Bracketology and Team Resumes

[BGVille Hoosierfan]

From everything I’ve seen, IU is mostly not even in one of the last 4 byes, meaning they are safely in the field. The way I look at the bubble, Texas and Texas Tech will play each other in the first round of the Big12 Tourney and that is a defacto elimination game. Same goes for the potential 2nd round matchup in the Pac12 with Stanford/UCLA (assuming Stanford beats Cal). So the way I look at it, that means those teams are just going to cancel each other out. That being said, it’s gonna take several bid stealers for IU to come close to being on the cut line. Teams like Georgia, UNC, Minny, DePaul would have to win their conference tourneys for things to start to look hairy. Could be wrong, but the bubble seems very weak this year.


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[NOLA Hoosier]

IU opens as 10-point favorites with an 82% chance of victory over Nebrasketball.

[BGVille Hoosierfan]

IU opens as 10-point favorites with an 82% chance of victory over Nebrasketball.

Line is at 12.5 this morning.


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[HoosierFan1994]

9 hours ago, jbell833 said:

From everything I’ve seen, IU is mostly not even in one of the last 4 byes, meaning they are safely in the field. The way I look at the bubble, Texas and Texas Tech will play each other in the first round of the Big12 Tourney and that is a defacto elimination game. Same goes for the potential 2nd round matchup in the Pac12 with Stanford/UCLA (assuming Stanford beats Cal). So the way I look at it, that means those teams are just going to cancel each other out. That being said, it’s gonna take several bid stealers for IU to come close to being on the cut line. Teams like Georgia, UNC, Minny, DePaul would have to win their conference tourneys for things to start to look hairy. Could be wrong, but the bubble seems very weak this year.


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Yup. Take care of business against Nebraska and they will be in. 

[IUc2016]

https://www.insidethehall.com/2020/03/10/bracketology-ncaa-tournament-projection-as-of-march-10-2020/

Andy Bottoms has IU as a 10 playing Virginia. He goes in depth with teams on the bubble and does a good job of stating each of their cases for and against.  

[HoosierDYT]

1 hour ago, IUc2016 said:

https://www.insidethehall.com/2020/03/10/bracketology-ncaa-tournament-projection-as-of-march-10-2020/

Andy Bottoms has IU as a 10 playing Virginia. He goes in depth with teams on the bubble and does a good job of stating each of their cases for and against.  

I try to be generally positive, but that matchup might just create the worst offensive game ever

[WayneFleekHoosier]

I try to be generally positive, but that matchup might just create the worst offensive game ever

First to 50 wins.


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[Str8Hoosiers]

2 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

First to 50 wins.


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May take at least 3 overtimes to get to 50 in that one...

[BGVille Hoosierfan]

I try to be generally positive, but that matchup might just create the worst offensive game ever

Of all the realistic potential matchups for IU in the first round, Virginia is the team I’d least like to see.

 

 

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[LIHoosier]

I try to be generally positive, but that matchup might just create the worst offensive game ever

The infamous 38-33 game would be in jeopardy.

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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

2 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

The infamous 38-33 game would be in jeopardy.

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OK by me as long as we have the 38.

[ray]

Dick Vitale just tossed Archie under the bus.

[cthomas]

20 minutes ago, ray said:

Dick Vitale just tossed Archie under the bus.

He was fine 30 years ago, but has been wearing on me ever since. 

[NOLA Hoosier]

5 minutes ago, cthomas said:

He was fine 30 years ago, but has been wearing on me ever since. 

He was great at the IU-UK game but even that was 8 years ago now. Time for old Dickie V to pack it in

[MikeRoberts]

He was great at the IU-UK game but even that was 8 years ago now. Time for old Dickie V to pack it in

Is he Kermit in Archie’s analogy?


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[Str8Hoosiers]

The thing is he ranted about Archie owing Lunardi an apology, about how his job is to win games, about being under .500 in conference being a disqualifier, about he doesn't care how tough the conference is, how he will defend Lunardi because he knows how hard he works... blah blah blah

But then the next topic he got on was how great UNC is... how they could make a run.... well guess what they were 6-14 in conference... and they are under .500 in total.... I get that he wasn't necessarily advocating for them to get an At Large bid... but still seems very hypocritical to me.

[Uspshoosier]

Time to get to work for the committee


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[Chris007]

Dick Vitale just tossed Archie under the bus.

He was all over ESPN 2 years ago saying that Trae Young and Oklahoma had to be in the tourney with their 8-10 conference record. Also Candy Stripes Central pointed out on twitter that Lunardi has had 9 teams projected to be in the tourney the last two years with losing conference records. That proves it's all about clicks and views. 

 

[Uspshoosier]

He was all over ESPN 2 years ago saying that Trae Young and Oklahoma had to be in the tourney with their 8-10 conference record. Also Candy Stripes Central pointed out on twitter that Lunardi has had 9 teams projected to be in the tourney the last two years with losing conference records. That proves it's all about clicks and views.  

I changed it to 2 years ago for you. Espn had a trae young tracker during other games to show what he was doing at all times and they were definitely push the narrative that Oklahoma did enough early on to get them in the tourney. Lol. Lunardi has been fighting this over .500 for a couple years now. He has written articles on it in the past but he usually ends up putting these teams in his final bracket but he definitely uses his ESPN platform to push his thoughts on topic as long he can
I’m not offended as an IU fan that he has IU in the last 4 in up until this point I’m more offended as a bracketologist after seeing some of his last 4 bye teams.


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[Chris007]

4 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

I changed it to 2 years ago for you. Espn had a trae young tracker during other games to show what he was doing at all times and they were definitely push the narrative that Oklahoma did enough early on to get them in the tourney. Lol. Lunardi has been fighting this over .500 for a couple years now. He has written articles on it in the past but he usually ends up putting these teams in his final bracket but he definitely uses his ESPN platform to push his thoughts on topic as long he can
I’m not offended as an IU fan that he has IU in the last 4 in up until this point I’m more offended as a bracketologist after seeing some of his last 4 bye teams.


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Thank you!!