CBS and ESPN: C7 may stop at nine schools

[muguru]

There will not be divisions.

[CTWarrior]

Won't the league we are leaving lose their auto bid for a few years?  If I remember correctly, you need 6 schools together for 5 years.  After Rutgers/Louisville/Pittsburgh/Syracuse/ND/C7 leave, they'll be down to just UConn, Cincinnati and USF as members with at least 5 years, right?

[dwaderoy2004]

Google bubble watch uconn 2010-2011.

I did.. UConn was a lock in mid to late February...before the conference tourney.

[jficke13]

Won't the league we are leaving lose their auto bid for a few years?  If I remember correctly, you need 6 schools together for 5 years.  After Rutgers/Louisville/Pittsburgh/Syracuse/ND/C7 leave, they'll be down to just UConn, Cincinnati and USF as members with at least 5 years, right?

When this was starting to sort itself out, the NCAA made some kind of statement that both the C7 and the Old Big East would end up with Autobids. Relied in some way on the unprecedented nature of all of the conference restructuring upheaval. I'd be very surprised if we didn't have an autobid, regardless of what formal requirements there might be.

[Schmidtyfactor]

I did.. UConn was a lock in mid to late February...before the conference tourney.

UCON finished the Big East regular season in a tie for ninth place at 9–9.

I know the Big East is deep, but this is definitely bubble territory. If they were 1 and done, their bubble might have popped.

[Benny B]

UCON finished the Big East regular season in a tie for ninth place at 9–9.

I know the Big East is deep, but this is definitely bubble territory. If they were 1 and done, their bubble might have popped.

Wasn't that the year that, despite the 9-9 conference record, they had a ridiculously high SOS/RPI ranking?

[dwaderoy2004]

UCON finished the Big East regular season in a tie for ninth place at 9–9.

I know the Big East is deep, but this is definitely bubble territory. If they were 1 and done, their bubble might have popped.

Sorry, that's just not correct.  They were a lock.  Their Non-con was ridiculous (they beat Michigan St., Texas and Kentucky, all of them road/neutral games), and they were ranked 21st in the country going INTO the Big East tourney.  I looked...I could  not find a single site that had them as a bubble team going into the Big East tourney.

[dwaderoy2004]

Wasn't that the year that, despite the 9-9 conference record, they had a ridiculously high SOS/RPI ranking?

Yes.  At the end of the regular season, UConn had an RPI rank of 14 and an SOS of 7.  They were in no way, shape or form on the bubble.  To say they were is revisionist history.

[The Equalizer]

Yes.  At the end of the regular season, UConn had an RPI rank of 14 and an SOS of 7.  They were in no way, shape or form on the bubble.  To say they were is revisionist history.

They may not have been on the bubble going into the NCAA tourney, but a first round loss to DePaul may have moved them there.

[Lennys Tap]

They may not have been on the bubble going into the NCAA tourney, but a first round loss to DePaul may have moved them there.

Nobody is on the bubble going into the NCAA tourney - you're either in or out. As to the Big East tourney, a loss to DePaul would have been embarrassing but wouldn't have put the #14 RPI team on the bubble.

[buckchuckler]

UCON finished the Big East regular season in a tie for ninth place at 9–9.

I know the Big East is deep, but this is definitely bubble territory. If they were 1 and done, their bubble might have popped.

Looked up their RPI, pretty sure they were in regardless.  They had wins against MSU (38), UK (13), Tennessee(32), Texas(8), Marquette(54), Villanova(22), Georgetown(6) and Cinci(31). 

Their losses were to teams with RPI's of 7,12,17,18,21,54 (ahem, Marquette),16 and 12.  That is a tourney resume for sure. 

[dwaderoy2004]

They were in.  They were never on the bubble.  Not even close.

[martyconlonontherun]

UCON finished the Big East regular season in a tie for ninth place at 9–9.

I know the Big East is deep, but this is definitely bubble territory. If they were 1 and done, their bubble might have popped.

I thought the whole argument was about getting in only with the automatic bid. So if they only needed 2 wins in the tourney to get it, this isn't a good example.