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Normally I scoff at this production, but with Marquette possibly being listed I'm actually a little excited this year.
Would be quite the travesty if we aren’t listed Beat St John’s and I’ll be pretty ticked if we are not at least a 3
I actually wrote the original post as a 3 seed and changed it to a 4 based on where they are in Net Ranking. I do believe they are a 3 seed right now but if you got strictly on net ranking order they are 5 seed. We know based on RPI that they never rank the S curve strictly by RPI position which is why I bumped it up to a 4 but who really knows. If you look at T-Rank they are 32 so its possible we don't even see them on the Saturday. But thankfully all the questions i posed will be answered.
Every metric also has our rival to the west ahead of us by a decent margin. 6 in Net Ranking and 17 in T-Rank. They also have 3 more losses than us and lost the head to head match up. Would not be surprised to see them on the 4 line. If that is true it will show how our conference is viewed as a whole and probably not in a good way.
I wonder if the loss puts us on the border of making this show?
The resumes of projected 5 seeds really don't compare.
That's a good point. There is a decent gap behind us.
Wouldn't the drop in NET rankings affect the Top 4 seeds projection?
I wanted that 2 seed more than anything but if we don't get the two, it makes no difference to me if we get a 3,4,5,6 seed. The first game while never a given as a 3,4,5,6 should be a mid major that we should beat. The round of 32 is when the real match ups happen. playing a 3-6 seed are all about the same to me. This team can still outscore anyone imo. Last night was just one of those nights.
No one knows how much stock the committee are going to place on Net Rankings. If they go strictly on net ranking MU is a 9 seed so I really doubt they go 100% on net.
I like the 3 more than the 4 or 5 because I usually want to put off facing the 1 as long as possible. Heck, one could argue that the 6 is better than the 5 or even 4 if one thinks one's team has a legit chance at making a run.As for the seeding reveal, it will be even more interesting now to see if we're a top-4.
I assume you meant 6 seed as we are currently 21. That translates to #6.
I still think Marquette is right in the 10-15 range overall, so a 3 or 4 seed right now.We will have to see how the committee values NET vs quadrant wins. Marquette has 4 Q1B wins, and a couple Q1A.The NET might drag us down a bit but our quality wins should be enough to be a 4 seed at this point.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I'd be willing to bet that if we lost one more game and won out (including the BET) we would be a 2 seed. May even be in conversations for a 1 seed. Hell I think we could lose 2 more games (including BET) and still earn a 2 seed. We aren't the only team at the top that is going to lose games the rest of the way.