RaceToTheTop

******* RIDICULOUS

I wonder if Oturu has ever fouled. GET THE GOD DAMN BALL IN

Get in your damn offense here, get a two for one.

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Catch the damn ball

GOD DAMN IT ROB

GET BRUNK OUT

Currently six total fouls called which means there will be thirty-four called from here out.

There is no way you can miss a foul where a player jumps on another's back when they have the ball. None. Everything is pissing me off tonight even when we are up 8. The game is that big.

Oturu buries that should an awful lot.

Stop.hedging.off.Oturu.

10 minutes in before they call the first foul on Minnesota.

Pitino getting in the refs face. Let's see if they shrink and give calls away or do their job.

Bracketmatrix didn't update today.....feeding my anxiety.

Stephen F. Austin is interesting. NET and Pom ratings aren't good (in the 80s and 101). But they are 27-3 and do have a road win at Duke. Really only three games of mention on their schedule (at Alabama, at Duke, and at Rutgers) and lost two. One head scratching home loss to a horrible Texas A&M Corpus Christi team. Now, they aren't going to get an at large berth if they don't win their conference tournament. Any loss in their conference tourney would give them another bad loss. But something interesting could happen.....if they win their last home game and two games in their conference tournament, they would be 30-3 and could still miss the tournament if they lose their conference title game. Question: has any thirty-win regular season team ever been excluded from the tournament?

Who's SOS are those? are they what are on the team sheets.....because they are WAY out of whack with what Pom or Sagarin would say. Pom has IU's at #12 right now and Sagarin has it at #11. In fact, Pom and Sagarin are incredibly consistent with each other in terms of SOS. I am discouraged to think the NCAA is using SOS values that don't really match with reality.

So Purdue fans should be rooting big time for Iowa in their last game as they travel to Illinois since they beat Iowa twice and ls to Illinois twice.....although couldn't that potentially turn a Q1 loss to Illinois to a Q2 loss if Iowa beats them?

USPS -- First time caller, long time listener. if the following were to happen entering into the BTT, which of the following would you have ranked highest and lowest on the S curve: IU beats Minnesota, loses to Wisky (record 19-12/9-11) Rutgers loses to Purdue (record 19-12 but one of those wasn't D1, 10-10) Purdue beats Rutgers (record of 17-14, 10-10). I'll hang up and listen.

Maybe it's been said, but what Q1A game did we gain yesterday? (nevermind -- see Ohio State bumped up to 15) FWIW, obviously there is going to be a bit of teams bumping in and out of Q1A, Q1B, and Q2 in the last couple of games + conference tournaments.

42-21 Purdue. Iowa completely sleepwalking.

Everything lining up poorly for the BTT...still in the first half in Iowa, but Iowa laying an egg and down 33-21 to Purdue.....starting to really look like even IF we were to win our last games, we'd be in the play in game. If Purdue hangs on today and then beats Rutgers in West Lafayette and Michigan either beats Nebraska or at Maryland, then regardless of what we do in the last two games, we end up in the play in game. Also think that in that case, winning both instead of one becomes more important because Rutgers just improved their case and Purdue puts themselves right back on the bubble with victories over Iowa and Rutgers.

Rutgers taking it to Maryland. That will put Rutgers at 10 wins. That brings the possibility of IU still being in the play in round ev or en if they win their last two games. Not that big of a deal, because of they do win their last two, being in the tourney isn't even a question. In order to avoid being in the play in round if IU wins their last two games, they would need Purdue to lose either at Iowa or at home to Rutgers or have Michigan lose their last two games....one of which is at home to Nebraska, the other at Maryland. If IU wins only one of two games, the only way they avoid the play in is in a scenario where Purdue drops their last two games I believe.

NC State loses at Duke 88-69. The Wolfpack were kind of in position in their last two games where not much would change their status.....they played at Duke and end the season hosting Wake Forest. They are the ultimate bubble team, bracketmatrix has them in the tournament in the field in 43% of the brackets, out in 57%. The Duke loss likely doesn't change anything, but a win at home against Wake Forest won't do anything for their resume either. Basically the only movement they would have had was with a win at Duke (putting them into the field in most brackets) or a loss at home to Wake Forest (which would have pretty moved them out of almost everyone's bracket). If they win at home against Wake Forest they will be in the precarious position of being just out or being one of the last few in.....and the last couple in usually get pushed out due to conference tourney results. They'll be anywhere from a 5 to 9 seed in the ACC tourney, so the first game does little good in terms of upping resume as it will be against an ACC team that isn't going to make the NCAA tournament. To get to a game that could potentially help, they'll have to beat a mid to lower tier ACC team so they can face one of the top four (Louisville, Duke, Florida State, Virginia).

IU listed as a 10 seed on the bracketmatrix with 7 at large bids listed below them. In the tournament on 106 of the 108 brackets.

Through 4 of the 11 NCAA games on tap today, IU moved up once spot and ahead of 24-5 Auburn on Pom. Simply means that the ripple effect of the games played changed their ratings ever so slightly to push IU a little ahead of Auburn. Could switch back again before the end of the night because to the nearest hundredth of a point in AdjEM, Auburn entered the night at +15.55 and IU was at +15.53; both are now at +15.53 so IU is less than .01 ahead.