Do we buy that we're safely in?
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I think we're in. If we could come out hot and put one on UT the tomorrow, it would be a lock.
I also think our stellar neutral court record against solid competition matters.
I also think our stellar neutral court record against solid competition matters.
Not pulling for om at all, but they do have a punchers chance.
Maybe if aTm runs the table they steal what could be our spot. Dunno. There's a whole lot of basketball in the next 3 days.
We're in. For real. None of that Dayton bullshat.
Im not buying it until I see our name on the CBS board Sunday afternoon.
Our Net last year was like 48-49 on selection Sunday & we were sent to Dayton.
This year it should be in the 38-40 range on selection Sunday
This year it should be in the 38-40 range on selection Sunday
1. Dayton is in and you’re just making **** up if you say it’s not. Been a 68 team field for 13 years now.
2. I think we’re above the Dayton line. Get killed tomorrow and have bid stealers then we maybe could end up in Dayton. But at the moment, no we’re not a Dayton team.
2. I think we’re above the Dayton line. Get killed tomorrow and have bid stealers then we maybe could end up in Dayton. But at the moment, no we’re not a Dayton team.
I suggest we not shat the bed vs (I meant TN)
Need a strong, we belong showing, IMO.
Need a strong, we belong showing, IMO.
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I hope we receive one of the sixty byes.
Nobody wants to be there but the point remains that if you’re in there you’re still in. I realize it was a 64/65 team field the last time our fans cared about hoops. But those last four teams in are still in. There have been multiple Final Four teams that only got in via the Dayton route.
2, which yes is multiple: VCU in 2011 and ucla in 2021. It's still a gimmick, and virtually no one cares about it. 64 or GT17O
You’re really gonna hate it when they expand to 72 or 76 in a few years.
I would argue nobody really cares about anything but the sweet 16. Making a the tourney is a huge deal because there is so much luck involved once you get there. Make the tourney enough and you will catch lightning in a bottle at some point. Yes, you get some recognition as a team that is always there, but I'm not sure you get much recognition if you don't occasionally make a run to at least the sweet 16. All of the midmajor teams I remember being consistent tournament teams back when we were relevant in basketball made sweet 16 runs. I can't think of a team that consistently won their conference tournament in a one bid league to make the league but didn't make a sweet 16. I'm not sure if that's because you are going to make a sweet 16 if you are consistently in the tournament, or if you just don't get lasting recognition from consistently checking out in the first weekend.
I don’t understand the whole playing in the first 4 is not really in the tournament. What the hell do you call it then?
Im all for going to 96 or even 128. Just don't make some small number of games a sideshow.
It kind of sucks, it’s like going 6-6 and making the weed wacker bowl and playing La Tech
Well at this point calipari is right, we a third round team. We getting tenner in the third round, babay!
I don't think a quality loss means **** right now.
Win and it may improve a seed. Loss, no matter how, means nothing.
Other than the fact you are in the NCAA tournament. Which means you have the opportunity to win it.
Haha well I can understand the analogy but I think that’s just the product of a mediocre season. Would you rather the season result in a first 4 game or the NIT?
Its much, much more prestigious than that. There are only 36 at-large bids to the NCAA tournament out of over 300 teams. Like 80 teams play in bowl games / CFP out of only 130ish total.
We are currently the top rated “bubble team” per Lunardi. One spot away from being off bubble entirely.
Ok you take your play-in game trophy and skip off into the sunset. that’s an embarrassing take.
Go to 96. Eliminate the useless NIT. All conferences get 2 bids. One for regular season title, one for tournament title. If one team wins both, next best overall record gets 2nd bid.
And that is why you need to be the top 35 to rest assured to get in. (At Large). 64/68 is more than enough to determine a champion.
Ridicules to have any more.
If you’re a P5 team and you use prestigious in the same sentence as the play-in game, it is kind of embarrassing.
That’s not a knock on this team as they will get an at large bid. But it is similar to playing in the weedwhacker bowl if that’s your peak accomplishment. it might be decent if you are in the Missouri Valley or the sunbelt.
What is sad is that MSU has fans that don't think we made the tournament last season because MSU lost in the 'play-in' game.
That right there is 17ing pathetic.
Teams that play in Dayton are in the 'first four' of the tournament. That would be the opposite of the 'final four'. See how the NCAA even adjusted things to make it have a fun little term that matches the other rounds of the tournament?
Not following you here man. I agree with you on most things, but we made the NCAA tournament last year. Sucks we lost and didn’t make the big viewing weekend but in the books, we were a tournament team.
I have never said that making the play in game Is not making the tournament.
but if you’re a P5 school it’s a very reasonable expectation to get an at large bid in the ncaa tournament. NIT is generally for teams barely above .500
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