hawkeyecub

Jesus Christ. Iowa melted down but we got absolutely fucked in the 2nd half.

All of it.

Vikings got Greg Jennings.

Tennessee vs. Alabama. Whoever wins, you lose. Alabama would be preferred. What's the logic here? Them knocking Tennessee out than Alabama being knocked out tomorrow? Pretty much. A win from Tennessee today may have put them in or at least close to it. I think Alabama has to beat Florida.

Tennessee vs. Alabama. Whoever wins, you lose. Alabama would be preferred.

Glad to see you guys have Southern Miss. off your board. [expletive] Lunardi has them in his last 4 out. I can't figure out one reason why unless you're strictly looking at their RPI. They're the poster child for gaming the RPI and beating no one.

The MWC is tricky to me. It's a good league but I think they just figured out how to game the RPI like the MVC did a few years back.

What do you make of Cal? Basketball Predictions guy who I really like (http://basketballpredictions.blogspot.com/) has had them on his bubble but most others seem to think they're safely in. Their RPI dropped to 53 tonight, they're 3-5 vs. the top 50, 3-5 vs. 51-100. They had 0 101+ losses until tonight when Utah dropped them.

Hell, have you seen what happened to all the borderline teams today? Knock it off. Ugly game but to be expected I guess. Fran has had some odd (dumb) sub patterns this year but I feel like he really overdid it for the tournament. Should have been a 20+ point game but whatever. Biggest Iowa game in 7 years tomorrow.

The bracket and game times are set months in advance.

Richmond was up 3 on Charlotte with 5.9 left. They fouled with 4.7 left to send Charlotte to the line for a 1 and 1. He made the first, then a Richmond player shoved down a Charlotte guy after it went in which resulted in a dead ball technical. Charlotte made the 2nd from the initial 1 and 1 then both technical free throws, then were fouled on the inbounds pass with 2.8 left, then Chris Mooney (Richmond coach) got 2 technicals to get ejected. Charlotte then made the 4 technical free throws to go up 68-63 and win. From up 3 with 5.9 left to down 5 on 8 free throws. Never seen anything like that.

I understand not focusing on how a team finishes due to unbalanced schedules. But when a team looks like total [expletive] for 2 months, the "whole body of work" gets annoying. Minnesota's resume is better than most of the last at-larges so they'll be in, but they just suck right now.

Yeah that game sucked. Illinois' offense, especially their zone offense at times was, ick. Minnesota looked about like the Minnesota I've seen for the last 2 months except for the IU game.

They've beaten as many tourney teams as Penn State. Beating Creighton at home suddenly made them a near lock with most everyone.

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. Iona had 5 top 100 wins though and a 5-3 record vs. such teams. MTSU is 2-3 and one of those wins is 99 right now.

Loved Percy as a player but they apparently felt like they had to trade him. He's a free agent after this year and I'm not sure what could have convinced him to get through this year without being a constant [expletive] and re-sign. If he couldn't get along with Frazier, there wasn't much hope. It was pretty telling that Jamarca Sanford was the ONLY player who was able to reach him after his injury and through the playoffs. Just chilled out in Florida and went off the grid. Speculation was that they would get a 2nd round pick for him so a 1st this year and a 3rd next year is great. They have 1 WR coming back now next year so they need to sign at least 2 free agents (hopefully Jennings/Wallace but not counting on it) and use one of their 1st's on one.

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. In the interests of brevity, I didn't go into a paragraphs-long description about exactly why 15-16 Purdue is terrible, why unanimous edge of the bubble team Iowa is not good, and why jumped-off-a-cliff Minnesota is probably a worse team now than their statistical profile would suggest. I have enough faith in the community here that they can see the point being made. Wait, Pomeroy's numbers are invalidated because they're on the edge of the bubble? When they're solely on the edge of the bubble because of the awful RPI? The only thing "not good" about Iowa is their NC SOS. They beat five 300+ teams by 30 instead of beating 180-225 teams by 10. That's why they're on the edge of the bubble. Oh and that they played in the toughest league in the country instead of finishing 2nd or 3rd in the SEC. They're one of the youngest teams in the country and played like [expletive] against a Va. Tech team that was playing well at the time. They were 8-0 after beating Iowa and then Oklahoma St. by 10. 6 of their 9 Big Ten losses were by 4 points or less. The only losses they had that weren't that close were at UM, IU and OSU. 4 of them to IU, MSU, at Minnesota and at Wisconsin in 2 OT. In each of the games they led in the final minute and had some ridiculous bad luck along with some misses of their own. They're not a great team and they made their own bed with scheduling and not closing out a number of winnable games. I just don't follow your logic here.

Maryland played some of the dumbest/worst basketball possible and Virginia still didn't really want to take it from them.

how's it rub you that the 6th place team in the sec is a lock? Then gave us no help yesterday. Awesome. The whole SEC can just go somewhere and die. What an awful league.

Even as someone who studies the bracket [expletive] inside and out, before the year I would not have thought a 20-11, 9-9 Iowa team that finished 6th in the #1 league would be in this position.

+1

This we knew... Gottlieb: This I was unaware of... Goodman:

Tom Crean thinks Illinois' white assistant with the buzzed head claps too much. Holy [expletive] between that guy and Groce all of the "clappy" and "spaz" stuff lobbed at Crean from you guys needs to be scrubbed from the internet.

Thanks. I want no part of IU/UM so if there's a 4-way tie it looks like the 7 seed would be preferable. I think I'd rather play OSU than Wisconsin.

Yep. Refs totally missed it. Glad I'm not the only one who saw it. Game changer. Dammit. I started to question my knowledge of the rules. That seemed obvious 2 of the refs signaled immediately that it was tipped out so maybe the rule is that you have to have possession and it can legally be tipped out after a missed shot?