Foget Who's In, Who's Out?
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Originally Posted by
jimsumner
True, that conferences don't get bids--after the automatic one--in a technical sense. But trust me, the selection knows darn well how many bids each conference has and that does make a difference in the final picks.
Given the fact that there are relatively few non-conference games left, the ACC will continue to have a high RPI and this also will boost teams on the proverbial bubble.
I would be astonished to see the ACC with 3 bids.
There's a lot of basketball to be played. Last year Boston College lost to Vermont, Virginia lost to App State, Virginia Tech lost to Western Michigan and Marshall. Pretty bad loses. Yet all three of these teams not only made the NCAAs, they all finished ahead of Duke in the ACC Regular season and lasted longer in the NCAAs.
As usual Jim is right in saying there is a whole lot of regular season basketball left to be played. We aren't at the mid season point in the conferences yet, and the ACC tourney has yet to be played. Every season you have teams that look pretty good at this point go into a downward spiral and teams that look average at best get hot. It's way to early to say who will get in and who won't. But it's interesting to speculate of course.
Me thinks one could go conference by conference and pick teams that figure to get in and figure teams that won't. With only 65 tickets to the prom someone is going to be sitting at home watching American Idol. Some of the "bad" losses for ACC teams may end up coming from a smaller conference champion. (Or of course maybe not.) So those losses might not look as bad come selection Sunday. And as we all know the committee likes to reward teams that are "hot" and have won X number of their last Y games. (Despite early season losses.) You could fill out 100 brackets right now as to what teams will make the field and probably all of them would be off, especially when it comes to how high a seed some schools get. Someone repost on this thread in a month and THEN we have a MUCH better idea of who might go to the NCAA's / NIT and who's looking ahead to next season.
On a site note thanks DBR for the birthday wishes this morning. I'm glad they moved the UNC vs. Duke game into early February. There were a few years where whether I had a happy birthday was contingent on the outcome of a game I had no control over. Go to hell Carolina, go to hell!