http://sports.espn.go.com...979550&name=marchmadness Skip down to the SEC update. He compares MSU's position this year to Georgia last year. Evidently, our 21/20 wins and winning SEC record deserve direct comparison to a Georgia team that sucked all year and got hot and won a tournament in their own backyard. An idiotic, short-sighted analogy if there ever was one. Katz, like so many other pundits who don't deserve their paychecks, simply isn't paying attention. Our RPI is even creeping up into a respectable place.
Andy Katz article today on ESPN.com
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in that we must win the tournament to get in, just like Georgia did.
To all the bubble teams, it doesn't matter how much better we are than Geaorgia was last year, they only care that we may take their spot.
To all the bubble teams, it doesn't matter how much better we are than Geaorgia was last year, they only care that we may take their spot.
All he's saying is that if we make the finals, the committee has to wait and see what we do. Cause if we win, we crash the bracket and force a mass reorganization. He's not saying that we're an equivalently rated team to Georgia last year. I don't think.
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• Auburn will play Tennessee in the SEC semifinals in Tampa after beating Florida -- likely knocking the two-time national champs out of the NCAA tourney. Auburn's nonconference resume is non-existent. The SEC profile, in a normal year on its own would be worthy with 10 wins, but the overall power of the league may make it hard to swallow. Does Auburn have to beat Tennessee to earn a berth? The committee will have to ponder that scenario. They'll also have to monitor Mississippi State, which is certainly capable of beating LSU, getting to the final and ensuring Sunday in the SEC is a headache for the committee for the second season in a row. A year ago, Georgia -- which wasn't even close to being on the board, won the SEC tournament to snatch an at-large berth away from a more deserving team.
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• Auburn will play Tennessee in the SEC semifinals in Tampa after beating Florida -- likely knocking the two-time national champs out of the NCAA tourney. Auburn's nonconference resume is non-existent. The SEC profile, in a normal year on its own would be worthy with 10 wins, but the overall power of the league may make it hard to swallow. Does Auburn have to beat Tennessee to earn a berth? The committee will have to ponder that scenario. They'll also have to monitor Mississippi State, which is certainly capable of beating LSU, getting to the final and ensuring Sunday in the SEC is a headache for the committee for the second season in a row. A year ago, Georgia -- which wasn't even close to being on the board, won the SEC tournament to snatch an at-large berth away from a more deserving team.
Wow, i read what he typed WAY differently than you.
Katz is about the most complete CBB reporter around.
Katz is about the most complete CBB reporter around.
I really didn't think he was talking down on MSU, just stating what needed to be done.
IF we win tomorrow and make it to the tournament, I think we could surprise a few people.
IF we win tomorrow and make it to the tournament, I think we could surprise a few people.
A team that's not in can steal a bid at the last second. But I don't think it will take any mass reshuffling. If we win, they will probably just replace the last at-large team they had with us. Probably a 12 or 13 although I could definitely see us getting an 11 (ahead of some bubble teams) considering our last 2 games would easily be our 2 biggest wins of the year.
He's definitely had the most positive view of State among the ESPN folks over the years. Even here, he said that we were "certainly capable" of beating LSU whereas on one set of highlights from the SC game one of them called our win a shocking upset.
I think I knew a chick that looked exactly like this, when I was there in 2000. She was a religious gymnast, that came to MSU engaged to a high school sweetheart. Nobody had a chance and she would never have worn a wet Bulldog t-shirt.
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