Joe Lunardi's opinion

[OleMissAintHereAgain]

Joe Lunardi has us in this week as a 13 (I would love that draw by the way) seed. He had an interesting statement when asked on his online chat about if we won out and did well in the SEC tourney could we get up to a 6 or 7 seed. His response "Mississippi State will be lucky to be in the tournament".

My question: What seed should we be if we beat Auburn and TN and then win one game in the tourney? I would think that should get us about a 7. Anything but the dreaded 8,9 seed

 

[rugbdawg]

I'm hoping for a 11 seed.

 

[OleMissAintHereAgain]

I know the genius's at ESPN look at the top 50 RPI but look at our record against the top 100. We are getting hot at the right time. Shouldn't our performance in the last 10 games matter for something?

 

[fieldman]

If we won the SEC tourney, we would have wins over UT, and then probably UF, Vandy and UK in the tourney again. If UofM get into the top 50, that would add two more top 50 wins, putting us at 7. We would have a 26-8 record.

I think that would warrant consideration for a 7 seed, maybe a 6

Now, this whole thing becomes irrelevant if we lose to Auburn on Wednesday.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

...If MSU makes the tournament, we will be a double-digit seed.

 

[38843dawg]

that's also why a win over UT and at least one win in the SEC Tournament is a must because that chould give us a couple good wins.</p>

 

[MedDawg]

We'd be atworsta 7 seed if we won out and won the SEC Tourney. We would have won something like 10 of our last 11 and obviously beaten some very good teams (1 or 2of UK, Vandy, or UT) in the SEC tourney to win it, not to mention UT in our last regular season game. Not that winning out is very likely, but still, much better than a 10. We can get a 10 seedwith beating Auburn, UT, and Florida in the SEC tourney (then losing)tobecome24-9.

 

[821505]

How in the hell is Duke in the mentioning for a #1 seed. I saw their game against Virginia and even though they beat them bad; They just didn't impress me. Kansas State is more deserving than them. Cuse and Kentucky would obliterate them.

 

[Coach34]

I know the genius's at ESPN look at the top 50 RPI but look at our record against the top 100. We are getting hot at the right time. Shouldn't our performance in the last 10 games matter for something?

at bad losses...and we have a few...losses to teams 115+ hurt badly and we better hope we don't get another Wednesday

 

[Maroon Eagle]

...this year's been pretty hectic for me. I will say this post has some great information.

As far as Duke is concerned, they lead the ACC, have won 10 of their last 11 games, and their strength of schedule is Top 10. Kansas State has a similar record to Duke with the main difference being that they don't lead the Big 12. It'll be between Duke and Kansas State for the last 1-seed.

Edited to add 'State' to Kansas State.

 

[tossedoff]

We understand. Please post one omnibus post that hopefully DS will sticky to the top of the page and you won't have to post in every basketball post. It will save YOU time.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I set out to project one and realized it was harder than it looked if you truely wanted get close to being right. I ended up scrapping the idea after about 6 seeds. I checked back today and I had the top 11 or the top 12 right (not Vandy) and had a 2 and 3 backwards. But after that it was much tougher and I was much farther off.

 

[Coach34]

if saying that we have bad losses hurts your feelings. I simply replied to his post at how can they not look at our top 100 wins. Some people need to be reminded that just because we want them too, the bad losses don't go away. They did happen.

 

[Hanmudog]

if saying that we have bad losses hurts your feelings. I simply replied to his post at how can they not look at our top 100 wins. Some people need to be reminded that just because we want them too, the bad losses don't go away. They did happen.

Every team on the bubble will have some bad losses otherwise they would not be on the bubble. If we beat UT and Ole Miss gets into the top 50 then we will have 4-3 versus the top 50. That is alot better than many of the teams that are on the bubble with us.

 

[Coach34]

as we talked about earlier- both us and Mississippi have one thing in common- we have to win

We lose to Aubarn- I think we have to win 2 in Nashville to even have any chance

Mississippi has to win their next 3 to get in- lose one and it probably cuts their throats

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

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[Maroon Eagle]

...and then do everyone else after that. A lot of people talk conference records and such but RPI is a big big factor too. When MSU beat Tennessee for the tournament title last year, I knew we'd be a 13-seed because of our bad RPI. Right now, we have a 56 RPI according to Jerry Palm-- and that's really low. The only thing putting MSU in consideration is the good conference record.

MSU's had a weak schedule part of which was forced upon them by the South Padre folks but playing Valley and Centenary hurt. I'll put together a quick and dirty bracket that I'll post later tonight and post some updates during the next couple weeks.

 

[bulldogs726]

If we win both games this week and lose first in the tournament that would leave us 11-5 and 3rd in the SEC so O have to ask
1a.) Has an 11-5 SEC team ever been left out of the tournament? I believe we were the first 10-6 team left out a couple years ago.
1b.)Would the really take the team that finished 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th into the tournament and leave out number 3?

2.)I know Ole Miss may break into the top 50 rpi wise, is there any other team we played that may crash the party?

 

[patdog]

No other team on the bubble has more than 2 bad losses. We have 4. And our best win is Old Dominion. On the bright side, we'll probably be a #1 or #2 NIT seed.