Bubble Watch

cyclones500

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Cal beats Oregon today and I think the committee finds them a spot. Lose and it's NIT city. The bears had so many close calls and good opportunities to pick up more good wins, but would fade at the end. As of this moment, even as a Golden Bears fan, I would leave them out.

That could prove correct. One of Cal's biggest hindrances is lack of high-quality wins vs. opportunities to get them.
 

CYdTracked

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KSU should be in with a 6th place conference finish and coming within seconds of a conference tournament title game. I'm still amazed how the Big 10 could get more teams in the tourney than the Big 12 with Purdue as their #1 seed losing to a #8 seed. I think that even TCU could beat the lowest seeded Big 10 team that makes the tourney.
 

VeloClone

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KSU should be in with a 6th place conference finish and coming within seconds of a conference tournament title game. I'm still amazed how the Big 10 could get more teams in the tourney than the Big 12 with Purdue as their #1 seed losing to a #8 seed. I think that even TCU could beat the lowest seeded Big 10 team that makes the tourney.

Uhhh...
 

Clonehomer

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I still don't think KSU is a lock. For as weak as the bubble was touted as being, there's a lot of teams that did themselves a lot of good during the conference tournaments. I think the question is just how safe some of the teams we were expecting to be in really were.
 

jkclone

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I still don't think KSU is a lock. For as weak as the bubble was touted as being, there's a lot of teams that did themselves a lot of good during the conference tournaments. I think the question is just how safe some of the teams we were expecting to be in really were.
Had they won they would have been. I still think they get in. There were teams that did well for themselves but many flopped too.
 

Cydkar

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KSU has to sweat it out and should with their resume. They had their chances. I won't say they should be in just because they are B12. I'd have to compare them to the other teams with similar resume's and I sure as hell don't care enough to do so. I hope they get in for what that is worth.
 

Beyerball

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Lunardi has ISU a 6 seed with WV a 4 seed? If we win tonight we are a 5 seed at least IMO. WV and ISU have same RPI but WV SOS is 60th. If WV is truly a 4 seed than ISU is a 5 seed no mattter what happens.
 

Cynonymous

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Lunardi has ISU a 6 seed with WV a 4 seed? If we win tonight we are a 5 seed at least IMO. WV and ISU have same RPI but WV SOS is 60th. If WV is truly a 4 seed than ISU is a 5 seed no mattter what happens.

That's not how it works. The raw RPI number is very coarse grain, so the best you can get from that number is that ISU and WVU COULD belong to the same group, but you need to mine down to get details. You don't get seeds based on just the raw number.
 

istater7

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Cheering against SMU and Cincy today, seems unlikely either will lose though.