Bracketology - 2-2

[Panther789]

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

UNI listed as a 13 seed. Nobody else in the MVC listed in the last 8 out.

[jman2004]

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Good to see he finally took Wisconsin out. Don't know what took him so long.

[Panther789]

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Interesting Note:

He has Tulsa as his 6th team out. They have an RPI of 73, which is a few spots worse than ours. They also have a loss to a team outside of the top 200.

They do have 2 top 50 wins, however.

[williebat]

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Good to see he finally took Wisconsin out. Don't know what took him so long.

he is an idiot. Ask him what he really thinks I bet he says he thinks UNI will win the conference tourney. If he followed the MVC at all he would know that that is far far from certainty. He would be more honest if he posted tourney winner in the one bid conference spots instead of picking a team.

personally i think we have a shot at an at large if we keep winning and do good in the tourney. Everyone else in the league better be concentrating a winning the tourney.

[Panther789]

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Another reason for hope.

He has St. Mary's in with an RPI of 51. This is certainly better than ours, but we might be able to get in the 50 range.

St. Marys also has zero top 50 wins, just like UNI. They are 2-2 vs. the top 100, while UNI is 4-3. St. Mary's worst loss is against RPI 104, while we have 3 losses outside of the top 100.

IMO, other than 18 RPI spots, there isn't a ton separating these 2 resumes at this point. Hopefully, we can climb to around 50.

[Panther789]

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he is an idiot. Ask him what he really thinks I bet he says he thinks UNI will win the conference tourney. If he followed the MVC at all he would know that that is far far from certainty. He would be more honest if he posted tourney winner in the one bid conference spots instead of picking a team.

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Doesn't he just pick the team leading the conference for the auto bid? What more do you want?

[jman2004]

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Interesting Note:

He has Tulsa as his 6th team out. They have an RPI of 73, which is a few spots worse than ours. They also have a loss to a team outside of the top 200.

They do have 2 top 50 wins, however.

The other team that is in TROUBLE, is St. Mary's. Their RPI is already sitting at 50, they kind of lack a BIG win, and without Mills, they are not very good.

WCC could be looking at Gonzaga as its lone representative as well, unless someone else squeaks out a tournament win.

EDIT: I was typing this while you (789) posted your St. Mary's comment. Sorry.

[9YRPLAN]

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i am trying to bring the at-large hopefuls back to earth in another thread, but I will say that another factor that the committee considers is a team's ability to win a first-round game. UNI has enough size (7-0, 6-8 frontline), athleticism, shooters (handful of players with good 3PT%), and depth (10 guys see meaningful time) to give virtually any 3-6 seed one heck of a first round game.

[UNI MadCat]

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he is an idiot. Ask him what he really thinks I bet he says he thinks UNI will win the conference tourney. If he followed the MVC at all he would know that that is far far from certainty. He would be more honest if he posted tourney winner in the one bid conference spots instead of picking a team.

personally i think we have a shot at an at large if we keep winning and do good in the tourney. Everyone else in the league better be concentrating a winning the tourney.

I'll just send him this post and that'll show 'em!!

Seriously, what do you want him to say? If he felt Creighton was going to win the tourney and get the auto-bid you'd be calling him an idiot for being too assumptive.

We do agree on one thing... I hope we 'do good' too.

[Newt99]

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he is an idiot. Ask him what he really thinks I bet he says he thinks UNI will win the conference tourney. If he followed the MVC at all he would know that that is far far from certainty. He would be more honest if he posted tourney winner in the one bid conference spots instead of picking a team.

personally i think we have a shot at an at large if we keep winning and do good in the tourney. Everyone else in the league better be concentrating a winning the tourney.

Lunardi does have it posted as conference tourney winner only, he just puts the team currently leading the conference in there as the assumed pick for now. That's why it says " (13) NORTHERN IOWA (15-6) / MVC ", because if we get upset, he thinks the MVC tourney winner will take our place. He's been doing it that way for years.

This is a very early prediction for Lunardi, and it is subject to constant change. He's hardly an idiot, over the past several years he has only been wrong about 1-2 teams each year, and he usually predicts the seeds quite accurately as well.

[jegbomb52]

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I think it is funny that a team that wins the conference title and tourney, from the 8th or 9th place conference will be a 13 seed.

[9YRPLAN]

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we need to accept the fact that the Valley blows this year.

[jman2004]

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we need to accept the fact that the Valley blows this year.

That doesn't mean we blow . . . we've looked pretty good during this stretch.

[jman2004]

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And besides, whether the Valley is down or not, it's still competitive. 10 wins in a row, 6 on the road, is pretty impressive.

[9YRPLAN]

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i dont disagree, but we dont have the marquee wins outside of the conference to validate that, and the committee is sure as heck going to notice.