Conference tournament open thread
Syracuse announced a postseason ban after they lost to Pitt... SMH
I have no idea why I disliked Boeheim so much years ago, but I have no sympathy for that guy.
Go Wolfpack
are back up to the "First Four Out" on Bracket Matrix before the Syracuse loss, FYI.
Not a single bracket updated on 3/9 has us in. I wouldn't use it to mean anything until after a win tomorrow and seeing updated brackets friday morning. If the win vs northwestern gets us into most brackets friday morning the chance remains for us to sneak in. If not you need the indiana win.
If the win against NW puts us in, a loss to IU would knock us back out. I don't see any scenario where we get in without winning at least two in the BTT.
I mean I agree with you but if there is any chance just a win against NW gets us in we will know Friday morning. The bubble is soft as hell this year and we just have to hope the "no bad losses" thing carries way more weight than it should and can trump a lack of quality wins.
Monmouth and Valpo losing their tournaments hurt us. The last thing we need is an LSU or even OSU going on a run and sliding ahead of us.
March 10th, 2016 at 10:02 AM ^
Well without playing a game but the 3/9 updates now the majority michigan dropped out of the first four out again. There is no point in looking until where we see what a win vs northwestern actually does for us.
March 10th, 2016 at 10:39 AM ^
that would mean I would have to stop looking and do work. :(
lose at that stage, too, and that no more auto-bids get stolen by non-at-large teams in leagues with at least one at large quality team.
we wont make the tournament by other teams losing around us.. we have to win, plain and simple. beat NW , beat IU.. thats the formula. Hell might even need another W against Purdue/Iowa after that.
A win vs Indiana gets M in with 100% certainty. 100 percent. Period.
I'm watching PSG/Chelsea in the Champions League before Minnesota/Illinois starts.
believe I forgot to set the DVR for that Illini/Gopher tilt.
we could also be Duke.
Mediocrity for football isn't acceptable at Michigan. It shouldn't be acceptable for basketball either.
You know other teams get better too right? Iowa is the only team with seniors dominating their minutes. Wisconsin was supposed to be in a transition year, msu is losing a couple key contributors but is bringing in a loaded recruiting class, osu is absurdly you, maryland may lose trimble and stone to the draft but its not a gaurantee and is bringing in two top 100 guys. Are Zak Irvin and Derek walton suddenly going to become playmakers as seniors? Is duncan robinson or ricky doyle going to gain lateral quickness? There is still nobody who can create their own offense on this team.
IMO guys make their biggest strides between Freshman and Sophmore year.
I don't expect the Senior version of Irvin, Walton, and Donnal to be much different than the Junior verions. Similarly I don't expect the sophmores to be much different as juniors next year. Long story short I expect next year to be very similar to this year. Although next year we might be a last four in instead of a first four out type of bubble team.
So we made a 2 win improvement in the big ten? That's amazing.
...a 2 win improvement....to a team that didn't make a single post season tournament.
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March 10th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^
If we had beat OSU and Wisconsin, your two game improvement scenario, we'd still be 3 games behind the champion and tied for 3rd place with Maryland, Purdue, and Iowa. And given the Big Ten Tiebreakers we'd still be the 6th seed in the tournament.
Two more wins does put us on the right side of the bubble for the NCAA tournament but finishing 6th in the conference hardly is hardly worth celebrating. We'd still have a 2-6 record against teams seeded above us.
player that has made progress and improvement this year and I cant believe Im going to say this but its Donal....Everyone else either stayed the same or regressed..I saw NO improvement NONE from the beginning to end of season and Doyle regressed ALOT from last year....thats the discouraging part..usually Belien teams improve as the season goes along even last year with all the in juries they played well against the really good teams...With pretty much the same lineup this year they were AWFUL and didnt improve one Iota this season
8 of those wins were against Illinois, PSU, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Rutgers. I love Michigan basketball and want to see us do well but people were saying the same thing in December about us getting better and we never did and now we're supposed to magically get better with the same players.
March 10th, 2016 at 10:41 AM ^
recruiting class is absolutely loaded. They will be a Top 5 team again next year.
Donnal, MAAR and Walton are the reasons we still have a shot at the tournament. Everyone else has regressed or stayed the same this season.
I think it's a function of age. I first became aware of basketball and sports in general in the late 80's. So in my head Michigan should be playing at the 89 Championship / Fab 5 level pretty much all the time.
another defense of Belein by comparing us to the dregs of college basketball. Keep those expections high boys!
all 3 of you.
Not because of your comment. Actually, that's not quite right. Your comment gave me the idea, and I just had to do it to someone.
I was going to air reciprocate but I was air unable to due to the air bolivia-ing.
My live stram is struggling right now. Go Zlatan.
Your username reminds me of the time a co-worker saw me on mgoblog at work and asked, "What's 'M Gob Log'?"
The NC State is holding tough near the end of the first half with Duke.
A run by the Wolfpack in the ACC Tournament could get them under that top-100 RPI window.