Games of interest - Rest of Season

[theblueram]

Let’s go Beavers and Hoyas steal those bids baby

Why?

Would keep St Louis out, and we want as many A10 bids as possible.

was just about to say this. Bid stealers are bad for the A10 this year.

[reef]

That’s a good point I didn’t think of that though on BM Missippi and St Louis are the first teams out with Colorado St and Cuse the last 2 in

Houston better win or that’s a bid stealer there Memphis or cinci

[PeterRamTime]

Iona bout to dance.

[PeterRamTime]

Let’s go Beavers and Hoyas steal those bids baby

Why?

Would keep St Louis out, and we want as many A10 bids as possible.

was just about to say this. Bid stealers are bad for the A10 this year.

SLU is super bubblicious. Feel like they're either last team in or out. Leaning towards out.

[RI_Bred]

Iona bout to dance.

Why can't we get a coach like that? LOL, unbelievable. 9 seed in their conference tourney.

[PeterRamTime]

Iona bout to dance.

Why can't we get a coach like that? LOL, unbelievable. 9 seed in their conference tourney.

I think they were a 9 seed based on games played or something weird like that. Cause they've had a better record than the last two teams they've played.

[RI_Bred]

^makes sense

[reef]

Why?

Would keep St Louis out, and we want as many A10 bids as possible.

was just about to say this. Bid stealers are bad for the A10 this year.

SLU is super bubblicious. Feel like they're either last team in or out. Leaning towards out.

Lunardi has them last team in field going into today

[reef]

Wow Gtown 36-18 you kidding me ??

[Jersey77]

Wow Gtown 36-18 you kidding me ??

Yes been watching, they may steal a bid.
If they hold on BE gets 4 in.

[ramster]

Wow Gtown 36-18 you kidding me ??

Yes been watching, they may steal a bid.
If they hold on BE gets 4 in.

Georgetown looks good, Creighton looks horrible. Georgetown taking full advantage of the post season tournament opportunity.

[RI_Bred]

Creighton looks tired. Can't hit the side of a barn right now. Lots of time though.

[ramster]

SATURDAY MARCH 13 GAMES OF INTEREST

• UMASS-Lowell (11-11) vs Hartford (-2.5) (14-8) 11am ESPN2 AMERICA EAST Final- Greg Hammond dancing?

• #9 Ohio State (20-8) vs #4 Michigan (-6) (20-3) 1pm CBS

• Tennessee (18-7) vs #6 Alabama (-4.5) (22-6) 1pm ESPN. Nate Oates has Alabama playing outstanding basketball this season

• #5 Iowa (21-7) vs #3 Illinois (-3.5) (21-6) 3:30pm CBS

• 9-Seed Iona (-8.5) (11-5) vs 7-Seed Fairfield (10-16) 4pm ESPNU. MAAC Final Rick Pitino in NCAA Tournament in his 1st year at IONA????

• Memphis (16-7) vs #7 Houston (-7.5) (22-3) 5:30pm ESPN2

• #12 Oklahoma State (20-7) vs #13 Texas (-1.5) (18-7) 6pm ESPN BIG12 Final

• Georgetown (12-12) vs #17 Creighton (-8.5) (20-7) 6:30pm FOX BE Final

• Georgia Tech (16-8) vs #15 Florida State (-4.5) (16-5) 8:30pm ESPN ACC Final

• Oregon State (16-12) vs #23 Colorado (-8) (22-7) 10:30pm ESPN PAC12 Final

• North Texas (16-9) vs Western Kentucky (-1.5) (20-6) 9pm CBSSN Conf USA Final

I added North Texas vs Western Kentucky since a Championship Game plus we played WKU.
North Texas has two players we recruited:

• 6'4" Senior James Reese

• 6'10" Freshman Abou Ousmane

[ramster]

Early in the 2nd half:

Georgetown 54
Creighton 23

[PeterRamTime]

Holy shit Georgetown

[Rhodymob05]

Slick Rick, you dog. Would have loved you in Kingston! Also, Patrick Ewing had his dogs on a ROLL.

[ramster]

[ramster]

SATURDAY MARCH 13 GAMES OF INTEREST

• UMASS-Lowell (11-11) vs Hartford (-2.5) (14-8) 11am ESPN2 AMERICA EAST Final- Greg Hammond dancing?

• #9 Ohio State (20-8) vs #4 Michigan (-6) (20-3) 1pm CBS

• Tennessee (18-7) vs #6 Alabama (-4.5) (22-6) 1pm ESPN. Nate Oates has Alabama playing outstanding basketball this season

• #5 Iowa (21-7) vs #3 Illinois (-3.5) (21-6) 3:30pm CBS

• 9-Seed Iona (-8.5) (11-5) vs 7-Seed Fairfield (10-16) 4pm ESPNU. MAAC Final Rick Pitino in NCAA Tournament in his 1st year at IONA????

• Memphis (16-7) vs #7 Houston (-7.5) (22-3) 5:30pm ESPN2

• #12 Oklahoma State (20-7) vs #13 Texas (-1.5) (18-7) 6pm ESPN BIG12 Final

• Georgetown (12-12) vs #17 Creighton (-8.5) (20-7) 6:30pm FOX BE Final

• Georgia Tech (16-8) vs #15 Florida State (-4.5) (16-5) 8:30pm ESPN ACC Final

• Oregon State (16-12) vs #23 Colorado (-8) (22-7) 10:30pm ESPN PAC12 Final

• North Texas (16-9) vs Western Kentucky (-1.5) (20-6) 9pm CBSSN Conf USA Final

Hartford by 14 over UMASS-Lowell to win America East Autobid
Ohio State upsets Michigan by 1 point. Will play Illinois on Sunday
Alabama beats Tennessee by 5. Will play LSU on Sunday
Illinois beats Iowa by 11
Iona beats Fairfield by 9. Rick Pitino taking his 5th College Program to the NCAA Tournament.
Houston beats Memphis by 2 points. Will play Cincinnati on Sunday
Texas beats Oklahoma State by 5 to win the BIG 12 Autobid
Georgetown destroys a hapless, bad looking Creighton team by 25 to win the Big East Autobid
Georgia Tech beats Florida State by 5 points. Josh Pastner gets GaTech the ACC Autobid in his 5th year at Tech.
Oregron State upsets Colorado by 2 points to win the PAC 12 Autobid
North Texas beats Western Kentucky by 4 points in OT to win the C-USA Autobid

[ramster]

SUNDAY MARCH 14 GAMES OF INTEREST

LAST 5 Games of the Season. Selection Sunday tonight. NCAA and NIT NEXT UP

Set your clocks ahead and as Spookydog would say "wear your masks"

• Loyola (Md) (6-10) vs Colgate (-9.5) (13-1) 12pm CBSSN. Sophomore Keegan Records from South Kingston HS in action for Colgate Patriot League Final

• VCU (19-6) vs St Bonaventure (-3) (15-4) 1pm CBS A-10 Final

• LSU (18-8) vs #6 Alabama (-6.5) (23-6) 1pm ESPN SEC Final

• Cincinnati (12-10) vs #7 Houston (-13) (23-3) 3:15pm ESPN AAC Final

• #9 Ohio State (21-8) vs #3 Illinois (-6) (22-6) 3:30pm CBS BIG 10 Final

[Jersey77]

Oregon State and Georgetown winning and getting auto bids eliminates the hopes of several bubble teams.

Will be interested if the NCAAT committee takes into consideration Covid pauses in bid selection.

[ramster]

NET of Teams Playing Today. Big East and A10 NET Comparison

Loyola (Md)
Colgate - 9
VCU - 36
St Bonaventure - 27
LSU - 28
Alabama - 7
Cincinnati - 115
Houston - 5
Ohio State - 8
Illinois - 3

Cincinnati (12-10) will steal a bid with an upset of Houston today

16 - Villanova
25 - Creighton (dropped from 17 yesterday)
27 - St Bonaventure
30 - UCONN
36 - VCU
43 - St Louis (up from 45 yesterday)
57 - Seton Hall
58 - Davidson
59 - Xavier
64 - Georgetown (up from 76 yesterday)
68 - Richmond
69 - St John's
79 - Dayton
85 - PC
94 - Marquette
108 - URI
114 - UMASS
123 - Butler
130 George Mason
132 - Duquesne
163 - DePaul
204 - LaSalle
221 - St Joseph's
258 - George Washington
321 - Fordham

Georgetown wins the BE with a current NET = 64
Villanova, Creighton and UCONN will be in NCAA

VCU NET 36 and St Bonaventure NET 27 should both be in the NCAA
St Louis NET 43 will likely be victim of the Bid Stealing

[ramster]

[reef]

Cuse and Utah St last 2 in and Witchita and Colo St first 2 out according to bracketmatrix

[steviep123]

Let’s go Beavers and Hoyas steal those bids baby

Why?

Would keep St Louis out, and we want as many A10 bids as possible.

was just about to say this. Bid stealers are bad for the A10 this year.

The real bid stealers are teams like Syracuse who play nobody OOC and basically don’t leave the Carrier Done. Then barely break .500 in the ACC. Every year the same story. Then get in over a more deserving 2nd or 3rd team from a smaller conference that happened to get upset in their conference tournament.

[reef]

Agree Stevie I want them out

[Rhode_Island_Red]

Why?

Would keep St Louis out, and we want as many A10 bids as possible.

was just about to say this. Bid stealers are bad for the A10 this year.

The real bid stealers are teams like Syracuse who play nobody OOC and basically don’t leave the Carrier Done. Then barely break .500 in the ACC. Every year the same story. Then get in over a more deserving 2nd or 3rd team from a smaller conference that happened to get upset in their conference tournament.

Obvious nepotism hire Dan Gavitt has one job: Keep the Cartel happy.

[JimSidd]

Hurley vs Turgeon part 2? Could be spicy.

[steviep123]

Maryland is another team that doesn't deserve it....12-10 barely over .500...I don't care how tough your schedule is, you have to win games.

[Rhody15]

Maryland is another team that doesn't deserve it....12-10 barely over .500...I don't care how tough your schedule is, you have to win games.

Don’t know what you’re looking at, but they’re 16-13 with some pretty big wins.

[steviep123]

Maryland is another team that doesn't deserve it....12-10 barely over .500...I don't care how tough your schedule is, you have to win games.

Don’t know what you’re looking at, but they’re 16-13 with some pretty big wins.

Perhaps I misread it, mixed their record with another team, or CBS made a mistake - I swear I saw 12-10 next to their name yesterday evening on the show. 16-13 isn't much better. A big win OOC nothing to speak of - beat Mt. St. Mary's who is only in the tourney as a 16 seed b/c they upset a couple of teams in their tourney. Nothing else of note OOC. In conference, big win against Illinois, split vs. Wisconsin. Split with Purdue. Not much else and also swept by Penn State and lost to Northwestern and Indiana. Yes, some big wins, but a couple of bad losses. They lost 13 out of 29 games. Not a great resume. Granted I did not compare them to either the first 4 out or any of the other teams that had a great season, but are now out because they were upset in their conference tournament. Teams like this shouldn't get an absurd amount more chances than that top team in a smaller conference.

That said I don't think SLU should have gotten in ahead. Neither of them deserve a bid. It seems that the 1, 2, and 3 bid leagues get more of a shaft from the bid stealers like Syracuse and Md. That is my take.

[reef]

Unfortunately they have to give bids to someone I am just glad Drake got in would have been a shame if they didn’t glad big conf Louisville didn’t make it

[steveystuds06]

Maryland is another team that doesn't deserve it....12-10 barely over .500...I don't care how tough your schedule is, you have to win games.

Don’t know what you’re looking at, but they’re 16-13 with some pretty big wins.

Perhaps I misread it, mixed their record with another team, or CBS made a mistake - I swear I saw 12-10 next to their name yesterday evening on the show. 16-13 isn't much better. A big win OOC nothing to speak of - beat Mt. St. Mary's who is only in the tourney as a 16 seed b/c they upset a couple of teams in their tourney. Nothing else of note OOC. In conference, big win against Illinois, split vs. Wisconsin. Split with Purdue. Not much else and also swept by Penn State and lost to Northwestern and Indiana. Yes, some big wins, but a couple of bad losses. They lost 13 out of 29 games. Not a great resume. Granted I did not compare them to either the first 4 out or any of the other teams that had a great season, but are now out because they were upset in their conference tournament. Teams like this shouldn't get an absurd amount more chances than that top team in a smaller conference.

That said I don't think SLU should have gotten in ahead. Neither of them deserve a bid. It seems that the 1, 2, and 3 bid leagues get more of a shaft from the bid stealers like Syracuse and Md. That is my take.

They were 4-10 in Quad 1 games and 3-3 in Quad 2. They definitely should have been in the field in my opinion. The Big10 was absolutely brutal this year.

[reef]

Yeah I don’t have much of a problem with Maryland making it

Cuse was the team I was hoping would be left out

[ramster]

Don’t know what you’re looking at, but they’re 16-13 with some pretty big wins.

Perhaps I misread it, mixed their record with another team, or CBS made a mistake - I swear I saw 12-10 next to their name yesterday evening on the show. 16-13 isn't much better. A big win OOC nothing to speak of - beat Mt. St. Mary's who is only in the tourney as a 16 seed b/c they upset a couple of teams in their tourney. Nothing else of note OOC. In conference, big win against Illinois, split vs. Wisconsin. Split with Purdue. Not much else and also swept by Penn State and lost to Northwestern and Indiana. Yes, some big wins, but a couple of bad losses. They lost 13 out of 29 games. Not a great resume. Granted I did not compare them to either the first 4 out or any of the other teams that had a great season, but are now out because they were upset in their conference tournament. Teams like this shouldn't get an absurd amount more chances than that top team in a smaller conference.

That said I don't think SLU should have gotten in ahead. Neither of them deserve a bid. It seems that the 1, 2, and 3 bid leagues get more of a shaft from the bid stealers like Syracuse and Md. That is my take.

They were 4-10 in Quad 1 games and 3-3 in Quad 2. They definitely should have been in the field in my opinion. The Big10 was absolutely brutal this year.

Attached is Big 10 Comparison of record, NET, RPI, BPI, KenPom plus AP, CBS+1 and Coaches polls.

Bigger question than Maryland getting a bid is why did Michigan State get a bid?
Maryland beat Michigan State (68-57) in the 1st game of the B10 tournament, then Maryland lost to 1-seed Michigan

And why is Purdue NET 22 a 4-seed but Wisconsin NET 27, Maryland NET 35 and Rutgers NET 38 are seeded 9, 10, 10 respectively? Net, net the Big gap in seeds doesn’t make sense

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