[Rosiak's Blog] Is it March already?

[ToddRosiakSays]

Is it March already?

Apparently, November is not too early for predicting the NCAA tournament field.

Gary Parrish of CBS Sportsline projects that Marquette will be one of three Big East teams that receive a top-four seeding in the 64-team event.

Marquette is seeded No. 3 in the South region (he doesn't seem worried about Trevor Mbakwe's season-ending injury). Georgetown and Louisville are both No. 2 seeds.

While some think as many as 10 Big East schools could receive bids, Parrish predicts that eight schools from the conference will participate in the madness in March.   

http://blogs.jsonline.com/muhoops/archive/2007/11/06/is-it-march-already.aspx

[tomcrean4pres]

10?!?! wow no way... I think we might have 10 teams that are good enough i dont think we will get 10 bids because they will all beat up on each other in conference play...

[dwaderoy2004]

i dunno.  on college gameday last night, they were saying that the pac ten could get up to 8 teams into the tourney.  for non-math majors, that's 80% of the league.  a big east equivalent would be 12 or 13 teams.  i think expanding the big east schedule helps because 10-8 looks a lot better than 9-7.  i think for a league like the big east, your high profile non-con games must be won if you are a fringe team, and that will determine how many teams we get in ultimately...

[WashDCWarrior]

10-8 looks a lot better than 9-7. 

I agree even though it's a lower win percentage.

[Big Papi]

The number of teams that could go to the tourny will be decided in November and December.  Big East teams will need to have a great showing during the non-conference schedule if they want more than 7 teams in the tourny.  SO it is great that teams like DePaul scheduled tougher opponents in their non-conference schedule but if they lose a majority of those games it not only hurts DePaul but also the other fringe Big East teams that will be on the bubble.