Postseason Tourney Talk

[Swan88]

Poor Kansas State:  everyone in the entire Country, excluding Wildcat fans, has been rooting for their opponent tonight.

[northwillriseagain]

16 minutes ago, Swan88 said:

Poor Kansas State:  everyone in the entire Country, excluding Wildcat fans, has been rooting for their opponent tonight.

I’d root for almost anyone, besides Texas and Kentucky, against them.

 

Their players and Weber annoy the hell out of me.

[jayschool]

Big XII with four teams in Sweet 16:

• KU defeated a 16 seed and an 8 seed, the most difficult matchups available to a No. 1 seed.
• Tech defeated a 14 and a 6, the most difficult matchups available to a No. 3 seed.
• K-State defeated an 8 seed and a 16.
• West Virginia defeated a 12 and a 13, but crushed them.

That's some good work.

 

ACC with four teams in Sweet 16:

• Duke defeated a 15 and a 7.
• Syracuse defeated an 11, a 6 and a 3.
• FSU defeated an 8 and a 1.
• Clemson defeated a 12 and a 4.

That's even better work.

 

SEC and B1G with two teams each. Big East, Mo Valley, West Coast and Mountain West each with one.

[HuskerFever]

Assuming this West Virginia 24-point lead holds up, here's the conference outlook through the Round of 32 games:

 

1. MVC: 2-0 (100%)

1. WCC: 2-0 (100%)

3. Big Ten: 6-2 (75%)

4. Big 12: 8-3 (73%)

5. ACC: 10-5 (67%)

6. MWC: 2-1 (67%)

7. SEC: 8-6 (57%)

8. Big East: 5-5 (50%)

9. America East: 1-1 (50%)

9. Big South: 1-1 (50%)

9. Conference USA: 1-1 (50%)

9. MAC: 1-1 (50%)

9. SWAC: 1-1 (50%)

14. Atlantic 10: 2-3 (40%)

14. AAC: 2-3 (40%)

16. Atlantic Sun: 0-1 (0%)

16. Big Sky: 0-1 (0%)

16. Big West: 0-1 (0%)

16. Colonial: 0-1 (0%)

16. Horizon: 0-1 (0%)

16. Ivy: 0-1 (0%)

16. MAAC: 0-1 (0%)

16. MEAC: 0-1 (0%)

16. Northeast: 0-1 (0%)

16. Ohio Valley: 0-1 (0%)

16. Patriot: 0-1 (0%)

16. Southern: 0-1 (0%)

16. Southland: 0-1 (0%)

16. Summit: 0-1 (0%)

16. Sun Belt: 0-1 (0%)

16. WAC: 0-1 (0%)

32. Pac-12: 0-3 (0%)

[HuskerFever]

Here's another way to look at it. Only look at the performance of the Top 4 teams of all of the power conferences (by highest seeds). Here's what we get:

1. Big 12: 6-1 (86%)

2. Big Ten: 6-2 (75%)

3. ACC: 5-2 (71%)

4. SEC: 5-3 (63%)

5. Big East: 4-3 (57%)

6. Pac-12: 0-3 (0%)

 

[tcp]

acc looking pretty good. and this is with two of their top 3 teams getting bounced early. I'm impressed. 

 

our old conference also doing well. 

 

man, if MSU had found a way to grind it out, we'd be sitting pretty. 

[HuskerFever]

Remaining Teams:

 

ACC: 4

• vs. ACC, ACC, Big 12, WCC
• ACC will automatically lose one team

Big 12: 4

• vs. ACC, Big East, Big Ten, SEC
• Big 12 has the chance to knock down all remaining Power 6 conferences

Big Ten: 2

• vs. Big 12, SEC

SEC: 2

• vs. Big 12, Big Ten

Big East: 1

• vs. Big 12
• Last remaining Big East; only 2 remaining #1 seeds

Missouri Valley: 1

• vs. Mountain West
• Either MVC or MWC remain

Mountain West: 1

• vs. Missouri Valley
• Either MVC or MWC remain

West Coast: 1

• vs. ACC

[TomEadesSucks]

On 3/18/2018 at 6:34 PM, colhusker said:

No #4 seed or higher in South in Sweet 16 - Dear Committee still think you got it right?

 

Don''t question Brucie's brilliance!

[49r]

Penn State is headed to the NIT Final 4!  Congrats Nits!

[Swan88]

Ok.  So the Big East was supposed to be this great league and the B1G was supposed to be “down” this year.  But in the NCAA tournament the Big East has one team left — and the B1G has two.  In the NIT, the B1G team (Penn St.) beat the Big East team just now—in an away game.

And the Huskers beat this Penn St. team at home by double digits.

So . . . what we now know is that all that disrespect of the B1G—and love for the Big East—is all crap and served as a mere pretext for undoing 61 years of precedent to keep a NU out of the Tournament.  

The Selection Committee and its leadership can take a flying leap!!!

 

Edited March 21, 2018 by Swan88

[49r]

Mississippi State is really putting it on Louisville right now, too.

[HuskerFever]

18 minutes ago, 49r said:

Mississippi State is really putting it on Louisville right now, too.

 

I kind of just want to see Mississippi State win it all now. What luck we would have to lose in our first Big Ten Tournament game to the team that wins it all and then lose in the first NIT game to a team who wins that tournament. Of course it would go down that way.

[HuskerFever]

Mississippi State is up 18 on Louisville going into the 4th quarter.

[tcp]

last two games against the NCAA champs and NIT champs would be an absolutely Nebrasketball kind of finish. I'm cheering hard for both of those teams.

[AuroranHusker]

12 hours ago, tcp said:

last two games against the NCAA champs and NIT champs would be an absolutely Nebrasketball kind of finish. I'm cheering hard for both of those teams.

 

Well, Michigan already won the B1G tourney.....

 

[HuskerFever]

I find it really interesting that three #4 seeds made it to Madison Square Gardens for the NIT Final Four.

[HuskerFever]

The NIT field in Madison Square Gardens is now set:

 

#4 Penn State vs. #4 Mississippi State

#4 Western Kentucky vs. #2 Utah

 

Should be an entertaining one!

[AuroranHusker]

9 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

The NIT field in Madison Square Gardens is now set:

 

#4 Penn State vs. #4 Mississippi State

#4 Western Kentucky vs. #2 Utah

 

Should be an entertaining one!

 

Nebraska played the one half of the bracket twice each. The other half nada.

 

[hskr4life]

Huskers vs NIT Final 4- 2-2

 

Huskers vs Sweet 16- 1-2

[nustudent]

7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Huskers vs NIT Final 4- 2-2

 

Huskers vs Sweet 16- 1-2

1-2 against NIT Final 4

[hskr4life]

18 minutes ago, nustudent said:

1-2 against NIT Final 4

 

Wins @MSU, PSU,

 

Losses @MSU and @PSU

 

I count the exhibition.

[hhcmatt]

19 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

 

Wins @MSU, PSU,

 

Losses @MSU and @PSU

 

I count the exhibition.

 

If the exhibition counted there is a decent chance we wouldn't have been in the NIT

[atskooc]

4 hours ago, hskr4life said:

 

Wins @MSU, PSU,

 

Losses @MSU and @PSU

 

I count the exhibition.

An exhibition is a game that doesn't count. 

 

So, it doesn't count. 

[jayschool]

34 minutes ago, atskooc said:

An exhibition is a game that doesn't count. 

 

So, it doesn't count. 

[hskr4life]

1 hour ago, atskooc said:

An exhibition is a game that doesn't count. 

 

So, it doesn't count. 

 

Usually I would agree.  Both teams were at full strength and played to win.  I will count that.  Sure it won't show up in the official stats.  We still beat them.  Plus, you play every game to win.  We won.  I will stick with 2-2.