courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Team "A" 5 wins v RPI top 50. 18 wins overall. Strenth of Schedule is 27. zero losses vs worse than RPI top 100. Winning conference record. Several more wins just outside of top 50..i.e. low 50's... What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Stanford and their 68 RPI should be out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 I currently have 10 teams with a greater than 40 RPI in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 if their rpi is under 40 in, otherwise out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 as at large bids? no way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 RPI greater than 40. Now some can do better in RPI with games let to play. But yes very deserving at large bids vs teams with better than that RPI's. Right now there is quite a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 There's not enough room at the inn, even if you leave Mo. St off the following list. Vanderbilt would get in instead: 1. UCLA 2. Ohio St. 3. UNC 4. Pitt 5. Wisc 6. SIU 7. Florida 8. Memphis 9. Georgetown 10. UNLV 11. Kentucky 12. Tennessee 13. Kansas 14. Arizona 15. Texas A&M 16. Maryland 17. Duke 18. BYU 19. Villanova 20. Creighton 21. Michigan St. 22. Va. Tech 23. Marquette 24. Oregon 25. Wash St. 26. Nevada 27. Texas 28. Illinois 29. Air Force 30. Butler 31. Indiana 32. Xavier 33. BC 34. Ok St. 35. Purdue 36. Louisville 37. ODU 38. Mo. St. 39. Arkansas 40. VCU 41. Drexel 42. Texas Tech 43. Florida St. 44. Notre Dame 45. Davidson 46. Gonzaga 47. Holy Cross 48. Winthrop 49. Wright St. 50. Pennsylvania 51. Oral Roberts 52. Belmont 53. Eastern Kentucky 54. Niagara 55. North Texas 56. Weber St. 57. Central Conn St. 58. Vermont/Albany 59. USC 60. Miami/Akron 61. New Mexico St./Utah St. 62. Long Beach St./Cal Poly 63. Northwestern St./ Texas A&M CC 64. Virginia based on conference record 65. Upset no one has predicted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schasz Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Pomeroy has MO State at 35. Not that I am rooting for them either way, but what does everyone think come tomorrow...in or out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 there are far too many conferences that dont have worthy teams this year. add to that the conference champs like xavier and butler that are blowing their tourney's there will not be 10 bubble spots to give this year. the tourney needs to expand to more teams because the imbalance of power is getting more and more and there will only be more of the not worthy conferences taking bids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 Several teams on your list have 40 or worse RPI Vandy, UVA, Syracuse, Notre Dame, USC, Kansas St, Other bubble possibilities....Drexel, Stanford etc... There will be top 40 RPI teams not getting an invite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 "Several teams on your list have 40 or worse RPI" No doubt -- but Stanford won't be one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 Stanford is debatable. I would put them in myself, definitely. They may not get in. However Roy has long had this theory that you only get in if you are top 40 RPI. And every year that isn't the deciding factor but he doesn't listen to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 39/40 will get in if Mo. St. gets snubbed so it's still the best barometer out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 maybe so, but there wont be 10 above 40 getting in as at large bids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 >39/40 will get in if Mo. St. gets snubbed so it's still the >best barometer out there. But all of the teams I mentioned are getting in...and why would it be a snub for Mo St to not get in? They didn't do enough. 0-5 v top two teams in its conference No high quality wins since neutral court over Wisconsin. 3 rpi top 50 wins and two of those were against Bradley an NIT team. How is that a "snub?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 It's a snub if you're a Mo St. fan. I'm trying to be diplomatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 >maybe so, but there wont be 10 above 40 getting in as at >large bids. We'd call that the back pedal two step. For the record, I said today I would have around that many post 40 RPI's in myself. Louisville for example just squeaked in to top 40...etc...so some teams will get in there, and several others won't and they will still deservedly receive invitations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 no that is not what i said, i said that history shows that the top 40 rpi is the line that is almost an 99.9% marker to be in the tourney. after that, there is the bubble line. typically there are about 13 - 15 conferences that dont have a 40 rpi team. yet they get an automatic bid. so if you use the 40 rpi teams plus the 13-15 not worthy automatic teams that would leave you with 10 bubble teams assuming no conference tourney upsets in the conferences that have top 40 rpi teams. the likes of wright state or rhode island or gw today would eat away at that bubble list. this second there are 18 conferences that do not have top 40 rpi teams. so that eats away from the bubble teams. now add in the wright states and gw's etc. there just arent many bubble spots to be had this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 All of the teams I listed will dance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Did you post a list of 10 teams or am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 >Did you post a list of 10 teams or am I missing something? I posted that I personally have approx ten teams in of 40 RPI or worse. I also posted a list of teams that will definitely get in the NCAA of current plus 40 RPI...# of which I didn't count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 >>Did you post a list of 10 teams or am I missing something? > >I posted that I personally have approx ten teams in of 40 >RPI or worse. So who are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 Vandy, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Drexel, Stanford, Texas Tech(sitting at 40 will not be top 40 when finished)....I have others that have a chance too depending on how it shakes out. ODU is a strong candidate as well on my list, and they will not finish top 40 rpi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 How hard is it just to post all 10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 I said approx ten. I am not staring at a list, That is is a definite list in my head. I would have to go over a list and debate the more border-line candidates, and of course see what happens today and tommorrow. Louisville for example just squeaked into top 40 or it would have been even more. There are several other candidates that depend on how they stack up to another border line candidate if any remain...for any remaining at large spots. The ones I mentioned would definitely be in my brackets. And most of those will in fact get in. And some others might get in that I didn't mention with post 40 RPI that I would be iffy on...or not have in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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