We are on John Gasaway's Bubble Watch

[DawgatAuburn]

If you don't follow him on twitter, I recommend him. Good college basketball info.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...-north-carolina-tar-heels-ohio-state-buckeyes

Mississippi State (18-7, 6-6 SEC)
(BPI: 64 | SOS: 80 | SOR: 53 | RPI: 54)
Last chance, Bulldogs. You've been holding on for dear life here at Bubble Watch. Now it's time to make your move or (while we don't wish to be harsh) drop off the board. The overtime loss at Missouri was a missed opportunity, but it also fit seamlessly with an encouraging late-season trend toward (much) improved offense. Keep that trend going and see what happens, starting with that next game at Vanderbilt.

 

[MSUDC11]

There’s a real chance that bogus call on Peters keeps us out of the tournament. And that’s inexcusable to me.

It seems pretty clear to me. We MUST beat everybody not named A&M or Tennessee and we need a split at the minimum in those two.

 

[msstate7]

Worried about tomorrow. ESPN BPI even gives vandy 58.9% chance of winning.

 

[MSUDC11]

Tomorrow could easily be the end of our tournament hopes if we don’t play well. I’m not sure this program has had a game like this where we’re ones with the pressure and expectation to win in six years.

 

[Shmuley]

Long time emstaters can feel it in their bones. It's vandy there. Assume the position.

 

[57stratdawg]

The Ghost of Shan Fosters past...

 

[Cow College]

You compare our RPI, SOS, SOR against all of these other teams you can see how dire straights we are in. You can take into account how bad our RPI is and then realize it doesn’t even account for our D-II school we played.

 

[mstateglfr]

There’s a real chance that bogus call on Peters keeps us out of the tournament. And that’s inexcusable to me.

It seems pretty clear to me. We MUST beat everybody not named A&M or Tennessee and we need a split at the minimum in those two.

So within that game...its not the poor play that led us to being down double digits with less than 2min left against Mizzou. Its not the turnovers by Ado. Its not the missed FT shots by Ado. Its not Q's decision to launch multiple deep 3s before other options had a chance to materialize. Its not Carter going 0 for the game.

If we dont make the NCAAT, its because Peters extended his arm and you dont like that he got called for it? It all comes down to that? ********.







Lets not even address something as obvious as the camel's back breaking due to the loss last month to OM after being up so big on the road.

Nah, its because you think Peters shouldnt have been called for a foul when he displayed the obvious move that creates the foul.
Brilliant.

 

[LawDawg97]

You know it can be both genius

It can be all of the crap you listed that we all know about OR it could just come down to a bogus call that cost a comeback win. His statement that it COULD come down to that call is not incorrect. Brilliant* on your part.

 

[KurtRambis4]

It's not illegal for Peter's to extend his arm*

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[FlotownDawg]

The Missouri loss won't keep us out of the tournament. It would have been a great feather in our cap, but at the end of the season, if we don't make the tournament, we can blame our pathetic non-conference schedule, our loss to Ole Miss, and our not being able to hold on to a double digit lead at home to Auburn. Absolutely must win the two games this week. Lose either of them and our tourney hopes are done. Also need to beat either Tennessee at home or A&M on the road. Losing at LSU on the road in our final game wouldn't be a death blow but we would need to win at least two games in the SEC tournament to compensate. At the end of the day, I think we come up short and are a good seed in the NIT. Which is a pretty good season considering where we have been the past six years. Next year is when we end the NCAA Tourney drought.

 

[stateu1]

Despite all that we had the potential game winner called back because of some ********. So, I'd have to say, yeah, that is the major contributor as to why we lost.

 

[DawgsOnTheWing]

I can still hear Jack calling that game. Don't know if I've ever heard him that frustrated when Foster was bombing those 3s. Not unlike the time he covered the mike, but you could still hear him say "Get in the game, ref, for crying out loud!".

 

[BiscuitEater]

So within that game...its not the poor play that led us to being down double digits with less than 2min left against Mizzou. Its not the turnovers by Ado. Its not the missed FT shots by Ado. Its not Q's decision to launch multiple deep 3s before other options had a chance to materialize. Its not Carter going 0 for the game.

If we dont make the NCAAT, its because Peters extended his arm and you dont like that he got called for it? It all comes down to that? ********.

Lets not even address something as obvious as the camel's back breaking due to the loss last month to OM after being up so big on the road.

Nah, its because you think Peters shouldnt have been called for a foul when he displayed the obvious move that creates the foul.
Brilliant.

Well, it's kinda like a message board. It's NOT just one single post that shows that a poster is a REAL a$$ .. it's your WHOLE body of work.

 

[PineGroveBully]

It's much more likely that coughing up 2nd half leads to Auburn and Mississippi keeps us out