Do you believe them? I'm sus, but I'm not in the room for the debates.
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Do you believe them? I'm sus, but I'm not in the room for the debates.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I mean, I can never be sure … but it makes sense, right? Gonzaga can’t control if all of its good wins are in November or December and they drop a conference game or two to non-Tourney teams.
I said this earlier this week. A win against Minnesota does nothing and a win against NW (regardless of how awesome) bumps us up only slightly.
8/9 makes sense right now to me.
Homecoming 2019
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He's actually pretty bad at this.
This year is a weaker field than last year (or put another way, the "non-NCAA Tournament teams" are closer to the teams that are going to make the field than last year). So the standards aren't the same, each year is just kind of its own thing.
Yep, at present I think that’s about right.
I didn’t think I’d feel this way at the beginning of the season but I’m just sorta glad we’re definitely in there…as crazy as that sounds.
I was simply replying to a guy who said:
"We really shouldn't look at any bracketologists who's employer has big money on the line to get a particular conferences teams into the tourney."
Lunardi is shown to not be very accurate every year by the people who track that. My point was he isn't trying to "get a particular conferences teams into the tourney."
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Illini in Indiana
- Indiana
IMO, we'll be a 5 or 6 if things play out "normally". Finishing 12-8 in B10, and get to final 4 of B10 tourney (6 seed) or get to final game (5 seed). Some how win B10 tourney & beat Purdue - maybe a 3-4.
6 Seed is kind of dangerous though - could get one of those just make it teams like Kentucky or NC
6 Seed is kind of dangerous though - could get one of those just make it teams like Kentucky or NC
Seeding is going to be extremely hard this year because there really isn’t much separation from a 4 seed to a 10 seed.
Big 12 dominates the top 30 of NET rankings so there are not a lot of home quad 1 win opportunities for everyone else
I don’t think MD or Iowa will be seeded ahead of us because they don’t have many road wins. Also we have a better resume than NW. their best wins are mostly home games and they had a weak non conference schedule
Our best wins are UCLA UT NW RU MSU @ Wisky with no bad loses. Our loses are against tournament teams or bubble teams very few teams can say that
Big 12 dominates the top 30 of NET rankings so there are not a lot of home quad 1 win opportunities for everyone else
I don’t think MD or Iowa will be seeded ahead of us because they don’t have many road wins. Also we have a better resume than NW. their best wins are mostly home games and they had a weak non conference schedule
Our best wins are UCLA UT NW RU MSU @ Wisky with no bad loses. Our loses are against tournament teams or bubble teams very few teams can say that
Few weeks ago, I typed that this was a 8/9th seeded team with a most likely R1 exit. Was told to "calm down." I think after today, the 8/9 seed is a reality.
Barring a win against Purdue and/or a run in the B1G Tournament, I think 10 may be the more likely scenario.
We are a bubble team. We are a talented team. We are a team that rarely plays as a team. Dain with 2 shots in a game where he should have netted a double double. This is so frustrating knowing the potential is there.
Wow! That may sound right.
Honestly would rather have the 10 than the 8/9. Would rather be on the bottom half of a bracket than have to deal with the opposite of the 8/9, then 1, then the 4/5. We could be in bottom half and be slept on as a 10, then have a shot against a 2 seed, which we've already beaten 2/4 predicted 2 seeds this season.
Absolutely.
We could lose out and we will still make it (which won't happen). But yes, this regular season has been very disappointing. We are an 8 seed right now which sucks, and we need to do everything we can to get back to the 7 line
krushalot2005
- Chicago, IL
While not ideal but thinking about strategy, do we want to loose a couple games here and get into the 10 seed?
If we lose to Michigan we definitely want to lose to PU and the BTT game. Hopefully we end up a 10 seed at that point and avoid 8/9.
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