Bracketology and Team Resumes

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,312]

A 3 seed in play.  That is fantastic! Would really give us a chance to advance!  I feel like if we win both games next week it will be hard to keep us off the 3 line.  Hyped!

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

57 minutes ago, southsidehoosier said:

Do you see us moving the needle much with seeding after that win?

Yes.  I have them as a 3 seed now.  12th overall.   

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

56 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

How did Michigan State’s net move up 2 spots yesterday?

Same way Arkansas moved up 1 spot after losing at Bama.   I’m guessing they out preformed their efficiency numbers while being on the road at Q1a quality team.    Sparty should have won that game.   If they win that game I’m guessing they would have moved into the top 30 giving IU another Q1 win 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

30 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

A 3 seed in play.  That is fantastic! Would really give us a chance to advance!  I feel like if we win both games next week it will be hard to keep us off the 3 line.  Hyped!

Just keep in mind this year there is no dominant team and not much separation from 2-7 in my opinion.   For example today I have IU a 3 seed.    Want to guess which teams I have on the 6 line?   Creighton, Kentucky, Arkansas and Iowa St 

That’s a tough matchup for a 3 seed in the second game.   Going to interesting.   No matter what seed IU gets moving forward there will be no easy games in the tourney but after yesterdays performance I feel good about any matchup they will end up getting 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

This tournament is going to be insane in my opinion with the parity this year.   My projected 1 seeds would have to play teams in the second round like these teams Providence, Duke(they are moving up quick), Rutgers, Iowa, Maryland, Pitt, Florida Atlantic, Illinois.  This will change but you get my point.   No easy games.   We had 0 buzzer beaters in last years tournament.  Here is hoping we get a lot of them this year 

[Brass Cannon 24,736]

4 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Just keep in mind this year there is no dominant team and not much separation from 2-7 in my opinion.   For example today I have IU a 3 seed.    Want to guess which teams I have on the 6 line?   Creighton, Kentucky, Arkansas and Iowa St 

That’s a tough matchup for a 3 seed in the second game.   Going to interesting.   No matter what seed IU gets moving forward there will be no easy games in the tourney but after yesterdays performance I feel good about any matchup they will end up getting 

What do we need to do over the next few weeks to stay a 3 in your mind.  

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

Just now, Brass Cannon said:

What do we need to do over the next few weeks to stay a 3 in your mind.  

Win the last 2 homes games and that might be enough but as always will depend on what others do around the same seed line.    Winning a game in the BTT along with the home games would help out 

[Brass Cannon 24,736]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Win the last 2 homes games and that might be enough but as always will depend on what others do around the same seed line.    Winning a game in the BTT along with the home games would help out 

Awesome.  If we somehow win 5 straight do you see a path to a 2 seed if everybody else has some bad weeks 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

26 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Awesome.  If we somehow win 5 straight do you see a path to a 2 seed if everybody else has some bad weeks 

Possibly but that would be tough.    That would have to include another win against Purdue in the conference tourney.   Baylor is my last 2 seed right now and they are 10-8 in Q1 games.   IU today is 5-8 in Q1 games and their 2 home games are in the Q2 area.  The path to the 2 seed is probably out of the question.  They really needed to win @Sparty for that to be obtainable in my opinion.    IU will be a 3-5 seed in my opinion 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Possibly but that would be tough.    That would have to include another win against Purdue in the conference tourney.   Baylor is my last 2 seed right now and they are 10-8 in Q1 games.   IU today is 5-8 in Q1 games and their 2 home games are in the Q2 area.  The path to the 2 seed is probably out of the question.  They really needed to win @Sparty for that to be obtainable in my opinion.    IU will be a 3-5 seed in my opinion 

To add to this if IU’s resume is close to Arizona I see the committee giving Zona the edge because of head to head.  If the Big 12 teams continue knocking each other off and Zona loses some more then IU might be in a position to jump those teams.   I don’t see it happening but there is a small path 

[HoosierAloha 30,068]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Possibly but that would be tough.    That would have to include another win against Purdue in the conference tourney.   Baylor is my last 2 seed right now and they are 10-8 in Q1 games.   IU today is 5-8 in Q1 games and their 2 home games are in the Q2 area.  The path to the 2 seed is probably out of the question.  They really needed to win @Sparty for that to be obtainable in my opinion.    IU will be a 3-5 seed in my opinion 

Illinois, Michigan St., and Rutger all sneak into the top 30 with IU defeating Michigan St. and purdoodoo in the Big 1.o Tourney and boom 10-8 in Q1 games no?

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

3 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Illinois, Michigan St., and Rutger all sneak into the top 30 with IU defeating Michigan St. and purdoodoo in the Big 1.o Tourney and boom 10-8 in Q1 games no?

Yeah that is a path where a lot of things would have to fall IU’s way and you have to hope Baylor doesn’t win anymore of their games.   It would be an interesting case for sure if that would happen.    IU’s SOS moved up to 9th after the Purdue game 

[RaceToTheTop 25,633]

1 hour ago, LIHoosier said:

Everyone played so I guess other teams were worse. Miami for example dropped 6 losing to FSU, that helped.

Yep, just checked.  They moved ahead of Miami and Auburn, both of whom had worse results.

[HoosierAloha 30,068]

purdoodoo didn't drop in NET after losing yesterday either

[HoosierAloha 30,068]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Yeah that is a path where a lot of things would have to fall IU’s way and you have to hope Baylor doesn’t win anymore of their games.   It would be an interesting case for sure if that would happen.    IU’s SOS moved up to 9th after the Purdue game 

I guess that could include a neutral site win over Maryland which would be an 11-8 record. IU could get 3 Q1 games in the Big 1.o Tourney.

 

[NashvilleHoosier 3,703]

1 hour ago, RaceToTheTop said:

How did Michigan State’s net move up 2 spots yesterday?

Watching the movement in NET rankings is fascinating to me. If I remember correctly they saw a decent jump when they beat us on Tuesday. Interesting that us losing there could end up being a big catalyst to us a gaining a Q1 win if they can jump at least 3 more spots. With ILL @ 31, Sparty @ 33 and Rutgers @ 35, we aren’t that far from having 8 quad 1 wins. 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

2 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

purdoodoo didn't drop in NET after losing yesterday either

Arizona didn’t moved down either after a home loss 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

You hear me talk about the Quads a lot and you hear the talking heads bring them up but it’s important to keep in mind that they are used to sort the wins into different groups.   If Illinois finished 31 even though that’s considered a Q2 win it’s still a very good win.  Not all wins within the Quads are created equal.  For example the committee would view a home win against Illinois (31) as a win against a tournament quality team better then a win on the road at Sam Houston (60) team that has to win its conference tourney to get in even though Illinois would be a Q2 and the Sam Houston would be Q1.   Hope that makes sense 

[NashvilleHoosier 3,703]

Dumb question…is there not a weekly updated top 16 reveal until selection Sunday? 

[Uspshoosier 45,663]

3 hours ago, NashvilleHoosier said:

Dumb question…is there not a weekly updated top 16 reveal until selection Sunday? 

No that’s a 1 time thing in February for the mens.  Not sure what they do for the women’s.  Next reveal will be selection Sunday