What's More Likely: A 16 Seed Beating A 1 Seed Or The Lions In The Super Bowl? [Karsch And Anderson POLL]
By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc
There are some things in this world that just may never happen. We may never know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, I'm probably not going to marry Kate Upton, we'll never know whether Batman could beat Superman.
It's also unlikely a 16 seed will beat a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and the Lions will appear in a Super Bowl.
Karsch and Anderson asked the question today on their show.
"People in Detroit say the Lions will never go to a Super Bowl," Karsh said. "People filling out brackets say a 16 will never beat a 1. This morning I was watching some ESPN and there was a stat guru guy from the website fivethirtyeight, Nate Silver. Nate Silver said it's actually a fluke that a 16 has never defeated a one in the NCAA Tournament, since they've had this format it's never happened and there have been something like a 160 matchups between 16s and ones and 16 has never won. Mathematically he put it at a 2 percent chance of this happening, which means one out of 50 games a 16 should beat a one.
"So when you look at it that way, our question is a 16 beating a one, is that more or less likely than the lions getting to the Super Bowl?"
"I do think the 16 seed beating a one seed is more likely," Gator said. "What do I always say is the root of all evil? Bad cheese is the root of all evil. The likelihood of some shenanigans going on behind the scenes, somebody pulling a fast one on someone else and giving some team bad cheese, food poisoning is what I'm talking about Doug. That can happen, and when that happens in the first round of the tournament and you got guys who just can't get out on the court because they are afraid of leaving a mark, if you know what I mean, I think it's possible for that 16 to take down a one."
Karsch thinks the Lions making a Super Bowl is more likely to happen because a 16 seed is at such a disadvantage to a one seed. The Lions are essentially on the same playing field as every other NFL team.
Now it's time for you to decide, what will happen first?
