Five bids for the MVC?

[EVSPanther]

Bracket Buster Saturday is looming very large for the Valley. If the Valley can make a good showing on national television winning all 5 games, then I think 5 bids is a possibility. If the Valley takes a nose dive that day, it may be lucky to get 3 bids.

As for the conference RPI, I think they Valley needs to go 8-2 to overtake the Big 12. That's also very important in my opinion.

I think for there to even be a sliver of a possibility of 5 teams getting into the big dance, the MVC not only needs to win all 5 BB games, we need the MVC teams to come out big. I don't think any of the analysts can say "well, we guessed that would happen" to that scenario.

[Khan4Cats]

Let me see if I can be a little clearer on this than NJ. Five bids is a possibility IF:

The MVC sweeps or nearly sweeps "Bracket Buster brought to you by E-Bay" (8 wins min., no losses from the top 6)

Bradley or MSU win the tourney over SIU.

I believe, barring total collapse, that CU, WSU and UNI are all in with decent finishes to finish 1-3 in the league, not in that order. SIU's loss to InS means they probably have to win at MSU and CU to get back in the title hunt (13-5 won't win this year)

SIU needs a couple quality road/neutral wins, I don't think Bradley or MoState can get in as at-larges, maybe if they win out but we know they will each lose in CF.

Personally, I would prefer Bradley to make it (and Iowa State to keep playing like Sunday and get in) to be able to say our only losses this year are to teams in the Dance.

[Khan4Cats]

I also saw the Seth Davis comments on the halftime show.

He gave the MVC props with highlights of the top 4 teams, always seemed to be playing UNI

He then followed the MVC comments by stating that the two most underrated teams in the country were Iowa and LSU. No mention of the commom denominator Losses to UNI.

And then he answered a Lute Olson question by saying the Pathetic-10 should get 5 bids.

Oh well, keep winning and make ém take notice.

Khan

[NJ Panther]

Let me see if I can be a little clearer on this than NJ. Five bids is a possibility IF:

The MVC sweeps or nearly sweeps "Bracket Buster brought to you by E-Bay" (8 wins min., no losses from the top 6)

Bradley or MSU win the tourney over SIU.

I believe, barring total collapse, that CU, WSU and UNI are all in with decent finishes to finish 1-3 in the league, not in that order. SIU's loss to InS means they probably have to win at MSU and CU to get back in the title hunt (13-5 won't win this year)

SIU needs a couple quality road/neutral wins, I don't think Bradley or MoState can get in as at-larges, maybe if they win out but we know they will each lose in CF.

Personally, I would prefer Bradley to make it (and Iowa State to keep playing like Sunday and get in) to be able to say our only losses this year are to teams in the Dance.

You need to come be my speechwriter, cause you make my unorganized ramblings make sense! Good work

[panther2317]

Someone needs to e-mail Seth Davis and REMIND him of the common denominator between the 'two most underrated teams in America'. They both have losses to UNI!