Oso planning to go pro
MU Formula:Win 12 guaranteed tournament inviteWin 11 probable tournament inviteWin 10 Dicey
I don't know enough about NET calculation to say. I also don't know when they are supposed to get healthy again. I will say this though, if they continue to play poorly and lose, they could very well drop out of the top 75. However, if when they get healthy, they have a strong final month, it will make up for it. If i had to guess where they'll be in March I would say right about where they are now. Certainly not a cupcake, but not the high quality Q1 win that we thought it would be a month ago. Plus, as Goose pointed out, if it matters more than "are we getting a 4 or 5 seed", or "where are they sending us", the problem will be us, not them.
Yeah, I agree with all of this. I don't think we'll have any concern over getting in this year, so the quality of our resume should really just be a matter of seeding. Every little bit helps there too, though, so I'm hoping KSU gets healthy and turns things around here pretty soon.
10 is a guarantee. >11 is just about the seeding.
Well, here's hoping our lads don't let it come down to that. I'd be disappointed if we're a bubble team, and a little disappointed if we were only an 8-9 seed.I think we're better than that, and I don't think we'll be sweating it out on Selection Sunday.Go Marquette!
Lads? Facepalm.If we can't earn a 6 seed in Year 5, with two juniors, one of whom will be MU's All-Time leading scorer, and the other in the Top 10, AND while the Big East has ZERO Top 25 teams - we've set an incredibly low bar. 8 or 9 seed is a coin flip to win the first round game. Is that really what we expected for the Magical Year 5, on a roster with 2 kids who will go down as two of Marquette's finest?
MDMUWhile many are very optimistic on this team, there have been a couple of threads tracking the 2nd order stuff pretty closely for two months. I have never been believer in 2nd order stuff, but judging by threads on here, many think it MU needs that help to improve their possession in March. That said, I definitely agree with your comment on what is the talk 10 weeks out. If folks are talking about 2nd order stuff, the team is either not good enough or under performed.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
I think this is very wrong.11 - stone cold lock10 - higher seed than we want, still in9 - probably in, but why the hell did we go .500?8 - noncon may help us into Dayton, but WTF
Merely pointing out some of the shine is off a few of those teams. Chance for them to right ship or us to beat some teams that have a high ceiling of their own.Goose, I think UW Madison extension campus is still a quality team. They have some solid wins that cannot be ignored, but they are struggling at the moment. Let us hope we take care of business against Xavier.
This is about right. The bubble looks really soft at the moment. 9 could have us left out, but we'd still be a 20-win team with a number of quality non-con wins, even if teams aren't as good as they looked in December.
I seem to remember "soft bubble" talk around this time last year, too.I'd prefer it if our lads just win a f%ck-ton of BEast games, starting Sunday vs. X ... and I think they will.
And the beat goes on. Iowa State defeats Kansas 77-60.Who was the poster that called Kansas the Number 1 team in the country a few weeks back?