At 14-9 (6-5), we have to win a minimum of 4 of our last 7 games to go dancing. Our only good wins are against fellow bubble teams and @KU. The win in Lawrence might be enough for us to get in at 17-13 if we win a game in KC, but we'd be in the First Four. We're lucky the bubble is so terrible this year. 18-12 (10-8), we are in. That means we probably have to win out at home...which includes OSU, TCU, and Baylor. We also didn't blow Oklahoma out of the water in the first game. There's not a comfortable win left. The guys just can't put it all together for 40 minutes. Even on Saturday, we didn't. Still not sure how we won that one, but I'll take it.
This is also our worst RPI loss of the year, by far. Doesn't matter how athletic/talented/tall Texas is. They have not put together a good season, and just gave us a really bad loss. I know KenPom has them much higher, but the committee is still using RPI as the main evaluator. We just dropped 7 spots with this loss.
I was really hoping we could dig our way out of the 8-9 or 7-10 game, maybe win 5 or 6 of the last 8. Hoped we had turned a corner after Saturday. We just might...by getting an 11 seed. Where was the urgency we needed? Where was the hustle? Consistently inconsistent. But we keep watching, because we are all masochists.