Lunardi Says..

[bilsu]

Are these bracket predictions based on where you are right now or do they go as far to predict the rest of your schedule?

[MuMark]

Where you are now.... they try to anticipate what the committee would do.

[GoldenDieners32]

Dream Scenario: MU plays wisconsin in the final 4. MU wins by a solid 7 points and a 26 point performance from JJJ and 23 points from Matt Heldt.

[GoldenDieners32]

I feel like he will update it either tuesday or wednesday

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Clearly, but I did a quick rundown from the Bracketmatrix rankings.

Ahh. Misread your post

[MU82]

BUT before the season started ESPN said at least 10 ACC teams would make the tournament, so they gotta keep the numbers high.

If 10 ACC teams make it, and MU doesn't make it at 9-9 and 6th in the BE.. that would be ridiculous.

So we need to do better than 9-9.

I have very little sympathy for teams that are on the bubble - even if it's my team. You want to be off the bubble? Win another game or three!

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Dream Scenario: MU plays wisconsin in the final 4. MU wins by a solid 7 points and a 26 point performance from JJJ and 23 points from Matt Heldt.

Nah. My dream scenario is the Badgers lose out from here and miss the tourney.

[brewcity77]

Nah. My dream scenario is the Badgers lose out from here and miss the tourney.

+100,000,000,000

[Jay Bee]

Definitely a dream.  Triple OT and Fischer hasn't fouled out?

I think he fouled out ~6 times last year; 3 this year... #FalseNarrative

[CTWarrior]

I don't think it was soft last year? A bunch of teams got left out of the NCAA and NIT because like 10 of 13 conference champions lost their conference tournament.

That doesn't hurt as much as you think.  In the lesser conferences, if the regular season champ doesn't win the tournament, they just about always go to the NIT, not the NCAA.  See Monmouth as a great example.  Those upsets hurt teams (like us last year) in terms of making the NIT these days much more than the NCAA.

[MU82]

That doesn't hurt as much as you think.  In the lesser conferences, if the regular season champ doesn't win the tournament, they just about always go to the NIT, not the NCAA.  See Monmouth as a great example.  Those upsets hurt teams (like us last year) in terms of making the NIT these days much more than the NCAA.

That makes sense. It's not as if any of those conferences are going to have multiple NCAA bids anyway, but they definitely can eat up NIT bids.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Bracket matrix update:

Marquette is a 10 seed with 5 at larges behind us.  That is up from last team in as an 11 seed.

Marquette is in for 70 of 78 brackets, up from 36.

Seed range 8-12.  Eight brackets have MU as an 8, while four have MU a 12 seed.

[MU82]

Bracket matrix update:

Marquette is a 10 seed with 5 at larges behind us.  That is up from last team in as an 11 seed.

Marquette is in for 70 of 78 brackets, up from 36.

Seed range 8-12.  Eight brackets have MU as an 8, while four have MU a 12 seed.

Lunardi not making us a No. 1 seed clearly shows ESPN's anti-Big East bias!

[Newsdreams]

Lunardi not making us a No. 1 seed clearly shows ESPN's anti-Big East bias!

Wojo's fault! Fire Wojo!!!

[fjm]

That doesn't hurt as much as you think.  In the lesser conferences, if the regular season champ doesn't win the tournament, they just about always go to the NIT, not the NCAA.  See Monmouth as a great example.  Those upsets hurt teams (like us last year) in terms of making the NIT these days much more than the NCAA.

Good point. So really it hurt the NIT bubble. Which we would have made.

I guess it doesn't really affect the NCAA that much.

[MarquetteDano]

I think he fouled out ~6 times last year; 3 this year... #FalseNarrative

True but in OT games ħas he ever finished with 3 or less fouls? Not sure asking.

[GoldenDieners32]

He updated it and he still has MU as a last 4 in

[fjm]

He updated it and he still has MU as a last 4 in

No lunardi love. Dang.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

He updated it and he still has MU as a last 4 in

Same one as yesterday to my eyes...no?

[copious1218]

I think he fouled out ~6 times last year; 3 this year... #FalseNarrative

It was said in jest.  But taken seriously, I believe you said Fischer has a foul rate of 4.8/40 minutes.  That would be 6.0 in a 50 minute game (double OT only).  Now he certainly is not going to play 50/50 minutes but the idea that he MIGHT foul out in a 3OT game is not far-fetched.  For him or anyone else (Heldt, Hauser, etc.).

[BM1090]

Same one as yesterday to my eyes...no?

Yeah. I think he does Monday and Thursday brackets. Sometimes will tweet his seed list in between.

[GWSwarrior]

I think he fouled out ~6 times last year; 3 this year... alternative facts

fixed it

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

He updated it and he still has MU as a last 4 in

Again. He wrote this bracket before our game against Creighton. He didn't post it until Monday. The next one will reflect the Creighton game

[PGsHeroes32]

Time to remove Pitt

[Jay Bee]

True but in OT games ħas he ever finished with 3 or less fouls? Not sure asking.

Yes. Last year he played 44 minutes in an OT game for us and had ZERO fouls.

#FalseLukeNarrative