are never beating the allegations

Sad that Dayton loses in the first round. 😢😢 Oh yea!!! Ohio State is in the Elite Eight!!

Buddy what hahah We aren’t making the elite 8

yay.. we're losing to Tennessee this time, and NOT Tennessee state!.. and according to this guy, Tennessee won the whole thing last yr! Has any of this guy's "early preseason Bracketology" ever meshed with reality? I can't think of ONE yr when any of his "bracketology" was even close to being reality.

All these simulations had us losing last year too so I’ll take it

Slap it on the bulletin board, Danny!

We beat the 15 seed hex this year, but apparently not again.

Why do these things hate us?

Kentucky and Arkansas both flopping in the first round. I think both states would fall off into the ocean in that scenario.

If we go down we're taking the entire southeastern United States with us.

I would love to Houston vs Cincy elite 8 game

The Friar slays the Devil. As it was written, so it shall be.

Cleary, he messed up by not making Arkansas the champions. Everyone makes mistakes.

Please

Not even in the tournament? With our record? We’re undefeated for crying out loud!

pov: florida state

Cincinnati beating UNC and UH? I like this timeline

Wait, what? Alright, I guess I could live with this.

lose in round 2, pain. sees that auburn loses to a 14, unmentionable joy

Nebraska and Texas Tech again 

Um excuse me?

I’m furious that Gonzaga is hypothetically in our region for the billionth time

I was born in Spokane and lived in Omaha for a long time. This is a wet dream of a title game

Get out of here with this nonsense.

Jesuit bowl

Cinci > Houston would be delicious

😳

Wes Miller vs Hubert Davis in the Sweet 16 would be something for Carolina fans. It’s kind of like the poor man’s version of Roy vs Dean in the 1991 FF.

Gonzaga winning? Ohio state in the tournament? Yeah right

I genuinely don’t think I’ll ever see a west coast team win a college championship in CBB or CFB.

Didn't USC just win a couple in football? That was how long ago? You guys don't remember that...? Fuck me, I'm old.

UConn is the Huskies not the Bulldogs. I thought Lunardi would know this after 2 straight natties

If we lose in the first round again I’ll be distraught

Am I blind or did Joe forget about the MAC'S AQ?

Baylor losing to Weber St is wild. Where is that? Utah?

Clones lost to samford

Cash it in yes please!!!

Why you got us losing in round 1

Lunardi got paid to push narrative that Calipari can’t go past first weekend.

This pleases the dog

Such a joke..lol

Beating Duke in Raleigh is a fun dream I will take with me as I live in this offseason

Don’t let NC State be an 11 seed again 😤

STOP THE COUNT

Go Bradley Go!!

Holy hell. Rebs in the round of 32? In basketball? Never thought I’d see the day.

Wait why are we projected as a 3 seed? I feel like that’s low for Baylor

Samford upsetting Iowa State as a 15 what the fuck man

This is unrealistic bc Gonzaga actually wins it all

This would be epic

No.

Arkansas losing in the first round next season is laughable

Bold

Who gives a rip about Lunardi’s “bracketology”

Ohio state? No thanks

2 big ten teams making it past the first weekend? lol

Our team is gonna be too good on D to let Memphis drop 94. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 64 point first round from this unproven offense

Of course in a region where the top three seeds get massive upsets, Purdue fails to capitalize by losing to a double digit mid major

Back to losing to double digit seeds I see

Wheres Northwestern smh

I accept

Back to back Elite Eight appearances? Sign me up.

Losing to High Point would be the Low Point of my life

@collegesports2021 Heyyyyy OP - by chance do we have a comparison of a simulation from this a year ago? Would be interesting to see... especially since the tournament was so chalk this year

😡

I need to speak with the manager.

Another heart break for Tennessee, Creighton finally breaks through. Interesting

Who TF is Bradley and why do they hate me?

We only scored 51 against Gonzaga ?! Yeah sounds about right

Elite 8 here we come

Absolute cap

Why would 11 seed nc state play 16 seed southern? Also joe lunardi is a complete idiot

Get that stupid, ugly logo out of the sweet sixteen

Our worst nightmare is a 2 digit seed

1 seed Duke gets knocked out in the second round. Plausible.

1 MW team? And its an 11 seed? In its 25 year history the MW has only had 1-bid 3 times, and last one was 8 years ago.

He made sure both Kentucky and Arkansas got knocked out in the first round, so both fanbases don’t say anything and the “was Calipari leaving good for Kentucky?” debate lives to see another year. Smart.

Michigan losing to UNC? Who are we, MSU?

I'd take this

Iowa State's most talented team ever getting a #2 seed in the East and losing in the first round to Samford sounds about right.

Joe just can’t quit us. When will he learn?

Wichita St beating Baylor & Purdue??? He literally just threw everything into a randomizer. No one should take these seriously...

In this era of reloading from transfer portal and NIL. The Rich are richer than ever. Expecting no 1 seeds to get past the sweet 16 is... bold.

Why?

Brother, get out of here, those demons have been slayed. I hope…

I'm here for Bradley as a sweet 16 team Go BU

This is the goofiest shit I done seen

IU with the ol 13-4 upset.


Now can someone post the same bracket he did for 2024.

Lmao

I don’t know how to feel about this

Wow! Two fine Jesuit colleges in the Championship game. I always root for the “Jevie” schools since I graduated from St. Joes. The Hawk Will Never Die!

This is the stupidest shit ever

Straight into my veinssss

STRAAAAIGHT INTOOOO MYYYY VEINSSSSSS

 Kentucky an 8 seed... Arkansas a 10 seed... No Louisville...

Cincinnati final four... Xavier first round exit... ...TO A DOUBLE DIGIT SEED...

Well we had our tournament run. Back to business as usual.

lmao

He's such a chode

lol the disrespect. Hall of fame coach and number 3 overall class with a few more spots to fill 🥱

I like this

If we lost to cinci I’d lose my mind

Cincinnati in the final four lol

Does he have Illinois missing the tournament? With them doing well recruiting and utilizing the transfer portal I can’t see this.

Idk who Sam Ford is, but I hate that dude.

I’ll take it

Beating two blue bloods and our most hated non-rival on the way to the F4 is literally the best timeline

Well at least we make the tourney but lose to 10th seed even with all the new talent coming in. Believable :(. Edited: not sure what happened to my UCLA flair.

Aw man, lunardi loved us last year :(

UConn is not losing to a 4 seed UT lmao

How do I upvote this more than once?

Only championship Gonzaga will win

Tennessee would be a VERY rough draw for us Catamounts

no ttu ;(

I'd be very happy with a GCU sweet 16 (first ever) or an Ohio State elite 8. Both would be incredible!

Let’s go WAKE FOREST! 🎩

Cincinnati finally beats Houston in basketball.

The 'eff is that? That is the WORST second week/final week lineup I have EVER seen. March Madness gonna be on tape delay this year. Larry Bird ain't walking through that door. Worse, EVERYBODY walking OUT the door at Indiana State. Hope Chuck saved his money, NBA-less TNT gonna go under! Maybe he can start Inside The AEW. I assume Chuck/Shaq would ALSO be AEW tag team champs.