Polls and Brackets
Michigan drops to #25 in AP.
Log jam: WI #24, Illinois #23, PSU #20, OSU #19, Iowa #18, MSU #16. Maryland #9.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings
Bracketology has us 6 seed.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
Ummmm. This can’t be right. Both Maryland and UM get run up and down at home in a pair of two loss weeks and don’t move in the polls?
edit: barely move
The truth is we're still clearly better than #25 in the country. In terms of AP rankings I would've expected us to drop out as well, but in terms of predictive rankings such as KenPom, we're around a top 15 team in the country still. I think that so late into the season, AP rankings are factoring that into account.
Edit: The B1G is just so competitive this year, so it makes sense in hindsight that we're still at #25. The #12 team in the conference is #31 in KenPom and they probably won't even make the NCAAs. Meanwhile the #1 Pac-12 team (UCLA) is #80 in KenPom and I believe they'll get in.
The best pac 12 team is 80 ?!?!? What a joke.
Yup! I'm talking about conference standings vs KenPom standings though, just to be clear.
Yeah I see that now. Kenpom means a lot more to me than conference standings. UCLA can’t get into the tournament at 80.
They can, and will. As the PAC-12 Champion (even 'only' the regular season champion), they're in. No way a P5 conference champion gets left home, especially one ending on a 7-game winning streak (as of today).
That is the *best* case--32 teams make the tournament automatically as conference champions. The eventual winner of the Pac 12 could be somebody other than UCLA.
Oregon has at least one impressive win
Christ, who cares? They’re just a bunch of damn numbers arbitrarily assigned by sportswriters.
Everyone in that group is going to be invited and will be 0-0 going into the NCAA tournament. There’s no true home court advantage either for the higher seeds.
Basketball rankings are the most worthless thing in sports that people actually pretend means something.
You are an angry person that has nothing of value to say. Do us all a favor and stop talking.
Still in the top 25 is . . . generous.
Beat Nebraska
Beat Nebraska and we are in. Lose to Nebraska and... yikes.
Still in even if we lose next 3 games, but seeding would be non-ideal.
Brooks should warm up in a cape
i expected us to drop out. and if we can get a six seed, that would be great. i really don't want a 7-10 seed.
Agreed. I want to avoid the 8/9 seed. I would rather be a 11 seed than 8.
i think i would almost rather be a 12 than a 7.
It's smarter to be a 16 seed because if you win your first game then at worst the next best team you'll play is an 8 seed!!!
It's just so many teams with rather mediocre records this season and that's the main reason why Michigan is still in the top 25 and considered to be safely in the NCAA tournament.
Michigan has the best wins out of the many other teams that have between 10 to 12 losses this season.
And we play in the best conference and have no bad losses
Thought your headline was Poles and Brackets. Reminded me of my old friend Stach who was the best at installing brackets.
It really does not matter where Michigan gets seeded. When they are playing well they can beat the top teams-they have proven this. They have won six in a row already this season. They just need to find that sweet spot again and make another run.
Problem is we beat up on the bad teams in the Big Ten. We are 2-8 against the 7 teams above us in the Big Ten standings with only 1 of those wins coming since December. Probably will finish 2-9 with a loss @ Maryland.
We are the definition of an average team. We beat the teams that aren't that good this year and lose to the ones that are. We are most likely going to be a 7 or 8 seed, might get out of round 1, and then will get trounced in the 2nd round by a better team.