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33 Northwestern
34 New Mexico AQ
35 Colordo St
36 Texas A&M
37 Dayton
38 TCU
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39 Michigan St
40 Oklahoma
41 Florida Atlantic
42 Colorado
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69 St Johns
70 Virginia
71 Providence
72 Indiana St
73 Pittsburgh
74 Seton Hall
75 Ohio St
76 Kansas St
77 Villanova
78 Wake Forest

Tell me preseason expectations are baked in without telling me...

Xavier - high preseason expectations (pre injuries), low season results
Seton Hall - low preseason expectations, high season results

...
yet, Xavier is still ahead of Seton Hall on Torvik's TeamSheet rankings.

Also, FAU only gets in because of last year's run.

There are so many teams with bad resumes but good metrics that will get bids. Total BS.

If we only get 3 teams in, we only deserved 3 teams in. Everyone had exactly same information available, there's no unknown bias or cheating going on (perhaps exception of Temple). Smarter schedule can easily net 1-2 extra teams in the tournament.

Just a couple of examples...

Seton Hall playing a neutral game against USC in San Diego. Yeah it was an MTE but looking back it's not a situation you want to be in.

Villanova playing @ Penn. Again, it's stupid AF. P6 teams don't donate road games that easy for a good reason.

It's just 2 games but replace those 2 games with blowout wins against random buy game opponents, and things look a lot different for not only SH and Nova, but rest of the BE teams as well.s

Are we doing everything we can? We're not, so it's very easy for me to concede that we don't deserve more than 3 bids.

This site has 5 BE teams in the NIT:

https://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/

1 seeds: StJ, Nova
2 seeds: Hall, Providenc
4 seed: Butler

Lets go Brown !!

Decourcey bracketology:
last 5 byes:
Northwestern
TCU
Mississippi St
Colorado St
Michigan St

last 4 in:
Oklahoma
Florida Atlantic
Colorado
Texas A&M

first 8 out:
St John's
Virginia
Seton Hall
Pittsburgh
Providence
Indiana St
Villanova
Kansas St

Looking at Vegas I think we'll get in over Oklahoma.

billyjack wrote:Lets go Brown !!

Oops, Brown blew a late lead !

Duquesne going dancing!