Championship Week "Who do I cheer for Tonight?" List

[UNI MadCat]

And I was kind of mis-speaking about Iowa's 4th place. I was referring to their seeding and shouldn't have been. But, a tie for 4th place is still a tie for 4th place. And considering the other two teams they tied with could very easily be in the NCAA tournament, why wouldn't Iowa be somewhat of a lock for the NIT?

Due to the in-conference strength of schedule. Honestly, this isn't a "tool" or "stat" that I had seen mention of much before this year. But lately I've been seeing it pop up a lot on graphics during CBS and ESPN games. This makes me think that it was a subject of coaches/schools sometime this past offseason as something they wanted the comittee to consider more. Maybe someone out there can find us a site that lists conference SOS??

[UNI MadCat]

Semi-related (and a subject in another thread)... even more reason why we don't want to ever have to go to an unbalanced MVC schedule. This way those arguments never come up and a truer "best" (or 4th best or 7th best) team comes out.

[UNI MadCat]

By the way... HC is pretty much dismantling Bucknell right now.

[BCPanther]

Not so fast... Bucknell is getting back into the game, only down 8...

[Panthers to the Bone]

Good news: Delaware State came back to win in OT
Bad news: Xavier lost...the A-10 probably gets 2 teams into the NCAA's...or 3 into the NIT.

[Khan4Cats]

Xavier's loss was not real good for NCAA bubble teams. Root for the SLU-GW winner to take the title as Rhode Island is still back in the RPI. The A-10 then sends three to postseason Xavier (NCAA) UMass (NIT) and the auto-bid.

Also Toledo went down in the MAC. Root for Akron to beat Kent State and then take the Dance bid, they were a likely NIT team, Kent State is a bubble NIT. MAC=1 NCAA, 1 NIT

Still have to have Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Mississippi Valley State win.

Ole Miss knocking off LSU is still looming big, NC State advancing could be trouble.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Nevada just lost to Utah State

[Khan4Cats]

As long as Utah State or New Mexico State wins the bid, the WAC probably still only has 3 postseason teams, I don't think Fresno State jumps us.

[BCPanther]

I am starting to get a little nervous. We are at the point where teams like Memphis absolutely have to win their tournaments....

[Matt Trump]

I am agreeing more and more with News that the NIT is very far away.

[Khan4Cats]

Well, yesterday was a mixed bag. I think some bubble teams were hurt again yesterday, could be bad news for MSU. I still have faith that they will get in.

Today will tell a lot as a bundle of bids are handed out.

1-Bid Conferences: These favorites need to win to keep NIT slots open.
America East: Vermont
MEAC: Delaware State
SWAC: Mississippi Valley State
Big West: Long Beach State

Leagues we don't to take another postseason bid:
A-10: George Washington, they may be in the NIT ahead of us anyways
C-USA: Memphis, they are in the NCAA anyways
MAC: Akron, same as GW, probably in ahead of us anyways, doesn't put another in

All other finals feature teams that are likely in postseason play ahead of us already. Loser of New Mexico State-Utah State is likely in the NIT, all others have teams that are dancing.

The other game of note is NC State-Virginia Tech. We want NC State to lose and then hope that their run hasn't given them a boost beyond their numbers.

I still believe we are in the NIT, we can probably survive two or three losses from the above. And there still is the Southland Final on Sunday, we need Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to win that 1-bid league.

[ceaser150]

Another NIT bid goes up in smoke as Vermont pulls a choke job. For some reason they decided to run the clock out down one and never got a shot off.

[BCPanther]

Memphis won. We should be in the NIT ahead of any team in CUSA....

[UNI MadCat]

That Albany game was bad, bad, bad. I'm getting the feelin' its all over but the crying.

[BCPanther]

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