Re: Standings as of Monday
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GumbyDamnit! wrote:Def tough scheduling for both Butler and SHU but it's a marathon not a sprint. Creighton is going to be interesting to watch this year. They have the biggest home court advantage in the league IMO. I expect them to get at least 6 or 7 home wins in conf. If they can beat DePaul away and steal 1 or 2 others, they could finish .500 or better. That gets them on the bubble.
.500 for Creighton doesn't get them even close to the bubble unless they win 2 games in the conference tourney. They are 9-4 right now, you add 9-9 and that's 18-13. Even 2 wins in the tourney and they're only 20-14 and even that's difficult to get in the tourney with a record that mediocre. Creighton really needs 11 wins in conference play to get in the tourney IMO. That gets them to 20-11 going into the BET and should get them in.
As St John's showed last year, a bad start can be fatal. They were 7-2 2nd half of the conference season(2nd best) but because of the hole they dug early, they were out. Or a team like Butler who never recovered from their slow start. It can get real late real quickly. Given how most every team needs 10 conference wins, you go 0-3, and you are faced with going 10-5 the rest of the way to get in. That's tough in a league with as much parity as we have.