Bubble Watch - Open Thread
I think the bolded teams are the ones Michigan is rooting for to get the best odds to make the NCAA Tournament.
Texas A&M 71, LSU 38 F SEC Semis
St. Joseph's 82, Dayton 79 F A-10 Semis
Connecticut 77, Temple 62 F AAC Semis
Kentucky 93, Georgia 80 F SEC Semis
Michigan St. 64, Maryland 61 F B1G Semis
VCU 76, Davidson 54 F A-10 Semis
Memphis 74, Tulane 54 F AAC Semis
Fresno St. 68, San Diego St. 63 F MWC Champ.
Steve Fisher and SDSU may have just cost Michigan a berth to the NCAA Tourmanent with a loss tonight. Going to be a long 24 hours.
I think we'll be in the First Four
To clarify, I meant the "First Four" i.e the extra 2 games that the Tourney expanded. In other words, we're in the "last four in". We're in the field of 68.
March 12th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
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Or the echo chamber/Kool-Aid comments.
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Your vote will count but nobody will see it.
It will be a travesty if a team like Vandy or Monmouth gets in over M.
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Bracket Matrix has us in now. The consensus is as an 11 seed, but two brackets have us as high as 8 (!). Lunardi has us out, though.
Not exactly a position of a lot of confidence. If any one of Memphis (AAC), Davidson (A-10), or Fresno St (MWC) win their conference tournaments, that at-large spot may not even exist tomorrow.
True, but it's also not clear how up-to-date all of its brackets are.
from yesterday have turned into adversarial bid-seeking thiefs today.
A couple of those also seem to be a bit behind (a lot of the ones not listing UM are still from 3/11, likely before the IU win). Lunardi is a turd in the punch bowl right now; my guess is he makes a sudden "change of heart" tomorrow once his insider(s) on the committee let him know where they are leaning.
I don't understand why athletic directors are on the committee at all. I know that's been the case for a long time, but it doesn't make sense.
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Joe Castiglione and Mark Hollis are really good friends on top of that. In case you didn't know, Joe C is the head of the selection committee this year.
If they lost, wouldn't they drop below us?
Connecticut beat us head-to-head on a neutral court. Their resume is similar to ours. I also think Temple's resume is worse than UConn's, and Temple has a much higher chance of blowing a potential final against Memphis. And UConn winning improves our RPI and other computer rankings.
They seem like a lock right now, so it only helps us by keeping Memphis (or Tulane) from stealing a bid if they win out.
I hate that I have to care about these other games.
Oh well.
We'll always have yesterday.
Vandy can't be in, and Monmouth seems like a stretch. LSU getting curb-stomped by A&M gets rid of one bid stealer, and I sense that UGa isn't going to beat both UK and A&M, so that helps.
As for the AAC, UM has to hope either UConn or Temple wins out. Memphis is a bid stealer right now. I also wonder how safe St. Mary's feels right now.
There are not a lot of open spots, and there are more teams with a variety of cases for inclusion for those spots. The committee has called this one of their toughest in years.
That's true. I just heard all week how St. Mary's was set even with the loss to Gonzaga, but it seems like their resume is getting picked apart now more as people realize they played about half their games against teams ranked 200+ in the RPI.
The SEC, like the AAC, did not have any true heavyweight teams so a random result like Georgia winning the conference tourney is not that far-fetched.
Relevance, this comment has none, it's also in super poor taste and indicates you're a troll. So you can kindly let the door hit you in the ass as you head out.
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In retrospect, the days of message forums and ASCII porn were actually very tranquil, and there is no better example of why that it is so than post-game fallout threads when either people lose their shit or you get various varieties of troll coming out of the woodwork, some of them going to the trouble to set up accounts on a rival site just to be a troll. At least you knew the people that viewed porn back in the day had a life outside of porn, at least to some extent.
Lol k thanks bye
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negvote you once?