Week of 1/12 Bracketology

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Fighter of the Nightman
lstewart53x3 said:
Yep, Q1A is:

Home: vs. NET Ranks 1-15.
Neutral: vs. NET Ranks 1-25.
Away: vs. NET Ranks 1-40.

We currently have 2.

#20 Iowa away (top 40)
#39 Ohio St away (top 40)

And:

#19 Texas Tech home (need top 15)
#27 Tennessee neutral (need top 25)

Are both close as well.
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And we have the following opportunities left in the regular season!

vs. #1 Michigan
at #6 Purdue
at #11 Nebraska
at #14 Michigan State

Also, beating any of #1 Michigan, #6 Purdue, #11 Nebraska, #14 Michigan State or #20 Iowa - who we may or may not see before Sunday of the BTT, which is obviously not counted due to time constraints - would count, as well. We have some tough games left, but we also have some massive opportunities to even step into the #1 seed conversation if we really get hot...
 
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Piotyr
I remain convinced that a Miami-OH team that goes undefeated in the regular season will somehow rise to a top 10 ranking and still be the 90th most efficient team in the country. If they then lose in the conference tournament, they'll get an at large bid, and I am rooting for this scenario for funsies (they may not be one of the best teams, but I don't lose a lot of sleep for the 50th best team that finished 16-14 and 8-10 in conference).
 
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RollChief
Piotyr said:
I remain convinced that a Miami-OH team that goes undefeated in the regular season will somehow rise to a top 10 ranking and still be the 90th most efficient team in the country. If they then lose in the conference tournament, they'll get an at large bid, and I am rooting for this scenario for funsies (they may not be one of the best teams, but I don't lose a lot of sleep for the 50th best team that finished 16-14 and 8-10 in conference).
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Apparently you can pull NET rankings out as an excel export, so I made a "Cinderella top 25". I essentially filtered out P5 schools plus the WCC, the only schools who're going to make the tournament are Zaga and St. Mary's and I obviously don't consider either a Cinderella. I highlighted the highest team from each mid major conference to show a simple projection of AQs.

I'm personally looking forward to Cream Abdul-Jabbar Part 2: Saint Louis

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#30      
Piotyr
This is Santa Clara erasure and I will not stand for it.
 
#31      
ptgrd23
I would love to see a 34-0 (win conf tournament as well) in the big dance. Reminds me of when Larry Bird led Indiana State to NCAA finals 33-0 then 33-1 after loss to Magic and MSU.
 
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Piotyr
Illinois still 7th in Torvik, passed by Houston but passed Iowa State. They're also as close to 2nd (Arizona) as they are to 8th (Iowa State). I'd be curious to see how much they jump if they really take care of business tonight.
 
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NarrowJ
Fly Illini Fly! said:
Some important notes in the NET:

Northwestern moves up one spot after our game from #77 to #76 (needs to finish top75 to be a Q1).

Mizzou moves up from #76 to #64 after win over Auburn (needs to finish top50 to be a Q1).
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We also moved up 1 spot to 9 didn't we? Or were we already 9 yesterday?
 
#47      
lstewart53x3
Fly Illini Fly! said:
Some important notes in the NET:

Northwestern moves up one spot after our game from #77 to #76 (needs to finish top75 to be a Q1).

Mizzou moves up from #76 to #64 after win over Auburn (needs to finish top50 to be a Q1).
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Northwestern actually had moved up to 74 yesterday, so last night’s win was temporarily a Quad1 win and they dropped to 76 after the loss.

Northwestern is now a team to root for the rest of the year (outside of 2/4).
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
lstewart53x3 said:
Northwestern actually had moved up to 74 yesterday, so last night’s win was temporarily a Quad1 win and they dropped to 76 after the loss.

Northwestern is now a team to root for the rest of the year (outside of 2/4).
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Ah, must have been the day prior I checked that Mizzou and NW were 76 and 77.
 
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HereSoIDontGetFined
NarrowJ said:
Torvik top 12 since 12/20/25:

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By a full 1%

We are so far ahead of 2nd that the next closest gap between any of the top 9 is 0.34% (5 Houston & 6 Virginia)

I know we don't hang banners for analytics, but that's pretty good
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Michigan has been struggling a bit offensively since the full conference slate started. But only a bit. I'm still trying to figure out how the metrics rate defense, though. They got blasted by Wisconsin on that end of the court and still are six-tenths of a point higher than us.
 
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