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SixtInning

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Apr 30, 2014
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Looking ahead at conference tournament. We're currently in 6th. Obviously we're not catching the top 3. SC and OM both a game ahead.

SC schedule down the stretch looks pretty favorable, so i don't think we can catch them. OM has both UK and UT coming so if we can get to 11-7 i think we have a chance to catch them. Without looking, i would assume that our win over 4 seed SC would tilt the tie breaker in our favor to make us the 5 seed.

5 only gets 1 buy but would play the 12/13 winner. Then would play 4 seed SC in quarters and avoid top 3 until semis. Would have to like our chances of getting to saturday in this scenario.
 
Leeshouldveflanked

Leeshouldveflanked

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Meh... SEC Basketball tournament is close to being as irrelevant as the SEC Baseball tournament unless you are a Bubble team....barring a collapse, we won’t be a bubble team going into the tournament.... I don’t think tournament performance has as much bearing on NCAA seeding as it did 5-10 years ago.
 
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PineGroveBully

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I agree, unless you're a bubble team it means very little these days. Yea I'd love to win it as any championship is a good championship, but as far as NCAA seeding, the tournament champ might get a one line bump but that's about it. If the runner-up were to beat 2 of the top 3 they might get a one line bump as well.
 
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MSUDC11

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It won’t mean much for us this year but if we’ve gotta play in it we might as well try to win it. The ideal scenario is us as the 4 or 5 seed and paired with SC in the quarterfinals.
 
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Go Budaw

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Leeshouldveflanked said:
Meh... SEC Basketball tournament is close to being as irrelevant as the SEC Baseball tournament unless you are a Bubble team....barring a collapse, we won’t be a bubble team going into the tournament.... I don’t think tournament performance has as much bearing on NCAA seeding as it did 5-10 years ago.
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It’s irrelevant as far as whether or not we make the tournament, as we are in right now no matter what happens the rest of the way. However, its always helpful to add as many wins as you can to improve your seed. That being said, there’s not a great deal of difference in the 5 vs. the 6 seed for us. Both teams get a bye and get matched up with a bad team that played the day before.

I’d honestly almost rather be the 6 seed, because that guarantees our next matchup after the first game will be against one of the Big 3 who are all in the Top 10, so that’s a great chance to jump up a seed if we can win against LSU / UT / UK, and no downside if we lose. We don’t get that from playing USC, and they are far from a sure victory at a neutral site. Yesterday’s loss was their first in conference play to one on the non-elite Top 3 teams in the league....I’m fine avoiding them the rest of the way as we gain very little from playing them again, and have a lot to lose.
 
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tatedog

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From my experience, if you aren't in the field going into the tournament you better win the tournament. If you are just barely in the field going into the tournament you better win the tournament or hope other conferences don't expand their entries with underdogs winning them. Don't think either of these will apply to us this year.
 
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