[Oskee] Hello NCAA

[Greg Adams]

As of Wed our RPI is 65. Another quality win against Purdue, Wisc or OSU and beating BOTH Minn and Mich obviously gets us to 3-3 and we're in, assuming we don't have a bad loss in the B10 opening. Can't predict winning at OSU, but @ Purdue and Wisc. @ home are realistic wins.

 

Greg
 


Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:36:46 -0800
From: jdlive at yahoo.com
To: oskee at heins.net
Subject: Re: [Oskee] Hello NCAA





That's probably a realistic scenario, but if we win Sunday we'll probably be back in the top 25 polls and those usually have a pretty good correlation with NCAA tourney seeds. So that means we'd probably be in line for a 6/7 seed. Staying there would be a challenge, but with a good finish I think we might do better than a 9/10.

My thinking is that as we move off the bubble and become a solid tourney team, the committee is going to care less and less about the bad losses we had in Vegas. Those would hurt us as a bubble team, but once we're in, they're going to look more at how we did against other tournament teams. So that's where our 4-4 record vs RPI top 50 will help, wins over Vandy, Clemson, MSU, Wisconsin (and hopefully a couple more).

Long way to go still, of course....





From: Mike Heins <mike at perusion.com>
To: Fighting Illini Sports Enthusiasts List <oskee at heins.net>
Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:03:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Oskee] Hello NCAA

Quoting John Livengood (jdlive at yahoo.com):
> 
>    Assume you mean Ohio St since we already lost to Purdue at home. If we keep
>    playing like we have the past two games, the NCAAs are a given and we can
>    start thinking about getting a decent seed.

I think about the best we can hope for is something like a 10, and
that's what I hope we get. Much better than a 9.

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