While loss in the Valley semis was crushing to the Jays, I actually think that being knocked down to the "First Four Out" level 8 days before Selection Sunday could be to their advantage. There is very little likelihood of their tournament resume getting any worse compared to the teams that are still playing. Historically, I would say that more teams are going to play themselves out of a bid this week than are going to play themselves in. Oh there will be a few to come out of nowhere to snatch a bid (see Cleveland St.). But for every 2008 Georgia, there are going to be a half dozen or so complete flops in the power conference tournaments. This year especially, there is a meaty center of the bracket where the 8 to 12 seeds live, and all of them could lay an egg on any given night (see Wisconsin all year). I'm pretty certain that all of the mid-major bids are now spoken for, and the Butler loss was one that really hurt CU. Anyway, here are the teams left to root against (and I realize a large chunk of these teams will get in no matter what, I probably left some out and that I left out Wisconsin):
Big Ten: Minnesota, Michigan, Penn St., Ohio St., Northwestern
Big East: Providence, Notre Dame, West Virginia
Pac 10: Arizona, USC
ACC: Va Tech, Maryland, Boston College, Miami
A-10: Anyone not named Xavier or Dayton
Big 12: Texas, OK St., Texas A&M, Kansas St.
C-USA: Anyone not named Memphis
MWC: BYU, SD St., Utah, New Mexico, UNLV
SEC: Kentucky, Florida, South Carolina and Auburn
If all those teams fall flat (impossible), then what CU has done should be good enough to get them in. And that is why winning 11 out of your last 12 isn't a terrible place to be while everyone else can lose big.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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You forgot to list Wisconsin as one of the teams to root against in the Big 10.
I'm just saying.
If you would fucking read, you would see that I mentioned that I intentionally left them out.
They are in anyway.
Did anyone catch the ending of the Marquette game today? I heard that they might not get a #1 seed anymore now that they have lost 5 of 6. But, the tournament comittee will ultimately give all 32 teams in the Big East (Best conference in college basketball history) all #1 seeds, they might need to add some regionals...
Good to hear from you. I guess you aren't much of a Big East fan. Marquette is actually going to get a bye into the elite eight because thier 9 wins over St. John's, South Florida, De Paul and Seton Hall were MUCH better than anyone else's wins.
Oh, and don't forget thier blowout loss to Dayton, who may have been blown out by a certain Missouri Valley team.
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