MU With a Double Bye?!? Very Likely....

[Benny B]

Interesting......

Assuming that for the last three games of the BE season:

A) All games between two teams in the top 11 of the BE standings (MU and up) are won by the home team, and
B) The top 11 wins all games against the bottom 5 regardless of location

MU would end the season in a five-way tie for 4th place amongst Cincy, Cuse, WVU, & GTown.  Since MU would have only one loss to those four teams and everyone else in the group would have at least two, MU would win the tie-breaker for the #4 seed.

MU doesn't control its own destiny, but the above is a very possible scenario.  There are also a couple of other scenarios where MU can still earn the #4 seed, but if Georgetown beats Syracuse in D.C. and Louisville can beat Pitt at the Colonel-sieum this weekend, I'm going to start feeling pretty good about MU having a couple extra days of rest going into the BET.

[SaveOD238]

"Colonel-seum"....excellent!

It would be an amazing story to go from 11 to 4 in just four games' time, but I would be very, very happy with those results.  Somehow I think we're going to manage not to break our streak of never finishing below 6th, but it depends on if we can lock down our last three games as projected.

women are looking at a good shot at a top 4 seed in their tourney too if they can knock off depaul at home on saturday

[MuMark]

Possible yes....."very likely"......

[Marquette84]

A) All games between two teams in the top 11 of the BE standings (MU and up) are won by the home team, and

This is quite an assumption.  Among games between those 11 teams season to date, the home team is 28-19. 

Even in our own games, MU has a win at UConn, and St. Johns as a win at MU--two deviations from your assumption..   

[BM1090]

you should write here who we want to win every game sometime tomorrow, oh lets say before 2 o clock? I need something to keep me entertained at work

[TJ]

I hope they can pull solidly into the top 8.  That would be a nice accomplishment by itself - there are a LOT of really good teams in the conference this year.

[#MUBB]

I remember how much the teams with a double-bye struggled last year in the BE Tourney... Just going over some scenarios in my head and how I wouldn't mind a game against a South Florida or PC to give us a better chance at a win in the tournament. But, given the choice between that or an 11-7 regular season record and a tough first BE Tourney game... I'll take the 11 conf. wins.

[MikeyT42]

Interesting......

Assuming that for the last three games of the BE season:

A) All games between two teams in the top 11 of the BE standings (MU and up) are won by the home team, and
B) The top 11 wins all games against the bottom 5 regardless of location

MU would end the season in a five-way tie for 4th place amongst Cincy, Cuse, WVU, & GTown.  Since MU would have only one loss to those four teams and everyone else in the group would have at least two, MU would win the tie-breaker for the #4 seed.

MU doesn't control its own destiny, but the above is a very possible scenario.  There are also a couple of other scenarios where MU can still earn the #4 seed, but if Georgetown beats Syracuse in D.C. and Louisville can beat Pitt at the Colonel-sieum this weekend, I'm going to start feeling pretty good about MU having a couple extra days of rest going into the BET.

Interesting thought, who would have began to surmise that after all the Bull Roar that Marquette has gone through this year, we can still be a top 4 seed in the big east. Wouldn't we want Pitt to win vs. L'ville?

[DCWarriors04]

Yeah so ND can finish 2nd, giving us a tie breaker over UConn if we finish with the same record as them.

[StillAWarrior]

Interesting......

Assuming that for the last three games of the BE season:

A) All games between two teams in the top 11 of the BE standings (MU and up) are won by the home team, and

Wow...this part hasn't been working out.  At all.