College Basketball Open Thread: Miami Upset by Georgia Tech
Thought I'd create a thread for the rest of the action tonight. #6 Miami just lost at home to Georgia Tech which should help Michigan for seeding.
#5 Georgetown and #13 OK State already went down.
EDIT: And #23 UCLA goes down by 12. Another one bites the dust.
EDIT: It's done, #12 New Mexico wins by 13. No upset here.
EDIT: It's over, Xavier beats #16 St. Louis 11 in OT. MOAR UPSETS!!!!!
The upsets keep coming.
Miami has no shot at a 1 seed. 3 awful losses and one to Ind St. that looks worse and worse.
I'm still not sure I get why. They've had several bad home losses and our record matches theirs. I think they may pass the eye test for some onlookers a little more fully than we do--lot of talent on the roster, and when they're good they're ferocious. But we played them very tough at their house, and I don't see that they have the single leader or dependable scorer that we have in Trey.
Beat them on Sunday, of course, and if they're still seeded ahead of us, we can really complain.
I hope the people calling for Bielien to be fired were shown the door by some courageous admin...
that or the mods need to intervene a bit more.
SO many times here--football or bball--you have fans LITERALLY saying "we've lost the game" after a quarter or before halftime. (What if the players did that; where the heck would we be?) I understand that it's in the nature of fandom to wring your hands, but when it becomes hostility to your own team. . .
Amazingly, if you did not see it in some form, this game was won on a last-second tip shot, which made what seemed like an interminable tie in the last few minutes rather exciting at the end. For the record, Georgia Tech outshot Miami in terms of effective FG% by a margin of about 4.5%, but it would not have been possible if the Miami offense had missed nearly everything they tossed up in the last several minutes of the second half.
I think tonight's action solidifies a #2 seed for us. We have a chance to move up to #1, but I don't think we're likely to drop down to a #3 now. And we're definitely headed to Auburn Hills for the first two rounds now, which is huge.
To get a #1 seed, we have to beat IU obviously and make a deep run in the Big Ten tournament. Not come out flat and lifeless like last year.
Gonzaga is really ruining everything by being ranked #1 despite their crappy schedule.
Losing to indiana and winning the Big10 tournament title I think would do it.
I signed up just to say GO SHOCKS!! With these upsets tonight we're a shoe-in no matter how our tournament turns out. WSU to the final four!
Not if my (gf's) Panthers steal the MVC conference tourney! Ain't getting three teams in. Welcome, though..?
played for UNI from 2009-2012 and had quite a bit of success there (Johnny Moran). Watching them knock off Kansas in 2010 and play a good game against MSU was a ton of fun, even for a team I have pretty much no connection with.
Good stuff! I do remember him. The team(s) they had there during those years were actually pretty good squads. That Kansas game was incredible; Ali Farokhmanesh pulled up for three on a fast break with ~35 seconds, and sinks it, slaying Big Bad KU!
My girlfriend and I then bought tickets to the Sweet 16 games down in St. Louis and followed them down there for that. Yeah, they did play Sparty pretty well. They had their chances to pull it off but the shots weren't quite falling down the stretch. (We saw the Ohio State-Tennessee game too, for that section of games)
Shockers are a lock.
That assumes that Gonzaga wins out, Duke beats UNC and makes it to the ACC title game, either Louisville or Georgetown wins the Big East tourney title, and Kansas wins out.
None of these things is even remotely guaranteed. Quality of wins and losses is going to play a huge part this year is determining number one seeds. I think you end up with...
Gonzaga, two of Indiana, us, and Sparty, and either Duke, Kansas, or Louisville depending on who loses in their tourneys or final regular season game. The 2 seeds would be the odd Big 10 team, two of Duke, Kansas, Louisville, and either Georgetown, Miami, or Florida.
The Big East isn't getting a 1 seed. Neither is Ohio.
Figures about Miami. This was a typical "hangover game" for them after a losing a close one at Duke. But whatever helps us as far as seeding goes.
Even if we don't ultimately earn a one seed, this certainly helps us towards a two seed and hopefully being placed at Auburn Hills for the first two rounds. I'd be happy with virtual home-court advantage at any stage of the tournament.
I'm upvoting the most recent comments since it appears some douche is going through and downvoting everything for no reason at all. Yes, including my (quick) analysis. So don't worry about (fellow) Cali Wolverine.
Oregon has put together a good slate. A lot of people were talking about Cal as a potential sleeper, but they were embarrassed by Stanford at home tonight. Don't put any faith into UCLA. They are a fringe tourney team at best that is getting attention because they are UCLA. Way too inconsistent. The only other teams getting attention are Colorado and Arizona State. Colorado is a Minnesota-like team that gets up for big games. They are a darkhorse, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were bounced early. Arizona State is like Iowa: don't have the marquee wins, but pretty consistent. Overall, unless they is a bracket buster, I wouldn't put much faith in any Pac 12 teams this year.
Oregon has a 6'11" guy that gets decent minutes and another one around 10 minutes a game.
is a random generator because every team beat up on each other. So many medicore teams have a shot of winning the title like Cal(but they blew it last night). Oregon may get into NCAA tourney by default if they win Pac-12, otherwise they have zero quality wins except for Arizona. Arizona should be in but isn't a lock. UCLA is a bubble team with zero quality wins except maybe Mizzou and Arizona.
Honestly, I can see Pac-12 a 2 bid league because they're a jumbled mess with Arizona in and whoever wins the Pac-12 tourney.
If we win, then whoever wins the BTT (if it's one of the the season co-champs), should, and in my opinion, will be the #1 overall. If we beat Ind Sunday, but lose in the BTT, we might get the 2nd B1G #1 seed, but very likely, we'll be the top #2 seed. We will be ranked top 4, but it will depend whether they want to put two B1G teams as #1 seeds.