Ok - i will do my best to summarize this quickly. We are on the bubble...Trust me. the committee watches the bracketbuster results closely. Wichita St. is considered to be "in" right now. We beat the Shockers on their court so we passed the "eye test".
the eye test is what hubert davis, jay bilas and the selection committee talk about all the time as their main criteria for choosing at large worthy teams. Can you show that you belong ? Can you play on a national stage and hold your own (madison square garden) or even come up with a big road win (at WSU).
While we had two home losses that really hurt last week we are still in the hunt. The CAA is getting a LOT of respect this season. Most predictions have the MVC getting 2 bids max. There will be many one bid leagues. The SEC west may get one at large team (bama). the bubble is weak this year. Teams that are usually a lock like memphis, gonzaga, butler and michigan state are struggling and are by no means the lock that they usually are. Plus there are 4 additional bids this year. at least one or more of those will go to a mid major...bank on it.
the committee chair said last year the RPI is only used to evaluate teams head to head in terms of seeding. If 2 teams are being compared for seeding they will look at the rpi as a tool to evaluate the two teams to see who should get the higher seed. thats all they use it for. The "eye test" is way more important than the rpi when it comes to at large bids
The RPI is NOT used to select teams. There are many teams ahead of us in the RPI that have no shot at an at large bid right now such as Harvard, Missouri St, cleveland st. Valpo, belmont and princeton.
We have a chance for 2 more top 100 wins this week which will help our case tremendously. Plus a win at drexel would be our ninth road win. Last year the commitee said road wins were very important in determining at large bids along with wins over top 50 teams (2) and top 100 (4).
IN my opinion we need to win these next 2 and then win 2 in the tourney including another win over ODU. That would give us 6 top 100 wins and 3 top 50 wins. We get that and we are in. Of course we will probably win the tourney anyway and all this wont matter but dont sweat the rpi. Its not a big deal. Dont put much stock in it...the committee chair is on record saying its not what they look at. We passed the eye test friday night...Let keep this ship rolling !! Go Rams !!
the eye test is what hubert davis, jay bilas and the selection committee talk about all the time as their main criteria for choosing at large worthy teams. Can you show that you belong ? Can you play on a national stage and hold your own (madison square garden) or even come up with a big road win (at WSU).
While we had two home losses that really hurt last week we are still in the hunt. The CAA is getting a LOT of respect this season. Most predictions have the MVC getting 2 bids max. There will be many one bid leagues. The SEC west may get one at large team (bama). the bubble is weak this year. Teams that are usually a lock like memphis, gonzaga, butler and michigan state are struggling and are by no means the lock that they usually are. Plus there are 4 additional bids this year. at least one or more of those will go to a mid major...bank on it.
the committee chair said last year the RPI is only used to evaluate teams head to head in terms of seeding. If 2 teams are being compared for seeding they will look at the rpi as a tool to evaluate the two teams to see who should get the higher seed. thats all they use it for. The "eye test" is way more important than the rpi when it comes to at large bids
The RPI is NOT used to select teams. There are many teams ahead of us in the RPI that have no shot at an at large bid right now such as Harvard, Missouri St, cleveland st. Valpo, belmont and princeton.
We have a chance for 2 more top 100 wins this week which will help our case tremendously. Plus a win at drexel would be our ninth road win. Last year the commitee said road wins were very important in determining at large bids along with wins over top 50 teams (2) and top 100 (4).
IN my opinion we need to win these next 2 and then win 2 in the tourney including another win over ODU. That would give us 6 top 100 wins and 3 top 50 wins. We get that and we are in. Of course we will probably win the tourney anyway and all this wont matter but dont sweat the rpi. Its not a big deal. Dont put much stock in it...the committee chair is on record saying its not what they look at. We passed the eye test friday night...Let keep this ship rolling !! Go Rams !!
