I was glancing at Nebraska's recipe to get into the tournament last year.
Nebraska was 19-12 (obviously this looks better than the 17-16 or 18-16 record we will put up if we want to have a prayer of getting in. I think it is unanimous that K-State has to beat Texas and get at least one win in the NCAA tournament).
Nebraska had
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi/_/year/2014/sort/RPI/groupId/7/teamId/1584 losses to RPI 100+4 wins RPI 0-100and was 11-7 in the Big 10. lost first game of Big 10 tournament.
Strength of schedule was 32.
RPI was 49
K-State in 2015 has
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi/_/groupId/8/teamId/23068 wins RPI 1-1005 losses RPI 100+SOS of 17 and improving
RPI currently of 80 which isn't good enough right now.
If K-State beats Texas RPI (38) and the Big 12 3 seed,
we would have
10 RPI wins 1-100and an RPI in the mid 50s.... I think.
The NCAA should be a possibility. Some on the committee might get stuck on the quantity of our losses (like Palm) but we clearly had a tougher schedule than #11 seed Nebraska last year. We only would have 1 more bad loss even though we would have played 2 or 3 more games than Nebraska did last year.
The biggest positive for Nebraska was a 11-7 Big Ten Record (11-8 after tournament)
K-State in my proposed scenario would be 9-9 (10-10 after tournament).
I think that the Cats would be very interesting for the committee with two more wins. Not for sure in but very interesting. Some people are very focused on quality wins. Some people are focused on conference results and how you played in February/March.
The most interesting resume got much more interesting after this week.