The Holy Land of Hoops

Call it clearly the #2 conference all season long. Starts about 18:00, but they talk about Villanova earlier as well

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... aa-tourney

yeah it's been a great season. To me the absolute key now is to perform in the tourney. What's key these next 2 weeks is for Nova, Georgetown, Butler, and Providence to win enough to get good NCAA seeds. Get Georgetown, Providence, Butler as far away from the 6-7 lines as possible. Got to have 1-2 teams make the sweet 16 at least this year, or this year would be viewed as a failure.

Thanks for the podcast link, Aughnanure.

Interesting that Wichita State will be the first team to go to the tournament in the past 21 years without having beaten another tournament team if they don't beat Northern Iowa. If that happens, it could really hurt their seeding.

Bill Marsh wrote:Thanks for the podcast link, Aughnanure.

Interesting that Wichita State will be the first team to go to the tournament in the past 21 years without having beaten another tournament team if they don't beat Northern Iowa. If that happens, it could really hurt their seeding.

Unless Tulsa makes it.

hoyahooligan wrote:

Bill Marsh wrote:Thanks for the podcast link, Aughnanure.

Interesting that Wichita State will be the first team to go to the tournament in the past 21 years without having beaten another tournament team if they don't beat Northern Iowa. If that happens, it could really hurt their seeding.

Unless Tulsa makes it.

Good one.

hoyahooligan wrote:

Bill Marsh wrote:Thanks for the podcast link, Aughnanure.

Interesting that Wichita State will be the first team to go to the tournament in the past 21 years without having beaten another tournament team if they don't beat Northern Iowa. If that happens, it could really hurt their seeding.

Unless Tulsa makes it.

I don't think he was meaning Tulsa in the way you were thinking. Wichita beat Tulsa....

Also even if Tulsa doesn't make it, Wichita beat New Mexico St who should win the WAC auto bid.

stever20 wrote:yeah it's been a great season. To me the absolute key now is to perform in the tourney. What's key these next 2 weeks is for Nova, Georgetown, Butler, and Providence to win enough to get good NCAA seeds. Get Georgetown, Providence, Butler as far away from the 6-7 lines as possible. Got to have 1-2 teams make the sweet 16 at least this year, or this year would be viewed as a failure.

I agree with stever. We need to have at least 1 team in the Sweet 16 or we will be viewed as a failure again. Seeding is going to be a huge factor as avoiding bad matchups is crucial.

stever20 wrote:

hoyahooligan wrote:

Bill Marsh wrote:Thanks for the podcast link, Aughnanure.

Interesting that Wichita State will be the first team to go to the tournament in the past 21 years without having beaten another tournament team if they don't beat Northern Iowa. If that happens, it could really hurt their seeding.

Unless Tulsa makes it.

I don't think he was meaning Tulsa in the way you were thinking. Wichita beat Tulsa....

Also even if Tulsa doesn't make it, Wichita beat New Mexico St who should win the WAC auto bid.

Jerry Palm made the comment he did because he doesn't have Tulsa going to the tournament. Hoya Hooligan's a smart guy; I expect he understood that.

Except Jerry Palm DOES have Tulsa going to the tournament:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
West region, #11 seed.

Also like I said New Mexico St Palm has going to the tourney.

stever20 wrote:Except Jerry Palm DOES have Tulsa going to the tournament:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
West region, #11 .

He mast have. Forgotten that when he made the comment.