If we win tonight--- are we back on the bubble?

[Section_316]

Just a question-- I am not sure what our RPI or anything like that is??

[huskerbaseball13]

That's a big IF...a win tonight and I would say no.  We currently are at #123 in the RPI.  We have a long way to go in that regard.  The losses to Creighton and Incarnate Word at home are killers.  I think we need to win 11 regular season games again this year.  That will be tough to do with how our schedule sets up. 

[jimmykc]

This is a certain Jinx question. I refuse to answer on the advice of counsel.

[hhctony]

I am not sure if it even makes sense -- given our poor non-conference stretch -- to even discuss the post season until the first half of conference play is done. The back half of conference play is likely to be even tougher for us.

[hhcmatt]

I'd expect much like last year we need to go 11-7 while also beating someone good on the road.

If we're lucky our slightly tougher conference schedule will cancel out our unimpressive non-conference losses.

If we win this game and go 9-9 in the conference we haven't done enough to make the tourney.

 

Pre-February bubble talk is just a way for ESPN to get you to click on their site more.

[Norm Peterson]

Just a question-- I am not sure what our RPI or anything like that is??

No.

 

If we win the next three, then come back and ask this question again.

[royalfan]

It doesn't make any difference how you want to look at it.  It doesn't matter if we are on the bubble right now.  There really isn't a bubble right now.  We only have about a 1 in 12 chance of winning, but we have a very good chance of making the tourney if we win this game IMO.  Not sure if that puts us on the bubble now or not, nor do I really care. 

[hskr4life]

The bubble is so big right now, just about everyone is on "the bubble"

[AuroranHusker]

Bubblicious gum is as much "bubble" as NU's got right now...

[Hoops_Legend]

We would need win @Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan St to be in the bubble.... Regardless the only way we are making the tourney is 11-7 conference record that's the bench mark. If we don't make that bench mark then winning the BIG tourney is the only other way. 

[Norm Peterson]

We're #123 on the current NCAA official rpi.  Down two spots from #121 after the win against Illinois, which makes no sense.  But there we are.  We'd have to jump a very long way in order to remotely be considered on the bubble.  A win tonight helps but becomes irrelevant if we don't win out at home, or awful close to it.

[Hoops_Legend]

NIT is not really a bad thing tho honestly. At least we could get a Top 3 seed in the NIT and maybe get a couple home games out of it. Right?

[Huskerpapa]

The cliche' fits...one game at a time baby!

[hskr4life]

NIT is not really a bad thing tho honestly. At least we could get a Top 3 seed in the NIT and maybe get a couple home games out of it. Right?

 

Not gunna settle for that just yet.  Lot of season left... for everyone.  If Illinois is still in the first 4 out on bracketology, we are certainly still in the hunt.

[huskerbaseball13]

 

NIT is not really a bad thing tho honestly. At least we could get a Top 3 seed in the NIT and maybe get a couple home games out of it. Right?

 

Not gunna settle for that just yet.  Lot of season left... for everyone.  If Illinois is still in the first 4 out on bracketology, we are certainly still in the hunt.

 

 

We are in the hunt.  A good majority of teams still are...we have 14 Big Ten games left.  But, Illinois is 81 spots higher than us in the RPI right now. 

[Section_316]

Illinois sucks