GIGAFAN99
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Mar 13, 2005 18:33:23 GMT -5
Just starting the discussion. No surprises as we head to the final bracket.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Mar 13, 2005 18:34:16 GMT -5
Just starting the discussion. No surprises as we head to the final bracket. What is the lowest at-large at this point -- the three 11s?
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:36:30 GMT -5
Gotta love the Tarholes getting the winner of the play-in game... not.
Feinstein was on Sporting News Radio saying if Vermont gets a 12 or 13 it shows the committee wasn't putting as much stock in the new RPI as they said they would and Vermont just got a 13.
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YB
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Post by YB on Mar 13, 2005 18:41:08 GMT -5
This just shows me how close we were. We win UConn or PC and we're in.
No ND, Indiana, MD. This is good.
Stanford, Iowa, N. Iowa? Not sure I agree, but if it keeps the above 3 out, I'm ok.
BE got shafted on seeding- SU at 4? Uconn at 2 is too much deference. I don't get it.
5 out of the Big 10? They couldn't beat most HS teams this year!
No Buffalo or Miami (OH) or DePaul. Ugh.
Not sure I agree with all this.
Let's go Hoyas- win the NIT!
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GIGAFAN99
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Mar 13, 2005 18:42:01 GMT -5
Lowest at-large seems to be 11 indeed. No #12 or #13 seeds as at-larges.
And absolutely no shockers. The MAC, new RPI or not, got only one bid. Lowest RPI team is #65 so not a straight run of RPI.
Tough one to swallow for DePaul since UAB has zero Top 50 wins. Head-to-head kills them. Iowa gets in showing that all you have to do is get early big wins led by a felon and then go .500 the rest of the way.
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Post by hoyagriz on Mar 13, 2005 18:42:18 GMT -5
Am I on crazy pills here or did Iowa State just get a nine seed. The best RPI that I have seen from them is 57 under the old formula. The best under the new formula is 63. Am I missing something?
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 13, 2005 18:42:35 GMT -5
I don't agree with UCONN as a 2 seed. They played uninspired basketball in NYC.
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HoyaNCCT
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Post by HoyaNCCT on Mar 13, 2005 18:44:19 GMT -5
As we've mentioned, but to repeated, I think the Hoyas get much more value out of a good run in the NIT than one or two NCAA games. I just pray that JT3 doesn't turn anything down. I sincerely doubt he would but crazier things have happened...
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YB
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Post by YB on Mar 13, 2005 18:44:49 GMT -5
SU as only a 4? Pitt as a 9? WVU as an 8?
BE got little respect in this tourney, except for Yukon as a 2, which was waaaaaaay to high.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Mar 13, 2005 18:45:19 GMT -5
I like the fact that no BE teams would have to play each other until the Elite 8 if they get that far.
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YB
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Post by YB on Mar 13, 2005 18:45:26 GMT -5
Not to worry, we'll take an NIT bid and are in the running for a NIT home game.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:45:38 GMT -5
I hope NC and UConn don't end up playing.
My extreme dislike of UConn goes all the way back before I was a Hoya fan back when Tates George hit that shot at the buzzer in the Meadowlands against Clemson (I still say it was after the light.)
My NC hatred goes even farther back - the Tarheels are in the Holy Trinity of schools I hate - SC, NC and GA/Notre Dame.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:46:57 GMT -5
Not to worry, we'll take an NIT bid and are in the running for a NIT home game. Did the Athletic Dept. announce they actually put a bid in for it? All the schools around here announced the dollar figure a week or two ago. Everything I've seen on here says a home game would be very very unlikely.
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gopaland
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Post by gopaland on Mar 13, 2005 18:47:07 GMT -5
Surprise, surprise - the head of the committee's team (Iowa) gets in despite losing their best player and a terrible Big Ten record.
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YB
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Post by YB on Mar 13, 2005 18:47:29 GMT -5
Yukon and their obnoxious frontrunning fans will get their comeuppance in that bracket.
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JimmyHoya
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Post by JimmyHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:47:39 GMT -5
Louisville being a 4 seed made me spit my dinner out. I demand an explanation.
How does a team that was beign questiond for a no. 1 seed and won their confrence tournament get dropped all the way to a 4? Weren't they 6 overall according to the rpi or summit?
Nothing else really suprised me...
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 13, 2005 18:48:53 GMT -5
Did the Athletic Dept. announce they actually put a bid in for it? All the schools around here announced the dollar figure a week or two ago. Everything I've seen on here says a home game would be very very unlikely. Our Athletic Dept. doesn't announce things. Don't read much into that.
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YB
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Post by YB on Mar 13, 2005 18:50:44 GMT -5
We put in a couple bids- hopefully one pans out. Nothing is secured or decided yet.
I wonder if Gary Williams is shouting at some poor NIT official right now. Ditto Mike Brey.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:52:38 GMT -5
Our Athletic Dept. doesn't announce things. Don't read much into that. I'm not talking press releases. I mean the press doing it. The bidding process for the NIT for home game works very much like the one for NCAA baseball regionals and superregionals. You have to make a cash bid before the end of the season. NIT games start tomorrow. Besides that, I can't imagine our attendance numbers at MCI would be something that would get the NIT excited - my guess would be an opening round game at Comcast against the Twerps and then maybe a second round game at MCI. Clemson made a $66K bid and that was cutting ticket prices in half for the public (to $9) and actually making students pay $4 for tickets. South Carolina made a $68K bid, not sure of any of the other details of their package.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Mar 13, 2005 18:54:18 GMT -5
We put in a couple bids- hopefully one pans out. Nothing is secured or decided yet. At least it isn't announced yet. I'd bet money it's already decided since they have to give teams heads-up for travel plans if they get stuck with a Monday game. What "bids" did we put in and why were they multiple ones (i.e. are you considering a bid for the first round and a bid for the second round as separate bids)?
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