Bracketology 2024/2025

[hskr4life]

The Wake win doesn’t move the needle a ton. They are going to need a lot more than that.

[Nebrasketball1979]

3 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

The Wake win doesn’t move the needle a ton. They are going to need a lot more than that.

Yes, same with Xavier.  They will play Marquette in the Big East tournament and that's likely a win and in for them.  Of they lose and finish something like 1-11 in Q 1 games, that will likely leave them out.  Need Duke to close out UNC.

[hskr4life]

Good result for the Duke game. Concur about Xavier needing to beat Marquette depending on what other bubble teams do.

[hskr4life]

Upon further review… Xavier being 8-1 in Q2 is realllly good for them. They’ll be right there should they lose to Marquette.

[Nebrasketball1979]

15 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Upon further review… Xavier being 8-1 in Q2 is realllly good for them. They’ll be right there should they lose to Marquette.

9-11 in Q1 & Q2 with only one of them being a Q1 win is likely not enough.  For comparison, if we were to win our next two and lose the third, we would be 11-12 in Q1+Q2 but with 5 Q1 wins and likely slightly worse resume metrics.  However, we do have the two bad losses so again, it really depends on what the committee values, which we won't know until selection Sunday.

[HuskerFever]

WEEKEND UPDATES:

(Red = Bad/Bad-ish for Nebraska)

 

Friday:

Bradley: vs. Murray State, 6 PM (ESPN+)

[Both teams] Colorado State: at Boise State, 9 PM (FS1)

 

Saturday:

Arkansas: vs. Mississippi State, 11 AM (SECN)

Georgia: vs. Vanderbilt, 11 AM (ESPNU)
Wake Forest: vs. Georgia Tech, 1:15 PM (CW Network)

Cincinnati: at Oklahoma State, 2 PM (ESPN+)

Liberty: at Western Kentucky, 2 PM (ESPN+)

Drake: vs. Belmont, 2:30 PM (CBSSN)

[Both teams] Ohio State: at Indiana, 2:45 PM (CBS)

SMU: at Florida State, 3 PM (ESPNU)

Utah State: vs. Air Force, 3 PM (The MW Stream)

Xavier: vs. Providence, 3 PM (FS1)

North Carolina: vs. Duke, 5:30 PM (ESPN)

[Both teams] Texas: vs. Oklahoma, 7 PM (SECN)

San Diego State: vs. Nevada, 9:30 PM (FS1)

 

Sunday:

Nebraska: vs. Iowa, 11:30 AM (FOX)

Rutgers: vs. Minnesota, 12 PM (BTN) [Rutgers win: potential shift up to Q2 loss; Loss: 3-leg parley for NU auto-BTT spot]

North Texas: at Temple, 1 PM (ESPN+)

[millerhusker]

Illinois back up to 15 in the NET, which gives us three quad 1A wins. 

Rutgers moved up 3 spots to #77. A win today would probably get them back to a quad 2 loss.

[HuskerFever]

The 31 Auto-Bid Conference Tournaments:

 

Bid Stealing Opportunities:

AAC [Mar 12-16]

ACC [Mar 11-15]

Atlantic-10 [Mar 12-16]

Big 12 [Mar 11-15]

Big East [Mar 12-15]

Big Ten [Mar 12-16]

Conference USA [Mar 11-15]

Missouri Valley [Mar 6-9]: #1 Drake vs. #2 Bradley 

Mountain West [Mar 12-15]

SEC [Mar 12-16]

West Coast [Mar 6-11]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9

 

Not at Risk:

America East [Mar 8-15]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 4

ASUN [Mar 2-9]: Remaining #1, 2

Big Sky [Mar 8-12]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9

Big South [Mar 5-9]: Remaining #1, 3

Big West [Mar 12-15]

CAA [Mar 7-11]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Horizon League [Mar 4-11]: Remaining #1, 2, 4, 6

Ivy League [Mar 15-16]

MAAC [Mar 11-15]

MAC [Mar 13-15]

MEAC [Mar 12-15]

Northeast [Mar 5-11]: Remaining #1, 3

Patriot League [Mar 4-12]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 5

Southern [Mar 7-10]: Remaining #1, 5, 6, 7

Southland [Mar 9-12]

SWAC [Mar 11-15]

Sun Belt [Mar 4-10]: Remaining #1, 2, 3, 4

WAC [Mar 11-15]

 

Auto-Bids:

Ohio Valley: SIU Edwardsville

Summit League: Omaha

 

[millerhusker]

Why is the Mountain West so highly thought of? Why is New Mexico an 8 seed? None of those teams have more than 3 quad 1 wins and they all have 2 quad 3 losses.