Selection Committee Games of Interest

[throwback]

36 minutes ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

 

Well, if you ignore the fact that the top two teams in that league just aren't all that good, and the two teams on the bottom absolutely stink, and the three teams above the bottom are pretty crappy, and the remaining seven teams are absolutely mediocre, he may be right.  Or maybe he's a 78 year old bullsh*t artist.

I'll give Tennessee credit - they looked like an easy Sweet 16 team today. The rest of them during this week, not so much.

[OmahaHusker]

I can't believe Providence was on the bubble just 4 days ago they look really good.

[royalfan]

Good day so far folks.  Lets have Arizona boatrace USC to cap it off in case Palm happens to be correct about something(not likely).

[HuskerFever]

12 minutes ago, royalfan said:

Good day so far folks.  Lets have Arizona boatrace USC to cap it off in case Palm happens to be correct about something(not likely).

 

We've hit them all except for Vermont and Louisiana. Which at the end of the day may not even tough at-large status. Those were "just in case" scenarios.

 

So do we need WKU to win, or it that likely the same as the other two we "missed"?

[oly_10]

Does anyone have the link to the team sheets website? As in what ours will look like tomorrow. I saw one on here a while back but cannot find it. Thank you. 

[HuskerFever]

16 minutes ago, oly_10 said:

Does anyone have the link to the team sheets website? As in what ours will look like tomorrow. I saw one on here a while back but cannot find it. Thank you. 

 

This should do the trick:

 

https://extra.ncaa.org/solutions/rpi/_layouts/15/mobile/mblwikia.aspx?Url=%2Fsolutions%2Frpi%2FSitePages%2FHome.aspx

[royalfan]

35 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

We've hit them all except for Vermont and Louisiana. Which at the end of the day may not even tough at-large status. Those were "just in case" scenarios.

 

So do we need WKU to win, or it that likely the same as the other two we "missed"?

They are far more likely to get an at large than the other two IMO.  

[royalfan]

49 minutes ago, oly_10 said:

Does anyone have the link to the team sheets website? As in what ours will look like tomorrow. I saw one on here a while back but cannot find it. Thank you. 

 

www.warrennolan.com  get to basketball click on team in the rpi rankings then there is a team sheet link updated to the minute.  

[TomEadesSucks]

You know, for all the talk about quadrants, I thought the committee also talked about emphasizing road wins this year. Take a look at our road record against some other bubble teams.

[HuskerFever]

Kentucky/Calipari: "Conference tournaments are worthless."

 

Virginia: Having the time of their lives celebrating their ACC tournament title.

[TomEadesSucks]

I don't really disagree with Calipari. Once the NCAA tourney starts, no one remembers who won the conference tourney, unless a team sneaks in.

[HuskerFever]

4 minutes ago, TomEadesSucks said:

I don't really disagree with Calipari. Once the NCAA tourney starts, no one remembers who won the conference tourney, unless a team sneaks in.

 

I just found the two polar dynamics of these power schools rather interesting. And these tournaments do tend to favor the underdogs more than it helps those powerhouses.

[HuskerFever]

So is the Pac-12 really this deep or is Arizona just that bad?

 

Outside of conference play, Arizona is:

Q1: 1-1 (W neut Purdue, W neut Texas A&M)

Q2: 3-1

Q3: 2-1

Q4: 4-0

[TomEadesSucks]

6 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

So is the Pac-12 really this deep or is Arizona just that bad?

 

Outside of conference play, Arizona is:

Q1: 1-1 (W neut Purdue, W neut Texas A&M)

Q2: 3-1

Q3: 2-1

Q4: 4-0

 

Haven't you been listening to Bill Walton?

[HuskerFever]

6 minutes ago, TomEadesSucks said:

 

Haven't you been listening to Bill Walton?

 

True true...

[HuskerFever]

During the Grand Canyon/New Mexico State broadcast: "You have to look at the eyeball test. You can't convince me that the "Last Four In" are better than the First Four Out teams."

[HuskerFever]

During the USC/Arizona broadcast: "Sun Devils are in."

 

...after using a win over Vanderbilt as a bragging point.

[HuskerFever]

So how long will it be until this Arizona Pac-12 championship title gets revoked?

[HuskerFever]

15 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Lunardi's bubble watch after Friday's games:

 

Last Four Byes
NC State: N/A
Florida State: N/A
USC: neut Arizona
UCLA: N/A

 

Last Four In
Saint Mary's: N/A
Texas: N/A
Oklahoma: N/A
Arizona State: N/A

 

First Four Out
Louisville: N/A
Notre Dame: N/A
Baylor: N/A
Oklahoma State: N/A

 

Next Four Out
Middle Tennessee: N/A
Syracuse: N/A
Marquette: N/A
Penn State: N/A

 

Lunardi's Most Hated Team

Nebraska

 

And that concludes our bubble watch...

[HuskerFever]

10 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

UMBC 131/Vermont 51 -  10am ESPN2  Vermont - 10 1/2  Need Vermont, just in case.  Not worth rooting to pass them in RPI I don't think.  A Vermont win would result in an epicly cheap ass Q1 win for St. Bonaventure
UT Arlington 116/Louisiana  54 - 11:30 ESPN3  Louisiana - 6 I suppose Louisiana is best to go ahead and win tourney.  Loss and we would pass them in RPI but probably not worth messing with
Memphis 105/Cincinnati 7 - 12 CBS Cincinnati - 16  Need Cincinnati here to clinch no bid stealing in this league
Saint Joseph's 74/Rhode Island 14 - 12pm CBS Sports Network Rhode Island - 7 1/2  Need Rhode Island
Alabama 36/Kentucky 18 - 12 ESPN Kentucky -4  Big one here potentially.  I am not convinced Alabama is a lock at 19-15  Also prevents home wins over Alabama from becoming Q1 wins for people.  Lord knows this damn league has enough fraudulent Q1 wins as it is
Davidson/St. Bonaventure - 2:30 CBS Sports Network Davidson -2  It is time to get rid of Davidson.  This is especially the case if Rhode Island were to lose in earlier game.  St. Bonaventure isn't good but they are probably in now.  We cannot have 3 teams come out of this crappy league.  A loss by Davidson also likely makes them a Q2 instead of Q1 for games that teams played at Davidson which include Rhode Island and St. Bonaventure -- (CHANGED THE PICK TO FAVOR DAVIDSON IN THIS ONE)
West Virginia/Kansas - 5pm ESPN Kansas -1  Need Kansas to preserve top 57 in RPi.  Likely drop to 59 if they lose.  Outside shot of dropping West Virginia games people hosted down to q2 if they lose as well(OU Texas Ok St Baylor Kansas St)
New Mexico  113/San Diego State 68 - 5pm CBS San Diego St - 4 1/2  I think we want San Diego St just to be done with it.  They have built a sneaky decent resume 
Toledo 73/Buffalo 30 - 6pm ESPN2 Buffalo - 6 1/2  Badly need Buffalo here Only benefit of loss is bumping Syracuse win over them to q2 as well as Texas Am
Marshall 96/Western Kentucky 35 - 7:30 CBS Sports Network  Western Kentucky -6 Need Western Kentucky to lock this up
USC 33/Arizona 17 - 9pm FS1  Arizona -3  Need Arizona although probably don't matter much.  Does prevent USC games at places from becoming Q1 home games for those folks(UCLA, Arizona St, Utah, Oregon)
Grand Canyon 156/New Mexico State 42 - 9pm ESPNU  New Mexico St -5  Need New Mexico St to lock this one up.  Not worth messing with.

 

Others not important enough to go above

Arkansas/Tennessee win could bump Arkansas games at people from becoming Q1 home games(Alabama, AM, Missouri, Miss St)
Providence/Villanova win could keep Providence out of Q1 for games they played on road for teams(Marquette, Seton Hall, Creighton, Butler)

 

Updated.

 

This was probably one of our more successful bubble days this entire conference tournament season. Too bad it had to come this late into the tournaments.

[HuskerFever]

Sunday's Games of Interest:

 

Davidson/Rhode Island - really, really, really need URI to pull this one out - a loss by Davidson likely knocks them out of a Quad 1 road win/loss for their opponents

 

Only five more games left in the regular/conference tournament season. Savor them! But to break it down, there is one game that is very very important to us. We really need Rhode Island to come through for us. This could be the difference between Oklahoma getting into the play-in game with us or kicking them out.

[TomEadesSucks]

Kind of stinks we had to play the hottest team in the conference, if not the NCAAs, in our first game, while teams like USC, UCLA, Alabama, and Texas all got to play scrubs,  which apparently now helps your resume instead of meaning nothing (yes, Texas A&M is a scrub.)

[HuskerFever]

Lunardi just posted his latest bubble watch (after the conclusion of March 10 games):

 

Last Four Byes
Florida State
USC
UCLA
St. Bonaventure

 

Last Four In
Texas
Oklahoma
Saint Mary's
Arizona State

 

First Four Out
Louisville
Notre Dame
Baylor
Oklahoma State

 

Next Four Out
Middle Tennessee
Syracuse
Marquette
Davidson

 

Lunardi's Hate List

Nebraska

[TomEadesSucks]

2 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

Lunardi just posted his latest bubble watch (after the conclusion of March 10 games):

 

Last Four Byes
Florida State
USC
UCLA
St. Bonaventure

 

Last Four In
Texas
Oklahoma
Saint Mary's
Arizona State

 

First Four Out
Louisville
Notre Dame
Baylor
Oklahoma State

 

Next Four Out
Middle Tennessee
Syracuse
Marquette
Davidson

 

Lunardi's Hate List

Nebraska

 

Lunardi's gonna have to quit twitter.

[HuskerFever]

1 minute ago, HuskerFever said:

Lunardi just posted his latest bubble watch (after the conclusion of March 10 games):

 

Last Four Byes
Florida State: Louisville (Lost)
USC: Oregon State (Won), Oregon (Won), Arizona (Lost)
UCLA: Stanford (Won), Arizona (Lost)
St. Bonaventure: Richmond (Won), Davidson (Lost)

 

Last Four In
Texas: Iowa State (Won), Texas Tech (Lost)
Oklahoma: Oklahoma State (Lost)
Saint Mary's: Pepperdine (Won), BYU (Lost)
Arizona State: Colorado (Lost)

 

First Four Out
Louisville: Florida State (Won), Virginia (Lost)
Notre Dame: Pittsburgh (Won), Virginia Tech (Won), Duke (Lost)
Baylor: West Virginia (Lost)
Oklahoma State: Oklahoma (Won), Kansas (Lost)

 

Next Four Out
Middle Tennessee: Southern Miss (Lost)
Syracuse: Wake Forest (Won), North Carolina (Lost)
Marquette: DePaul (Won), Villanova (Lost)
Davidson: Saint Louis (Won), St. Bonaventure (Won)

 

Lunardi's Hate List

Nebraska: Michigan (Lost)

 

Updated with conference tourney performance.