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  1. It does not matter how many come out of each conference. Promise. If we wins games and Minnesota wins games, we'll both be in the field. Quite simple.
  2. The guy who does the bracket for USA Today -- Shelby Mast -- is a pretty decent follow on Twitter (@bracketwag). Currently has us as the second team out and Minnesota as the last team in (Oregon in between us). I can live with that personally. I'm not sure if he is updating brackets daily yet, but he says a Xavier loss to St. John's tonight could get the Johnnies past us and in the bracket with XU out and that Minnesota would need a win against Iowa to stay in the bracket.
  3. The good thing about that is there are not a ton of those this year. But, yes, that should scare us as much as other bubble teams.
  4. Tennessee (Nebraska in ()) = Four road/neutral wins (3). Non.-conf. SOS 39 (76). Non-conf. RPI 68 (69). We have clearly performed better in conference play. But, they do have a nice win with Virginia (only top-50 win) and a neutral with Xavier (odd that they played twice, but went to XU and lost, then played them in the Battle for Atlantis, I think.
  5. Well, when half of the RPI is your opponent's winning percentage and The Citadel just won their fifth game of the season, we'll take any little boost we can get.
  6. Going to be a really fun next few weeks. Whether we make it or not. Been a fun ride.
  7. Lundari has us as the seventh team out right now. Just gotta keep winning. Any loss gonna hurt us at this point, I think. But other teams losing sure helps too!
  8. tcp - That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. I certainly hope we can keep this going. So proud of this team that even if they make the NIT it should feel like a win. Really came together and got great coaching.
  9. I would second the Xavier motion. Muskies with slightly better resume than us already and Georgetown is equal to us or worse.
  10. The Ivy gets an auto bid and it is for their regular season champion. What Shuttlesworth and I are trying to point out is that if Harvard does not win the league, they probably won't take a bid, because their profile is not at-large worthy.
  11. Indeed. I'd even go out on a limb and say that the 12 teams that win the most games of those 20, will make the tournament. Shocking, I know. Oh, and someone tell Creighton that we'd be the third best team in their awesome, new "rise and fire" league.
  12. So wouldn't we want Harvard to win the league outright with no conference tourney title game? Say another team does and Harvard steals a bid? What we are trying to say, bball23 is that if Harvard were to somehow lose the Ivy League down the stretch is that they would not make the tournament anyway.
  13. What I think I know: 21 one-bid leagues 11 more conference champions 36 at-large spots Mortal locks American -- Cincinnati, Louisville (2/47) Atlantic 10 -- St.Louis (3/47) ACC -- Syracuse, Duke, Virginia (6/47) Big 12 -- Kansas, Iowa State (8/47) Big East -- Villanova, Creighton (10/47) Big Ten -- Wisconsin, Michigan State, Michigan (13/47) Missouri Valley -- Wichita State (14/47) Mountain West -- San Diego State (15/47) Pac 12 -- Arizona, UCLA (18/47) SEC -- Florida, Kentucky (18/47) So, at this point, we have 39/68 slots locked into the field. The next part is filling out who would take the remaining 29 spaces. Conference USA is a weird deal, for sure. Four teams (Middle Tennessee, UTEP, Southern Miss and La. Tech) all have guady records. However, only Southern Miss, in my opinion has an at-large chance. All the other teams have RPIs in the 80s. We'll assume for this exercise that CUSA is a one bid league. (40/68) Not a lock, but resumes better than Nebraska and most of the bubble American -- UConn, Memphis (42/68) Atlantic 10 -- UMass, VCU (44/68) ACC -- North Carolina, PIttsburgh (46/68) Big 12 -- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas State (49/68) Big Ten -- Ohio State, Iowa (51/68) Mountain West -- New Mexico (52/68) Pac 12 -- Colorado, Arizona State (54/68) West Coast -- Gonzaga, BYU (56/68) In my opinion, this leaves 12 spots you are fighting for with the following teams: SMU, George Washington, Richmond, St. Joseph's, Dayton, Florida State, Baylor, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Xavier, St. Johns, Providence, Georgetown, Minnesota, Oregon, Stanford, California, Missouri, Tennessee. That's 20 teams (if you count us) for 12 spots. I don't think our resume at this point really takes a back seat to any of these teams. But, we have a chance and we must keep winning. This may make the picture a bit more clear.
  14. While under the radar, FGCU and Mercer are battling for the A-Sun title. Would be nice if when the committee was considering us if FGCU was a tournament team. Penn, Harvard is NOT a bubble game in my opinion. I think the Ivy is one bid league. Don't see how the Crimson Pride would be in if they lost the Ivy regular season. Remember, no tournament there.
  15. @RobinWashut: Miles on crowd: “Had they been in Omaha, they probably would’ve been out in the hallway.” (Meaning: drinking beer).
  16. 2007 Iowa was tied for 4th with a 9-7 record. I don't think they made the NIT Wow! Were they just god-awful in the non-conference? 17-14 overall that season. Ohio State 15-1 35-4 Wisconsin 13-3 30-6 Indiana 10-6 21-11 Illinois 9-7 23-12 Purdue 9-7 22-12 Iowa 9-7 17-14 Michigan State 8-8 23-12 Michigan 8-8 22-13 Minnesota 3-13 9-22 Northwestern 2-14 13-18 Penn State 2-14 11-19
  17. I know there is a media thread, but I thought this might warrant it's own discussion. What a great piece on our coach. Does anyone have video of the MSU pre-game speech? http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/02/20/coachs-corner-nebraskas-tim-miles/5642657/
  18. This is interesting. I always thought Joe based his bracket on "season ended today." News to me.
  19. Huskers in a fourth bracket today on the Bracket Matrix
  20. I'd just like to note, I forgot to get a score in against Minnesota and haven't guessed since. So, I'm just going to keep it going.
  21. Shuttlesworth possibly going forward you could just put the games as a reply instead of editing the original post. Maybe that would be easier. Awesome work on this thread!
  22. throwback -- That's a solid breakdown of RPI and you are spot on. One reason the home games are so important is they only count for .6 wins. While a road win is 1.4 and a neutral court is one. Exact opposite for losses. It kills a team to lose at home. So we have 14 wins (11 home, 2 road, 1 neutral) for 10.40 RPI wins and 10 losses (7 road, 2 neutral and 1 home) for 7.60 losses. In theory, its almost exactly the same, but it breaks down that way in the RPI. It's why road wins can really give you a boost.
  23. To get a first round bye we'd have to be the four seed, correct? I don't see how we get that high. We are looking at either the five or the six with Minnesota, no?
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