Tango for Tenth

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

UNI will be playing at 6pm Thursday night with a win giving them a shot at Loyola at noon Friday.
29% chance of home whites, 71% chance of the 9 seed.
66% chance of Evansville, 28% of Indiana State, 6% chance of Valpo being the opponent.

**barring some insane RPI shenanigans

So no chance to finish 7th? Or would this be the RPI shenanigans?

[Stebs Amusements]

Listening on the Tune-In radio app. You guys spoiled the ending for me. But they won, so its okay.

Must have been quite a delay. They were due to break the losing streak.

[Hacksaw]

So no chance to finish 7th? Or would this be the RPI shenanigans?

Correct, in fact we could end up in a 3-way tie for 6th with Missouri State and Evansville and it would come down to the RPI tiebreaker, but as currently projected we'd be on the wrong end with both MSU and Evansville projected around 135 and UNI projected around 145 in that scenario.

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

Bennett seals the win with his 999th and 1,000th points. Pretty cool. Would have been cool to see him do it on Senior night too, but at least now they can honor him for it pregame.

Remember his Sophomore and Junior years where he would get fouls called against him just for looking at people? That may have nearly evened itself out in this game alone. Though I still saw him take a couple shots to the face, his other calling card over his career. Gotta be the all-time Panther leader in that category.

[BCPanther]

Correct, in fact we could end up in a 3-way tie for 6th with Missouri State and Evansville and it would come down to the RPI tiebreaker, but as currently projected we'd be on the wrong end with both MSU and Evansville projected around 135 and UNI projected around 145 in that scenario.

I don't know, if there's a way to get to Thursday night, Paul Lusk is bound to find it...

Lol. We're locked into that 8/9 game.

[unifan]

I don't know, if there's a way to get to Thursday night, Paul Lusk is bound to find it...

Lol. We're locked into that 8/9 game.

Dang. Even if we do survive the Thursday game, we’ll get to open up the quarters on Friday with LUC. Sigh.

[BCPanther]

Dang. Even if we do survive the Thursday game, we’ll get to open up the quarters on Friday with LUC. Sigh.

This is where the Porter factor could come in. Jake and Porter on 16 hours of planning, I think I know who I'm taking.

[06panther10]

This is where the Porter factor could come in. Jake and Porter on 16 hours of planning, I think I know who I'm taking.

I would probably take the team who is 5-1 in the series the last 3 seasons and that would be Loyola.

[hoopfan]

This is where the Porter factor could come in. Jake and Porter on 16 hours of planning, I think I know who I'm taking.

If this was the NCAA tournament where the teams weren't familiar with each other, yes. Not so sure that rings true in this case where both teams should know exactly what the other team is going to do. At some point it comes down to guys making plays and that hasn't happened too frequently for UNI this year.

[UNIGrainer]

So after today we are 20 spots behind MSU. Any chance a W makes up the difference? Would love the 7 hole.

[JD720]

So after today we are 20 spots behind MSU. Any chance a W makes up the difference? Would love the 7 hole.

Not really. RPI Forecast says they'd be about 135 and we'd be about 145 if we win. I don't know if it's even mathematically possible to make up the difference based on what our opponents do, but it's certainly not likely.

[dan_beeding]

This season is depressing.