kayako wrote:stever20 wrote:Providence in the first four as 4th team in right now.
Seems about right as a whole.
Yeah if this guy is off, it isn't by much.
Some non-BE thoughts:
-PAC12 only has 2 teams solidly in, with 3 teams in the bubble.
-ACC has 5 teams solidly in, with 4 more in the bubble. Their conference metrics were behind PAC12's last time I've checked...
-The only way A10 gets 2 bids this season is if Dayton or SLU goes 15-3 regular season and lose in the conference finals. When was the last time they ended up with no at-large?
-MWC scheduled easy as a group and ended up with a bunch of gaudy OOC records. We'll see if that pays off.
About the one bid A-10 question, the last time they had no at large teams was 2004-2005, when only George Washington made the tournament as a 12 seed after winning the conference tournament. The prior year, the conference had four at large teams (Seeded 1, 7, 10, and 11) while the year afterwards, George Washington was the only at-large team as an 8 seed but lost in the conference tournament, opening the door for Xavier to get the auto-bid as a 14 seed.
Xavier wasn't that good that year, but needless to say, there were some...opinions about earning only a 14 seed. For context, their Kenpom ranking put them at #54 and in the midst of teams with anywhere from 9 to 11 seeds.