Interesting riddle having to do with the NCAA tournament

[chuckywang]

Let's take two teams X and Y in the tournament

Team X is better than team Y if X make it to a later round than Y. If they lost in the same round, X is better than Y if X lost to a better team than the team Y lost to.

Who is the worst team in the tournament this year (not counting the play-in game)?

 

[Jack Ryan]

Duke

 

[Lorax]

probably a big 10 team. MSU?

 

[Brackis]

Iowa

edit: It's quite simple, which team lost to the lowest seed in the first round. I didn't even have to look at the bracket to know that losing to a 14 seed NW State qualified them for this.

 

[msparish]

Just looked at a bracket very quickly, and I think under your criteria it is Iowa.

 

[TheChort]

im a little confused by your english

scratch that,
Im really confused

edit: nvm, i thought it was an actual riddle. I dont have enough knowledge of who won and lost to answer this one

 

[Furyline]

Iowa? just by following the losers backwards (UCLA, LSU, Texas, WVU, Nwestern State, Iowa), not sure if it's right.

 

[JDrake]

Penn

 

[Kev]

Change "Interesting riddle" to "annoying logic tree" in your title.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Syracuse?

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Furyline
Iowa? just by following the losers backwards (UCLA, LSU, Texas, WVU, Nwestern State, Iowa), not sure if it's right.

You just look at the first round losers, and choose the biggest upset. Woopdeefreakingdoo.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: KMDupont64
Duke

:laugh:

 

[ElFenix]

iowa, they lost in the first round to a team that lost in the 2nd round (northwestern state), the 2nd round team lost in the 3rd round (west virginia), the 3rd round team lost in the 4th round (texas), the 4th round team lost in the 5th round (lsu), and the 5th round team lost in the final game (ucla).

it's not MSU because they lost to a final four team.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: Furyline
Iowa? just by following the losers backwards (UCLA, LSU, Texas, WVU, Nwestern State, Iowa), not sure if it's right.

You just look at the first round losers, and choose the biggest upset. Woopdeefreakingdoo.

That's not how it works.