His point is if South Dakota State takes a loss it will be a bad loss and kill their at-large chance. There's no chance the Summit sends two teams. South Dakota State has no wins over tournament teams and a Q4 loss to Idaho. The reason Murray State could've stolen a bid from a tiny conference is because they beat a tournament team (Memphis), have no Q4 losses, and have two fewer losses overall than SDSU.
I take it back, it is updated because it has teams like Northern Kentucky in there. I'm lost too
Lunardi normally updates Monday and Friday. My guess is he's only updating automatic qualifier conference tourney winners each day
That would make sense, but his bracket (if it were updated yesterday) still doesn't match the seed list he put out on Twitter yesterday morning.
I guess the point here is he updated his seeds on Twitter yesterday and had us as an 11.
What’s unique about Wake? Every year there’s a bunch of teams from crap conferences who win a ton of games and beat no one. They’re basically San Francisco
I think it’s unique in that the ACC is so down and the bracketologists don’t know what to do.
I get that point but the committee will look at a 29-5 team that ran through their conference with an 18-0 record and lose to the second place team who has 24 wins in the championship game . Plus they are projected as a 12 seed not a 13-15 seed. Yes , they are not Murray State but they are closer than one would think after reviewing them. I bet they are discussed.
2015 Murray State went 16-0 in the OVC. Their only losses were to Houston (#214), Xavier (#21), Portland (#134), and Valaparaiso (#64). They lost by a point to Belmont in the OVC tournament. They were not even considered for an at-large selection.
Except that Oral Roberts made a run out of the Summit last year and we’re a pretty good team that finished 3rd this year and got beat surprisingly by 20 against North Dakota state. That league’s perception is better than the OVC. You guys are saying zero chance and although I agree it would be highly unlikely , I do believe the committee will discuss South Dakota State if they lose a heartbreaker tonight. Yeah less than 10% chance but doubt it is zero especially since they get votes in the rankings and could be seeded as high as a 12. Murray State was usually a 13,14 or 15. This year Murray state will be a 12 or even higher so there is a mid major person leading the Committee. We can disagree but doubt they will be immediately dismissed.
Last year's tournament is literally meaningless to the committee. And I would argue the OVC's perception is better because they had three top-125 teams (Murray, Belmont, Morehead). The Summit has just the one.
I agree about North Texas but my point is I do not want anyone stealing a bid. So let’s root for South Dakota State and North Texas to win their tourneys and no sleeper out of the Power 6 gets hot and wins 3-4 in a row.
Check out the upward move for SDSU from yesterday. They were 73 before beating the 192 team. I think the would fall considerably with a loss.
Good point but not really concerned. That team will likely be Colorado and thankfully Arizona’s phenomenal and should take care of them after inexplicably losing to them to end the year.
I don’t think 75 specifically matters for Rutgers. I just want it to improve. Listening to that CBS BIG tourney preview podcast definitely made me more nervous. Parrish and Norlander started the podcast by saying we’d get in no matter what and changed their position when they looked at our computer numbers. Said the committee would really struggle with it.
