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**MPLS-PANTHER** · 03-12-2005, 10:24 PM

Go Pacific!

At this point in the evening, cbs.sportsline and cnnsi.com both have UNI making it!! Bracketology has UNI as just missing. I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight.

**GonzoCat** · 03-12-2005, 11:33 PM

Thanks for all the work and all the updates this week PTTB on who we wanted to win and lose and where you think we stand. It has made for a very unproductive week as I have been following all the games a lot more closely than normal armed with this info. Thanks to 2317 as well.

We will see how good a prognosicator you are tomorrow. You have to be better than espn who I just saw picked notre dame, depaul and uab as amoung the last 4 in and UNI amoung the first 4 out.

GO PANTHERS!

Go Pacific!

**FMPanther** · 03-12-2005, 11:51 PM

Originally posted by MPLS-PANTHER

At this point in the evening, cbs.sportsline and cnnsi.com both have UNI making it!! Bracketology has UNI as just missing. I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/exclusives/projectingtheseeds

CBS has us as an 11 as of right now.....playing Georgia Tech the first round. I highly doubt that. They give Iowa a 10 and ISU a 12.

**UNI Guy** · 03-13-2005, 01:19 AM

Pacific loses

Utah State just beat Pacific. So there goes another at-large bid.

I still like our chances of getting in the "Big Dance".

**cypwr** · 03-13-2005, 02:05 AM

ESPN Bubble Watch

[ESPN just updated their "Bubble Watch" with a pretty good breakdown of who is left on the bubble. Start with 34 at-large bids:

23 go to high-major locks (30 locks less seven auto bids)
4 go to very likely high-majors: NC State, Iowa State, Texas and Iowa
5 go to mid-major locks: Southern Illinois, Nevada, St. Mary's, Utah and Pacific

That leaves two available at large bids.

Here are the 9 teams ESPN feels are still alive for those final 2 slots (in no particular order): UAB, DePaul, Notre Dame, Maryland, Buffalo, Miami (OH), Northern Iowa, Wichita State, Saint Joseph's (the last two being longer shots than the others).

The question is will they reward the MAC with a second bid before giving MVC a third bid. Buffalo

UAB won 5 of their last 6 games with the lone loss to Louisville. They also beat Depaul twice during that span.

One of the talking heads on Sports Center still thinks ND is in. I just can't see it.

It is going to be close for the Panthers but I am afraid that with New Mexico and Utah St winning that the Panthers are one of the last teams left out.

**GonzoCat** · 03-13-2005, 09:35 AM

I think it's all up to Bowlsby

He's the chair of the committee. He has to make the case for UNI to get it, none of the other committee members probably know who UNI is or where we are.

It isn't a hard case to make. They just have to set aside their bias toward bigger "name" schools and look at the objective facts. UNI plays in a tougher conference, has a better record, a higher RPI, tougher SOS, and better last 10 record than most if not all the other bubble teams, depending on who you consider on the bubble.

The problem may be the committee feels they are already doing Bowlsby a favor by putting Iowa in.

I think the question is do they take a 4th from CUSA before taking a 3rd from the Valley. We are well ahead of UAB and DePaul by all objective measures.

**UNIpanther99** · 03-13-2005, 09:53 AM

Bowlsby took himself out of the UNI discussion last year, and I'm assuming he's doing the same again this year. After last night's west coast debockle, I think we're headed to the NIT. I just hope we get an "opening round" bye, so that we don't have to play right away Monday or Tuesday night.

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