College Basketball 2006-2007

[soccer10k]

:shock: at the Oregon-USC score, 78-46 Oregon.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Correction on a previous post---Holy Cross would have a great shot against a 4 seed, but not Oregon. I think Oregon deserves better, however, than a 4.

 

Yeah, Oregon's got to be a 3.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

:shock: at the Oregon-USC score, 78-46 Oregon.

 

That's with USC cutting into the lead - it was at 37 or 39 at one point.

[da bears]

In your face Tim Floyd.

[dew1679666265]

Wow, USC. 76-39!?

 

They will still be safely in, but I do believe that all of the seed improvement that USC has been doing with their two previous wins in the tournament has been washed away with this performance-this is the sort of thing that could cost them a couple seed lines tomorrow night.

 

What do you see for Tennessee after we crapped out in the first round Thursday? I figure probably a 6 seed.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Michael Reghi is doing the MAC Championship game! I missed listening to him.

[CubColtPacer]

Wow, USC. 76-39!?

 

They will still be safely in, but I do believe that all of the seed improvement that USC has been doing with their two previous wins in the tournament has been washed away with this performance-this is the sort of thing that could cost them a couple seed lines tomorrow night.

 

What do you see for Tennessee after we crapped out in the first round Thursday? I figure probably a 6 seed.

 

That seems about right, maybe a 5 since many of the other teams who were in that region also went out early in their conference tournaments and not many teams are making a huge run through the conference tournaments which would push them up into that range.

[dew1679666265]

Wow, USC. 76-39!?

 

They will still be safely in, but I do believe that all of the seed improvement that USC has been doing with their two previous wins in the tournament has been washed away with this performance-this is the sort of thing that could cost them a couple seed lines tomorrow night.

 

What do you see for Tennessee after we crapped out in the first round Thursday? I figure probably a 6 seed.

 

That seems about right, maybe a 5 since many of the other teams who were in that region also went out early in their conference tournaments and not many teams are making a huge run through the conference tournaments which would push them up into that range.

 

Yeah, I think had we made a run to the weekend we could be looking at as high as a 3-4. That may be a bit optimistic though.

[CubColtPacer]

I thought that I'd give an update here-Lunardi was just on TV-his last 4 teams in are Purdue, Stanford, Drexel, and Kansas State. His last 4 teams out are Old Dominion, Illinois, Florida State, and Air Force. He said that the problem for Illinois is that it had a record of 2-10 against teams that are locked into the field. He gets about 63 or 64 out of 65 right each year, so 1 or 2 of those teams that are just out will likely be in over 1 or 2 of those teams that are just in-it will be interesting to shake out which ones those are.

[texascub]

Miami (OH) just won the MAC Championship by 1 point over Akron.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Amazing finish in the MAC Championship. Akron misses the front end of a one and one while up two, Miami banks a buzzer beating 3 from the wing.

[texascub]

Amazing finish in the MAC Championship. Akron misses the front end of a one and one while up two, Miami banks a buzzer beating 3 from the wing.

 

They're still looking at it. Apparently the clock might not have started on time so there may still be time left.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I thought that I'd give an update here-Lunardi was just on TV-his last 4 teams in are Purdue, Stanford, Drexel, and Kansas State. His last 4 teams out are Old Dominion, Illinois, Florida State, and Air Force. He said that the problem for Illinois is that it had a record of 2-10 against teams that are locked into the field. He gets about 63 or 64 out of 65 right each year, so 1 or 2 of those teams that are just out will likely be in over 1 or 2 of those teams that are just in-it will be interesting to shake out which ones those are.

 

C'mon Stanford.

[CubColtPacer]

I thought that I'd give an update here-Lunardi was just on TV-his last 4 teams in are Purdue, Stanford, Drexel, and Kansas State. His last 4 teams out are Old Dominion, Illinois, Florida State, and Air Force. He said that the problem for Illinois is that it had a record of 2-10 against teams that are locked into the field. He gets about 63 or 64 out of 65 right each year, so 1 or 2 of those teams that are just out will likely be in over 1 or 2 of those teams that are just in-it will be interesting to shake out which ones those are.

 

C'mon Stanford.

 

The fascinating thing is that he said that once the committee closes nominations, they start to look at all the bubble teams records against the locked tournament field, not just necessarily certain RPI numbers. Apparently he believes that Stanford jumped up because of their good record in that particular statistic.

[jaydee]

Purdue, with a lower RPI/SOS and worse record than Illinois is in. Interesting. Gotta love retards.

[CubColtPacer]

Amazing finish in the MAC Championship. Akron misses the front end of a one and one while up two, Miami banks a buzzer beating 3 from the wing.

 

They're still looking at it. Apparently the clock might not have started on time so there may still be time left.

 

They are messing this up-there was a timer's error. That shot never should have counted, but it did. The referees cannot change it, and arbitrarily putting time on the clock makes no sense whatsoever.

[SouthSideRyan]

These MAC refs are just making stuff up as they go along.

 

They randomly put .6 seconds on the clock to make up for the fact that the clock started a second late off the free throw. This is all one big clusterf*

[Butterscup1679666578]

Purdue, with a lower RPI/SOS and worse record than Illinois is in. Interesting. Gotta love retards.

 

Seriously?

[CubColtPacer]

Wow, and then only about .1 or .2 seconds went off the clock on that out of bounds, but the refs declared the game over anyway-I guess the refs can now make the clock say whatever it wants.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Purdue, with a lower RPI/SOS and worse record than Illinois is in. Interesting. Gotta love retards.

 

Well, that certainly is out of line. Consider this a warning, stop the inappropriate comments.

Edited March 11, 2007 by CaliforniaRaisin

[SouthSideRyan]

The game should've been over after the Miami 3. You can't go back and change the clock after the fact. It's dishonest to Miami. They're following the clock and are shooting based off of it. If you take 2 seconds off the clock after the fact it is flat out robbing them of the game. Besides, I'm not sure 1.2 seconds even happened in between the first touch and the running of the clock.

 

That was just bush league reffing though. Pathetic.

[CubColtPacer]

Purdue, with a lower RPI/SOS and worse record than Illinois is in. Interesting. Gotta love retards.

 

Those are not the only criteria-and at this point, things like RPI are basically ignored by the committee. For the last bubble teams, it's all about maximizing the top wins, minimizing the bad losses, and playing well down the stretch. Purdue is much better in the wins department, Illinois is better in the losses, and they both have finished well. Their profiles are very, very close-I'm not sure how anybody could say it was wrong either way it went.

 

Also one last criteria that is sometimes used is which team you'd rather not face-I'll let people put their own opinions on that one, although I have mine right now for most of the teams in the tournament.

[SouthSideRyan]

I thought that I'd give an update here-Lunardi was just on TV-his last 4 teams in are Purdue, Stanford, Drexel, and Kansas State. His last 4 teams out are Old Dominion, Illinois, Florida State, and Air Force. He said that the problem for Illinois is that it had a record of 2-10 against teams that are locked into the field. He gets about 63 or 64 out of 65 right each year, so 1 or 2 of those teams that are just out will likely be in over 1 or 2 of those teams that are just in-it will be interesting to shake out which ones those are.

 

Lunardi has the #s wrong. Illinois has beaten MSU and IU twice. 2 of their losses came to Iowa and UM. That'd make them 3-9 at worst, and if you're being compared to the locks in the tourney, how does the Purdue loss get included in the #s?

[Handlebar McSkullet]

The game should've been over after the Miami 3. You can't go back and change the clock after the fact. It's dishonest to Miami. They're following the clock and are shooting based off of it. If you take 2 seconds off the clock after the fact it is flat out robbing them of the game. Besides, I'm not sure 1.2 seconds even happened in between the first touch and the running of the clock.

 

That was just bush league reffing though. Pathetic.

 

That is awful, the refs should have to explain that to the miami locker room.

[CubColtPacer]

I thought that I'd give an update here-Lunardi was just on TV-his last 4 teams in are Purdue, Stanford, Drexel, and Kansas State. His last 4 teams out are Old Dominion, Illinois, Florida State, and Air Force. He said that the problem for Illinois is that it had a record of 2-10 against teams that are locked into the field. He gets about 63 or 64 out of 65 right each year, so 1 or 2 of those teams that are just out will likely be in over 1 or 2 of those teams that are just in-it will be interesting to shake out which ones those are.

 

Lunardi has the #s wrong. Illinois has beaten MSU and IU twice. 2 of their losses came to Iowa and UM. That'd make them 3-9 at worst, and if you're being compared to the locks in the tourney, how does the Purdue loss get included in the #s?

 

It's possible I heard him wrong-I wanted to make sure to get all of the teams in the proper spots quickly and get to the other game (I rewound and watched it again while I was writing that post), so when I put that statistic in at the last moment I didn't watch that particular statement again, but rather went off my memory from 3-4 minutes before.