Bracketology

[pantherfan4ever]

I know that Lunardi's bracketology is just his guesses of where teams will be seeded but I was surprised he has Wichita State as a 4 seed and Creighton as a 7 seed, when we only got a 9 seed a couple years ago. Maybe the field isn't as good this year?

[williebat]

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I know that Lunardi's bracketology is just his guesses of where teams will be seeded but I was surprised he has Wichita State as a 4 seed and Creighton as a 7 seed, when we only got a 9 seed a couple years ago. Maybe the field isn't as good this year?

Someone on ESPN the other day said they thought Wichita state is a legit final four contender. ESPN are high on the shockers. I say we knock them down to a 6 seed tomorrow!!!

[pantherfan4ever]

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Someone on ESPN the other day said they thought Wichita state is a legit final four contender. ESPN are high on the shockers. I say we knock them down to a 6 seed tomorrow!!!

Well, they are built to play against almost anyone. They looked really good today!

[Panther-Sheik]

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I know that Lunardi's bracketology is just his guesses of where teams will be seeded but I was surprised he has Wichita State as a 4 seed and Creighton as a 7 seed, when we only got a 9 seed a couple years ago. Maybe the field isn't as good this year?

That is probably legit, but so were we. Wichita and Creighton are just sexier to the tourney than Northern Iowa which equates to easier rankings throughout the year and higher seeds in the NCAA tourney.

[UNI MadCat]

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Who cares.

[CyCarp]

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I think Lunardi had us at a 6 in 2010 too.

[9YRPLAN]

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our seeding screwed multiple teams in 2010. it was a joke but probably for the best in hindsight

[UNIChippewa]

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I know that Lunardi's bracketology is just his guesses of where teams will be seeded but I was surprised he has Wichita State as a 4 seed and Creighton as a 7 seed, when we only got a 9 seed a couple years ago. Maybe the field isn't as good this year?

Both Creighton and Wichita State have much better non-conference resumes this season then we did a couple of years ago. Creighton won at San Diego State, and Wichita State beat UNLV. In comparison, we beat bad Iowa, Iowa State and Boston College teams and also lost to a crap DePaul team.

I agree that the # 9 seed was a joke, and Lunardi actually labeled us an "underseeded" team (I think he had us at a #7), but it did all work out for the best.

[06panther10]

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Both Creighton and Wichita State have much better non-conference resumes this season then we did a couple of years ago. Creighton won at San Diego State, and Wichita State beat UNLV. In comparison, we beat bad Iowa, Iowa State and Boston College teams and also lost to a crap DePaul team.

I agree that the # 9 seed was a joke, and Lunardi actually labeled us an "underseeded" team (I think he had us at a #7), but it did all work out for the best.

No, they do not have "much better" resumes than we did. Our RPI two years ago was around 20 or so. CU's is around 25 right now, and WSU's is around 15.

We had 28 wins going into the tournament, and were ranked. I think we were something like 5-1 against the RPI top 50 that year. We also had wins over Siena and ODU, both of which were very good tournament teams.

[ubuntuCAT]

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No, they do not have "much better" resumes than we did. Our RPI two years ago was around 20 or so. CU's is around 25 right now, and WSU's is around 15.

We had 28 wins going into the tournament, and were ranked. I think we were something like 5-1 against the RPI top 50 that year. We also had wins over Siena and ODU, both of which were very good tournament teams.

CU and WSU are both ranked. We were not.

[06panther10]

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We were ranked #24 heading into the NCAA tournament.

[panther-state]

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Which was a joke imo

[ubuntuCAT]

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We were ranked #24 heading into the NCAA tournament.

well good sir I stand corrected. Wow did we get screwed on that seed and wow did it work out great for us!

[UNIChippewa]

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No, they do not have "much better" resumes than we did. Our RPI two years ago was around 20 or so. CU's is around 25 right now, and WSU's is around 15.

We had 28 wins going into the tournament, and were ranked. I think we were something like 5-1 against the RPI top 50 that year. We also had wins over Siena and ODU, both of which were very good tournament teams.

Chillax, fellow Panther fan. I wrote that they have "much better" NON-CONFERENCE resumes then we did. I don't think that can be disputed. As for Wichita State, they won the regular season title at 16-2 while we were 15-3, and that 3 OT loss at Drake is a much "better" loss than our crapping the bed at Evansville that season. I am also quite sure that Siena did not make the NCAA tournament that year, although I may be wrong.

I think our relatively low seeding that tournament took a lot of the "experts" by surprise. As I wrote above, Lunardi labeled us as an underseeded team when he analyzed the final field. On the bright side, being a #9 seed enabled us to spring that huge upset of the overall # 1 seed and pretty much everyone's pick to win it all in 2010.

It will be interesting to see if WSU and CU get the seeds they are expected to or if they will drop the way we did.

[clenz]

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Chillax, fellow Panther fan. I wrote that they have "much better" NON-CONFERENCE resumes then we did. I don't think that can be disputed. As for Wichita State, they won the regular season title at 16-2 while we were 15-3, and that 3 OT loss at Drake is a much "better" loss than our crapping the bed at Evansville that season. I am also quite sure that Siena did not make the NCAA tournament that year, although I may be wrong.

I think our relatively low seeding that tournament took a lot of the "experts" by surprise. As I wrote above, Lunardi labeled us as an underseeded team when he analyzed the final field. On the bright side, being a #9 seed enabled us to spring that huge upset of the overall # 1 seed and pretty much everyone's pick to win it all in 2010.

It will be interesting to see if WSU and CU get the seeds they are expected to or if they will drop the way we did.

I'll have to look at what they've done non-conference this year...but....here is the non-conference from out 09-10 team...

Date Opponent (final record) RPI Score Result.
11-13 at Denver 19-13 (12-9) 164 71-65 W
?? 11-20 vs DePaul 8-23 (1-18) 212 52-60 L
11-21 vs East Carolina 7-21 (4-13) 231 74-68 W
11-23 vs Boston College 15-16 (6-11) 125 81-69 W
11-28 Northern Illinois 10-20 (6-11) 261 52-45 W
12-02 at Iowa St. 15-17 (4-13) 123 63-60 W
12-08 Iowa 10-22 (4-15) 210 67-50 W
$ 12-12 Siena 27-6 (20-1) 31 82-65 W
12-19 at North Dakota 6-22 (6-9) 339 64-41 W
12-23 Wyoming 8-21 (3-14) 228 72-54 W
$$ 02-19 Old Dominion 26-8 (18-3) 27 71-62 W


Only one loss (yes it was bad. A really good win over Siena and ODU to offset that and then some, and that loss being the second game of the year was hardly considered by the end of the season I'd bet.