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I'm all for Romeo staying out regardless. Silly to risk injury, and the team is better off learning to play without him. Would rather see the other Gs get valuable PT.

Would love to get revenge on Ark in the second round. Without that one point loss, we'd probably be in the dance lol.

Sure missing the dance sucks, but.....I think there is still a lot to fight for. Morgan will want to look good because looking bad effects his future employment. Romeo's play impacts his lottery position. The returning guys, some were just starting to hit their stride. Archie while disappointed, I'm sure is happy with the extra practice time. And, they'll be playing at home. I'd be surprised if they laid a turd. Not shocked, but surprised. I'm just happy for the opportunity to watch a couple more games.

I'm a UT fan as well. They're the only SEC team I can stomach. And I'm for any team not named Duke, NC, KY, KS, etc..

I would think so too, but just watched ESPN and most said it didn't matter what they did today. Most said Zags, Duke, UNC, and VA as ones. And KY and TN at twos (with likely MSU and UM).

struggling to understand why Tenn isn't getting more 1 spot love. beat KY twice, beat the Zags on a neutral floor, high in Net, less losses than some of the names going around.

You just can't do that. I watched the vid again. He purposefully extended his hand outward to push him. If it wouldn't have been so deliberate, I'd be OK, but it was absolutely deliberate. Just because the kid in the air didn't crash horribly, doesn't mean the action was any less worse. Purely my opinion though.

Pretty sure he was the one that started the whole scuffle by pushing the SH player when he was in the air fading out of bounds. It was a pretty bad/stupid, but wasn't so bad that the player got hurt. Just a real "idiot" thing to do that could have gotten a player hurt.

The Marquette / SH game has about everything you can ask for. Multiple ejections, guys fouling out, scuffles, other techs (8 total), bad ref calls, critical missed foul shots, monster-oops, and down to the last shot.

Furman and SOCON is another interesting group. Furman is 41 NET, UNCG in the low 50s IIRC, and Wofford is top 20 and should get in regardless. Need to cheer hard for UNCG to lose.

One could argue St Marys would have gotten in regardless. Their NET was comfortably in the 30s (34th), and losing to the Zags would not have dropped them much, if at all. I know that the NET is not the end all, but neither are the bubble reports. Actually, we don't really know how the NET will be prioritized, but the NCAA, IMO, would look pretty silly leaving a team out in the top 35 of their own new shiny toy/tool.

lol. yup, 40+ years. i was at IU during the BK years too. the olden days when during frosh year you had to share a phone box with a rotary phone and super long cord, with the room next door. tacos across the street were only like 50 cents though IIRC, so there were a lot of good things lol. getting old.

i've actually posted that the NET is not the end all... my post was simply adding the NET, saying Joe was smoking, and commented on his rankings vs NET.... and this thread is full of people surprised that teams move up or down more or less than they expect (in the NET). regardless, the NET is the new guiding tool. in short, Joe is hit or miss. i've been following stats and brackets for 40+ years, so pretty aware there are a lot of factors. this is the first year of NET though, and it's the NCAA's creation. we'll see how much they follow their own tool, and how subjective they will be (compared to other years). IMO, it won't change a lot, the NCAA Committee will just look a little sillier when they ignore their own system.

I added updated NET in front of the name. I think Joe should smoke a smidge less on a few of these. Either that, or NET means diddley

PU as well. Same side of the bracket as UM

Out of all the teams, I'd love to beat PU the most. So whatever gets us there :-) I wouldn't complain about beating Maryland or UM though.

so likely path of OSU, MSU, Wisc/Maryland, UM/PU. is we could get past MSU a third time, things could get really fun. would love some revenge.

One more box checked.

great game. next! best "take care of business" game all year. JW was a beast. big thank you to all the seniors.

BEAST Morgan doing a bit of everything tonight. Awesome.

well one more half to the regular season. a little sputter at the end of the end of the half, but like the effort. come on JM, go out like a beast. you have one more half in AH.

yup, and it's gonna be fun (unless we **** the bed tomorrow lol). i did not think we'd be in this position a few weeks ago, that's for sure.

thanks USPS. 3rd doesn't make me feel much better though :-)

The only two ugly marks that IU has is Q2 overall record (but especially Q2 Home record lol), and non-conference SoS (which is somewhat voided by our overall SoS). I think with two more wins, we're probably in. I just don't like the thought of being on the second team ever to make the field with 15 losses (I think that's correct).