Who should we be cheering for today?

[MarquetteDano]

Concerned about losing the three seed, which is big difference to the four seed.  I think we should be fans in the teams below...

Iowa over Michigan State
Kansas over Baylor
Texas over Mizzou
Minnestota over Michigan

Indiana vs. Wisconsin (this is a tough one)

Any more?

[dwaderoy2004]

Florida and Florida St. losing would be nice.

[cheebs09]

I think Wisconsin. I think they would need to do more than just beat Indiana to pass us. Indiana has some big wins that might do it for them. I don't think Mizzou matters much to us anymore, they are ahead of us even with a loss in my opinion. Same with Michigan State, but that could prevent the winner of UW/IU getting a big quality win to pass us.

[Sir Lawrence]

Any team other than Notre Dame.

[brewcity77]

Michigan State over Iowa, because we aren't passing MSU so let them stay at 2
Kansas over Baylor
Texas over Mizzou
Minnesota over Michigan
Wisconsin over Indiana (IU is closer to us on the S-Curve, and we beat UW H2H)
Miami over FSU
Alabama over Florida
Notre Dame over Louisville
UMass over Temple
New Mexico over UNLV

Don't think any others really matter...some of those ones don't, but if all those happen, lock in the #3 seed no matter what.

[MarquetteDano]

Michigan State over Iowa, because we aren't passing MSU so let them stay at 2
Kansas over Baylor
Texas over Mizzou
Minnesota over Michigan
Wisconsin over Indiana (IU is closer to us on the S-Curve, and we beat UW H2H)
Miami over FSU
Alabama over Florida
Notre Dame over Louisville
UMass over Temple
New Mexico over UNLV

UPDATE:  Off to a good start... MSU and UMass are winners.

[cheebs09]

Yup. Basically we want an OSU/MSU Big Ten Final and a KU/MU Big Twelve Final. If those happen, I feel really good about being a 3 seed. UNC/Duke ACC would seal it I think.

[TallTitan34]

Count Wisconsin over Indiana as well. 

So far so good.

[Wade for President]

The more I look at bracket projections, the more I find it difficult for us to fall off that 3 line.  Regular season 2nd place finisher in the Big East is mighty impressive.

Seeing IU and G'town lose their first conf games bodes well.  We shall see how today shakes out.

Did I ever tell you that I'm a HUGE Gopher fan (sarcasm off)?

http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm

[brewcity77]

Temple also lost, though they were unlikely to climb 2 seed lines. Florida is also getting a game from Alabama. Roll Tide!

If Minnesota, Miami, and Kansas all win today, we're golden.

[GoMarquette32]

Wisconsin better not jump us. We have a better rpi strength of schedule and we won on their court.

[muwarrior97]

Lunardi still has us at a #3.....BUT playing Belmont (picked as a Giant Killer) in Louisville

Thanks Joe! That's some funny ish.......

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/giant_killers/id/7648654/ncaa-tournament-giant-killers-most-likely-teams-pull-upsets

[nyg]

All of his predictions have MU against Murray State in second round.  That would be awesome.  But Belmont would be a delicate situation.

[real chili 83]

Any team other than Notre Dame.

1 Kabillion. 

Denvermu, care to weigh in?

[MarquetteDano]

UPDATE 2: Florida wins unfortunately (need them to lose to Kentucky tomorrow)

Crap Michigan wins.

Baylor is making me nervous though, leading Kansas. If Baylor wins we might have to kiss that 3 seed goodbye.

[MattyWarrior]

Not Notre Dame or Loserville

[Norm]

Did anyone see the replay of the shot Michigan took in the last 25 seconds in the game against Minnesota? From my angle on the replays, the ball never hit the rim, and Michigan should have had about 1.5 seconds to get a shot off. Instead, they claimed it hit the rim even thought the Michigan guy caught it underneath the basket. I had biased Michigan grads in front of me at the bar swearing the ball hit the rim, but nobody could say when tot hit the rim. Without that call, Minnesota probably wins in regulation. Just sucks if MU's seed is lost due to a blown call in the Michigan-Minnesota game.

[JWags85]

Did anyone see the replay of the shot Michigan took in the last 25 seconds in the game against Minnesota? From my angle on the replays, the ball never hit the rim, and Michigan should have had about 1.5 seconds to get a shot off. Instead, they claimed it hit the rim even thought the Michigan guy caught it underneath the basket. I had biased Michigan grads in front of me at the bar swearing the ball hit the rim, but nobody could say when tot hit the rim. Without that call, Minnesota probably wins in regulation. Just sucks if MU's seed is lost due to a blown call in the Michigan-Minnesota game.

It clearly hit the rim, both on the shot and when Michigan's center went up to grab the rebound.  I can't believe Minnesota choked that away...

[statnik]

Did anyone see the replay of the shot Michigan took in the last 25 seconds in the game against Minnesota? From my angle on the replays, the ball never hit the rim, and Michigan should have had about 1.5 seconds to get a shot off. Instead, they claimed it hit the rim even thought the Michigan guy caught it underneath the basket. I had biased Michigan grads in front of me at the bar swearing the ball hit the rim, but nobody could say when tot hit the rim. Without that call, Minnesota probably wins in regulation. Just sucks if MU's seed is lost due to a blown call in the Michigan-Minnesota game.

Hopefully Michigan loses tomorrow.  If so, it's probably a moot point; they will have 9 losses to our 7, and as has been mentioned, they have had worse losses overall.  To me, we are a tad better than them.  Baylor, on the other hand, is better than us if I'm being honest, and would probably beat us head to head 6 or 7 times out of 10.

[MUMac]

Did anyone see the replay of the shot Michigan took in the last 25 seconds in the game against Minnesota? From my angle on the replays, the ball never hit the rim, and Michigan should have had about 1.5 seconds to get a shot off. Instead, they claimed it hit the rim even thought the Michigan guy caught it underneath the basket. I had biased Michigan grads in front of me at the bar swearing the ball hit the rim, but nobody could say when tot hit the rim. Without that call, Minnesota probably wins in regulation. Just sucks if MU's seed is lost due to a blown call in the Michigan-Minnesota game.

I thought the difference in the shot clock was 1.5, not that there should have been 1.5 left on the shot clock?

[Norm]

It clearly hit the rim, both on the shot and when Michigan's center went up to grab the rebound.  I can't believe Minnesota choked that away...

Did the announcers say it hit the rim? I only ask because I never saw the ball change direction on the way down. Maybe I'm blind, but I never saw the bill hit the rim.

[MUMac]

Did the announcers say it hit the rim? I only ask because I never saw the ball change direction on the way down. Maybe I'm blind, but I never saw the bill hit the rim.

Yes it did and yes they did.  You could see it change direction.

That was a heck of an inbounds play for Michigan, though.

I agree with JWags, what a choke job by Minnesota.  Can't believe they lost that.

[Norm]

I thought the difference in the shot clock was 1.5, not that there should have been 1.5 left on the shot clock?

There was a little over 2 seconds left in the shot clock when the Michigan player shot the ball. If it is ruled that the shot didn't sit the rim there would only have been a little over a second for Michigan to get the shot off after inbounding the ball. Instead, because they ruled the ball hit the rim, the shot clock was off and they took about 4 seconds to hit the 3 that tied the game with about 17 seconds left.

[Norm]

Yes it did and yes they did.  You could see it change direction.

That was a heck of an inbounds play for Michigan, though.

I agree with JWags, what a choke job by Minnesota.  Can't believe they lost that.

Then it must have barely nicked the rim. But I'll take your word for it.

[MUMac]

There was a little over 2 seconds left in the shot clock when the Michigan player shot the ball. If it is ruled that the shot didn't sit the rim there would only have been a little over a second for Michigan to get the shot off after inbounding the ball. Instead, because they ruled the ball hit the rim, the shot clock was off and they took about 4 seconds to hit the 3 that tied the game with about 17 seconds left.

Are you sure?  When I was watching the replay with both the shot clock and game clock, there was about a 1.5 second difference.  Novak shot that early in the shot clock.  They did not run it down.