royalfan

Listening to Rasmussen, I get the sense that this committee is going to be very incompetent. He said they don't look at margin of victory at all. What? That is asinine. He mentioned quadrants many times. That is asinine. They are doing this all wrong if these things are the case. And judging by some of the awful placements in that 16, like Oklahoma, they clearly are doing it wrong.

I don't agree that they will almost certainly qualify, especially prior to Wisconsin game. That is the main reason I don't want them to win. They are taking one of the spots available to us.

Thank heavens Marist don't play for a few days. Those games are not good for my health.

That is precisely why I want them to lose some games. We won't pass them if they don't aside from possibly winning out and beating them again, in which case we are in anyway. This is why I hope they lose. They are taking a very valuable spot in the proceedings. One less spot that is available for us to get.

UCF a nice win

That is no shit. No way they should be up there.

The main problem with rooting for Michigan is that there are a certain number of spots available and it is not a large number. Michigan has one of them now. We don't. I cannot get behind rooting for teams we need to pass to get in. If the difference in our quality of win over them is impacted by them losing an extra game or two and it costs us, the flip side is that we actually could replace them. After all the committee is aware of how many a league gets, even if they don't want to admit it. And the Big 10 is getting at least 4 teams. Right now Michigan is 4. Not that is matters, as they are crushing Wisconsin, which is hurting our predictive measures since score matters and we played them twice. Not good.

Updated Fever post for added game, RPI's, game time, how to watch, line and who I feel we need Michigan 40/Wisconsin 143 - 12pm CBS Michigan -4 We need Wisconsin. Again, I don't think tiers are really a thing, like most others do. We played Wisconsin twice. I want to strengthen those wins, including the road win. We are also competing with Michigan for one of the last bids in the field. I also think the committee will give us credit for a double bye whether they want to admit it or not, and Michigan is the main threat to that. If Michigan does win, it does improve our chances of playing them again, for better or worse, which would neutralize the game played differential between these two clubs. Louisville 42/Pittsburgh 176 - 12 pm ACC/ESPN Full Court/Espn3 Lousiville -11 1/2 Need PittsburghWake Forest 125/Syracuse 38 - 12pm ACC/ESPN Full Court/ESPN3 Syracuse - 7 1/2 Need Wake ForestUMass Lowell 303/Vermont 41 - 1pm ESPN3 No line Need UMASS Lowell Cincinnati 10/SMU 75 - 3pm ESPN Cincinnati -8 Need CincinnatiUCF 68/Memphis 125 - 3pm CBS Sports Network Memphis -3 Need UCFTulane 132/Houston 31- 5pm ESPNU Houston - 14 We need Tulane Penn St. 91/Illinois 175 - 6pm BTN Penn St - 2 1/2 This one very tough to figure out. On one hand a Penn St. win gives us a shot to play a bigger game in that last game, which is a game time that should have a lot of selection eyes on our game. It also would possibly deflate Illinois a bit more, potentially making our game against them slightly easier. On the other hand, Penn St. is very close to us in terms of getting a bid, and already beat us. Also not sure I want to see them as the 5 seed in New York if we get the 4. They also could easily get the 4 from us yet. All things considered, I think it may be best if Illinois wins this one. Washington State 183/Oregon82 - 7pm ESPNU Oregon - 15 1/2 We want Washington St. Other games Stanford 94 at Colorado 66 3pm Pac 12 Network Colorado -3 I think we want Stanford but it is a little tricky

Boom!!

We moved up a few RPI spots today. Long Beach would only figure to help if they can get it done. Showing up 12 with 9 minutes left.

my goodness.

If I hadn't watched that Marist debacle it would seem like a bigger deal:)

Damn almost won. Headed to overtime. Big one at the end of the night

How many dunks did New Mexico St. have in that one? I lost count.

This is cruel and unusual punishment watching Marist again on ESPN3. This time pissing away a 19 point second half lead.

man that Va Tech win puts a huge damper on things

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NIU buzzer beater ot win over Buffalo!

N. Illinois up 1 19 seconds left Buffalo ball on ESPN3

E. Illinois lost

Georgetown beats Seton Hall, Michigan St. beats Purdue, Notre Dame beats FSU, Depaul beats Providence

Stetson wins

Stetson bucket up 4 with 8 seoncds

Stetson an epic meltdown. were up 19 with 10 left now up one. Unreal.

sucks that this Providence game not widely available as they cannot be passing any eye tests