Lunardi has us in the play-in game now.

[SouthFarmchicken]

We gotta win these next 4, no question.

 

[LimaoCabeca]

Play in game doesn’t count as making the tournament for me. Gut check time.

 

[mstateglfr]

I guess it's time to start clarifying this then- IT'S NOT A PLAY IN GAME.

It's the 17ing tournament whether you are able to admit it or not.
On a related note, the SEC Basketball tournaments first day of games are not play in games. Those are just the first round and other teams have a bye.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I guess it's time to start clarifying this then- IT'S NOT A PLAY IN GAME.

It's the 17ing tournament whether you are able to admit it or not.
On a related note, the SEC Basketball tournaments first day of games are not play in games. Those are just the first round and other teams have a bye.

I bless you in your endeavors to convince them it’s not a play in game but you’ll never do it.

 

[patdog]

I guess it's time to start clarifying this then- IT'S NOT A PLAY IN GAME.

It's the 17ing tournament whether you are able to admit it or not.
On a related note, the SEC Basketball tournaments first day of games are not play in games. Those are just the first round and other teams have a bye.

A rose by any other name…. Call it what you want. It’s still a play-in game.

 

[pseudonym]

I guess it's time to start clarifying this then- IT'S NOT A PLAY IN GAME.

It's the 17ing tournament whether you are able to admit it or not.
On a related note, the SEC Basketball tournaments first day of games are not play in games. Those are just the first round and other teams have a bye.

What you're saying is that the play-in games are the first round and 60 of 68 teams get a bye. When 88% of teams get a bye, it's not a bye. The other 12% are in play-in games.

In 2013, the tournament tried to frame the play-in games as the "first round" and refer to the first weekend as the second round and third round. Nobody liked that because it was confusing, so they abandoned it in 2016.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

He’s had us there since the Bama beatdown. And we probably can’t really move up for the next week or two unless teams around us lose. Just an indictment on who we are playing.

Making the First Four 1,000,000 percent counts as making the tourney and it’s not really up for debate. It’s a 68 team field now and has been since 2011.

That said, the goal for this team should be to be safely in, would prefer to see us do that.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

i received some guidance on the debate

 

[chuckster.sixpack]

A rose by any other name…. Call it what you want. It’s still a play-in game.

Or put another way, a NCAA Tournament game.

 

[TNDawg1]

We’re not a bubble program. We’re a play in game program.

I have my room booked in Dayton for next year.

 

[pseudonym]

I know we wouldn't be the first repeat First Four participant, but would we be the first back-to-back First Four participant?

ETA: I don't care about the 16-seed First Four participants.

 

[curseddawgs]

Play in game = you hear your name on selection Sunday= NCAA tournament appearance

 

[mstateglfr]

What you're saying is that the play-in games are the first round and 60 of 68 teams get a bye. When 88% of teams get a bye, it's not a bye. The other 12% are in play-in games.

In 2013, the tournament tried to frame the play-in games as the "first round" and refer to the first weekend as the second round and third round. Nobody liked that because it was confusing, so they abandoned it in 2016.

I am not saying the play in games are the first round.

I am saying there are no play in games. They are called 'First Four' and are...wait for it...The first four games of the tournament.

2025 March Madness: Men's NCAA tournament schedule, dates

Here is the schedule for March Madness 2025, which begins with Selection Sunday on March 16 and ends with the Final Four and the national championship on April 5 and 7.

www.ncaa.com

 

[msudawg1200]

Wait, I was told all those losses were ok because they were Q1 losses.

 

[85Bears]

Play in games should just be shortened games that are played at halftime during the real games, like peewee games during varsity games in high school.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Its a tournament game. The only reason this asinine argument ever got legs is because the NCAA is so galactically stupid that they made 2 of the games for a 10-seed or whatever it is.

If you’re gonna have First Four, Play-in, or whatever….the 4 games, should….without any mother17ing question….be played by the 8 WORST TEAMS with the winners being awarded the 16-seeds. Having #63 play #64 to see who is #40 is the dumbest idea ever conceived in the history of sports. Not even remotely up for debate.

You do it that way, and no one would ever question if they “made the tourney” or not. MVSU wins the SWAC, loses the First-Four game, who cares. They made the tourney.

 

[85Bears]

If you lose a play in game, did you ever really make the tourney ?*

 

[L4Dawg]

We gotta win these next 4, no question.

A simple question: Do you ever post anything positive?

 

[SouthFarmchicken]

A simple question: Do you ever post anything positive?

Do Msstate athletics every do anything positive?