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Dropped to 37th in the NET WAB dropped 2 to 43. (This is the number to watch. Every at-large team with a WAB of 42 or better got in the tourney last year

Top 16 projection 1. Michigan 2. Duke 3. Arizona 4. Houston 5. Iowa St 6. Illinois 7. Uconn 8. Purdue 9. Florida 10. Kansas 11. Sparty 12. Nebraska 13. Zags 14. Texas Tech 15. Virginia 16. Bama next in line Arkansas, Vandy, Tenn, St John’s

Depends on the bracketologist and what you consider the bubble. For some being a 9 seed and losing to a projected 2 seed on the road wouldn’t slide them to the bubble but for some it might.

Plenty of posters said this team would a bottom of the bracket seeded team and that’s exactly where they are at. If you thought this team was an upper tier team then that’s on the individual posters. Nothing wrong with hoping though to each their own

That would solidify it however if they won the 2 homes games they should and lost to MSU they would still have a chance to make the tourney. IU isn’t competing with the MSU, Purdues and Illinois for a tourney spot they would be competing with TCU, Virginia tech and other flawed teams.

Why not? Plenty of teams that can’t compete against the upper level teams make the tourney. Does a TCU team that has a home loss to New Orleans deserve to be in besides IU? Got to field 68 teams and if IU is one of them even though they have flaws then so be it. It is what it is. They played 2 projected 2 seeds on the road and got blasted by 2 teams that are better then they are

St Louis on a 17-2 to run. Now up 7. VCU really needs this game

It’s not that close. VCU has dominated this game

The Journey finally is going to do a segment on IU. Lamar is getting featured in the next episode. Wild it’s taking this long for them to do an IU segment this year

VCU/St Louis tonight. massive A-10 game

2020 when the tourney got cancelled. They were not going to make the tourney that year but lucky for them it got canceled and his consecutive years of making the tourney doesn’t end like it should of

A lot of people wrote them off after a tough 4 game losing streak and took that opportunity to say they weren’t a tourney team and would be lucky to win 7 conference games. Reality is they are basically exactly where most the national basketball media and most fans thought they would be at this point. Even with a flawed roster DeVries has them positioned to make the tourney in his first year(all I heard over the summer was just find a way to get in the tourney). Still have 5 regular season games left but as of today IU is a projected tourney team.

Liberty wins it. FIU missed the last shot

OT

And FIU just got hit with a F1 foul. Liberty gets 2 shots and the ball. Unbelievable

FIU up 2 with 38 sec to go

IU is a 9 seed in the medias mock selection they did today. Still want to see how the actual committee seeds the top 16 this Saturday to see what they value. The number to pay attention to is WAB. They are pushing this metric hard. If IU only wins 2 more games but their WAB is low 40s or high 30s then i would be confident they would still get selected. Results based gets you selected while predictive helps your seeding. If IU gets selected their seeding will be higher then people will think if their predictive metrics stay as good as they are.

Liberty(undefeated in Conference USA) is tied with FIU with 7:30 to go. Delivering

Media is doing a mock selection in Indy today and then the committee will announce their top 16 this Saturday. That will give us a clue on what this uses committee values. After Saturday bracketologist will get a a clue on how to project the field moving forward

Thursdays slate

Definitely agree with the top 8. Watch out for Florida in March

New to me. Maybe when they went to coaches challenges they implemented this however first I’ve seen it used

Seattle up 1 over St Mary’s with 8 min to go