Bubble Watch 2018

[warriorchick]

*whom*

[Mu2323]

Teams to Cheer for today

West Virginia over Texas
St.Johns over Providence
Clemson over Syracuse
NC State over Louisville
Purdue over Penn St.
Oregon over Washington
Colorado over Utah
USC over UCLA
Texas A&M Over Alabama
LSU over Mississippi St.
Kansas st over Baylor ( whoever wins we hope loses first round of the big 12 tourny) I feel the loser is out barring a conference tournament championship

Obviously a lot of games that impact us today. I see alot of them falling our way. Some of these teams are behind up but i bolded the games for teams that should be ahead of us right now.

[Mu2323]

Also as a side note its a complete joke that the Big12 is on the verge of landing 80% of its teams into the tournament with a conference like they have. I would not be surprised given there recent horrible showings if Kansas was the only team left from the big12 after the first weekend. I remember one year when two 14 seeds beat to 3 seeds from the big12.

[Babybluejeans]

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

traveling all day so sorry if someone else posted. The new Bracket Matrix includes more brackets and improves us to third team out, and Lunardi finally has us back at least in the next four out (7th team out). Progress - now we get back to actually needing to beat Creighton. I am here in MKE.

What's interesting is the relative unanimity between teams that are in and teams that are out. Look at the 12-seeds (appears to be the at-large cut line) and the first four out -- it's a wide gap! So for all the talk about all the different bubble teams competing for a spot, there's a surprisingly firm line between in and out this year.

[SaveOD238]

Also as a side note its a complete joke that the Big12 is on the verge of landing 80% of its teams into the tournament with a conference like they have. I would not be surprised given there recent horrible showings if Kansas was the only team left from the big12 after the first weekend. I remember one year when two 14 seeds beat to 3 seeds from the big12.

It seems like leagues that get a ton of teams in the tournament always flame out.  The year the Big East got 11, the only teams to make the Sweet 16 were tied for 9th and both won Big East games in the round of 32, so somebody had to win.  Of course, one of them was UConn who won the championship.  The other was us.

[WindyCityGoldenEagle]

Teams to Cheer for today

West Virginia over Texas WVU -5.0
St.Johns over Providence Prov - 5
Clemson over Syracuse Cuse - 1.5
NC State over Louisville NCST - 2.5
Purdue over Penn St. Line not out yet, but Pur will be favored
Oregon over Washington Ore -1.5
Colorado over Utah Utah -9.0
USC over UCLA USC -5.5
Texas A&M Over Alabama TAMU -6.0
LSU over Mississippi St. LSU -2.5
Kansas st over Baylor ( whoever wins we hope loses first round of the big 12 tourny) I feel the loser is out barring a conference tournament championship KSU -1.5

Obviously a lot of games that impact us today. I see alot of them falling our way. Some of these teams are behind up but i bolded the games for teams that should be ahead of us right now.

HUGE day!  Looks like 8 of the 11 games listed above are favored to come through to our benefit.  We are also favored by 2.0.

While it's not a given that the Vegas numbers come through, I'll take these odds to start the day. 

Now let's get a W and make a move in the bracketology!

[Warrior1969]

Nebraska   IN or OUT?

Penn State  What if they beat PU  IN or OUT?

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Nebraska out. Paper tigers all the way.

PSU will be an interesting case if they win today, but their computer numbers aren't great.

[muguru]

Well, we won't get help from SJU today...PondS AND Yakwe OUT...

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/969966208333250560

[fjm]

Well, we won't get help from SJU today...PondS AND Yakwe OUT...

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/969966208333250560

Ah son of a...

[fjm]

But really I'm ok with it. Beat creighton and hope for a SHU loss.

I don't want to be the 5 seed. Wouldn't be fun to let butler womp us again in the BEast tourney. 

[Floorslapper]

Nebraska   IN or OUT?

Penn State  What if they beat PU  IN or OUT?

I'd have to think Penn State is in.  Odd that they clearly matchup well with OSU.  3 wins against them this year.

[muguru]

But really I'm ok with it. Beat creighton and hope for a SHU loss.

I don't want to be the 5 seed. Wouldn't be fun to let butler womp us again in the BEast tourney.

In thinking about it some more, You're right, I wouldn't mind PC winning and getting the 3 seed as long as MU is the 6. Much much much rather play PC then Creighton or Butler as the 3 seed.

[fjm]

In thinking about it some more, You're right, I wouldn't mind PC winning and getting the 3 seed as long as MU is the 6. Much much much rather play PC then Creighton or Butler as the 3 seed.

Didn't realize this was also an option. Honestly, I just want to avoid butler X or Nova.

[Floorslapper]

In thinking about it some more, You're right, I wouldn't mind PC winning and getting the 3 seed as long as MU is the 6. Much much much rather play PC then Creighton or Butler as the 3 seed.

This would be the dream scenario.  If we get to play Providence again, and beat them in Big East tournament, don't see any how committee could put Providence in the tourney, ahead of us.  We'd have a 2-1 head to head record, a much better KenPom rating.  Feels like Big East will get 6 bids.  Losing to Providence at home was a killer.

[forgetful]

Well, we won't get help from SJU today...PondS AND Yakwe OUT...

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/969966208333250560

But Mo Bamba also out for Texas.  Fellow bubble team missing their big man who averages a double double is good for us.

Now just get it done against the Jays.

[BM1090]

I'd have to think Penn State is in.  Odd that they clearly matchup well with OSU.  3 wins against them this year.

PSU is definitively out right now. They win today they have a case

[PGsHeroes32]

WVU sucks


These big12 teams just gonna let everyone get in even tho a bunch of them are trash.

Baylor, Texas and OU are bad

[Fred Garvin]

WVU down 1 with minute to go

[Otule's Glass Eye]

Rule 1: don't ever trust a Big 12 team in the NCAA tournament

[Otule's Glass Eye]

What a shot by Carter

[MU82]

Huggins looks like hell. Worried about his health.

[PGsHeroes32]

FU CK

West Virginia

[muguru]

The good news is..if Butler beats Hall tonight..PC is the 3 seed and MU the 6th..absolutely best case scenario..avoid Creighton and Butler again.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Really unfortunate ponds is hurt.  A sju win at providence would have been really nice