prebilliken Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 THIS IS OUR TOURNEY TO WIN. I wanted revenge. If there is any coach who keeps it at a one game at a time pace its Rick. LETS GO BILLS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 If we win the A10 tourney we had better get a 6 seed or better. 27-6 overall Champs of whatever that Anaheim tourney was 2nd place regular season Conference tourney champs Of the 7th best conference in the country. Amen. Not to mention an RPI below the teens, and other computer rankings that care about margin of victory in the single digits. A 7 would be a screw job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For-DaLove Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 For sure. 6th seed if we win the tournament. Funny how we can go from "on the bubble" to potential 6 seed.... We aren't on the bubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB2.0 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 We aren't on the bubble Yea, not according to me or most people on this board, but look around at the bracketology sites. Everyone has us on the bubble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Any fan of a bubble team just became a huge Billiken fan this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2010andBeyond Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yea, not according to me or most people on this board, but look around at the bracketology sites. Everyone has us on the bubble. Being one of the first 10 seeds is not on the bubble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yea, not according to me or most people on this board, but look around at the bracketology sites. Everyone has us on the bubble. No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucan2 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 With Temple out, this tourney is the Bills' for the taking! Go get it boys!! Be hungry! Be angry! Be great!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Amen. Not to mention an RPI below the teens, and other computer rankings that care about margin of victory in the single digits. A 7 would be a screw job. for those that know how to do the projections, what would our rpi be if we won the tourney? It would have to at least be in the low 20's. Sagarin, Kenpom, and espn's bpi, would all have us in or close to the top 10. I'm not saying we'd get a 6, but anything less would be wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB2.0 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 NoLOL I don't have time to prove you wrong but you are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirahna Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 LOL I don't have time to prove you wrong but you are. No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffinMH Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 With Temple losing,someone's bubble could burst big time if SLU doesn't win it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Of course you don't. However, I do, so I looked up a few Lunardi - in Palm - in Collegehoops.net - in realtimerpi - in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Of course you don't. However, I do, so I looked up a few Lunardi - in Palm - in Collegehoops.net - in realtimerpi - in http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm In 105 brackets out of...... 105 brackets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 http://bracketprojec....com/matrix.htm In 105 brackets out of...... 105 brackets As we win more ... we're going to get more clueless idiots posting. Just goes with the territory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 As of earlier today beating La Salle, Xavier and then Temple would have gotten SLU into the top 10 of RPI (3 wins over winning teams help a lot). So winning over La Salle, Xavier/Dayton and St.Joe's/UMass/Bona has too many variables to compute BUT winning those three game would very likely get the RPI into the high teens (maybe only 20 if it was Dayton and Bona). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 thanks. So we win out, worst case rpi 20, kenpom and bpi probably single digits, and sagarin probably close to 10 ... I don't see how anyone could think we shouldn't be at least a 6 seed. Hell, a 5 would probably be fair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm In 105 brackets out of...... 105 brackets There has never been a unanimous bracketology matrix team to not be selected. There has not been a non-BCS team that missed with more than 66% of bracketologists having them in (I know selection is biased toward BCS but nobody mentions that "bracketologists"/Lunardi are even MORE biased than the committee) since MO State infamously was left out in 2006. BTW, Lunardi did not have Mo State in 2006 but still was not right in that he had Cincy and FL State in when the committee selected Air Force and Utah State Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Have fun in the Beast. Temple. You have to hand it to UMass. Weren't they picked to finish around 14th or so. They've beaten the top 3 teams in the A10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David King Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 its ours for the taking now. if we stay focused and play our game we'll be A10 tourney champs It always was ours for the taking! Temple has been stumbling lately. Before today, they had lost 1 of their last 4, and 2 of the other 3 went to overtime. We would have beaten them in the A-10 final. I would have liked to see SLU beat a top 25 team on national TV before the Big Dance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB73 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Temple losing is bad. We deserve to ge in but now if U Mass or X or St Joe wins the tourney, we could get hosed, NCAA takes 2 teams from the A-10, Temple and A-10 Tourney winner. We need to pound LaSalle and at least play on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bgtholt88 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 lol, who gives a ###### if we're on somebody's "bubble" or not. If we don't get in based on what we've done already, then we will be one of only 5 other teams to have had a respectable rpi in our range and not make the tournament: 05-06 Missouri State 21 ’ 96-97 Texas Tech 29 ’05-06 Hofstra 30 ’06-07 Air Force 30 '07-08 Dayton 32 Yea.. I'm 100% sure we're in.. No bubble talk anymore.. Either way, with Temple out we will win this tournament.. Throws us in at a 7 seed and hopefully they give us Mizzou in round 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB2.0 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 As we win more ... we're going to get more clueless idiots posting. Just goes with the territoryoh internet tough guys...always gotta take it personal. From ESPN: ollege Basketball Bubble Watch After messy day on the bubble, Friday offers golden opportunities for several teams By Eamonn Brennan ESPN.com Editor's note: This file has been updated to include all games through 5 p.m. ET on Friday. RPI and SOS will be updated early Saturday morning. The opportunities are there. That's the resounding theme after Wednesday and Thursday's thorough bubble mediocrity, when we saw a spate of bubble teams (Seton Hall, Northwestern, South Florida, Mississippi State, Oregon and Washington) all suffer various degrees of ill-timed losses. Throw in the bubble squads that have already finished their conference tournaments -- Iona, Drexel, BYU, Oral Roberts -- and the current state of affairs is as such: If you're still playing, you still have a shot. It may be a likely one. It may be long. But you definitely have a shot. As we did on Thursday, the Watch will be here all day and night on Friday, updating and analyzing each team's chances as the results roll in. Keep your F5 key handy, settle into your couch groove, and get ready for another day of exciting college hoops action -- bubble-related and otherwise. Atlantic 10 Conference Teams that should be in: Saint Louis Work left to do: Xavier, Dayton It may finally be time to close the door on Saint Joseph's. The Hawks needed to take down Charlotte and St. Bonaventure in their first two A-10 tournament games in order to move on and get another profile-boosting win over Temple in the semifinals. Phil Martelli and Co. got the Charlotte win, but things fell apart during Thursday's close loss to the Bonnies. (Meanwhile, Temple's quarterfinals loss to UMass means the Hawks wouldn't have even had the big-win possibility anyway.) As such, St. Joe's will be stuck sitting at home, and for a team that still had a lot of work to do, that almost certainly means they'll be out of the tournament. Meanwhile, what about UMass? With a sub-70 RPI and bad schedule strength figures, it's still too early to put the Minutemen on the page. We'll keep an eye out, but we're not nearly there yet. But a trip to the finals? Maybe. Saint Louis [24-6 (12-4), RPI: 30, SOS: 111] Saint Louis topped off a resurgent 2011-12 campaign with last week's wins over Xavier and at Duquesne, and it seems more certain than ever that the Billikens are going to get in. So why aren't they a lock? Because there are still holes here. Chief among them? That glaring 0-2 record against the RPI top 50. (It would have really helped if Villanova was good, or Washington's RPI was better. Alas.) That dearth of quality games, nevermind wins, is part of the reason this SOS is shaky and the nonconference figure (nearly in the 200s) is even worse. Still, though, odds are SLU will get in. It would take a second-round A-10 tourney loss to either La Salle or Richmond (and probably just Richmond, because La Salle's pretty decent) and some shake-ups along the cut line to see this team somehow miss the tournament. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely. Xavier [19-11 (10-6), RPI: 49, SOS: 46] Saturday's home victory over Charlotte was never going to do much for this team's profile, so it's no surprise to see the Musketeers pretty much where they were last week: Right smack dab on the bubble. Lunardi listed Chris Mack's team among his last four in Monday, but that's hardly reason to feel safe. The bubble is likely to shrink in the coming days, so Tu Holloway and Co. should certainly plan on beating Dayton (if seeds hold) in the second round of the A-10 tournament and could definitely do with a semifinals win over SLU. That would get them into safer territory, but there'd still be plenty of wiggle room along that cut line. Anxious times in the Queen City. Dayton [20-11 (9-7), RPI: 73, SOS: 76] The Flyers, like Saint Joseph's, handled business in rather simple fashion Tuesday night, topping George Washington 67-50, which actually was Dayton's second straight win over GW in the past week. Which does very little for its resume, obviously. The Flyers have some good wins -- they're 3-2 against the RPI top 50 and 8-7 against the top 100 -- but they also still have that plus-70 RPI, two ugly losses below the 200 line (to Miami-Ohio and Rhode Island). If they progress past Xavier in the next round, it will help, but it still might not be enough. Things aren't looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 I know all bubble talk will cease in about 90 minutes when SLU is rolling up La Salle 28-11 in the first half- but just in case: "@AndyGlockner: Yes. RT @bleibforth: @AndyGlockner: SLU is locked in even if they get upset tonight?" "@tomtimm: BREAKING Lunardi tells me that he has just moved SLU into NCAA lock category based on losses elsewhere today. Xavier needs a win, Dayton 2." "@JayBilas: Hey, bubble boys: better start rooting for Saint Louis to win A10." All within the last hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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