Bracketology thread

And that was before the Xavier game.

It was updated this morning. It includes the Xavier win.

Will the Big East get more respect this year then last year?The other bubbles teams that play in the other conferences might have the edge because their conference is tougher. Beating ranked Nova would on the road would be huge and Avoid us have a goose egg against ranked teams.

....It looks like this team found their "come to Jesus" moment and understand that  they need one more big run to make the tournament.

The BE has the #2 RPI. BE will get plenty of respect from the committee. The only conference that's tougher is the B12. So if the conference gave benefit to other conferences being tougher they'd be wrong.

St. John's has 2 marquee top 25 RPI wins over Providence. I think that's more than enough. Just need to take care of getting enough wins. You have 16 wins currently (for the committee the win over the D2 team doesn't count) so I think you need at least 4 more wins total including BET.

Quote from: nudginator59 on February 15, 2015, 06:42:22 PM

Will the Big East get more respect this year then last year?The other bubbles teams that play in the other conferences might have the edge because their conference is tougher. Beating ranked Nova would on the road would be huge and Avoid us have a goose egg against ranked teams.

....It looks like this team found their "come to Jesus" moment and understand that  they need one more big run to make the tournament.

The BE has the #2 RPI. BE will get plenty of respect from the committee. The only conference that's tougher is the B12. So if the conference gave benefit to other conferences being tougher they'd be wrong.

St. John's has 2 marquee top 25 RPI wins over Providence. I think that's more than enough. Just need to take care of getting enough wins. You have 16 wins currently (for the committee the win over the D2 team doesn't count) so I think you need at least 4 more wins total including BET.

Spot on IMO.  Could possibly afford a first round loss in BET with three wins as long as it's against a top 3 team.  But 4 should leave us comfortably in.  Who knows though, lots can change.  Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota losing on Sunday helps (although the Minn loss is a double edged sword).  Miami could help us out by losing in BC today.

10 seed in latest ESPN bracket

Dom's playing his best basketball ever
D'lo's playing his best basketball ever
Phil's playing his best basktball ever
And Jordan, Branch and Obekpa are playing their best basketball ever (albeit not as consistently as the top three)

Yet we're still only on the bubble?  What gives?

Dom's playing his best basketball ever
D'lo's playing his best basketball ever
Phil's playing his best basktball ever
And Jordan, Branch and Obekpa are playing their best basketball ever (albeit not as consistently as the top three)

Yet we're still only on the bubble?  What gives?

Lavin can't recruit!

Official rpi of 41.   If we get in the 30s we are pretty much a lock.  Beating Gtown on road would be huge.  Also need providence to finish well to keep those as quality wins.

Dom and Phil are playing their best basketball ever.  D-lo when healthy is, but he was not healthy again the second half of the Xavier game.  Hopefully he is better by tomorrow.

When Jordan plays even his B or B+ game we are tough to beat because of the above. 

Saturday's W was the season's most critical game to date. There couldn't of been more at stake for our resume and momentum, and the team answered the bell. A top50 weekend road win, just tremendous.

Probably need to win 4 more regular season conference games to lock it up. Win 1 of 2 against G-Town, beat Seton Hall and Marquette. This leaves win 1 of 2 between Xavier and Villanova.

Still not an easy task.

Saturday's W was the season's most critical game to date. There couldn't of been more at stake for our resume and momentum, and the team answered the bell. A top50 weekend road win, just tremendous.

Actually most was looking for a split so it wasn't critical, since we still had this game, if we lost that one. If we lost that one then then one would have been critical.
It was a huge win though, since now we could avoid calling this game critical.

They got their win, so should be no pressure on them tomorrow and just go out there and have fun. Sometimes you play better without pressure on you to win.
Looking forward to this game.

Probably need to win 4 more regular season conference games to lock it up. Win 1 of 2 against G-Town, beat Seton Hall and Marquette. This leaves win 1 of 2 between Xavier and Villanova.

Still not an easy task.

Xavier must've been some win,. Jumping from bubble to 10 seed?

1st teams in are usually 11 seeds, 10 seed not a huge jump

Quote from: Dave on February 16, 2015, 01:59:55 PM

Probably need to win 4 more regular season conference games to lock it up. Win 1 of 2 against G-Town, beat Seton Hall and Marquette. This leaves win 1 of 2 between Xavier and Villanova.

Still not an easy task.

Xavier must've been some win,. Jumping from bubble to 10 seed?

I think it was a very big win. Xavier is one of those programs that's always good, so you can consider a win against them on their court to be meaningful no matter the circumstance. That said, Xavier is now 14-2 at home. That's pretty impressive.

Quality wins include @Providence [RPI 23], Providence[23], @Xavier[40], St Mary's [55]. Other wins include @Syracuse [70] and Minnesota [76]. The schedule provides opportunities for additional quality wins.

With our SOS currently 31, we will be playing...
@Georgetown [RPI 21]
Seton Hall [75]
Xavier [40]
Georgetown [21]
@Marquette
@Villanova [4]

It's there for the taking.

Nice wins by Xavier and Syracuse.  Every little bit helps.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Lunardi has us in Play In game

Alot of basketball left and all we have to do is keep winning but i find it hard that teams like Texas A&M, Georgia UCLA and Iowa have better seeds....but as i said before keep winning and all this means nothing.

Big One Saturday!

Purdue just jumped into the last 4 in by beating Indiana on the road

Our St. Mary's win is now a top 50 win at they moved up to 49 in the RPI.  Hopefully they have a good showing against Gonzaga tonight!!

Probably need to win 4 more regular season conference games to lock it up. Win 1 of 2 against G-Town, beat Seton Hall and Marquette. This leaves win 1 of 2 between Xavier and Villanova.

Still not an easy task.

For what an eight seed?  You guys aren't really that good at math are you?