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Once again RPI perception. My Eyes tell me... Penn State = Kentucky Maryland = USC Michigan = Arizona We also have that Minnesota game that will definitely be discussed, and Indiana is as good as or better than Utah and Oregon

All because of RPI perception. There is no way I snub a 13-5 Big 10 team and take a sub .500 team see (Baylor, Texas and Syracuse). PAC 12 is ranked behind us in KenPom so why would a 19-10/10-7 PAC 12 school get in over a 22-9/13-5 Big 10 team?(UCLA).

Here is who I think Nebraska is in over win or lose to Michigan in the tournament. These are also teams that the "bracketologists" have over us at the moment Syracuse Baylor UCLA Notre Dame Marquette St. Bonaventure Texas Western Kentucky Old Dominion Buffalo Boise State Utah Oregon Washington Georgia LSU With a win over Michigan we get in over... Louisville Kansas State Providence Texas A&M Alabama We beat MSU and make the Finals we will be a 6-7 seed in the tournament

The best thing about the win tonight is that we completely beat the snot out of Penn State and the only other game on at that time was UConn vs Memphis. A lot of these computer idiots may have actually watched this game tonight

N - 73 PSU - 68

Here is a detailed article from Andy... This seems to be very realistic Andy Katz Article

Bill Self seems to think the Bracketologists are idiots too SIAP Bill Self Land of 10 Article

I'm fairly certain you and I are pretty much thinking along the same lines

With it being senior day I have a feeling Evan Taylor is going to lock down Carr

Not going to lie... I have a hard time believing Oklahoma is not on the bubble

IMO they should be able to what they feel is right. It can't be just "you can use this, but this other stuff doesn't matter"

When do losses count against you then? I keep hearing about we don't have any Quad 1 wins, but yet Oklahoma can lose 7 games in a row. One of them being to Iowa State and still doesn't matter? It just makes no sense to me that having 12 losses doesn't matter. They should, because your damn team isn't winning ball games, and IMO that should mean a hell of a lot more than "Oh you haven't beat any "tournament" teams". Well maybe they aren't tournament teams because we beat them and WE ARE THE F***ING TOURNAMENT TEAM! You know... Maryland would be a tournament team if they beat us right... but they didn't You Know... Penn State would be a tournament team if they beat us Sunday... but if they don't??? If Oklahoma loses 2 of the next 3 they would be 17-13. That is two games away from .500 and they'd be 1-8 to finish the regular season. Ummm... ANY logical line of thinking knows that team does not deserve to be in the tournament over Nebraska

OU would be 16-12 with 7 straight losses. They would be completely out if they lose to KSU

Not to mention Penn State and Maryland are 2 seeds

You know we all feel that way, but in turn why doesn't anything that we have already have done matter? I get it that we need to keep winning, but I don't like the fact that if we lose to a hot Michigan team in the tournament we supposedly are not even in consideration with a 22-9/13-5 regular season? Why does Nebraska have to play with that much pressure? Then a team like Oklahoma can go 1-8 to finish a season and finish with 13 losses not have to worry about anything! We get it, just keep winning. While I am getting extremely annoyed at the fact that teams in the Big East, Big 12, SEC and ACC don't have to worry about it.

How about the fact the Maryland is in 3 brackets on Bracket Matrix and we are on 2. To be honest I find it laughable. I will only be upset if Nebraska beats Penn St. and gets left out or is a lower seed than Penn State and Maryland (NCAA or NIT). Something just isn't right with so many people leaving Nebraska out right now. This Nebraska team is head and shoulder better than 2014 Nebraska. What these idiot bracket guys like Lunardi, Ken Pomeroy and Jerry Palm need to start doing is add in the "How would (Insert Team) do with Nebraska's schedule" and see where a team like Buffalo, Loyola Chicago or St. Bonaventure ends up. Hell RealtimeRPI had us 12-19 not too long ago! They obviously didn't think the Big 10 was that down 2 months ago.

Is there anyone that has the ability to adjust the kenpom ratings and remove all team wins with a ranking of 250+ I honestly feel that we would be ranked between 30-40 without Marist, Delaware St., Stetson and Eastern Illinois on our resume. They are killing our RPI and other computer rankings. Committee should ignore any win over 250+ and use them in a resume "ONLY" if they are loss for any team battling for a tournament spot. They should not be allowed to hurt our schedule. If you win the game, at the end of the year if the team is ranked outside of the top 250 they are treated as a DII game and are not allowed to affect your RPI and other computer rankings. It is not our fault they ended up sucking worse than the other sucky teams ranked 100-250. There is just to much attached to those win in the overall resume, and in the grand scheme of things they are irrelevant. Meaning who cares that we beat Marist at 312 or UC Irvine at 144. We are going to beat either of those teams, one hurts us and the other doesn't.

The rating systems are a joke that is why! How is Maryland where they are? Any person that has been paying attention to basketball knows that Nebraska is a better team, yet somehow Maryland is ranked 30 spots ahead of us in these dumb ass computer rankings!

I would look that up for you, but my last post already took up a lot of my time. Just remember 13-5 is a lot different than 11-7. I would say the percentage is under 15%, but that is just a guess. You do the same for a 13-5 team Power team it goes down to .001% with the 2012 PAC 12 conference having the only two in history.

Remember you also have to take into account that is just RPI... Kenpom tells a different story

I honestly feel in the end as much as they say conference record doesn't matter. A 13-5 Big 10 took care of their business, when a 8-10 team did not. That is where the committee steps in, and I just don't think that can go overlooked IMO

italic ( ) = Teams will need to get to 9 wins to get in the tournament. If these teams do not get to 9 wins they will be NIT bound and a 13-5 Nebraska team gets in over them. I'm sorry, but I just do not see an 8-10 team getting in over a 13-5 Big 10 team. italic " " = Bubble teams even with more that 9 conference wins or other detailed information that is needed italic [ ] = Separating the PAC 12 teams need 10 wins to get in over 13-5 Nebraska American East: 1 - Tournament Winner only AAC: 3 - Cincinnati, Houston and Wichita State A10: 2 - Rhode Island and St. Bonaventure ACC: 8-9 - Virginia, Duke, North Carolina and Clemson (Virginia Tech, Louisville, Florida State, Miami and Syracuse) Atlantic Sun: 1 - Tournament Winner only Big 12: 6 - Kansas, Texas Tech and West Virginia (Kansas State, Baylor, Texas, TCU and Oklahoma) Big East: - 6 Villanova, Xavier and Butler (Creighton, Seton Hall and Marquette) Big Sky: - 1 Tournament Winner only Big South: - 1 Tournament Winner only Big 10: 5-6 - Michigan State, Purdue, Ohio State and Michigan "Nebraska and Penn State" Big West: 1 - Tournament Winner only Conference USA: 2 - Middle Tennessee State "Old Dominion and Western Kentucky" Horizon: 1 - Tournament Winner only Ivy: 1 - Tournament Winner only MAAC: 1 - Tournament Winner only MAC: 1 - "I don't see Buffalo getting in if they don't win the tournament." MEAC: 1 - Tournament Winner only MVC: 1 - "I don't see Loyola Chicago getting in if they don't win the tournament." Mountain West: 2 Nevada "Boise State and Fresno State" NEC: 1 - Tournament Winner only OVC: 1 - Tournament Winner only PAC 12: 4 - Arizona, USC and UCLA [Utah, Washington, Oregon and Arizona State] Patriot: 1 - Tournament Winner only SEC: 8-9 - Auburn and Tennessee (Alabama, Florida, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, LSU, Georgia and Texas A&M) Southern: 1 - Tournament Winner only Southland: 1 - Tournament Winner only SWAC: 1 - Tournament Winner only Summit: 1 - Tournament Winner only Sun Belt: 1 Tournament Winner only WCC: 2 - Gonzaga and St. Mary's WAC: 1 - Tournament Winner only If you total up the high number on the list (Six for Big 10, nine for ACC and nine for SEC) there is a total of 71 teams listed and one of those 71 teams is Nebraska. All teams in italic's are bubble teams in my opinion, because if any of them go 8-10 or worse I don't see them getting in. By my count there are 29 teams on that list other than Nebraska. I'm not If I was a betting man, I would bet for certain that at least 2 of those teams don't finish the season the way they want to.

I know a ton of people use the Bracket Matrix... Well right now they have 11 SEC teams ahead of us at the moment... No f'ing way in hell they get 11 teams in... I see 9 at most... Two spots open ACC has 11 ahead of us as well... No way that happens... I see 9 at most... There is two more BIG 12 has 8 ahead of us... No way the get 80% of their teams in... I see them getting 7 at the most at that is pushing it. My guess is they get 6... There is 2 more Big East has 7 ahead of us... That is possible, but I see them as a 6 bid league... One more PAC 12 has 6 teams ahead of us... I see them as a 4 bid league max... So there is two more Big 10 has 6 teams ahead of us... If we beat Penn St. we will be picked before them and no way do we get picked behind Maryland... So there is two more Once again 13-5 in a Top 6 conference is different than 13-5 in the Missouri Valley 13-5 in the Big 10 is going to get picked over a 7-11 or 8-10 SEC, ACC, Big East and Big 12 team. No doubt in my mind. No opinion will convince me otherwise, so don't bother with the Quadrants and quality wins counter. In my opinion 13 wins in a Top 6 conference is 13 quality wins, don't care how down they think it is. This down league has 4 teams in the top 20, the SEC has two. I don't want to hear that our wins are against the bottom of the league, because Purdue lost to one of those teams Wisconsin? Michigan lost to Northwestern... Penn State lost to the bad Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northwestern? If the league is so down why did Northwestern struggle... Or Maryland? It is all perception in the end if we finish 13-5 I just can not see us left out. I am fairly confident in saying a 13-5 power conference team has never been left out in it's history outside of the 2011-2012 PAC 12. Don't get me started with how crappy that conference was. The highest RPI in that PAC 12 was 45. This Big 10 is not even close to as bad as that conference!

It sure feels like this team should be in over a 16-11/6-9 BIG 12 team that is on a 6 game losing streak. One of those 6 games was to the "last place team" in the league too. Right Lunardi? What an a$$ clown! Lunardi's dumb a$$ probably has Oklahoma a 6 seed still! Anyway about the game. I felt Roby was having somewhat of an off night, and he still got the player of the game. Not one of our players were on their A game, and we still found a way to win. That is a good sign IMO

13-5 > 7-11 That is the problem... SEC is not 6 games better than the BIG 10