NCAA tourney team

cyclones500

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I'm doing a bracketology project...we are almost in the current "lock" status(the 19 best teams after the conference champions). Iowa State is around the 35-40 best team according to NCAA selection procedures.

So anywhere from a 8-10 seed right now...not bad and if they beat Okie St. and A&M they will be in my lock teams.

The bubble is pretty weak this year...even if we lose the next two game (doubtful) we'd be in the field..it's great to be a cyclone right now

It's definitely moving in the direction of "in" as opposed to bubble worries.

It's easy to forget how you don't have to be perfect to make the tournament — get some good wins, win on the road, don't pile up horrible losses.

We're to the point that the only glaring weakness is non-conference strength of schedule.
 

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It's definitely moving in the direction of "in" as opposed to bubble worries.

It's easy to forget how you don't have to be perfect to make the tournament — get some good wins, win on the road, don't pile up horrible losses.

We're to the point that the only glaring weakness is non-conference strength of schedule.

without a doubt...I'm gonna make a website and most my project on excel so people can see it when I'm done..it's very interesting and it's basically a guide who to cheer against.

Below are my teams besides Conference Champions who are "Locks". Any thoughts? A couple teams so far that are close are New Mexico, Iowa State, UCONN, West Virginia, Cal and Memphis are the 6 teams that could make the Locks in the next week or two.

the numbers from (left to right) conference record, overall record, RPI ranking, SOS, the 2 blank big columns are for the good wins and bad wins..which is the next step i'll work on later.
 
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Spam

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If today was Selection Sunday, we would be in. Unfortunately, today is just a regular Sunday. We have a while to go before Selection Sunday. The good news is that we don't have to perform better than we have. We don't even have to perform as good as we have. Even a slight drop in performance from here on might get us in.

But the trouble would be if we completely implode. We are Iowa State. Not in, until we are in.
 

jdoggivjc

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If today was Selection Sunday, we would be in. Unfortunately, today is just a regular Sunday. We have a while to go before Selection Sunday. The good news is that we don't have to perform better than we have. We don't even have to perform as good as we have. Even a slight drop in performance from here on might get us in.

But the trouble would be if we completely implode. We are Iowa State. Not in, until we are in.

Well, technically, today is Super Bowl Sunday. Just saying...
 

bawbie

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According to Martha on 1700 if our beloved clones lose to the cowpokes we are OUT of the Ncaa tourney......:twitcy:

That is false. If we lose at home to tech we will be out, unless we pick up a big road win. But that's the only game left that can be considered a true bad loss. Although, we should beat ou and tamu at home just to make sure.
 

CueTheMusic

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According to Martha on 1700 if our beloved clones lose to the cowpokes we are OUT of the Ncaa tourney......:twitcy:

He says stuff like this all the time, just to get people to listen and call in. I don't think he really believes half the stuff he says...