Palm has CHARLOTTE, Butler, La Salle, Saint Louis, Temple, and VCU.
CBSSports.com: 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament Prediction - Feb 15
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[/b]Lunardi has Butler, La Salle, Saint Louis, and VCU.
ESPN.com: Bracketology - Feb 15
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[/b]BTW, Glockner’s came out earlier in week, so doesn’t reflect Niners’ win over Butler (or Temple’s loss to Duquesne). He has Butler, La Salle, Saint Louis, Temple, and VCU in from A-10.
Jerry Palm is more reliable than Lunardi. However, I honestly feel like we need to win 5 out of our last 6
As you know, much depends on what the other teams do too.
Unless I overlooked someone, Palm has 5 A10 teams and only 4 ACC teams. I want to see/hear the comments of some of the ACC fans if that really happens.
[b]LOSERS [/b] [b]The middle portions of the Atlantic 10[/b]: Those of you waiting for the Atlantic 10 to start making some sort of sense can keep waiting, but I'm done. It simply isn't going to happen. But with all that chaos governing the league, it seemed possible some of the more middling teams -- Xavier, Charlotte, UMass -- could extend this one-year-only 16-team's NCAA tournament contenders deeper than anyone previously assumed. But all three of those teams lost Saturday: Xavier lost at Dayton, Charlotte was handled at Saint Louis and UMass missed a big opportunity in a one-point loss to Temple. Much like the A-10 in general, there are varying degrees of résumé in that group. But the overwhelming impression of that trio is mediocrity.ESPN.com: [b][url=http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/76445/bubble-watch-saturdays-survivors]Bubble Watch: Saturday's survivors - Feb 17[/url][/b]
Palm has 6 from A-10: Charlotte, Butler, La Salle, Saint Louis, Temple, and VCU.
CBSSports.com: 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament Prediction - Feb 19
CBSSports.com: Bubble Watch - Feb 19
While Glockner has 5 - same as Palm with exclusion of Niners (though Charlotte does make the Bubble Watch “In The Mix” list for the A-10).
Brennan leaves us out in this one, but not surprising considering his comments earlier in the week.
The only real shake-up on the bubble last night was Ole Miss dropping a road game at South Carolina
BC beat Maryland too.
BC beat Maryland too.[/quote]
That was two nights ago ;D
That was two nights ago ;D
You are right, my ESPN app sucks.
Umass lost at bona.
Other bubble teams dropping games they should win could really help us out. After all, we have to be competing with about ten teams or so for the final few at large spots. We are competing against those teams. Also, I was just listening to the David Glenn show and he was giving us some love, called us a strong team, and said we are an at large team in his opinion.
Yea, David generally gives us a lot of love, even though he mostly talks about ACC sports (that’s where his background is). Even though he’s carried by 730, he’s based in Raleigh, so I don’t blame him as much when he spends a majority of the show discussing the ACC.
Palms has us as a #10 is his bracket this morning - up 1 spot… probably more a factor of following the “rules” of the bracket than anything else.
[quote=“cptn319, post:74, topic:27309”]Palms has us as a #10 is his bracket this morning - up 1 spot… probably more a factor of following the “rules” of the bracket than anything else.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology[/quote]Interesting to see us move up one there.
Per Palm, C-USA down to one rep - Memphis - though C-USA 3.0ers Louisiana Tech (WAC) and Middle Tennessee State (Sun Belt) are expected to win their respective conferences and make the Big Dance this season.
Others of interest are Davidson (SoCon), Northeastern (CAA), and Charleston Southern (Big South) - all Niner Ws.
[quote=“Run49er, post:76, topic:27309”]Per Palm, C-USA down to one rep - Memphis - though C-USA 3.0ers Louisiana Tech (WAC) and Middle Tennessee State (Sun Belt) are expected to win their respective conferences and make the Big Dance.[/quote]So Miss @ Memphis, big game this weekend for Golden Eagles.
[quote=“2k, post:77, topic:27309”][quote=“Run49er, post:76, topic:27309”]Per Palm, C-USA down to one rep - Memphis - though C-USA 3.0ers Louisiana Tech (WAC) and Middle Tennessee State (Sun Belt) are expected to win their respective conferences and make the Big Dance.[/quote]So Miss @ Memphis, big game this weekend for Golden Eagles.[/quote]Southern Miss will have to win this one to even get back into the discussion. UofM definitely on a roll in league play after a so-so OOC.
[quote=“Run49er, post:78, topic:27309”][quote=“2k, post:77, topic:27309”][quote=“Run49er, post:76, topic:27309”]Per Palm, C-USA down to one rep - Memphis - though C-USA 3.0ers Louisiana Tech (WAC) and Middle Tennessee State (Sun Belt) are expected to win their respective conferences and make the Big Dance.[/quote]So Miss @ Memphis, big game this weekend for Golden Eagles.[/quote]Southern Miss will have to win this one to even get back into the discussion. UofM definitely on a roll in league play after a so-so OOC.[/quote]Go Memphis, gulp.
MT has a 24-4 record with an RPI of 23. I wonder if they will get into the tournament if they don’t win their conference tournament.
They only have on kind of bad loss to RPI 124 Ark. State. Every other team they have lost to is in the top 50 RPI. Only two wins versus the top 100 RPI though.
It is fairly likely they finish the regular season at 28-4.