<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div>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.<br><br>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).<br><br>Long way to go still, of course....<br></div><div
style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mike Heins <mike@perusion.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Fighting Illini Sports Enthusiasts List <oskee@heins.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 11, 2010 12:03:42 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Oskee] Hello NCAA<br></font><br>
Quoting John Livengood (<a ymailto="mailto:jdlive@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jdlive@yahoo.com">jdlive@yahoo.com</a>):<br>> <br>> Assume you mean Ohio St since we already lost to Purdue at home. If we keep<br>> playing like we have the past two games, the NCAAs are a given and we can<br>> start thinking about getting a decent seed.<br><br>I think about the best we can hope for is something like a 10, and<br>that's what I hope we get. Much better than a 9.<br><br>-- <br>Mike Heins<br><span>Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting <a target="_blank" href="http://www.perusion.com/">http://www.perusion.com/</a></span><br>phone +1.765.328.4479 <<a ymailto="mailto:mike@perusion.com" href="mailto:mike@perusion.com">mike@perusion.com</a>><br><br>Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing.<br>-- Karl Lehenbauer<br>_______________________________________________<br>Oskee
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