Bracket Buster 2010 prediction thread

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Well, right now I've got 15 inches of snow to deal with, both here and at my in-laws. So I'll post all my predictions later. For now just a taste, later I'll do the top 15 Home teams and all CAA teams. No way to do the whole list-

ODU @ Northern Iowa
Siena @ Butler
Wichita State @ Utah State
La Tech @ Northeastern
Western Carolina @ VCU.
Nevada @ Kent State
 
Meh, since almost none of the teams on there are worth playing, might as well get a drive-able return game for next year.
 
Gotta love how our big wins over Towson and GA State have made our RPI drop. Love those CAA bottom feeders - thanks guys!

As JMU (home and away still to play) and UNCW are both over 200 RPI, even if we can pull out 2 wins over ODU, away at Mason, and our BB game against whomever (and I realistically doubt we will win all 4 of these), it may be hard for us to push our RPI back into the 40's come NCAA seeding time. We are looking at NIT if we do not win CAA tourney. No that that's the worst thing in the world, just was hoping for better with our talent pool this year.
 
don't give up hope yet. If the CAA shows well in BracketBuster the CAA as a whole could get a boost in RPI. This could push us from the 12th best conference to 9th or 10th. It would also boost our RPI even if we did not get a top 40 RPI team.

Here's hoping that the CAA as a whole plays well on BracketBuster weekend.
 
Siena is a pipe dream

We deserve Witchita State

We'll get Western Carolina (if we're lucky)

I predict a screwjob and say Indiana State
 
W. Carolina or Indiana State. I'd rather have Ind St. between the two, atleast theyre in the MVC.
 
Half-baked Mcbride said:
I predict a screwjob
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That is usually a pretty safe prediction. Who ever it is we just need to make sure we take care of business at home. If the rest of the CAA does well that could give us a bigger boost then our game.
 
Of the teams above us in the RPI, Tulsa, Wichita St. and Sienna are the only programs with a worse strength of schedule rating than us. I thought we had this great schedule this year? It doesn't look too hot right now (137) and frankly it's dragging us down. # 61 in the RPI, after being #55 yesterday. Unless the RPI gets better, we finish in the top 3 in the reg. season and we do well in the tourney, the NIT isn't a lock either.
 
Northern Iowa v. Nevada
Butler v. ODU
Utah State v. Witchita St.
Northeastern v. Siena
VCU v. La. Tech.
Kent State v. W&M
Missouri State v. Wright St.
Iona v. Western Carolina
Murray State v. Indiana St.
Pacific v. New Mexico St.
GMU v. College of Charleston
 
Rambunctious said:
Of the teams above us in the RPI, Tulsa, Wichita St. and Sienna are the only programs with a worse strength of schedule rating than us. I thought we had this great schedule this year? It doesn't look too hot right now (137) and frankly it's dragging us down. # 61 in the RPI, after being #55 yesterday. Unless the RPI gets better, we finish in the top 3 in the reg. season and we do well in the tourney, the NIT isn't a lock either.
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Yeah, we are 2-0 and down 12 spots this week. We can only control the OOC portion of the schedule. It is a shame that we dropped 12 spots right before the Bracketbusters selection without losing a game though. We are lucky that we only had to play Towson once this year from an RPI perspective. We still have ODU twice, Drexel once, and GMU once who are all in the top 105, but we also have UNCW and JMU twice and they are around 240.
 
No. Iowa vs ODU
Butler vs Sienna
Utah St vs Wichita St
Northeastern vs Nevada
VCU vs W. Carolina
Kent St. vs W&M
Mizzu St. vs LA Tech
Iona vs Drexel
Murray St vs Indiana St
GMU vs CoC
 
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