tigerbrotha12 2,362 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Still a 7 seed as of yesterday, 2/12/19... http://m.espn.com/ncb/bracketologyByRegion?&year=2019&iteration=227&region=3&wjb= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerbrotha12 2,362 Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 9 seed as of 2/15/19. Still not even considered a “bubble team.” We’re being given chance after chance here. Time for the guys to man up and make a run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTiger1982 160 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 I’m not sure how we could regress so badly from last year, but glad we have Pearl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 WOW….UK is just pounding UT... physically abusing them tonight...up by 20. Gonna be some changes in the rankings after this weekend....again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,270 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 1:10 PM, tigerbrotha12 said: 9 seed as of 2/15/19. Still not even considered a “bubble team.” We’re being given chance after chance here. Time for the guys to man up and make a run. It's being openly discussed - at least on my local sports radio, WCCP (Clemson). Specifically, the discussion was about Auburn and Miss. State. But I agree, we are being given a chance by the decision makers/raters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwgreDeux 1,279 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Would be HUGE if we could get a win in Rupp this weekend. Without a big time win, we are looking at an 8-9 seed which would have us playing a 1 seed in our second game. A win vs UK would definitely give us a shot to get back in the 6-7 range discussion. A few more wins on top of that and maybe we could get higher. Even with a loss we will still have a shot at UT later, but UK carries more weight because of the brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 This is an eye raiser. Andy Katz, who writes & contributes for NCAA.com, has AU one of the last 4 teams in having to play a play in game against Clemson. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2019-02-26/complete-march-madness-field-68-predicted-last-days-march Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravejd 3,263 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 52 minutes ago, ellitor said: This is an eye raiser. Andy Katz, who writes & contributes for NCAA.com, has AU one of the last 4 teams in having to play a play in game against Clemson. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2019-02-26/complete-march-madness-field-68-predicted-last-days-march Yeah that is a bit surprising. Need to get this road win against UGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 34 minutes ago, gravejd said: Yeah that is a bit surprising. Need to get this road win against UGA It was then I looked at our resume & compared it to Bama's. Our resume isn't much better than Bama's if at all...LINKLINK They have the bad quad 3 loss we don't have but are better on the road as of now. They are also 6-6 vs teams projected in the tourney while we are 3-9 vs teams projected in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravejd 3,263 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, ellitor said: It was then I looked at our resume & compared it to Bama's. Our resume isn't much better than Bama's if at all...LINKLINK They have the bad quad 3 loss we don't have but are better on the road as of now. They are also 6-6 vs teams projected in the tourney while we are 3-9 vs teams projected in. We are an interesting case....what do you do with a team with no bad loses but no great wins?? I expect we will be sweating it out come selection day unless something changes between now and end of season. Need UGA on the road and MSSt at home. Then 1 win in SEC tourney and i think we should feel pretty good. Anything more and we are golden.....anything less and we are in trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 40 minutes ago, gravejd said: We are an interesting case....what do you do with a team with no bad loses but no great wins?? I expect we will be sweating it out come selection day unless something changes between now and end of season. Need UGA on the road and MSSt at home. Then 1 win in SEC tourney and i think we should feel pretty good. Anything more and we are golden.....anything less and we are in trouble If you are looking for a second regular season win down the stretch to go along with the needed win against UGA tonight, winning at Bama would help a bit more than beating Miss St. at home. Both would be Quad 1 wins & winning at Bama would help our abismal road resume. Selection committed puts more stock on road & neutral work than home work. Tend to agree we need 2 more in the regular season & a SEC Tourney win to feel good about getting in. Funny thing is it looks very possible we will play Bama in the 8-9 game one way in the SEC Tourney & that could be a play in game for the NCAA Tourney. We have to win that series regardless but I sure would like to go 3-0 against them if we have to play them 3 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuburnNTexas 7,104 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Despite how bad we beat bama at home beating at their place is a different thing. One they have some of the type of players that have given us trouble a solid big man a fast guard and a big guard. We need to beat Ga or it is over then one of the next two games bama away Miss. State at home. This years team is capable of winning all three of these games but sadly if they have a bad game against Ga. of losing all three. While still not a good team Ga is better than when we played them last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwillMac6 20,526 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Joey Brackets thankfully still has us as a 8 seed in the South Region as of his latest update yesterday. http://m.espn.com/ncb/bracketologyByRegion?&year=2019&iteration=241&region=3&wjb= A win tonight does nothing to help our resume but a loss would absolutely destroy us and be a hideous one. We need this one bad to just hold serve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 1 hour ago, GwillMac6 said: Joey Brackets thankfully still has us as a 8 seed in the South Region as of his latest update yesterday. Too bad he's an average bracketologist. 1 hour ago, GwillMac6 said: A win tonight does nothing to help our resume Would help a bit. It would be a quad 2 win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aujeff11 6,243 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 9 hours ago, ellitor said: t was then I looked at our resume & compared it to Bama's. Our resume isn't much better than Bama's if at all... Our Net rating is 24. Their’s is 47. How can you not tell ours are significantly better? Our RPI is better as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwillMac6 20,526 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 30 minutes ago, ellitor said: Too bad he's an average bracketologist. Would help a bit. It would be a quad 2 win. lol WHAT?! He is not average at all. What makes you say that? I have never heard this take at all. I mean he teaches a class about it at St Joes.... It is not a must win game but it is a can't lose game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwillMac6 20,526 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Jerry Palm the other noted Bracketologist besides Joey Brackets has us as a 10 seed in the west. IMO if we do not lose to Georgia tonight and beat 1 of Miss St and Bama we are in. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 For @gravejd & anyone interested I'm going back to my previous opinion. I think we need only 1 more win the rest of the season or the SEC Tourney clinches an NCAA Tourney bid. In my previous posts I neglected to look at SOS. That's a variable all NCAA committees rely on heavily. Our SOS is 28th in the nation & projected to finish in the top 20. I don't recall a team having 20 wins with an SOS in the top 20 ever not making the NCAA Tourney since it expanded to 64 teams, much less 68. In fact I would bet everything I own it's never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Loblaw 636 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just need to .500 in the league and we’re shoe ins for a 8ish seed. Only have opportunities for really good wins left and no opportunities for bad losses. I frankly think last night’s dub sealed our tourney hopes, but I don’t wanna bank on it. We should be favored in both of our next games and hopefully Dunbar is back healthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,039 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 38 minutes ago, Gene Loblaw said: Just need to .500 in the league and we’re shoe ins for a 8ish seed. Only have opportunities for really good wins left and no opportunities for bad losses. I frankly think last night’s dub sealed our tourney hopes, Agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steeleagle 2,945 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Gene Loblaw said: Just need to .500 in the league and we’re shoe ins for a 8ish seed. Only have opportunities for really good wins left and no opportunities for bad losses. I frankly think last night’s dub sealed our tourney hopes, but I don’t wanna bank on it. We should be favored in both of our next games and hopefully Dunbar is back healthy Maybe...But all of these teams are on a better roll than we have been. At least based on teams we all have played recently. Alabama went to SC and beat them on their own court. We couldn't do it. Rivalry games are toss ups to me. MSU has won 5 in a row I think. Even when they have lost in the last 10 games, it has been close. Will be dogfight. Tenn is winning, although they are struggling, even though they are winning it at the end (OM, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Loblaw 636 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 3 hours ago, steeleagle said: Maybe...But all of these teams are on a better roll than we have been. At least based on teams we all have played recently. Alabama went to SC and beat them on their own court. We couldn't do it. Rivalry games are toss ups to me. MSU has won 5 in a row I think. Even when they have lost in the last 10 games, it has been close. Will be dogfight. Tenn is winning, although they are struggling, even though they are winning it at the end (OM, etc). The espn matchup prediction algorithm has AU favored in all of our remaining games. I know that doesn’t mean that much but I like AU’s chances to get at least one of the 3 left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwgreDeux 1,279 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 On 2/27/2019 at 7:25 PM, GwillMac6 said: lol WHAT?! He is not average at all. What makes you say that? I have never heard this take at all. I mean he teaches a class about it at St Joes.... It is not a must win game but it is a can't lose game. There is actually a statistical tracking of bracketologists and their accuracy: http://bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html Joe comes in at #68 on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GwillMac6 20,526 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, JwgreDeux said: There is actually a statistical tracking of bracketologists and their accuracy: http://bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html Joe comes in at #68 on the list. I only thought there were 2 bracketologists honestly . Joey Brackets and Jerry Palm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger 8,801 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 34 minutes ago, JwgreDeux said: There is actually a statistical tracking of bracketologists and their accuracy: http://bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html Joe comes in at #68 on the list. 31 minutes ago, GwillMac6 said: I only thought there were 2 bracketologists honestly . Joey Brackets and Jerry Palm. The top rated bracketology group Delphi has us at a 9 as of 2/28 so we are safe right now with Duke being the #1 on that portion of the bracket. The 2nd best group Bracketville also has us at a 9 with UVA being the #1 in that portion. PLEASE SWEET BABY RAY'S DO NOT LET US BE MATCHED UP WITH VIRGINIA IF WE ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET TO THE 2ND ROUND. Ultimate nightmare matchup for us. There isn't a single other team in the country I want to see our team matched up with less than UVA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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