xusandy wrote:With the Johnnies at #87, and (surely?) the Blue Demons and Hoyas not in the top 144, we'll almost certainly see 7 more BEASTies previewed on this site in the coming weeks. #87 in the preseason could make the tourney with just a bit of over-achievement relative to expectations, but I want to see how many of our teams are top 50 caliber. I tend to focus on top 50 because those are the teams with serious and legit NCAA tourney aspirations/expectations as the season begins.
FWIW, I'll go with 1 more BEASTie ranked here over #50 (Marquette), and everyone else in the top 50. Actually, I think everyone else will be ranked by at least one knowledgeable source as a top 30 team, but we probably won't see any one set of pre-season rankings with 6 of our teams ranked that high. Whatever the pre-season rankings say, we are clearly continuing to improve as a league, season by season. Gonna be a great year for us BEAST fans. May you all go undefeated in your out-of-conference games!
Wizard of Westroads wrote:
Dayton at 53
In Post # 1, Omaha1 wrote:
St John's checks in at #87. No other Big East teams yet.
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/men ... 4-previews
stever20 wrote:actually by looking at the numbers...
There are 22 conference champions already known. So 46 NCAA tourney teams left. They are at #50, and so there are 3 more teams left for the NIT prior to the NCAA at larges start showing up.
Savannah Jay wrote:stever20 wrote:actually by looking at the numbers...
There are 22 conference champions already known. So 46 NCAA tourney teams left. They are at #50, and so there are 3 more teams left for the NIT prior to the NCAA at larges start showing up.
Not true...there will be at large teams that get in with "rankings" (RPI, KenPom, etc) over #50 because, of those 22 conference champions, a number of them will also be ranked in the top 50. So there will be at large berths that go to teams outside the "top 46." Heck, if Marquette's ranking is 49 they will probably be in the tournament because they got in last year with an RPI in the 60s.
Last year, I believe 9 automatic bids went to teams that would have gotten in the tourney regardless (so they were also top 50 teams). Duke, Kentucky, Iowa State, Michigan, Arizona, Villanova, Gonzaga, SMU, Wichita. If Rhode Island hadn't secured the automatic, they may have gotten in by getting to championship game. That would have made 10 of the 22 automatics tournament teams anyway.
Using RPI as the "ranking," Michigan State, Northwestern, Virginia Tech, Kansas State, and Providence all got in the tournament despite being "ranked" above 46. I am sure there were others because of the 9 automatics that had RPIs higher than 46.
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