BACATOLOGY: 3/11 NCAA Tournament Analysis***Rutgers 95% in***
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Now I want Purdue to win the tourney. Makes our win against them even better.
Gotta say that call against Thornton looks ridiculous. He jumped straight up for that pass and Newman went into him.
Not that the game is in doubt here.
Not that the game is in doubt here.
Houston up on Cincy 11-2. Hopefully won’t have to pay attention to that one and can focus on Vandy-A&M. Let’s go Aggies.
From a bid stealers, correct me on what’s left.
UAB - win and in
AAC winner not Hou / Memphis - win and in (two teams alive)
Vandy - could get in with a win today, win tourney and in
VCU - if they lose their title game
Not that I get a vote, but based on this I have to think that barring Vandy winning their tournament- we are “a lock“. I would believe our resume trumps Vandy and VCU. This is based on all the bracket people I’ve been reading and following.
I do think, that any auto bid win above may push us definitely to Dayton.
Caveat is, who knows what the committee is deciding.
If you count 2 wins against OSU, RU was 6-2 against the 4 Semi final teams or 6-3 if you include yesterday’s loss And beat each of them at least once. 5 years ago many thought it would never happen. These guys deserve to play in the dance.
My take as well
Can’t say it enough ..the extra rest we would get by not being in Dayton is potentially huge .
VCU Q1 record: 0-1, lost at Memphis by 15. People looking at them at large likely grasping at straws IMO.
I want to be an 11 seed playing on Friday afternoon. Let me enjoy the first day of the tournament in peace.
Bac, my buddy went to Clemson and is livid about some brackets having NC State over them. He can accept being on the bubble but no way should NC state be in over them. We just compared their schedules. I do t see it either. Big obvious is they played each other 3 times and Clemson beat their ass all three times by a total of 65 points!!!!!! Just using these two, please tell me how YOU also have nc state over them. Based on what?
its tough situation there. Clemson has 2 Q3 losses and 2 Q4. Nc state has no bad losses on a blah resume
I'll copy and paste what I posted earlier in another thread here on geography/dates.
Long story short, if we're an 11 seed I think it's likely (but not definite) that we're in one of Albany, Columbus, or Greensboro... All of which are Friday/Sunday sites. Fingers crossed.
Here's my latest thinking on geography.
Assuming we're an 11 seed (whether in Dayton or not), which appears to be the general consensus today from Lunardi, Wachtel, and others, we'd be in an opening weekend pod with a 6 seed, a 3 seed, and a 14 seed. The geography will be dictated by whoever that 3 seed is. The 8 sites are assigned to the top 16 seeds, preferential treatment given to the higher seeds until each site is 'used' twice.
Reasonably Likely
If something weird happens with bid thieves and we somehow fall to a 12 seed, Orlando and Albany and to a lesser extent Greensboro are likely.
Lastly, not to look too far ahead, but the first weekend sites are NOT linked to specific regions ahead of Selection Sunday. So for example if we end up in Albany it could be in the West Region. Or dream scenario we get Albany and it's in the East Region
Assuming we're an 11 seed (whether in Dayton or not), which appears to be the general consensus today from Lunardi, Wachtel, and others, we'd be in an opening weekend pod with a 6 seed, a 3 seed, and a 14 seed. The geography will be dictated by whoever that 3 seed is. The 8 sites are assigned to the top 16 seeds, preferential treatment given to the higher seeds until each site is 'used' twice.
Reasonably Likely
- Albany (w/ UConn)
- Greensboro (w/ Tennessee or Kansas State)
- Columbus (w/ Marquette or Xavier or Kansas State)
- Orlando (will likely fall to two 4 seeds -- none of the top 16 seeds are geographically near Orlando)
- Sacramento (in theory could happen if Gonzaga is a 3 seed and they give Sacramento to UCLA and Arizona goes to Denver, leaving Sacramento for the Zags)
- Denver (most brackets have two of Arizona/Texas/Baylor going there, all current 2 seeds). But could fall to a 3 seed if they put the Texas schools in Des Moines instead
- Des Moines (possibly with Marquette or even Gonzaga depending on how the final seed list pans out). But Kansas is a lock for Des Moines and likely one of Texas or Baylor.
- Birmingham (1 seeds Houston and Alabama will be there)
If something weird happens with bid thieves and we somehow fall to a 12 seed, Orlando and Albany and to a lesser extent Greensboro are likely.
Lastly, not to look too far ahead, but the first weekend sites are NOT linked to specific regions ahead of Selection Sunday. So for example if we end up in Albany it could be in the West Region. Or dream scenario we get Albany and it's in the East Region
Texas A&M has jumped on Vandy early 16-5
Houston up on Cincy 33-20 nearing halftime
Houston up on Cincy 33-20 nearing halftime
The other thing here is Vanderbilt is getting whooped basically at a home site. If the BIG tourney was held in Newark and we made a run you know every pundit would mention that however.
Yeah but not too worried about Houston's ability to handle Tulane if it comes to that
I am also hoping for a Friday first game, no Dayton, as I will be chaperoning my son's middle school trip to Universal Studios from Thursday to Sunday AM and thus unable to watch games live until Sunday. So please, make it a win Friday and then I can watch Sunday live.
Its likely Vandy fate might have been decided before today...thinking not in
Reading the tea leaves it's almost like the Committee is pencils down on Friday night, unless bid thieves emerge
Crazy year. Hard to see many teams we beat seeded higher than us, with a few breaks we could have been a 6 or better. Let’s get in and make some waves and set a new standard to beat next year.
No a few breaks. A few shots. Not to be a dick, but man if we had just one decent shooter we’d have 22 wins
Cam Spencer shoots 43% from 3 lol how horrible. Yes our offense is bad but let’s maybe try to avoid saying dumb things.
