Lunardi just dropped us another spot with NC State's win
- Thread starter Coach34
- Start date
We better hope Miami and UT lose. Then if there are no other upsets it will come down to us and Seton Hall. I actually like our resume and team more than Seton Hall, but the committee will probably go with the Big East team over us.
And I wouldn't be surprised if some mid-major comes out of nowhere to get a bid, much like VCU did last year. Nobody had VCU on the radar before they were selected. I'm thinking perhaps a team like Iona, whose RPI is in the 40s. I just can't see us getting selected. Our RPI is around 70 and we've lost 6 of our last 8 games. And in the most important game of the year, with I'm sure a lot of committee members watching, we didn't even show up to play. Our chances of getting selected are probably less than 25%
My Eagles wouldn't even be on the bubble in any other year. This year, we are on the right side of the bubblefutaba said:
Go look at most of the bubble teams' and even some of the ones like us who are "almost certainly in." It is laughable.
Parity at its finest this year.
Southern Miss has an RPI of 17. They would be comfortably in in any year with that RPI, even if it is such a headscratcher.
I'd rather be in the NIT with this bunch of misfits than to have Mississippi "help" us back into the NCAA.
Missouri State was left out a couple years ago with, I think, a 24 RPI, and they played in the MVC--which may as well be a major conference. They played a ton of games against Top 50 teams. We will drop down to 18-20 after today. Yes, no one that high has ever been left out?
But has anyone with three losses to sub-100 teams, including a 200+ team, down the stretch ever gotten an at-large? (That doesn't include an early season loss to #93). The committee doesn't just look at the team's RPI anymore and go on that.
By the way, our RPI really isn't a head scatcher. Our OOC consisted of some decent teams in bad conferences. Those teams have low RPIs, but all that matters for us is what their record is. Our scheduling teams like Murray State (#19 but 27-1), Denver (#93, but 22-9), and New Mexico State (#67, but 21-9) coupled with scheduling NAIA teams rather than bad D1 teams is why our RPI is there. We had the PERFECT RPI OOC schedule. Throw in that no C-USA teams have horrible records.
But has anyone with three losses to sub-100 teams, including a 200+ team, down the stretch ever gotten an at-large? (That doesn't include an early season loss to #93). The committee doesn't just look at the team's RPI anymore and go on that.
By the way, our RPI really isn't a head scatcher. Our OOC consisted of some decent teams in bad conferences. Those teams have low RPIs, but all that matters for us is what their record is. Our scheduling teams like Murray State (#19 but 27-1), Denver (#93, but 22-9), and New Mexico State (#67, but 21-9) coupled with scheduling NAIA teams rather than bad D1 teams is why our RPI is there. We had the PERFECT RPI OOC schedule. Throw in that no C-USA teams have horrible records.