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    Panthers Bracket Update

    As of 1:00 pm this afternoon, UNI is in the tourney according to four of the six projections I've read on-line this morning (Bracketology, FoxSports, CBSportsline, and CNNSI). Vitale and Andy Katz did not have us going. That's great news with really no games remaining to decide anything today. Now we just have to hope the committee feels the same way . . .
    "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The Hard is what makes it great." - Tom Hanks in 'A League of Their Own.'
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    Well, on a not-so-good note, ESPN just did a bracket special at halftime of the ACC final and didn't even mention UNI as a possible bubble team. Lot of good teams out there won't get in it - and that list got longer after Utah State and New Mexico did their thing yesterday. We'll find out which group we're going to be classified with in less than four hours. . .
    "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The Hard is what makes it great." - Tom Hanks in 'A League of Their Own.'

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      Joe Lunardi (ESPN Bracketology) has us last one in

      Originally posted by The Coletrain
      As of 1:00 pm this afternoon, UNI is in the tourney according to four of the six projections I've read on-line this morning (Bracketology, FoxSports, CBSportsline, and CNNSI). Vitale and Andy Katz did not have us going. That's great news with really no games remaining to decide anything today. Now we just have to hope the committee feels the same way . . .
      We are a 12 seed in Joe Lunardi's latest projections.

      http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology
      FM

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      • #4
        From the USA Today site, appox. 1:45pm Sun.

        Utah State, New Mexico go Bubble Squashing

        The projected field of 65 for the NCAA men's basketball tournament has been updated through Saturday's results. Check back later Sunday for more comments.

        Panthers survive Big West, Mountain West upsets:
        Northern Iowa looks like this year's closest thing to Richmond 2004 with two quality road wins.

        Last season's Spiders were probably the most surprising team to make the field of 65.

        The comparison isn't exact. UNI's road victories over Wichita State and Southwest Missouri State this season don't compare to Richmond's over Kansas last season.

        But the Panthers' two road victories are separating UNI from the teams on the bubble.

        Two projected one-bid leagues turned into two-bid conferences on Saturday when a pair of top seeds lost.

        Utah State upset Pacific in the Big West championship and New Mexico took down Utah in the Mountain West final.

        Northern Iowa has just good enough of a resume to avoid being left out of the NCAA Tournament after this tightening of the candidate list for at-large invitations.
        "Try being more of the solution, and less of the problem."

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