going tonight, even if Miami has taken the regular season ACC title.
Great reminder that any team, any where can go down. (Perhaps we should have kept that fixed in mind after the admittedly disappointing (sigh) Penn State team.) Still some season to go with the tourneys and a #1 is definitely in play.
win against Indiana and win the BTT and get some help from UNC tonight and the # 1 overall seed might be on the table. Who would have thought that when Michigan lost to Penn State.
Gonzaga probably would have to lose as well.
I was talking specifically abou the overall #1 seed. I agree that it is unlikely Gonzaga loses. I really only think the only way they lose the overall 1 is if they lose or if Duke/Indiana wins out and then wins their tourney. Otherwise I think the voters will see that they only have two loses and say "Oh wow! They must be freaking amazing!"
You love the surprises, but you hate them all the same because so much is up in the air. Especially this year, no one is unbeatable & so we should have a lot of surprises.
New Mexico just lost too, so that's another potential top 2 seed losing.
If we were to beat Indiana tomorrow and then again in the BTT, wouldn't we almost have to have a higher seed than them?
Shall this be the evening B-ball thread?? I actaully picked Baylor 3's over KU's winning margin for Streak for Cash, not thinking Baylor would come out and beat that a**. The win from earlier in the year became more impressive as the year progressed, we beat the co-Big 12 Champ.
Duke - UNC game without a title on the line is like Prince without a pickup basketball game agaisnt Charlie Murphy, "This bores me..".
Not that they appeared to be in line for a 1-seed. But it never hurts. This year has been crazy.
I changed the title to reflect the final outcome - hopefully the OP does not mind.
The glaring stat - Kansas did not shoot like Kansas. Indeed, their effective FG% was 42.9% compared to Baylor's 63.5%, and add this to Kansas having more turnovers and Baylor playing some spirited defense, and there it is. I believe that was the last Big 12 regular season game for both Kansas State and Kansas today, and as I did the math right, that makes them both 14-4 in their conference.
And Kansas doesn't??? Come on now, we have no more talent than they do.
I'd also argue that we'd have much more fan support wherever we go, making the neutral site less neutral, in the good way.
my statement or my avitar?
Yep. Win tomorrow and we are almost certainly a 1 seed.
We're not the only top ten team who has that kind of horrible loss on our resume.
Kansas lost to TCU who is currently 10-21.
Georgetown lost to South Florida who is currently 13-17
Miami lost to Wake Forest who is 13-17. They also have losses to Indiana State and Florida-Gulf Coast.
If we're going to be hurt, I guess those teams will be too.
This is the case for both polls, AP and Coaches.
The most current poll had us at #7 and #8 in the AP and Coaches' poll respectively.
The week of February 18th, we were #7 in both polls.
All other weeks, we have indeed been at least #5 in both. We've actually been #2 in various weeks more than any other rank.
remember this article? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-basketball/news/20130118/college-basketball-early-warnings/index.html
and that was back when our defensive ranking was slightly better. we didn't get any better over the course of the year.
we can obviously still make a deep run in the tourney, especially this year. but our defensive woes are a huge red flag in actually expecting this to happen.
I'm beginning to see how UMHoops got tired of you.
Didn't we start the year ranked 6th?
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Carolina playing some quality basketball down 12-0
Everyone does it, so it must be right!
Damn just sat down to watch and I see Duke must be strokin', 14-1 at the first tv timeout...
26-9 now. Duke can't miss.
I think we'll make the elite 8 at least.
Gonzaga losing.
Does it really make sense to hold for the last shot of the half when you're down 18 points?