How is Iowa not in Dayton at best?

[nuled2dance]

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_187_Men.html

I just tweeted this at Joe Lunardi.

Look at Iowa's and now look at us. We are 46 RPI and 23 SOS and pass any eye test.

Iowa RPI and SOS are not even close. They have won ONE game in last month. When they had to have a win Thursday on a neutral court they lost to a 115+ rpi NW.

Walk me through how southern Miss, Florida State , BYU, US, Dayton and Tennessee should all not be ahead of them.Maybe we are in committee eyes...does Lunardi have a secret agenda?

[GATA]

Lunardi doesn't have any agenda here, but sometimes he's flat out wrong. It happens.

[bball23]

Yeah, the Iowa Iowa one is the one that just baffles me. Why do they deserve a higher bid thn a lot of teams? Let's just hope Lunardi is wrong and Palm is right. Remember, Lunardi is an ESPN guy so they pimp him as this "guru" but nobody really knows besides the committee.

[nuled2dance]

Isn't it sad the money bye makes to do this though? Imnjust asking to justify Iowa. Forget us say we we're Xavier..BYU..dayton...Tennessee..southern miss etc. Justify them over those teams

[Cookie Belcher]

They might be.  The projections are just projections.  The committee is what matters.  Jerry Palm and others have us solidly ahead of Iowa.

[nuled2dance]

Just weird have been tweeting with Goodman and Lunardi last 24hrs Each time myself or anyone asks about Iowa no one ever answers that question lol

[CrazyforNUHOOPS]

Yeah, the Iowa Iowa one is the one that just baffles me. Why do they deserve a higher bid thn a lot of teams? Let's just hope Lunardi is wrong and Palm is right. Remember, Lunardi is an ESPN guy so they pimp him as this "guru" but nobody really knows besides the committee.

Yesterday Dirk Chatelain tweeted that he has a suspicion that Lunardi gets fed info from the committee.

[Tallbaby21]

Lunardi isn't as good about tweeting back as Palm.

[Cookie Belcher]

Shelby Mast is fantastic about tweeting back.  @bracketWAG

[swoof]

I wonder if ESPN forces Lunardi to factor their stupid BPI into his projections somehow. In the last BPI, updated a little over two hours ago, Iowa is still ranked 22 while Nebraska is 57.

[Omaha Nebrasketballer]

Yeah I just don't understand all of the projections still giving Iowa "lock" status. I have a sneaky suspicion we get the old screw job and have to play Dayton in Dayton which will blow. Yeah, at the beginning of the year we all would have been thrilled with making the play in round, but this team is better than that at this point and deserves a 10 seed.

[doc1394]

Not sure about the Committee feeding lunardi info. He's really not great at seeding. Sure he gets most of the teams right, but that's not too hard this late.

[Cybrrmonky]

Since the difference between those last 8 teams is really close, I fully expect Dayton to get a bye.  Its too much of a competitive advantage for Dayton to be playing on their home floor. 

Let's look at it this way, would we rather play Dayton at their home or play someone else in the play in round.  I think almost every team in this situation would say they would rather play someone else.

But I'm one that thinks Dayton actually deserves NOT to be in the play in game.

In this case I think the one's finishing the season the best deserve the bye & the ones limping in should be in the play in round.  (SMU, Iowa, KState, Ariz St, Xavier) would be the one's I'd put in the play in game.  Wish Crieghton would have beaten Providence b/c they would have been another candidate for that last 4 in spot.

[PimpMario]

Iowa sucks.  We have know this for a long time.

[ajb5856]

Since the difference between those last 8 teams is really close, I fully expect Dayton to get a bye. Its too much of a competitive advantage for Dayton to be playing on their home floor.

Let's look at it this way, would we rather play Dayton at their home or play someone else in the play in round. I think almost every team in this situation would say they would rather play someone else.

But I'm one that thinks Dayton actually deserves NOT to be in the play in game.

In this case I think the one's finishing the season the best deserve the bye & the ones limping in should be in the play in round. (SMU, Iowa, KState, Ariz St, Xavier) would be the one's I'd put in the play in game. Wish Crieghton would have beaten Providence b/c they would have been another candidate for that last 4 in spot.

Didn't they already say that they wouldn't move Dayton from the Dayton play in if that's where they fell?

[uneblinstu]

Good call, nuled.

[AuroranHusker]

Lunardi is a tool.

[Omaha Nebrasketballer]

Lunardi is a tool.

This.

Guy makes a living doing something that 99% of the population could do and then vanishes as soon as the real projections are made.

[hhcmatt]

 

RPI IS A THING?  

What in the Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational Tournament are you guys talking about?!?!?