NITology has Michigan as a 2 seed

Submitted by DISCUSS Man on

Was looking for an NIT predictor and found this. It was updated on sunday.

Current NITology has Michigan as the final 2 seed and the 8th overall seed in the NIT. Which means they are the 76th overall postseason seed. A 2 seed would guarantee them first and second round home games with a quarterfinals trip to a 1 seed unless the 1 seed gets knocked out earlier.

They would face a 7 in the first round. The current 7 seeds are Memphis, Rhode Island, Washington and Boise State. Rhode Island beat Nebraska in November.

http://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/

Purdue is the #1 overall seed in the NIT according to this NITology and PSU is the 32nd and final seed. Meaning PSU would be the No. 100 postseason seed.

 

chatster

February 11th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^

In addition to DRatings having Michigan as a 2 seed in the NIT, these other "bracketologists" are predicting that Michigan has a future in the 2015 NIT:
 
NYC Buckets has Michigan as a 5 seed against 4-seed (and defending NCAA champion) Connecticut in the opening round.
 
NCAA Basketball Predictions has Michigan as a 2 seed against one of the 7 seeds (Buffalo, Bowling Green, Arizona State and UNLV) in the opening round.
 
The Bracket Site has Michigan as a 6 seed against one of the 3 seeds (Yale, North Carolina State, Eastern Washington and Miami-Florida) in the opening round.
 
Bracketball has Michigan among the teams on the NIT Bubble.
 
Brad-ketology has Michigan as a 6 seed against one of the 3 seeds (Oregon, Tennessee, Alabama, Pittsburgh) in the opening round.
 
Jason Wells’ Bracketology has Michigan as a 7 seed against 2-seed Oregon in the opening round.
 
The Bracket Project will have its NCAA and NIT projections posted this coming weekend.
 

LSAClassOf2000

February 11th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^

One thing I sort of wonder then is how many spaces would be open after the automatic bids to allow us even a shot in the NIT, assuming we are invited. Last year, I think nearly half the field was conference winners that did not get NCAA Tournament invites, so the margin for error for making the NIT might be fairly slim even now. It makes the next six games very interesting indeed, I think. 

NittanyFan

February 11th, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^

you're right, the number was pretty high last year --- it was an outlier in that regard.

 

I think Michigan would have to tank pretty hard to miss the NIT --- but when this link says someone like Penn ("you can't spell Nittany without NIT!!!") State is in the NIT, they really aren't particularly close (as of the moment).

Real Tackles Wear 77

February 11th, 2015 at 3:36 PM ^

Upside of the NIT would be a couple more home games after the B1G tournament. With Walton back by then, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see us win it too...and then feel sad about what could've been.