POSTSEASON PLAY?!!????

[Dr Rick Daris]

so not a day goes by (yesterday and today) where somebody doesn't want to talk to me about the cats chances at the big dance (ncaa tourney). what do you guys think,etc?


i mean my goodness i just don't see it.

ncaa-7%
nit-90%
nothing-3%

[puniraptor]

Sorry, rick. We are good now. 72% NCAA.

[kso_FAN]

40-60 (NCAA-NIT)

[kim carnes]

i think we all know where i stand here

[Dr Rick Daris]

40-60 (NCAA-NIT)

wow. seriously? that just seems too high. i will say that yesterday was the first day since the hiring where i wasn't 100% sure that this was going to end up horribly. _fan has a lasso and he's slowly pulling me towards the fence. the rope is super thin though and barely attached to my ankle but still.

[kso_FAN]

40-60 seems to fit what IMHO is a .500-ish Big 12 team that will be on the bubble.

[kim carnes]

40-60 seems to fit what IMHO is a .500-ish Big 12 team that will be on the bubble.

Charlotte and N Colorado, sinks the ship.

its not who you lose to, its who you beat

[kso_FAN]

40-60 seems to fit what IMHO is a .500-ish Big 12 team that will be on the bubble.

Charlotte and N Colorado, sinks the ship.

True, but both were early in the year, no Gip for NC, no Jevon for either.

IIRC, I've said we probably need 10-11 total Big 12 wins (including postseason tournament) and 6 wins vs RPI top 50 teams, but if we go .500 in the league we will be discussed on the bubble.

[Jackstack99EMAW]

Get a few wins over OSU, KU, ISU, Baylor, Texas mix and there's a decent chance.

[sunny_cat]

40-60 seems to fit what IMHO is a .500-ish Big 12 team that will be on the bubble.

Charlotte and N Colorado, sinks the ship.

its not who you lose to, its who you beat

Pretty sure they look at both, losses to teams outside 150 are viewed negatively.

Yeah, bad losses matter. I still think we have a good shot at the tournament.

[chum1]

Bad losses do not matter at all.  (Unless you're talking about getting a top seed.) Lack of good wins can hurt a bubble team. 

[sunny_cat]

Bad losses do not matter at all.  (Unless you're talking about getting a top seed.) Lack of good wins can hurt a bubble team.

Interesting if true

[chum1]

I think we'll be in.  We shouldn't drop from 1st last year to 7th this year.

[TownieCat]

If we miss the tourney it will not be because we lost to NC on Nov 8. 10 more wins and we are in. The B12's RPI will get at least 5 teams in, and possibly 6.

Four RPI top 75 wins in the noncon helps too. That's just as many as KU, ISU, and OSU have...

[sunny_cat]

All right, guys. I'm counting on you being right, then.

[Dr Rick Daris]

no way in hell our conference is not getting 6 teams in. also, have you "make the dance" dorks "done the math" and "put pen to paper" to see who we need to beat in order to get 10 wins? it really seems very unlikely.

[wetwillie]

Shane Southwell is not going to play in the NIT.

[sunny_cat]

no way in hell our conference is not getting 6 teams in. also, have you "make the dance" dorks "done the math" and "put pen to paper" to see who we need to beat in order to get 10 wins? it really seems very unlikely.

I have 9-9 in the predicto thread.

[HerrSonntag]

the real question is, who will oscar blame our first round exit on?

[sunny_cat]

the real question is, who will oscar blame our first round exit on?

Those final exams, man. I tell ya.

[kslim]

no way in hell our conference is not getting 6 teams in. also, have you "make the dance" dorks "done the math" and "put pen to paper" to see who we need to beat in order to get 10 wins? it really seems very unlikely.

yeah but Jevon and Marcus tho

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

It's frustrating that OU is getting more mileage out of a 10 pt loss to Michigan State than we are for beating Zags, Admiral Akbar, and GW.

We'll be braketologied as a 7 seed (green arrow pointing up) after we thump tbpSU.

[Tobias]

would like to be wrong, but feels like an NIT team to me

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

TCU- 2 wins
Tech- 2 wins
WVU- 1.5 wins
Texas- 1 win
OU- 1 win
Baylor- 1 win
ISU- 1 win
OSU- 0 wins
KU- 0 wins

This is going to sound really "well, duh, no crap" but whatever. Take care of business against the bottom 3 and beat the middle of the road at home. Maybe steal a game at home against the top 3 or on the road against the middle of the pack? I think this is pretty realistic. 9-10 wins. Key out of conference win against Zaga. Bad losses to start the season but without key players, the committee looks at more recent play. Get a win, maybe 2 in the B12 tourney and be a 7/8 seed...

[steve dave]

something we have going for us is the committee will put astericks by the early losses if Jevon plays well all season. so that's good.