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Refereeing the post season despite the way they ref in the current season isn’t a post-season honor?

Absolutely. They were arguably trending into bubble territory even though most still had them “in”. Now they are solidly in with a HUGE road win. I looked at their remaining schedule though and it’s pretty much bubble teams and bottoms of the conference from here on out. Not a ton of room for improvement but some chances at losses. So then it becomes… do we want them to continue winning now and beat teams like Syracuse, Wake Forest, NCST, etc who are bigger bubble candidates right now.

Results (2/6/24): Overall a very interesting night of games. In the B1G, Rutgers new player continues to look good, OSU blew an 18 point lead at home, and MSU/Minny moved each closer to the bubble though neither are close to coming in/falling out. Bubble teams did, for the most part, what they needed to do. Big 10 Games Rutgers 56 @ Maryland 53 Indiana 76 @ Ohio St 73 Michigan St 56 @ Minnesota 59 Non-Con Opponents Games NONE Other Bubble Games DePaul 57 @ St. John’s 85 Clemson 80 @ North Carolina 76 Wake Forest 80 @ Georgia Tech 51 Iowa St 70 @ Texas 65 BYU 66 @ Oklahoma 82 Butler 62 @ UCONN 71 Nevada 77 @ Utah St 63 Boise St 62 @ Colorado St 75 St Mary's 84 @ Pacific 43 Games To Watch (2/7/24): Need the Blueturds to knock off Providence tonight. Bunch of home games for bubble teams tonight, so it would be nice for a few of them to lose and put a black eye on their resume. Most of them aren’t playing an opponent who should give them a game. Big 10 Games Wisconsin @ Michigan Nebraska @ Northwestern Non-Con Opponents Games Davidson @ Duquesne Creighton @ Providence Other Bubble Games Georgetown @ Seton Hall Louisville @ Syracuse Pitt @ NCST Valpo @ Indiana St Southern Illinois @ Drake Portland @ Gonzaga Texas A&M @ Mizzou Georgia @ Miss St

Multiple people talking about them being a bubbly team should they continue this roll. Their resume is ugly right now both in predictive metrics, result metrics, and SOS. That win notches their first Q1 win though and they have some opportunities coming up. It’d have to be a “lightning in a bottle” type of run. An NIT run isn’t out of the question though.

Not only this but their bubbly profile would most likely be much better than ours. The predicative metrics (KPom and BPI) love them and their result metrics are only slightly worse than ours. Combine that with the name on the front, the legendary Izzo, and the fact that everyone knows Izzos teams over perform late… I wouldn’t want our name up there against MSU in a bubble scenario come March.

We seem to have been getting quite a few days outside so far this year. That could be beneficial for us and it’s not something I would have thought would happen 2-3 weeks ago.

Their new guy they just picked up thanks to him taking the NCAA to court and beating them has bad 12 and 13 his first two games.

I do a mini update on daily games in the "Games to watch/bubble" thread.

That was a good read! Thanks for posting.

Maryland has home shooting splits of 31/11/73 in a home loss to Rutgers tonight.

The NCAA has a worse court record than our road record lately.

Watching this Rutgers and Maryland game. There are always so many reviews these days the last 2 minutes. My idea: instead of 16, 12, 8, 4, and half for media breaks plus all of the stoppages for reviews … switch to 15, 10, 5, and the first review under 2. 99% of games there will be at least one and maybe this can keep games going quicker. You still get the same amount of media breaks for advertising but eliminate some time for reviews.

Nebraska looking to make it 2 for the last 2 ATS on the road. They were just 1-5 before Illinois.

Like the bracketologists, love the Andy Katz’s

Andy definitely pulling for us and the B1G. We’re closer to an 11 than an 8 though I think. At this point in time. Honestly the high 9-low 10 range is where we should probably be.

We were talking a bit about fouls in another thread. Northwestern, unlike Illinois, fouls a lot (almost to the point of overfouling). Illinois doesn’t and we still managed to get to the line 14 times. Would benefit us to love the rim tomorrow I think. Also— we play pretty good D and don’t foul a ton according to that chart.

Not that it changes a whole lot, but a Maryland blowout of Rutgers tonight could move them to a Q1 loss. I didn't realize they had snuck into the Top 80 of the NET.

This is true-- I also think our Illinois loss may have gotten more publicity and eyes than our Wisconsin win. Twitter had a TON of tweets about our Illinois game, how good of a game it was, blah blah.

Results (2/5/24): Big win for KSU and Virginia is firmly in the field now, if they weren't already. Seeing them hop us in a lot of brackets as well. Big 10 Games NONE Non-Con Opponents Games Coppin State 65 @ South Carolina St 77 Florida A&M 53 @ Alabama State 62 Kansas 70 @ Kansas State 75 Other Bubble Games Miami 38 @ Virginia 60 Games To Watch (2/6/24): I've bolded the bubbly teams that we probably want to lose below. A few games that wouldn't move the needle much with a win, but would be a killer loss tonight (St. Johns, Wake Forest). There are a few teams in a little bit of a tailspin and a few more losses could continue knocking them down into bubble territory (Clemson, Oklahoma). St. Mary's can't afford a loss to anyone other than Gonzaga. Boise, while strong start to MWC play, is bubbly with a few losses that creep up. Big 10 Games Rutgers @ Maryland Indiana @ Ohio St Michigan St @ Minnesota Non-Con Opponents Games NONE Other Bubble Games DePaul @ St. Johns Clemson @ North Carolina Wake Forest @ Georgia Tech Iowa St @ Texas BYU @ Oklahoma Butler @ UCONN Nevada @ Utah St Boise St @ Colorado St St Mary's @ Pacific

*Sees Northwestern’s home number and thinks ‘Love the rim tomorrow.’

Who, coincidentally, is wayyy more bubbly than we are. They appear in just 3/88 brackets on bracket matrix. Predictive metrics are good (opposite of ours) but their result based metrics are rough (also opposite of ours). They also have 0 Q1 wins.

For anyone wondering, here is K-States schedule the rest of the way. Should have a chance to win out at home but the road games are tough. It’s the Big 12, so just about every game could be an L.

Just NO OT games. Tang is now 11-0 in OT games in just 2 seasons at KSU.

KSU moved up a few spots to 79 in the NET. Still a Q2, but only 4 spots out from being a Q1 again. Itll be important for them to grab another soon. This weekend would be huge!

A few thoughts… 1. interesting to see a home game be a Q3 and road game a Q1. (KSU) 2. Ya gotta think Baylor will be improved more than a Q4 this year. 3. Would be nice for a few of those away series to move up a quad, but I don’t see much at home that could move up.