Re: College Sports Madness Top 144 teams
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:03 pm
Savannah Jay wrote:Leave it to Stever...
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Savannah Jay wrote:Leave it to Stever...
gtmoBlue wrote:“The Athletic”, whom probably had the countries foremost basketball experts had Creighton #46 out of the country’s top 68 teams. Came out today.
It's not a power ranking, but a 1-68 ranking of the teams they believe will be dancing in March, not the 68 best teams per se -- every conference is required to have at least one team in the list, in other words.
https://theathletic.com/620116/2018/10/ ... ason-no-1/
There's no blurb on the Jays, they're just listed among the "last four in" with an at-large bid to the tourney. Given the doom and gloom in almost every other prediction, I'll take it! (Incidentally, they've got the Big East with five bids: Nova, St. John's, Marquette, Butler, and the Jays.)
billyjack wrote:Creighton is underrated in general. Really, maybe all of our teams are undersold... i'm thinking Georgetown here too.
Creighton... they have a great group of returning players. Mintz, Alexander, Ballock, Krampelj, and Epperson. Joseph and Froling are 6 and 7. What more could you ask for? What's there not to like?
GumbyDamnit! wrote:billyjack wrote:Creighton is underrated in general. Really, maybe all of our teams are undersold... i'm thinking Georgetown here too.
Creighton... they have a great group of returning players. Mintz, Alexander, Ballock, Krampelj, and Epperson. Joseph and Froling are 6 and 7. What more could you ask for? What's there not to like?
The only thing about Creighton that would concern me is they did lose a lot of athleticism on the wing. Thomas and Foster could really get up and down the floor and finish and compete with any other wings athletically. MK is coming off a serious injury and none of the their other guys jumped out as super athletic to me. But I'll defer to the Jays fans to confirm. Epperson is admittedly mobile for his size--a poor man's Justin Patton on the screen and rolls. But Mitch B. and co. are not quite the same as Kyrie and Marcus in terms of athleticism. The roster makeup looks more Creighton 2014-15; I wonder how that plays out this year.