Uspshoosier

Louisville hired a mid major coach last cycle that hasn’t won a tournament game as well IU has 1 winning conference record in the last 9 years but somehow people believe IU should be able to pull sitting power 5 coaches that have things rolling at their current school. Times have definitely changed

Q1A are viewed pretty heavily. It shows teams have the ability to beat high end teams. Q1a helps separate teams at the top of the seed list when deciding between 1 and 2 seeds and if a bubble team has those wins and others don’t then that will play a factor. I love UCSD but they are a typical mid major team that doesn’t get the opportunities like ISU was last year. My opinion they should be in even with a loss but history tells me they would be in trouble. Only thing that might be going for them is that 7 of the 12 committee members are from low or mid major schools

That non con is the one on the team sheets. Ken Pom non con is not on the team sheets IU is 159 today and Oklahoma is 161. Oklahoma overall sos is 15. i don’t worry about the why I just go by what’s on the team sheets. Now each individual committee can view kenpom sos and use it for their argument however Ken Pom sos isn’t on the team sheets

Checking in to work at 11:30 am A-10 gets started on USA Network and then games all day with the last ones start at 11:30 pm with the Big Sky Final on ESPN 2 and Big west and WAC first round on espn +. let’s have a day

FIU is going to win it Nicholls up 3 over Lamar with 9 min to go. Winner gets McNeese

FIU up 2 with 1 min to go

FIU/Western Kentucky tied with 4 min to go. Could be Landers last college game

Even with a losing record Delaware might have been able to avoid Dayton because the CAA is a stronger conference then some of the lower major conferences. SWAC is always in Dayton. It would of been interesting to see what they would of done worn them

See you next Tuesday or Wednesday St Francis

Champ Week rocks

Maine up 11 over Vermont with 8:40 to go Delaware and UNCG tied with about 11 min to go Robert Morris up 6 with 8 min to go

St Francis is 4 min away from me watching them in Dayton

Hate seeing games end like that. ND moves on by a terrible call with .5 to go

Pitt just hit a 3 to go up 2 with 1:02 to play

Also for me their non sos are basically the same so I would give the edge to Oklahoma over IU at this point in time Non con Sos Oklahoma-160 Iu-161

Their 7 wins against the field would be hard to overlook compared to IUs 2 wins or if you count Ohio State 4.

Probably not but possible. That win gets them in the conversation to be out of Dayton however the only other win against the field would be Purdue which is 2 solid wins or if you think a 17-14 Ohio st team is in the field then add 2 more wins. This is where Oklahoma probably has the advantage over IU in that Oklahoma has at least 6 wins against teams currently safely projected in the field and another over Arkansas. That would be hard to overlook. If iu loses to Oregon they will be in the Last 4 in or if enough bid stealers happen they will be out however if they win against Oregon they will be clear of Dayton in my opinion

Oklahoma is 6-12 in conference. Everyone should know conference record doesn’t matter to the committee however if they get an at-large bid that will be the worse conference record for a team to receive an at-large. They say they view teams on overall body of work. I believe them however 6-12 is hard to ignore if I was a member and we were comparing resumes

Depends on what this years committee values more. It changes yearly with the turnover of committee members. I’ve seen teams get left out with a bunch of Q1 wins and I’ve also seen them left out for having bad losses. That doesn’t help you sorry but it’s a moving target. Us that project this has to take clues from the committee revealing their top 16 in February and project from there. The year IU got a 4 seed I projected it when most on this board thought 5 of 6 seed and it was because during their top 16 reveal earlier in the year they valued high end road wins for teams. Ius road win at Xavier that ended up a 3 seed moved IU up some seed lines. I personally haven’t went back and looked at what this years committee has valued. I will do that when it gets closer to Sunday

You could argue IU is already ahead of Oklahoma

No bids were stolen. He just took a deeper look at resumes and moved them down 1 or 2 spots

One thing to keep an eye on is 7 of the 12 committee members are from mid or low majors. Maybe this is the year more mid majors get selected then middlE of the pack high major teams.

As a bracketologist you are always scrubbing your projected field when it gets closer. I’m not Lunardi however he probably did a scrubbing with teams close to the cut line and made the move. Or he is the face of bracketology and knows a lot of casuals look at his projections and a school like IU in the last 4 in might move the needle more then other teams. For me it’s close as well. You won’t see much separation from those last 6 in and first 6 out

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He he has been going downhill for awhile but he is the face of bracketology so his bracket always carry’s weight especially for the casual fan. Over the years once bracketology got more popular more and more people started doing it and have become really good at it. Everyone respects Lunsrdi however everyone knows there are plenty of more accurate ones out there