Bills move up to 13th

[The Wiz]

Sometimes we move forward by standing still............

Losses last night by Georgetown and NM have allowed us to move up 2 spots in the Wiz rankings.

Neither loss was really bad for those teams.......GT losing to Seton H( A- ) and NM losing to Col St ( B ). But they were damaging enough to let SLU move ahead of them. Some may question the effect of NM losing on our numbers. I would say it is minimal. With the vast amount of data now available at the end of the season, it is difficult for anyone team or game that we are not playing to effect us much. Vermont was an interesting game as they lost to one of the worst teams in the nation...Binghamton. But for us no damage...a C+ team losing to a very low F.. As for the X loss, that doesn't effect us because I had UMass favored in that game. When things happen as they should ....no change. Also as a conference game the results tend to hedge themselves. While X losing may downgrade us a bit UMass winning offsets that somewhat. UMass now becomes more of a "quality loss" (oxymoron) A quality loss is like when you root for Loy M to win. The phrase...."yeah, that wasn't so bad" resonates.

Bottomline is we need to concentrate on our own games. What we do from here on out won't change our numbers much. But if we keep winning and others falter it pushes us up in the standings....be it my standings or AP or USA/ESPN or the selection committee. Just holding our ground by winning will bring us the attention we need.

Sometimes we move forward by standing still.

[slu72]

If we can hold serve these final 3 games you've got to think that will get us back in the top 25. None will be easy, 2 roadies, and a schizo X team. Hopefully the team takes no one for granted, as it seems that's exactly what Vermont did last night w/ Binghampton. But as stated before good D travels well and can keep us from stepping in a big pile of doo doo in our March toward March Madness.