CU over ASU
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i'll be pretty pissed if an 8-11 P12 team makes it over a 13-6 Big Ten team.
With ASU(should lose) and NC ST losing they fall behind us in the RPI. Both are mid 60's RPI's now which is pretty iffy.
Both have a lot of quality wins, though. NC State beat Arizona, Duke, North Carolina, and Clemson. That will be enough to get them in. They do have a couple of really bad losses (Northern Iowa and UNC Greensboro). But they will get in.
ASU has the Kansas and Xavier wins to hang their hat on. Like it or not, that may be enough to earn a bid.
NC St is likely in due to their Quad 1-2 wins. But, if I'm ASU I'd be very worried. Nothing is going to surprise me but I feel like they are on the outside(with us) looking in now.
Now Squealing Bobby Hurley and his squad of crybaby douchebags are pissed because Colorado scored in the final seconds. Nothing would make me happier than to see NU steal a spot from this bunch of overrated asswipes.
I could still see the committee sending them to the play-in round, based on beating two potential #1 seeds. But I don't think any team finishing 9th in a fairly weak conference deserves to get in.
Now we need to root hard for Iowa State over Texas, UNC over Syracuse, Virginia Tech over Notre Dame, DePaul over Marquette, TCU over K-State, Texas A&M over Alabama, and West Virginia over Baylor.
I doubt that happens but if it was football he would have to sit out the first half for something similar to that.
Probably depends on whether or not they define it as a fight. Holder was clearly trying to start a fight, but he got a lot less chesty when George King got in his face. Then cooler heads prevailed - though King was still charged with a technical foul, which is amazing to me. Apparently he was supposed to let that stark-raving idiot push his teammate to the floor and stand over him, and not do anything about it.
I'd also like to see the cowpokes beat the Sooners and have the committee explain how a team that has won only 2 games since February get in the tournment.
Not only did ASU beat KU at KU no less, they blew out Xavier. We have nothing to compare, although Michigan has been very good lately. I don’t think ASU deserves a bid but also doubt we’d blow them out. When ASU beat KU at KU I thought we’d beat them in their next game in Lincoln, but we saw how that turned out. We made our bed with bad NC slate — no wins of note.
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I don't know, I think OU is in no matter what. They have 5 Top 25 wins and a 38 RPI. Whereas Okie St could play their way on to the bubble if they make a run in the Big 12 tourney.
Pac-12 Network says it was reviewed after the game, and Holder won't be suspended for ASU's next game. Hope it's in the NIT.
KU has lost Azabuike for the B12 tournament (and maybe beyond) to a sprained MCL. I'd be very surprised if they win the tournament this weekend. As well as Okie State is playing right now, they could easily win that thing (which would add another B12 team to the mix).
OU has a sub .500 conference record, two wins in the last 5 weeks, a worse record than OSU, OSU beat them twice and it's OSU that's on the bubble with OU a seeming lock. That's bizarre to me.
Oklahoma State has an RPI of 84. I don't think a team with an RPI over 70 has ever received an at-large bid.
Then RPI needs to be examined. Line those two teams up and one belongs while the other doesn't.
I heard Tim Miles say a few days ago that 71 Big Ten teams have won 13 conference games in the past and all 71 made the NCAA tournament. Strange things are afoot this year.
That's a bit misleading though, as they used to play only 16 conference games, so of course going 13-3 in conference was more impressive than 13-5.
But the majority of the Big Ten is just bad this year. The bottom 2/3 of the conference is pretty much equivalent to a mid-major conference this year. Half of the teams have an RPI of 110 or worse.
The Big 10 isn't as bad as it seems and the Big 12 isn't as good as many are making it out to be. With all of this back and forth yada, yada, yada.....I think the Huskers will be in as a 12 seed and we get our first tournament win! Historically 12 vs 5 hasn't been too bad for the lower seed.
