New rankings out...looks strange

[NersEllenson]

MU?  Hope not

Notice Chicos original post about MU being an NIT team was on January 25th - shortly after our loss to DePaul and Syracuse.  He was just being a realist at that time, and wasn't able to see beyond the record and results at that time, that this MU team was an NCAA caliber team.  Most fans could see MU was still a very good basketball team at that time, and chose not to jump off the bandwagon at first site of adversity.  Shoot, at least Chicos still had MU in the NIT - I recall some posts after the DePaul loss stating this team wouldn't even make the NIT.

I wonder in Georgetown's fans questioned if G'Town was a tournament worthy team after dropping to lowly Rutgers?

[WellsstreetWanderer]

That's a well done spot. I liked it. just switched to Direct in time for March Madness

Go MU!

[copious1218]

Notice Chicos original post about MU being an NIT team was on January 25th - shortly after our loss to DePaul and Syracuse.  He was just being a realist at that time, and wasn't able to see beyond the record and results at that time, that this MU team was an NCAA caliber team.  Most fans could see MU was still a very good basketball team at that time, and chose not to jump off the bandwagon at first site of adversity.  Shoot, at least Chicos still had MU in the NIT - I recall some posts after the DePaul loss stating this team wouldn't even make the NIT.

I wonder in Georgetown's fans questioned if G'Town was a tournament worthy team after dropping to lowly Rutgers?

Fair enough, I failed to look at the date of the entry/time of the entry.  Good think I didn't go all Hayward on him then.  I sure would look foolish.

[NersEllenson]

Fair enough, I failed to look at the date of the entry/time of the entry.  Good think I didn't go all Hayward on him then.  I sure would look foolish.

I actually don't have too many issues with Hayward.  I know he and Chicos go at each other, and I've had a few battles with Chicos.  As I mentioned in the previous post, Chicos, like most bandwagon/realistic fans jumped off the MU bus at first sign of REAL adversity - the DePaul loss - and wrote this team off.  If I were a betting man, I would have probably put my money on MU for the NIT at that time as well - but refused to lose faith in this team that has played so hard all year long.

[mu_hilltopper]

At the beginning of the year, I predicted a terrible BE season and no NIT.  As the season progressed, they were better than I thought .. with close losses came the thought that it would be a frustrating, oh-so-close season.  When we lost to DePaul, myself, and a TON of others gave up the ghost of the idea that we would be heading for the dance.

So .. to those of you who, after the DePaul loss, stayed on the NCAA bandwagon:  Good for you.  You kept believing the team was better than their record and you were proven correct. 

Gosh.  Imagine that.  People thinking the season was going south.  People thinking the season was brighter.   All hail our right thinking overlords who would never rub our noses in it.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Notice Chicos original post about MU being an NIT team was on January 25th - shortly after our loss to DePaul and Syracuse.  He was just being a realist at that time, and wasn't able to see beyond the record and results at that time, that this MU team was an NCAA caliber team.  Most fans could see MU was still a very good basketball team at that time, and chose not to jump off the bandwagon at first site of adversity.  Shoot, at least Chicos still had MU in the NIT - I recall some posts after the DePaul loss stating this team wouldn't even make the NIT.

I wonder in Georgetown's fans questioned if G'Town was a tournament worthy team after dropping to lowly Rutgers?

If MU does not make the NCAA, Ners, it will be the DePaul loss that keeps them out most likely.  That loss removed all margin for error.  We still have a lot of work to go.  Thank God the Pac Ten is so unbelievably bad this year to make the bubble very soft.

[NersEllenson]

If MU does not make the NCAA, Ners, it will be the DePaul loss that keeps them out most likely.  That loss removed all margin for error.  We still have a lot of work to go.  Thank God the Pac Ten is so unbelievably bad this year to make the bubble very soft.

Agreed with the above, but it is curious to note that if a "Bad Loss" such as DePaul could be the difference in us missing the tourney, why should 2 or 3 good losses against WVU and Villanova (which are factoring into our sum total of defeats and season record) not offset this 1 bad loss?  I realize that is counterintuitive logic to think 3 "good losses" could offset 1 bad loss..but interesting to think about.  At very least up to this point, MU has shown NOBODY can blow MU out of a game, and that we have pretty much been in every game except maybe Wisconsin and Syracuse (realistically speaking.)

[ChicosBailBonds]

I also think a characterization of someone being a "bandwagon" fan is incorrect.  I don't think in my life I've ever been called a bandwagon Marquette fan. Just because someone feels the team is going to go to the NIT doesn't mean they are a bandwagon fan.  Some folks view things with different prisms than others do.

MU has a tremendous opportunity in front of them right now.  They also have a few losses that could hold them back.  That is why they are on the bubble and not a lock right now.  If MU had beaten DePaul and NCState, hard not to see them as a virtual lock at this point.

Let's hope they take care of this opportunity and go 4-2 in the final 6 games.  That should be enough.

[NersEllenson]

I also think a characterization of someone being a "bandwagon" fan is incorrect.  I don't think in my life I've ever been called a bandwagon Marquette fan. Just because someone feels the team is going to go to the NIT doesn't mean they are a bandwagon fan.  Some folks view things with different prisms than others do.

MU has a tremendous opportunity in front of them right now.  They also have a few losses that could hold them back.  That is why they are on the bubble and not a lock right now.  If MU had beaten DePaul and NCState, hard not to see them as a virtual lock at this point.

Let's hope they take care of this opportunity and go 4-2 in the final 6 games.  That should be enough.

Good point - bandwagon was a wrong term to use..knee jerk reacting fan would have been better...and I'm not so much speaking of you and your prediction for the NIT, as much as some on here who after the DePaul loss predicted impending doom and that MU wouldn't even make the NIT.  That definitely qualifies as a knee jerk reacting fan!