Given the youth of our roster, more games and practices seem beneficial. Has the staff indicated either way?
Will we accept a Crown bid if offered?
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If we get invited to the Crown and CCC doesn’t immediately accept then his seat SHOULD be hot. It’s not right now.
Even if Marty opts out of the Crown - which I doubt he would - all of our younger players are playing their best minutes and could use those games.
Waste of time. Catch up on your classes!
The way the last game was covered by Lou and Matt made it sound like the season was over.
Indiana just said they're declining NIT/Crown.
Indiana just said they're declining NIT/Crown.
And if we want to keep dominating Indiana like we have, then logically we should accept any postseason bid we can get.
Even if Mart is done, we have a lot of other guys who need minutes.
I'd encourage Collins to accept that bid. I agree the team can use the extra experience assuming they can work it in with class schedules and such.
As I expressed in another thread. That is the exact reason some qualified players might choose not to come to NU. The academics get in the way of development.
NIT bracket is out and there are no Big 10 teams
NIT criteria:
Top 2 ACC: Cal and Wake Forest - FSU, Virginia Tech, Stanford all decline
Top 2 SEC: Auburn - Oklahoma declines
1 team from the top 12 conferences -
SEC: Nope
Big 12: Oklahoma State - Cincinnati, Baylor, West Virginia likely in Crown
Big 10: Nope - Indiana declined, Washington, NU in Crown?
ACC: Nope
Big East: Nope - Seton Hall declines, Creighton, Butler, Providence in line for Crown
Mountain West: New Mexico
Atlantic 10: Dayton
West Coast: Seattle
Missouri Valley: Illinois State
American: Tulsa
Big West: UC Irvine
WAC: Utah Valley
Eligible regular season conference champs with average above 125 in 7 rating criteria: Liberty, UNC Wilmington, Stephen F. Austin, Yale
Remaining 17 other teams chosen by committee: Nevada, Wichita State, Colorado State, George Mason, Kent State, St. Joe's, Navy, Davidson, UNLV, Wyoming, Bradley, UIC, Sam Houston St., George Washington, Murray St, St. Thomas, South Alabama
Top 2 ACC: Cal and Wake Forest - FSU, Virginia Tech, Stanford all decline
Top 2 SEC: Auburn - Oklahoma declines
1 team from the top 12 conferences -
SEC: Nope
Big 12: Oklahoma State - Cincinnati, Baylor, West Virginia likely in Crown
Big 10: Nope - Indiana declined, Washington, NU in Crown?
ACC: Nope
Big East: Nope - Seton Hall declines, Creighton, Butler, Providence in line for Crown
Mountain West: New Mexico
Atlantic 10: Dayton
West Coast: Seattle
Missouri Valley: Illinois State
American: Tulsa
Big West: UC Irvine
WAC: Utah Valley
Eligible regular season conference champs with average above 125 in 7 rating criteria: Liberty, UNC Wilmington, Stephen F. Austin, Yale
Remaining 17 other teams chosen by committee: Nevada, Wichita State, Colorado State, George Mason, Kent State, St. Joe's, Navy, Davidson, UNLV, Wyoming, Bradley, UIC, Sam Houston St., George Washington, Murray St, St. Thomas, South Alabama
Best guess for Crown as of right now is:
Top 2 Big 12: Baylor and West Virginia - forgot Cincinnati fired their coach
Top 2 Big 10: Washington and NU
Top 2 Big East: Two of Providence/Creighton/Butler
2 At-Large: Boise State and Grand Canyon - edit: maybe Stanford too?
Top 2 Big 12: Baylor and West Virginia - forgot Cincinnati fired their coach
Top 2 Big 10: Washington and NU
Top 2 Big East: Two of Providence/Creighton/Butler
2 At-Large: Boise State and Grand Canyon - edit: maybe Stanford too?
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After 9 were selected to NCAAs, here are the remaining B1G Teams in order of conf record:
- Indiana. They're skipping postseason.
- Minnesota. They were playing 6 guys down the stretch, and predominantly seniors. I'd infer that Medved wants to get the head start on the portal.
- Washington. They got a fantastic frosh center in Steinbach, and Zoom Diallo had a great soph year. They're trending in the right direction and would be a compelling add.
- USC. Muss kicked off Chad Baker-Mazara, and the vibes just seem rough overall.
- Rutgers. They went 4-3 in their final 7 B1G season games, and upset Minny on Weds night of BTT. Why not?
- Northwestern.
- Oregon. They were 4-3 down the stretch of the B1G, but got beat by Terps on Tuesday night of BTT. Trending down.
- Maryland. Terps were rough down the stretch.
- Penn St. Uhh, yeah.
If the B1G is thinking - which teams have some promising young fellas, then NU and Washington seems like solid choices.
Just like last season. I think many Big Ten teams would prefer to play in the NIT but they contractually aren't allowed to.
NIL and the portal with more negative impacts, this time killing the NIT and its long history.
The Big Ten doesn't think about anything for this selection, the Crown makes the selections by committee but heavily uses the Net and KPI rankings, to the extent that it seems like they just go down the list.
Rutgers and Minnesota to Crown. So I guess our season is officially over. Sniff.
Tough scene for Washington, I saw a story today quoting Sprinkle that they actually wanted to go to the Crown and then they got snubbed.
I don't know how that's possible, Washington is well clear of Rutgers by basically any metric you want to use.
This makes no sense at all for the Big 10 choices. I cannot possibly imagine choosing Minnesota and Rutgers over Washington and us if we didn't decline. They also only have 1 Big East team, and took Colorado as an extra Big 12 team.
Edit: Ok, so Seton Hall had already declined, Providence fired their coach and Thad Matta just decided to retire, so that took Butler out as well. Surprised they didn't try for Georgetown, but I guess they thought Colorado would draw more? Then again, why not invite Boise or Grand Canyon instead of Rutgers if they were already willing to drop the 2-team requirement?
Edit: Ok, so Seton Hall had already declined, Providence fired their coach and Thad Matta just decided to retire, so that took Butler out as well. Surprised they didn't try for Georgetown, but I guess they thought Colorado would draw more? Then again, why not invite Boise or Grand Canyon instead of Rutgers if they were already willing to drop the 2-team requirement?
I read it as pretty heavily implying Washington and NU both turned it down, Rutgers is way way down the list.