Streak helps MU climb Bracketology board
Written by: Emmett Prosser
With selection Sunday less than three weeks away, it is completely acceptable to keep your eye on ever-changing NCAA tournament projections. (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology)
Thanks to Marquette's recent five-game Big East winning streak, ESPN.com's Joe Lunardi has moved the Golden Eagles back onto the No. 5 line. Lunardi predicts the Golden Eagles will face 12th-seeded New Mexico (http://proxy.espn.go.com/ncb/region?group=1&teamId=269#269) in the first round.
Currently seven Big East teams are projected to make the field. However, Syracuse still has a chance make the field. The Orange host Marquette next Saturday at the Carrier Dome. Plenty of other teams remain on the bubble (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bubblewatch?id=69).
Marquette is 19th in Gary Parrish's (http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/polls/top25) CBS Sportsline poll.
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http://blogs.jsonline.com/muhoops/archive/2008/02/26/streak-helps-mu-climb-bracketology-board.aspx
Having grown up in Albuquerque (yeah...my first winter in MKE was hell) I started going to Lobo games in The Pit since I was very little so this would be a dream matchup for me.
Alford has New Mexico playing really well (despite loosing to BYU in OT last night) and Senior J.R. Giddens is a solid guard. Beyond JR though, size-wise it is a wash, and there is no way UNM has the overall team speed to keep up with MU.
There is a lot of basketball to be played before selection sunday, but this would be a good first round opponent for MU.
How is Xavier a 2 seed? Is the A-10 that good this year?
A 10 looked like it would be really good this year with RI, Dayton (at Louisville)and UMass (at Syracuse)having some very good non-confernece wins but those teams have had medicore league records. The thinking is Xavier is that good this year not the A-10, good PG in Lavendor who transferred from Oklahoma and was IIRC a top 50 guy out of HS.
http://bracketproject.atspace.com/comparison.htm
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