Indiana lost lost Xavier lost Miami lost... Not saying we will get up there but we could be locked up as a 3 seed if we take care of business.
2 seed or 3 seed..
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People are waaaaaaaaaay overreacting to what happened today.
Honestly, there's no way you can justify UK as a 2 seed. Is UK as good as anyone else in consideration for a 2? Yes, possibly better. Does that eliminate 8 losses, 4 of them ranging from bad to really bad? Nope.
Hope for a 3. That's justified. But even that's no sure thing, because we don't know how the committee is going to look at the overall crappiness of the SEC.
Honestly, there's no way you can justify UK as a 2 seed. Is UK as good as anyone else in consideration for a 2? Yes, possibly better. Does that eliminate 8 losses, 4 of them ranging from bad to really bad? Nope.
Hope for a 3. That's justified. But even that's no sure thing, because we don't know how the committee is going to look at the overall crappiness of the SEC.
How do you over react to #5 and #10 losing to unranked teams before the weekend?
How do you over react to UK winning 8 of last 10 by an avg of 22.5 ppg?
Yep. I'd love a 3, of course. But with losses to Ohio State, UCLA, Auburn, Tennessee and LSU - none of them likely good enough to make the tournament - we've given the committee plenty of rope. I'm having visions of that 2011 team, which also finished strong and crushed Florida in the SECT final. We all thought we'd get a 2. Got a 4.
Just give me Louisville and I'm good.
Alot will need to go in our favor tomorrow to have any hope of a 2 seed.
Major upsets must abound tomorrow even more so than today for UK to have a slim shot at a 2.
Major upsets must abound tomorrow even more so than today for UK to have a slim shot at a 2.
Don't need to for a 3. the 2 nonsense is as bad as 4 seed nonsense after today's win. UNC , UVA , Nova and KU are 1's . Oregon, Oklahoma , WVU and Mich St are the 2s . UK , Xavier are 3's . Not sure who the last 2 3's are maybe Miami and Utah ?
Yep. That worries me as well. Never underestimate the selection committee.
Question is, even if we are a 3-seed, is that good enough to be placed in the South?
I don't care what seed we have if we play in Louisville. We're making it to the second weekend. Getting to play two home games would be great.
What is this fascination you have with what happens on the last weekend before the NCAA tournament??? Are you basically saying the regular season and any losses we picked up then are meaningless? If that is true then why do we even play the regular season!!!!
Stop with the #2 seed stuff. It ain't happenin'.
We were a #4 going into play today. We MIGHT get elevated to a #3 if we win Saturday. Anything we do on Sunday will be meaningless and that isn't me saying that. It's the NCAA's past history that is saying it. Although, there are apparently Selection Committee members out there insinuating that Sunday won't matter in TV interviews. What more evidence do you need???
Yep, the ONLY way that a win on Sunday matters is if an (as of now) non-tourney team ends up winning. WE win? We have seen this time and time again...it changes NOTHING. Which is pathetic IMO.
Yup. But, the SEC could fix the problem pretty simply. Just move the conference tournament up a single day and hold the championship game on Sat. night. Would probably even improve TV ratings. But, you'd have a hard time convincing me the SEC cares very much about basketball. So, probably never happen.
Xavier losing might have cost us the 3 seed in the south. Unfortunate if that is the case. From St. Louis to providence :/ and no Louisville games. Hopefully I'm wrong.
You overreact by doing exactly what you're doing, bumping UK up 4 or so spots from where most people project them right now.
Who's UK going to jump for a 2 seed? Xavier, because they lost to a tournament team? Oklahoma, which had a superb OOC and plays in a much higher rated conference? Oklahoma actually could get bumped, but it would most likely be by West Virginia if they beat Kansas. And we still have Villanova, Virginia, UNC, Kansas, Michigan State, and Oregon. And then there's IU, Purdue, Maryland, and Utah to worry about.
Who has played better than us down the stretch? Michigan State maybe. Indiana had momentum prior to yesterday.
I can easily see us as a 3, but it would not shock me to see us with the same seed as Duke. You know the committee would do it just to hear the feedback.
We should be in the Louisville bracket, but we have to beat Georgia today to solidify that 3 whichever region we end up in.
I can easily see us as a 3, but it would not shock me to see us with the same seed as Duke. You know the committee would do it just to hear the feedback.
We should be in the Louisville bracket, but we have to beat Georgia today to solidify that 3 whichever region we end up in.
Our biggest issue right now is the SEC sucks and we are playing teams ranked in the 60's in the RPI yesterday and today. Miami losing to UVA and Xavier losing to Seton Hall don't hurt their resume that much. The SEC kills us in a year like this when we are trying to make a jump in seed lines.
I find it hilarious that we talk about Lunardi's imaginary bracket like it's fact. "We were a four seed last week so we have no shot at a two seed on Sunday!" Lunardi's play bracket last year was as far off from the real bracket as it has ever been and ESPN's reaction to that fact was to increase it's emphasis on it 100 fold this year.
Today we have UNC/UVA, KU/WVU, Nova/SHU, Utah/Oregon. There are no major upsets in that list of games that could help UK.
We really need Utah to lose to Oregon and Michigan State to win the Big 10 title and not Maryland or Purdue. What's funny is if we do get a #3 seed we will have gotten it directly at Indiana's expense....I freakin love Tom Crean!!!!