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I've seen a lot of bizarre tournament formats over the past 10 years, but this year's SWAC is the weirdest.
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As much as Minnesota is worse than their statistical profile suggests, Purdue is better right now than their profile suggests. Iowa is a good team with terrible non conference scheduling.
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I think there are 5 finals today and 5 new conference tourneys starting today, but I'll have to do writeups on it when I'm less busy.
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KenPom is a great tool, but let's not be dogmatic here. Purdue is terrible, Iowa is not good, and Minnesota appears to be a much different team with how they've sank like a stone in the second half(5-10 in their last 15 with losses to Purdue, Northwestern, and Nebraska). You're going to have to explain to me how this is pragmatic.
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Second round: USA, Italy, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. Two advance to semifinals along with Japan and the Netherlands/Cuba winner. USA v Puerto Rico, Italy v Dominican Republic. Double elimination from this point on. EDIT: Apparently the Netherlands beat Cuba again, and advance to the semifinals.
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only one top 100 win for them (ole miss). hard to see them getting an at large bid. They have a better resume than Iona did last year, and I could see the committee rewarding a dominant regular season champ over a middling major especially with how weak the bubble has looked this year. EDIT: Particularly, for example, Ole Miss.
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USA wins the group, and will face the Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico loser next.
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Team USA has the worst 1B in their group. Discuss.
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Two more bids up for grabs today: #1 Creighton vs #2 Wichita State (Creighton 60%) in the MVC finals. #1S Charleston Southern vs #5N Liberty (Charleston Southern 72%) in the Big South finals.
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I thought Rizzo was playing for Italy.
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Four buzzer beaters so far in the Horizon tournament, including both semis today. Top seed Valpo advances to face 3 seed Wright State in the finals.
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Belmont comes back to win in OT and now 3 bids are spoken for.
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Belmont now trails Murray State 60-56 with just over a minute to play. Could the OVC possibly get 2 bids this season? The MAAC did it last year...
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Run differential. They wouldn't have been eliminated even if Mexico would have won. Now they aren't eliminated even if they lose tonight.
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Late afternoon results: -- Harvard beat Cornell and Princeton lost to Brown so Harvard gets the Ivy auto bid without having to wait until Thursday. -- Wichita State joins Creighton in the MVC finals, so there surprisingly won't be a bid stolen in the MVC this year. -- All the other 1 seeds in conference tourneys have won so far. -- Belmont leads Murray State 41-38 midway through the second half for the OVC bid.
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What do you expect out of a guy averaging less than an assist a game? I'd heard he wasn't much of a passer, but this is the first time I've made a concerted effort to see it live. That team has such a bizarre dynamic. And they're probably the best the Pac 12 has.
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I watched about 5 minutes of the UCLA-Washington game, during which Shabazz Muhammad tried to strip his own man of the ball and hasn't passed it once.
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They won't play Nebraska on Thursday, they're behind Purdue in the standings. This sets up Illinois to play Nebraska regardless of their result tomorrow now. I hope you have that right, but on several Illinois boards they have it differently. Actually, Purdue would win the 3 way tiebreaker since they won the only meeting with Minnesota. EDIT: Which would put Illinois and Minnesota in the 8-9 game.
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Miami apparently not up for winning the ACC this year.
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They won't play Nebraska on Thursday, they're behind Purdue in the standings. This sets up Illinois to play Nebraska regardless of their result tomorrow now.
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Creighton not messing around today either. Just Doug McDermott has outscored Indiana State, and he doesn't even have half Creighton's points.
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Florida Gulf Coast beat the odds and won the Atlantic Sun bid. Other than today, their best win was over Miami (yes, that one).
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Wait until the minor league draft is over.
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Loyola Marymount, which had won all of 1 game this calendar year, has now won 3 games in the WCC Tourney and gets to play Gonzaga tonight. The other WCC quarter was also an upset, so St. Mary's and Gonzaga each have a better than 90% chance of making the finals in the WCC. Princeton lost its first of 3 final road games, while Harvard beat Columbia at home, so the Ivy standings are basically tied though Princeton has an additional game to play. Creighton vs Indiana State (Creighton 81%) and Wichita State vs Illinois State (Wichita State 60%) are the MVC semifinals today. Two auto bids are decided today: #1 Belmont vs #3 Murray State (Belmont 86%) in the OVC finals. #1 Mercer vs #2 Florida Gulf Coast (Mercer 69%) in the A-Sun finals. Three more conference tourneys start today: -- America East (KP #56 Stony Brook is a 62.0% favorite) -- CAA (KP #170 Northeastern is a 24.5% favorite...yeesh, what happened to the CAA this year? They're going to get a 16 seed) -- Summit (KP #71 North Dakota State is a 49.6% favorite despite being the 3 seed)
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It is as if you read absolutely nothing in the thread.
