SLU_Nick Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 will get in the tournament. I do not think this has been directly addressed. Will there be more than one because experts are saying that the Big 12 will send like 8 and ACC will send everyone down through VA tech. If all these predictions are true, It looks like it will be the conference winner and regular season conference winner. And if it is the same team, the committee will have no problem giving the A10 only one berth. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 and not Big 12. I can't see any expert saying the Big 12 will get 8 teams. They only have two teams in the top 60 of the RPI. The conference is ranked between 6-7. Who, besides Texas, would even be considered very good? How many bids the A-10 gets will be determined by how the top teams perform in conference. If everyone beats up on eachother and the top teams go 10-6 or 9-7 then we could only get one or maybe two. If GW, Xavier and maybe Temple/Charlotte all end up going 12-4 or better and then someone else won the conference tourney then we could get as many as four. Parity is the conference's enemy right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I think we'll get two: XU and either GW or Charlotte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 big 12 = 8? are you sure you didnt mean the big east or big 10? i think the a-10 will be lucky to get 2 teams. if gw is the class of the league, i think we will have a lot of parity and if that plays out, the sos pre-conference will kill the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 name the stakes but I think chances are well over 50% that we'll get 2 or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SShoe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 At this point your locks are Xavier and GW, I could see someone like Temple or Charlotte getting hot and being the third. And then we win the tourney and make it 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 If Charlotte continues its hot run of three point shooting for the next 10 games, I'd be inclined to agree with you. But once they go up against some of the stouter defenses in the A-10, shooting 47% from three (which is what they're shooting over the last 5 games) will be hard to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 that will kill the conference, its the fact we didn't win the games we played. Currently Pomeroy's site has us as 9th, behind the Big 10, ACC, SEC, Big East, MVC, Pac 10, Big 12, and MWC, Only the BE, Big 10 and SEC played a tougher non-conference scheule than us. http://www.kenpom.com/confrank.php?y=2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 out of the few candidates (Xavier Charlotte, GW, Temple) run away from the rest of the conference as long as they don't win the conference tourney we'll get at least 2. In my opinion it would take extreme parity or bad-luck in the conference tourney for us not to get 2 and I'd be surprised if we don't find a way to get 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 ACC and Big Ten right now both get 6 teams in. BE may get 7. SEC only gets 4. Pac 10 gets 3. MVC should get 4, but that will never happen. A-10 will get 3 no more, I think we get more than 2. GW and Xavier are gimmes and Temple, Charlotte or St Joes will find a way to get in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 ur right Kshoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 last year looks like an anomaly with only one A-10 birth. But I would not worry about how many the Big east and B10 get, their additional spots will be coming from CUSA......I suspect that CUSA is likely to only get 2 spots, Memphis and UAB, but houston with another loss today is heading south. The rest of CUSA has such poor non conference SOS that their RPI will be hard to raise. The A-10 however has GW which seems to be playing well enough to win and Xavier which appears to be a good team. However neither of those teams are their lowest RPI teams going into tonights games. St. Joe's and Temple have such strong SOS that despite being around .500 their RPI is around 50. Charlotte has to do the same that SLU needs to do.......win. Last year somesome 19 win teams were in and some out, with SLU SOS in nonconference, if they get to 19 wins they have a shot. It will likely be at the expense of teams like temple, St. Joe's or Charlotte though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Right now they would get two. It will beinteresting if GW and Xavier play well but neither loses in conf tourney. Temple and Cahlotte MUST win the tourney to get in. Big East really could get 8...no other conference has that kind of shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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