Did MU move up the seed line with BET win?

[Tyler COLEk]

Sorry to pile on ol’ Tamu, but here’s a specific receipt:

I know this hard for some to accept, but when it comes to a 2-seed, we don't control our own destiny. We will need some good teams to lose to some bad teams if we want to move up another seed line.

With UCLA beating Colorado today, I think we are down to two remote chances at a 2 seed. We need one of Arizona/UCLA to lose their next three games (they play each other on March 4, whoever wins will be locked in for a 2 seed). Or we need Baylor to lose their next 3. For either option, we need Kansas State to lose at least one of their next two games and it would be helpful if Tennessee lost at least one more (but maybe not necessary). All that happens, and maybe a trip to the BET finals (win or lose) is enough to grab the last 2 seed.

Neither of those scenarios happened. From that post on, Baylor immediately beat OSU before losing twice to Iowa State. Just underscoring how difficult it is to project the bracket with any real certainty, especially with multiple games still remaining in regular season play.

But it’s all kumbaya at this point — I’m sure Tamu is thrilled with the 2-seed.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

We get great analysis on this board. For that I’m thankful.

[PointWarrior]

If the world could only run on metrics and analytics, no eye ball tests or common sense needed. 

[lawdog77]

If the world could only run on metrics and analytics, no eye ball tests or common sense needed.

TAMU gave his opinion, showed is work with statistics/analytics, and did it in a non-snarky way. I am appreciative of his work, and he adds a heckuva lot more to this board than I do.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

To be fair, he might be thinking of posts like these… “I think the 2-seed door is slammed shut” isn’t quite “impossible”, though:

Sorry to pile on ol’ Tamu, but here’s a specific receipt:

Neither of those scenarios happened. From that post on, Baylor immediately beat OSU before losing twice to Iowa State. Just underscoring how difficult it is to project the bracket with any real certainty, especially with multiple games still remaining in regular season play.

But it’s all kumbaya at this point — I’m sure Tamu is thrilled with the 2-seed.

You'll notice the words "may" and "think" in both of those posts. I never stated a 2 seed was an impossibility and if you read my subsequent posts through Selection Sunday I repeatedly said that I thought winning the BET could be enough though I didn't think so.

I thought we were getting a 3 seed. I was wrong. I never said and I never meant to imply that my prediction was a certainty. What I was trying to do was push back on other's posts who were stating that a 2 seed was a certainty regardless of how the teams around us performed.

I made a wrong prediction. I accept being dunked on as my penance. I'm just glad that it was one of my negative predictions for MU that was wrong for a change.

[Tyler COLEk]

Fair enough — sorry to pile on. It was just a hot button issue on the scoop for a few weeks there.

Now we can all appreciate the 2-seed and get ready to watch tnis tournament.

[Newsdreams]

Fair enough — sorry to pile on. It was just a hot button issue on the scoop for a few weeks there.

Now we can all appreciate the 2-seed and get ready to watch tnis tournament.

One thing that really helped us is that our opponents and wins ended up being UCONN & Xavier, and going 4-2 overall was huge. Had Baylor beaten ISU the last two games would had been a coin flip.