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TAS Bracketology 2009

Bravesfan said:
I don't know. I still like Siena over the other two. I think they and Creighton are the two teams outside of the ranked mid-majors and MWC teams that can get in if they lose their conference tournament. Siena did lose at a pretty strong Niagara the other night, but no shame their. As long as they take care of Cansius and make the semis of their conference tournament, I think they should at least be given a very good look.

And yes I guess we have no choice with GT and ND. I know ND is playing much better lately, but have you EVER seen two more mediocre teams get so much slobbering love by the BCS dominated media?! This gets REALLY old every year! :rolleyes:
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The problem with Siena is they scheduled up and lost the game they scheduled up on. Will the effort to schedule up make them good to go?

Creighton is doing nothing but winning lately. Committees love to value that.


I hate Georgetown. But they're 7-8 vs. teams currently in my field of 65, and they have UConn, Memphis, @Nova on their resume. A resume that has that attribute is usually a solid favorite to make the field, it's unbelievable. They DEFINITELY have to get their last 2, and then I'll be forced to start making judgment calls on them.
 
TheAsianSensation said:
Time to rev up the hype engine, boys.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology


Lunardi's got the multi-bid Valley and I don't. Isn't this supposed to be the other way around?
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This is the first I've seen/heard someone in the "mainstream" media give props to Creighton and include them in a tournament bracket. I know we give Lunardi a fair amount of grief on this board, but he's generally pretty accurate with his selections. I hope he's right...
 
Within the last week or so, Creighton has been talked about a lot on ESPN bracketology, and is included a lot in their blind resumes. Last night they took a vote and all three voters said Creighton would be in with an at-large. I think it was Doug Gottlieb who said win 2 in the tourney, and Creighton is a lock.
 
We haven't heard much on Creighton because they were the projected autobid for awhile. Now that UNI is considered the current autobid because of the tiebreak, he's forced to look at Creighton as an at-large.

1-0 vs. the top 50 is not the kind of stat you want associated with you. Nor their paltry non-con SoS.

Rather amusingly, the entire Valley needs ISU to absolutely lay an egg against Creighton in the semis coming up, and then for a team on the other side of the bracket (us, duh) to then win.
 
I plan to do a full-blown bubble watch tonight, if all goes well. Complete analysis, over several posts, of the entire bubble. It'll give me a good chance to make fun of Gary Williams over and over again.
 
TheAsianSensation said:
I plan to do a full-blown bubble watch tonight, if all goes well. Complete analysis, over several posts, of the entire bubble. It'll give me a good chance to make fun of Gary Williams over and over again.
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Maryland is hanging on the bubble... but they are running out of chances. They have one game left in the ACC before the ACC Tourney and that's at home against Virginia. That one isn't gonna help and it could only hurt. They will have to make a run in the ACC Tourney to be kept in consideration.

But then again, they lost at home to Morgan St!

They lost at Clemson by almsot 30 points!!

They lost at Duke by 41 points!!!
 
I won't do full breakdowns tonight. No time.

Let's just laugh at Kentucky instead. They just crapped the bed against Georgia. At home.

In a related note, Kentucky's message board currently has 11,000 posters viewing.
 
Allow me a vent.

Remember 3 years ago when high RPIs were all the rage? MSU missing with a 21? Hofstra with a 29? Team RPI was a major factor in everyone's reasoning.

And yet it appears, 3 years later, the NCAA has successfully taught everyone not to hype RPI.


And now they're telling us conference RPI is meaningless - just as the MVC started to crack the top 8 on a consistent basis.

CONSPIRACY! :lol:

It's too bad we have rotating committee members. Each person values their own aspect of the resume, so naturally, the selection criteria changes. I'd like to see some uniformity for once for the next few years.
 
Yea... I remember the knock on Mo St in 2006 was their top 50 RPI wins came from inside their conference only.

Hmmmm.... wonder who will get in this year with that same kind of portfolio... but it will be a BCS conference team. :)
 
MacabreMob said:
Yea... I remember the knock on Mo St in 2006 was their top 50 RPI wins came from inside their conference only.

Hmmmm.... wonder who will get in this year with that same kind of portfolio... but it will be a BCS conference team. :)
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What year DOESN'T have a dozen teams with that quality :lol:
 
And everyone's second-favorite ;) bracketologist:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology


If one of the byproducts of this madness is 8 B10 teams and 7 ACC and BE teams, I will laugh.

Creighton's moving on up. Beyond last 4 in at this point.

Do you realize how close we are to a 2-bid SEC? You, know, in fact, I might have a 2-bid SEC in my projections later. We'll see.
 
TheAsianSensation said:
And everyone's second-favorite ;) bracketologist:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology


If one of the byproducts of this madness is 8 B10 teams and 7 ACC and BE teams, I will laugh.

Creighton's moving on up. Beyond last 4 in at this point.

Do you realize how close we are to a 2-bid SEC?
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Yea... it's gonna be a crappy tourney. I will likely not watch after the first couple rounds. Same for the NIT... I think it will get a lot of Auto-Qualifiers and a bunch of BCS schools (along with a couple Mid-Majors getting 5 and 6 seeds).
 
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