ISUCubsFan

Yeah, that seems like a given at this point unless Baylor passes them. Using the current S-Curve, giving the highest seed priority, and placing them as close as possible to home (using Google maps) I come up with: Kansas - Oklahoma City Syracuse - Buffalo Kentucky - Milwaukee Duke - Jacksonville West Virginia - Buffalo Ohio State - Milwaukee Kansas State - Oklahoma City Purdue - New Orleans Villanova - Providence Wisconsin - New Orleans New Mexico - San Jose Baylor - Jacksonville Michigan State - Providence Pittsburgh - Spokane Butler - Spokane Tennessee - San Jose Flipping a few locations at the bottom might decrease total travel distance though.

Fri Nov 13 (91) Colorado L, 88-72 Sun Nov 15 (190) Denver L, 75-56 Wed Nov 18 (34) Texas El Paso L, 70-52 Fri Nov 27 (116) Akron L, 68-65 Mon Nov 30 (40) Arizona St. L, 74-57 Sat Dec 5 (65) Michigan L, 67-53 Sun Dec 13 (43) Oklahoma St. L, 81-66 Wed Dec 16 (31) Georgia Tech L, 65-53 Sat Dec 19 (22) Missouri L, 88-70 Mon Dec 21 (10) Kansas St. L, 90-76 Mon Dec 28 (124) Oregon L, 73-53 They're headed for the play-in game for sure, but I have to give them credit for playing that non-conference schedule (all road games) and not losing by more than 20. As for the 1 seeds, I would go Kansas, Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky for now. Flip Duke and Syracuse if Duke wins the ACC, though there's virtually no difference between 2 and 3 overall. If Duke loses and Kentucky wins the SEC you could probably flip them as well.

San Diego State survives against Colorado State. Cal is the only bubble team that appears to be trying today.

I've got them as the last 7 seed? Sound about right? For Marquette, yes. I had them as my first 8 seed before today.

In addition to Larry Eustachy destroying UAB like they're a case of Natty Light, New Mexico-Air Force and Texas A&M-Nebraska are both close and late.

Yep, and Memphis loses. So awesome that they lost by one after a Memphis player rejected his own dunk with his face earlier in the game.

I'll be excited when I find out it's official and when I find out who the next coach is. Last time we lost a coach we got Todd Lickliter. If a Bruce Pearl miracle happens then Iowa vs Illinois games will get rather interesting. That guy from New Mexico might win national coach of the year, you should look into him. Seriously though, I'm somewhat jealous that you guys can get rid of your underachieving coach with player retention issues and we can't.

Yeah, they do have that terrible home loss, and played very few games away from home on the year (finished 5-8 overall including last night's game). They also finished 9-10 against the top 100. However, that road win at Syracuse is undoubtedly the best win of any of the teams in consideration, and considering how weak the bubble is I think they're safe. I initially had them a lot lower on my list, but there are a lot of BAD teams around the bubble right now, so they are the lesser of many evils. Yep, (in retrospect I had them too low) just wanted to preemptively argue against anyone seeing those wins over Cuse and putting them as a 5 seed or something. Not that I have a clue who deserves a 5 seed out of this lot. I had Louisville in the 10 seed area on my preliminary S-Curve (after last night), so I agree completely. For the sake of argument, here's what I think about the 20 teams on our bubble (As always, these aren't final and subject to change): Virginia Tech - Lots of solid wins (@GT, Wake, Clemson) and no terrible losses. They're easily off of my bubble. UNLV - Split with all the MWC contenders including NM on the road. Also beat L'ville. Being swept by Utah is bad, but they're still fine. Georgia Tech - VT with more losses and a bad road record, but a big win over Duke. UTEP - They really needed to beat a tourney lock at some point, but their dominance of CUSA is impressive enough to have them in for now. California - Beating Murray St., Washington, and ASU twice is solid. Losing to UCLA and Oregon St. not so much. Needs to avoid another bad loss (i.e. make the finals). Illinois - So many good wins and so many losses. This year's Arizona now that UConn is dead. Mississippi - No good conference wins, but they beat K-State and UTEP at neutral sites. With only one bad loss they're just in my field. UAB - They beat Butler. Really nothing other than that either good or bad. Washington - No road work and some suspect losses, but wins over Cal, ASU, and A&M are solid for a team in a mid-major conference. Seton Hall - My first team out. A few solid wins, but the best is Pitt at home. 12 losses is a lot to overcome. San Diego St. - Beat NM and UNLV and..? That's not enough to overcome losing to Pacific and Wyoming for me. Need another good win. South Florida - @G'town is a good win (and getting better), but there aren't enough wins and a few uninspiring losses pull them down. Arizona St. - Might have the least damaging losses in the Pac-10, but their best wins are over two bubble teams (Wash, SDSU) at home. Cincinnati - Poor man's Illinois. They need to win at least one more, probably more. Dayton - Xavier, Old Dominion, and GT are good wins, but some ugly losses are holding them down. Utah St. - I'm a lot lower on these guys than everyone else, but beating BYU doesn't make a resume, especially with 4 bad losses. Minnesota - Actually Minnesota is probably a better Illinois comparison. They also need to make the finals for a chance. Memphis - Why does everyone have them in? They swept UAB? They also lost to SMU and UMass. Rhode Island - Decent road work, but the only win over a tourney team is Ok St. Two bad losses at the end of the year did them in. Mississippi St. - Lost at Western Kentucky and at home Rider. Three wins over bubble teams and that's it. Edit: I agree with leaving Syracuse where they are for now.

i bet he leaves anyway. He might, but his ball handling isn't close to NBA ready yet. He'd probably end up in Europe or the D-League. obviously. but he might be fine with that. and yeah, the dude can barely dribble. Well the NCAA has denied the appeal in record time, so no speculation is needed. This sucks.

And that's the season. Pretty disappointing all around.

The guy from Montana that put up 42 in a 66-65 game has that locked up. Edit: 34 points in the second half. Wow.

i bet he leaves anyway. He might, but his ball handling isn't close to NBA ready yet. He'd probably end up in Europe or the D-League.

Yeah, Brackins has regressed a ton this year. Gilstrap is easily the MVP of this team, and would be a bigger loss if he doesn't get a 6th year.

If Iowa State could run a fast break they'd be leading Texas at half. As it is they're down 3.

8-12 in the Big East was going to get them in? I think they had to get to the final to have a legit shot. I think they needed to beat Marquette at least, but they looked a lot like Arizona from last year. Lots of losses but none of them bad and several good wins. And a tremendously weak bubble. Yeah, but since everyone (including me) says that every year I figured it was a given.

8-12 in the Big East was going to get them in? I think they had to get to the final to have a legit shot. I think they needed to beat Marquette at least, but they looked a lot like Arizona from last year. Lots of losses but none of them bad and several good wins.

Cal is probably in. Good wins are Washington, Arizona St. x2, and Murray St. Only 2 really terrible losses in Oregon State and UCLA, and 4 of their 9 losses are to probable top 3 seeds. In short, their profile is awful but I can't find enough teams to put over them. Washington and ASU (in that order) are just outside for me.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overtime. Brackins is fouled out and 3 other players have 4 though, so it doesn't look good.

Our entire team is in foul trouble. I have no idea how ISU is still up 5.

I think we both agreed that trading down in this scenario would've been ideal, but failing that Thomas gave us good value at a position that isn't deep in this draft.

Iowa State leads K-State by 9 at half. I'm pretty sure a huge run is coming, but I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

I'll PM Warp now to see what he thinks.

Nova and WVU coming down to the wire on CBS. Gus Johnson on the call.

Dolphins also sign Pennington to a 1/$2.5M deal. I didn't really expect that to happen, but it sounds like a backup/insurance role, which is good. There's still some decent free agent options. No superstars, but then again you don't have to be one to replace Gibril Wilson.