RaceToTheTop

coachtv is Joe Lunardi.

Seriously....what in the **** are you talking about.

I wasn’t trying to indicate you messed up the stats....just was saying that the person reporting it did.

Good post, but he couldn't have been 14 of 16 from the field with 6 of 6 from three as that would total 34 points without free throws. The stats I saw posted were 12 of 14 from the field and 5 of 5 from deep. That would leave the remaining three points coming from the line.

bracketmatrix up for games through yesterday. 9 seeds: Florida, Providence, USC, Indiana 10 seeds: Texas Tech, Arizona St, Oklahoma, Xavier 11 seeds: Rutgers, Wichita State, Stanford, Texas 12 seeds: Cincinnati, UCLA First four out: Utah State, Richmond, Purdue, NC State That's ten at large teams below IU. IF that were true, IU not beating either Wisky or a play in game in the BTT would keep them out. FWIW: Teams from Rutgers up are in at least 89 of the 93 brackets; the iffy teams start below Rutgers (Wichita State, Stanford, Texas, Cincy, and UCLA). Of those teams, only Cincy (48) and UCLA (59) are in less than 60 brackets (UCLA likely is in more brackets because some keep them as a placeholder for a PAC 12 champion as they co-lead the conference -- hard to evaluate them as an at large bid should they not win the PAC 12 title because of this). Of the teams not projected in the field, Utah State is in 38 brackets, Richmond is in 30, Purdue 25, and NC State is in 17. Really only three games of consequence tonight and all three are in the consensus first four out: Utah St. v Wyoming (Wyoming with only 9 wins, Utah St shouldn't lose and if they do, they done); Richmond at Duquesne (important one -- Duquesne is okay and is only a one point dog); and Wake Forest at NC State (NC State can't afford a loss at this point).

bracketmatrix had them one spot below the last at-large berth. So borderish with the loss to Drake and I would say more likely than not they aren't in, especially since other spots being stolen would like bump them out if they were sneaking at the border.

bracketmatrix just updated for brackets posted before today's games were played (so would have included our win yesterday). 10 seeds: Xavier, USC, Indiana, Oklahoma 11 seeds Rutgers, Wichita State, Stanford, Cincinnati 12 seeds Texas, UCLA IU listed as in the tournament on 80 of the 81 brackets. Not a good day for those teams that played in this list: Xavier lost at Providence 80-74 Wichita State lost at Memphis 68-60 Stanford lost at Oregon State 68-65 Arizona State was higher up on the average seed line (9) but probably dropped to mostly 10s on people's brackets with their loss to Washington. For those teams listed as first four out (Utah St, Richmond,Purdue, NC State), Utah State survived a scare against New Mexico State in the MWC quarterfinals.

Utah State hits a big 3, New Mexico State misses one. Utah State up 3 with possession, 47 seconds left.

Utah State within 2 now, 5 minutes left.

Oregon State beats Stanford, 68-65. Not a good time for a Stanford loss to a lower tier Pac 12 team.

The win by Washington was their first road win in conference....now are 4-13 in conference play. Bad, bad loss for ASU.

Stanford misses a shot, Oregon State rebound. Stanford foul. OSU hits first free throw. Oregon State up 2 with 4 seconds left and one free throw to go. Washington up 7 with 25 seconds left. Bad loss for Arizona State.

Oregon State 66-65 with 17 seconds left. Time out. Stanford ball. Washington up 5 with possesssion, 1:15 to go.

Oregon State now only up 1 with 1:46 left.

Arizona State down 6 with 2 minutes left.

Arizona State regains a 1 point lead. Oregon State up 6. Memphis up 15. New Mexico State up 6 on Utah State.

Washington now on a 21-4 run at Arizona State. Washington up 69-65, Arizona St time out, 8:02 left.

Conference tournament game for Utah State, correct? Would have to think a loss moves them out with no chance to recover.

Washington and Arizona State tied with 9 minutes left. Oregon State up 10 on Stanford with 9 minutes left. Memphis up 11 with 10 minutes against Wichita State.

10-0 Washington run. Now down just 61-58 to Arizona State.

Memphis up a 12 with 13 minutes left against Wichita State.

Arizona State up 9 at home against Washington with 14 minutes left. Stanford losing by 6 to Oregon State with 11 minutes left.

I'm rooting for Houston to win the conference to avoid a stolen bid. If not them, Wichita State. It's a funny conference because of the there is a four game separation from 1st to 7th but a three game separation from 7th to 8th. The bottom four teams in the conference is just really bad and have helped inflate everyone's win totals. Of course you could say something similar about the Big Ten (6 game seperation between 1st and 12th, 5 between 12th and 13th) but Big Ten teams only benefitted by playing Nebraska and Northwestern in basically 3 out of 20 conference games. In the AAC, it's more like 7 out of 18 against the bottom four.

Wichita State started the game up 7-0 at Memphis. Memphis now up 18-11. Bracketmatrix has Wichita State as fifth team above the cut. Memphis only in 1 out of 86 brackets and not really even on the bubble.

Factually, Lunardi had us at a 10 seed before we played at Purdue and at Illinois....we lost both and he moved us up to 9. We beat Minnesota and then he drops us down to an 11 and one of last four in. Simply put, he's bad at his job. Check the bracketmatrix rankings over the last five years....he's 55th out of 133. Check out this 'website' of the guy who is ranked exactly one spot below him: http://raleighwxmodels.com/awhuffma/bracketology/bracketology2019.html The dude is Jimmy the Greek, who would go on CBS and pick point spread winners at a 50% rate. Lunardi is great at calling coins heads or tails exactly fifty percent of the time.