I think one more win can get us there. And keep in mind we are not necessarily on the 4 seed line now in the eyes of the selection committee. Don't read too much into what the polls say. The committee are much better-informed than most of the AP voters, which is a good thing.
AP = media. They don't watch even half of the games. The link below is a better place to start if you're looking to see where we'll ultimately land (#2, #3 or #4) next Sunday.Looking at individual AP voter breakdown (AP voter breakdown), there are a number of voters who moved Wisconsin up significantly this week (e.g., one had Bucky at 15 last week and 4 this week!). A couple others moved them from 13 last week to 8 this week and from 9 to 6. Pretty bizarre. Maybe they voted before Sunday?
Mixed feelings. Good Belo is just incredible and we need him to go far in the postseason.
I was referring to before Belo got his last foul.
Overall record matters in the AP poll. We’re the highest 8 loss team besides Texas Tech who has a more impressive resume then us. Wisconsin has 2 fewer losses than us and is 8-3 in Quad 1 to our 6-5. Had we not beaten them in H2H we wouldn’t have been within 4 spots of them.
[insert Shawshank gif here]
I think Belo is on the cusp with his 3 point shooting. His misses have been rattling inside the rim before bouncing out.
I looked a day or two into the future on Fox Sports and saw nothing.......
RJ is 16 for 19.
Id be pretty shocked if Goode wasn’t goode
I think to me it's the equivalent of our team hitting a 3 pointer vs missing a 3 pointer. It's more boring and conventional, but it's just a score vs a non-score. A missed shot isn't necessarily better than a turnover just because we got the shot off. If he's seeing something that was close to happening and it just missed, how is that worse than Cockburn missing a layup under the basket? As long as he has those moments of a score where there wouldn't be if he was on the bench (either him scoring or assisting someone else) and they're more common than the missed opportunities, he's doing fine.
Thank you, that made my day. Snorted my cocktail through my nose funny.
Not even close. SOS and number of Q1 and Q2 wins is lopsided towards Wisconsin.
I think I'm on GIF probation. Sorry
Well, one more decent win and no losses might. But there will need to be a loss to SOMEbody without a championship game appearance.
They're a very hot team right now, but if the rankings are supposed to encompass the whole season, I get it. They'd have 3 fewer wins and 2 more losses than anyone else in the top 25, and efficiency rankings don't have them very high either. #73 in Kenpom, #78 in Torvik, #59 in Sagarin, #76 in NET. I think they're certainly a top 25 team over the last month or so though.
Really?
That's because they are dragged down by the abysmal play they had at the beginning of the season. Show me 25 teams that are better than them, right now (or over the last two months). They'll have a chance to prove it in the tournament, of course.
