Keeping an eye on the national rankings

[CyCarp]

Jumped passed Wichita and Minnesota to 44 in NET.

[UNIGrainer]

We should go ahead and give up. When your competition is pulling off coups like winning AT NORTHWESTERN, how can you compete with that?

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

The screw job coming is Berhow. He should be a second team guy but won't be. Averaging 13 & 6 usually gets that in this league.

3 points over the last 2 games on 1-12 shooting has not helped the case. Another poster mentioned in the Indiana State game that he didn’t look right and may be ill. Played fewer minutes in both of these last two games than his typical average, so maybe there is something to that. I would not typically expect him to be the odd man out if Ty is getting 2nd half minutes, but that has been the case lately.

But confident he can have a strong finish starting with Evansville and hopefully that gets him over the hump for 2nd team.

[BCPanther]

I think AJ should be player of the year and Austin should be 1st team, but I see a world where Phyfe is left out. In reality, AJ and Austin should be 1-2 in the POY vote, but I expect Krutwig to get reputation votes and feel there is a mentality that Austin is only as good as he is because of the attention AJ draws.

What does your 1st team look like? I'd like to think Phyfe makes it with AJ, but could see him getting passed in favor of Freeman(valpo), Key(InSt.), Krutwig, possibly Robbins, maybe Darrell Brown. What I'm saying is I would be shocked if they end up with two Panthers on 1st team.

I'm really confident in the First Team being Green (POY), Krutwig, Key, Freeman-Liberty and Phyfe.

The screw job coming is Berhow. He should be a second team guy but won't be. Averaging 13 & 6 usually gets that in this league.

[06panther10]

I think AJ should be player of the year and Austin should be 1st team, but I see a world where Phyfe is left out. In reality, AJ and Austin should be 1-2 in the POY vote, but I expect Krutwig to get reputation votes and feel there is a mentality that Austin is only as good as he is because of the attention AJ draws.

What does your 1st team look like? I'd like to think Phyfe makes it with AJ, but could see him getting passed in favor of Freeman(valpo), Key(InSt.), Krutwig, possibly Robbins, maybe Darrell Brown. What I'm saying is I would be shocked if they end up with two Panthers on 1st team.

I agree with you. Trae has a real argument for being a 1st teamer as well.

I think Austin is a 1st teamer, but would not be shocked if Krutwig is the only 5 on the 1st team.

[hoopfan]

AJ will be Player of the Year and the voting won't be close.

Phyfe will be first team all league but he's not taking first place votes from AJ.

I think AJ should be player of the year and Austin should be 1st team, but I see a world where Phyfe is left out. In reality, AJ and Austin should be 1-2 in the POY vote, but I expect Krutwig to get reputation votes and feel there is a mentality that Austin is only as good as he is because of the attention AJ draws.

What does your 1st team look like? I'd like to think Phyfe makes it with AJ, but could see him getting passed in favor of Freeman(valpo), Key(InSt.), Krutwig, possibly Robbins, maybe Darrell Brown. What I'm saying is I would be shocked if they end up with two Panthers on 1st team.

[sivert]

DW asked me if we had a chance of an At Large.

Lunardi said yesterday that if we won out and lost in the MVC championship game, we'd be in. I'd estimate the probability of us winning out and getting to the MVC-Champ game at maybe 40%.

Bart Torvik:
SEED: 11.1 AUTO: 38% TOTAL NCAA Tourney: 51.4%

TeamRankings:
Seed: 9 Autobid: 38.3% At Large: 0%

https://bustingbrackets.com/2020/02/19/bracketology-2020-bubble-watch-breaking-large-contenders/11/

[FOTY]

Speaking of D+, I hadn't noticed how much they've regressed since playing us last. With one more loss (which I hope is Saturday), they are a lock for playing on "Drake night at the Lou", aka Thursday. And with that, all is right with the world.

[BCPanther]

How are we feeling about Drake at Loyola tonight? I will be pulling for old D+... Of course knowing Drake, they'd probably rather lose the game than set us up for an outright conference victory.

Loyola by a lot.

[UNIAlum95]

How are we feeling about Drake at Loyola tonight? I will be pulling for old D+... Of course knowing Drake, they'd probably rather lose the game than set us up for an outright conference victory.

[MNpanthers]

AJ will be Player of the Year and the voting won't be close.

Phyfe will be first team all league but he's not taking first place votes from AJ.

Unless AJ starts shooting threes on the wrong side of the court he's a lock for POY.

And Phyfe has been better than Krutwig this year, don't @ me

[BCPanther]

AJ will be Player of the Year and the voting won't be close.

Phyfe will be first team all league but he's not taking first place votes from AJ.

[CincyPanther88]

Updated from Barttorvik.com. POY standings during conference play.

1	Austin Phyfe	Northern Iowa	1.406
2	AJ Green	Northern Iowa	1.356
3	Cameron Krutwig	Loyola Chicago	1.115
4	Liam Robbins	Drake	0.970
5	Gaige Prim	Missouri St.	0.886

Austin is going to have a tough game on Saturday against Robbins. A.J. seems to have gone into a bit of a slump since he hurt his nose. Evansville and Drake could give him the push to nail down POTY but if his slump continues and Austin just plays average against Drake, Krutwig could move past both and steal POTY. There's also the chance that Austin and A.J. could split the vote and Krutwig sneaks in there.

[CyCarp]

Same reason Cincinnati beat Wichita then dropped a spot while Wichita stayed where they were. There's very clearly issues with it, as long as it favors P5s, that's ok though.

[UNIGrainer]

The NET is full on BS. I’m just gonna say it. Very convenient that it favors the P5s and no one knows the formula. Nine spot jump this late in the season for a win over 6-20 Northwestern? Seriously?

I bet even if we beat UE on Weds we fall into the 50s.