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How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

4 or less
1
2%
5
33
55%
6
17
28%
7+
9
15%
 
Total votes : 60

Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby kayako » Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:06 am

6 - 50%
7 - 50%

Only thing keeping me from guaranteeing 7 bids is Xavier. They can't lose to DePaul in the BET, and the committee may want to see them beat a team other than DePaul. Xavier hasn't beaten a team other than DePaul since February 4th, and beating Butler is the only way to change that. Butler's only lost back-to-back once this season. Yikes.

I think a surprise BET winner is less likely this year than the past few. It looks like Gtown players are just going through the motion, and I can't imagine St. John's winning 4 games in 4 days.
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby Bill Marsh » Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:58 am

kayako wrote:6 - 50%
7 - 50%

Only thing keeping me from guaranteeing 7 bids is Xavier. They can't lose to DePaul in the BET, and the committee may want to see them beat a team other than DePaul. Xavier hasn't beaten a team other than DePaul since February 4th, and beating Butler is the only way to change that. Butler's only lost back-to-back once this season. Yikes.

I think a surprise BET winner is less likely this year than the past few. It looks like Gtown players are just going through the motion, and I can't imagine St. John's winning 4 games in 4 days.


I don't know if anyone would consider Butler a surprise winner. I'm thinking that anyone but Villanova would be a surprise, but so far Butler seems to have Nova's number.
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby xusandy » Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:16 am

If X loses to DePaul next Wednesday, it may well be the NIT for the Muskies. But they win, they'll make the dance IMHO, since I can't believe the committee would leave out a team finishing 9-9 in our conference, with 20 wins overall, and an RPI in the low 30s. Maybe a first four game at worst? So 7 teams = more than 80%, 6 teams = less than 20%.

Either way, that's a wonderful outcome for the BEast! What a great league we have! But of course most of our teams in the tourney will be seeded in the 9-12 range, so we might not look so good after the first weekend. The next step for us will be to get more teams with top 4 seeds in 2018.
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby JohnW22 » Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:19 pm

Anybody have a link to the website that keeps track of every bracketology. Can't think of it for the life of me
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby EMT » Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:27 pm

JohnW22 wrote:Anybody have a link to the website that keeps track of every bracketology. Can't think of it for the life of me


http://bracketmatrix.com/
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby JohnW22 » Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:49 pm

EMT wrote:
JohnW22 wrote:Anybody have a link to the website that keeps track of every bracketology. Can't think of it for the life of me


http://bracketmatrix.com/

Thanks a lot
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby kmacker69 » Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:17 pm

I voted 5 earlier and I'm glad to be wrong. 6 or 7 looking good. :shock: I few teams really came on in the last part of the season and I hope the shock people in the NCAA tourney!
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby marquette » Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:57 pm

I voted 6 originally, and did not expect (but hoped) that Marquette would be one of them. I am happy that I appear to have a very good chance of being wrong on both counts.
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby Jet915 » Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:43 pm

Gottlieb is such a piece of work....

Doug Gottlieb‏Verified account @GottliebShow 28m28 minutes ago

1-Big East is half MM 2-MW conference is a wreck. 3) BYU has disappointed 4)Illinois State& Middle tennessee have a shot
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Re: How many Big East teams will make the NCAA tourney?

Postby JohnW22 » Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:09 pm

Jet915 wrote:Gottlieb is such a piece of work....

Doug Gottlieb‏Verified account @GottliebShow 28m28 minutes ago

1-Big East is half MM 2-MW conference is a wreck. 3) BYU has disappointed 4)Illinois State& Middle tennessee have a shot

Saw this didn't know where to put it and didn't feel it deserved its own thread. If the Big East is half mid Major what is the SEC?
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