By strong I mean appearing in the title game which should give us 2 more quality wins + UGA. I personally would much rather be an 11 or 12 assuming we don't get put in a play in game. I guess if we were to beat UK we might reach a 7 which is much better as there seems to be a significant drop off after UK, SU, and UNC (assuming they get a 1).
Does a strong SEC tourney run put us in the dreaded 8/9 game?
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I'm not going to root for us to beat UGA and then bow out of the SECT, but that would put us in the best position NCAA seeding wise. Completely winning the tourney could bump us up to a 7 depending on how other teams finish out.
after our OT championship game loss to UK and then getting left out the tournament that conference tournaments do very little for seeding or getting in purposes. The teams are set once those tournaments get started. Only suprise winners of their conference championship will get in and the committee already has ranked the few teams that would get bumped. State is in after winning its last two games.
I would much rather be an 11/12 this year than an 8/9. The 6 seeds projected right now are Creighton, UNLV, Murray State, and San Deigo St. All are good teams ,butI think we are capable of beating each one of those teams in the first round. That would then put us against an overated Big East team in the second round like a Georgetown or Marquette instead of the dreaded one seeds like Kansas or Syracuse
I honestly like where Lunardi has us now in the bracket. If we are the 11 seed in the Western bracket, we open with a decent mid-major Murray State, who I think we could beat with greater ease than an evenly matched 8/9 matchup the likes of Virginia, Cincy, or K-State. Then if we get past them, we most likely play 3 seed Marquette; very small inside and already lost to two teams we've beaten already. That spot in the bracket sets up very nice for us to reach the sweet 16. Then again, if we're not playing good ball, it doesn't matter who we face in the first or second round, we'll get bounced regardless; but if we play up to potential we've seen as of late, we can really beat anyone. I'll also say this: we always seem to play well in the tournaments, both the SEC and NCAA, so us getting on a roll wouldn't surprise me.
We played Cal's Memphis team better and closer than anyone else in the tournament, aside from Kansas obviously. What I mean is we tend to rise to a challenge of a good team; that's why I said I'd rather play a team we are, on paper at least, an underdog too, rather than an equal to or better than, because we always play up/down to our competition. We were playing well against Washington a few years ago also, despite the refs mauling Jarvis and not calling anything our way.Damn Dog said:
We typically play at a level a little below our competition, resulting in close losses. When we got the ****** 8/9 seeds, it resulted in losses to #1 seeds where we looked like good teams. When we had good seeds, it resulted in us losing close games to underdogs (excluding Texas, where Stans just got screwed).
Washington is the only exception I remember, where we never seemed to get off the bus. But maybe they were just that much better than us. They were that much stronger, one of the games where not lifting weights really bit us in the ***.
Washington is the only exception I remember, where we never seemed to get off the bus. But maybe they were just that much better than us. They were that much stronger, one of the games where not lifting weights really bit us in the ***.
2002-Blew up McNeese State. Staged big second half comeback against lower-seededTexas in Dallas before falling by 4.
2003-Choked against Butler.
2004-Blew up Monmouth. Watched Xavier light us up from NBA land.
2005-Blew up Stanford in the biggest win by a lower seed in NCAAT history. Had Duke where we wanted them before Gary screwed us.
2008-Beat Oregon. Gave cheating 1-seed Tigers all they could handled in the second round(still think that should've been a forfeit and not just a vacate).
2009-Got handled by Washingon.
It's not great, but it's not bad.The Washington game was the onlyfirst round matchup where wewere never really in the game.
2003-Choked against Butler.
2004-Blew up Monmouth. Watched Xavier light us up from NBA land.
2005-Blew up Stanford in the biggest win by a lower seed in NCAAT history. Had Duke where we wanted them before Gary screwed us.
2008-Beat Oregon. Gave cheating 1-seed Tigers all they could handled in the second round(still think that should've been a forfeit and not just a vacate).
2009-Got handled by Washingon.
It's not great, but it's not bad.The Washington game was the onlyfirst round matchup where wewere never really in the game.