Both Nebraska and NW would be fun to see in the tourney based on their guard play alone. Feast or famine!
Could only 4 Big Ten teams make the NCAA Tournament?
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Realize that the bracketologists site is going strictly by the rankings to determine "their" bracket.
Yep. A terrible way to do it. Nebraska and NW would both be in if the season ends today. They just need to avoid bad losses down the stretch.
I don't think it's all that terrible as long as you know that that's what they're doing.
Thats the problem, the season does not end today and most sites are predicting NW & NE
will have bad losses coming to these two bubble teams. ACC and the BT are both very top heavy conferences and weak on the bottom! SEC and Big 12 could get up to 8 or 9 teams each! Even the Mountain West could get 5! BT could get 6, but the bubble line is getting crowded!
The metrics love MSU. It has to do with the strength of their schedule and the fact that even though they have lost to most of the good teams on their schedule, they have never really been blown out much (outside of a couple of exceptions). They are 22nd in the NET but are the only team in the top 35 with only 14 wins.
Go to the bracket matrix and follow some of the links to the individual bracketologists. You will find sites that project a "if the tourney started today" bracket and others that project what will happen the rest of the season before making a bracket.
I think there is value in both approaches but it is important to know what approach is being taken
The bubble is the same every year.
Metrics make Sparty look better than what we have seen so far on court. They could be z hard out for whoever they face.
Northwestern will be a tough draw. Nebraska probably in but think they have work to do. They are Jekyll and Hyde on the road.
And some are straight up using metrics and no thought whatsoever.
No way would I want to meet Sparty in the first two rounds if I am an opposing coach
Nevermind. Maryland just dropped their home game to Rutgers. They would essentially have to win out to even get back on the bubble.
Another classic rock fight.....though these are two of the better defenses in the conference. Young - 16 points on 3/17 shooting (8/8 FT's).....yikes. Omoruyi in foul trouble all night, too.
I just laugh thinking of Michigan as a Quad 3 loss.
Samford is a Quad 2 win. Indiana State is better than Indiana, Butler or Notre Dame.
What has this world come to?
Yet another mid-winter B1G battle.....gotta love it (no I don't have to). 56-53 good lord that is just embarrassing.
Rutgers hosts Wisconsin in the early noon game Saturday on BTN.....that should be another Battle Royale @ the RAC (aka The Sandwich Shop).
Welp, Michigan bucked the trend.....they have been something like the second worst second half team in the major conferences to DePaul....held on to a 4-pt half-time lead and took down Bucky.
Wisconsin has one chance to tie Purdue, run the table(won't happen)! I believe Illinois will slide, tough games coming! Nebraska is outside, has to pickup some road wins or no NCAA! Michigan State might be heading the wrong way, computers like them, but can Izzo get them there? Tough road. Northwestern is in but have some major pot holes coming! 3 teams safe, 2 bubble teams, 1 on the outside!Welp, Michigan bucked the trend.....they have been something like the second worst second half team in the major conferences to DePaul....held on to a 4-pt half-time lead and took down Bucky.
Wisconsin now needs more than winning out to tie Purdue.
And again, 68 teams have to make the tournament. All 3 of NE, NW and MS are in virtually all brackets on the matrix right now. If they falter, they will be doing it with another team jumping up presumably.
You know if the BIG TEN Tournament would start today Nebraska would be seeded 9th! IU would be 8th, PS 7th, MS 6th, and Minn would be 5th! Ya I know things will change, but the team you have in is currently setting 9th in the conference and can't win a road game! BUBBLE
He’s not the only one that has them comfortably in. Conference standings are irrelevant. It’s about who you beat and who beat you.
As of this morning, CBS has Nebraska the last of the last 4 in and Michigan St. the first one out. Neither team can win on the road. That being said, GO SPARTANS!
Bracket matrix has him rated, based in his bracket projections of the last 5 years, 142 out of 174 bracketologists.
Seems odd that someone whose JOB it is to predict the bracket is so bad at it. Almost as bad as the Sport Illustrated and Yahoo Sports guys.
Meanwhile all these other people doing it just because are crushing it.
Michigan St. is headed in the wrong direction( headed to the bubble) 2 bad losses and some tough games upcoming, could IU hold the fate of a couple teams?
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