I would like to see 18 in the win column right now though.
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I would like to see 18 in the win column right now though.
It is a very tough task. There have only been 11 teams with 14 losses to ever receive an at-large bid to the tourney. Linked here with profiles on each team:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball...-basketball-teams-make-ncaa-tournament-double
Most had extenuating circumstances. Interesting that MSU's AD heads the selection committee this year....of all years.
Lunardi now has us in his Next Four Out, which is an improvement, especially considering I can never remember Lunardi giving us much love.
yupMan... the more I look at these rankings and whatnots, the more mad I get at blowing the Winthrop game and how unprepared they looked for the Penn St games. Pull out Winthrop and beat Penn St once and the Illini would be solidly in the Tourney with a win over Rutgers regardless of whatever happens in the BTT.
Man... the more I look at these rankings and whatnots, the more mad I get at blowing the Winthrop game and how unprepared they looked for the Penn St games. Pull out Winthrop and beat Penn St once and the Illini would be solidly in the Tourney with a win over Rutgers regardless of whatever happens in the BTT.
Bracket matrix updated:
Small update today with only 30+ brackets and the total number of brackets actually decreased by about 6.
UI is up to 32 out of 119 and over half of those submitted today.
Man... the more I look at these rankings and whatnots, the more mad I get at blowing the Winthrop game and how unprepared they looked for the Penn St games. Pull out Winthrop and beat Penn St once and the Illini would be solidly in the Tourney with a win over Rutgers regardless of whatever happens in the BTT.
I think Lunardi is on crack. How is Cal in? 15 of their 19 wins are against sub 100 teams. 8 of those are sub 200. They are 1-7 against the top 50, with their one win against USC. They have a mediocre mid-major's record. Who cares if they lost to 6 good teams and the home games were close? They are an NIT team all the way.
Xavier still in? Xavier 18-12 does have 4 nice wins Creighton, Wake, Seton Hall and Providence - those sound like our top wins. one problem though. They have not beaten anyone not named Depaul since Feb 4. they have dropped 6 straight, 4 to other bubble teams.
Can someone come up with a list of bubble teams and who they play this weekend so we have an idea of who to root for and against.
I think we are going to be sweating it unless we get 3 more wins. Wake Forest's win last night was not helpful. Also we need to root for ISU to lose early.
Two wins gives us a coin flips chance of making it. Three would most certainly make the odds closer to 100%. Neither makes us a lock.
To be fair, there likey would be many more 14 loss teams in historically if the tourney had been 68 teams earlier than 2011...that means going back all those years, there would be 4 more teams let in each year.
I'd love to see an Ill. St/UI first four game.
this is one way to strongly prove a point....:thumb: