2015 Bracketology

[_kai_]

I think they'll give us a 6. I hope we avoid a 5. I don't see us getting a 4 though.

[ROOT ANGRY!]

What effect, if any, will Jim Schaus's presence on the selection board make?

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Having Jim on the committee is probably a tiny, super small, almost zero, but not quite zero, bump to WSU's seeding. I don't think he will necessarily push for something crazy good like a 2 or 3 seed, but I see him as one less member for us to worry about having a crazy idea like placing WSU as a 7.

[molly jabali]

Is there ever a Joe Lunardi vs. THE ACTUAL FINISHED BRACKET????How does he have relevance without performance?

[tw805]

I think they'll give us a 6. I hope we avoid a 5. I don't see us getting a 4 though.

I would take a 6 over a 5 as well. Though much of it isn't the fault of the team, the resume on paper isn't real impressive. I think we're headed to a 6 because of that, depending on some of these conference tournaments.

[Royals85]

Having Jim on the committee is probably a tiny, super small, almost zero, but not quite zero, bump to WSU's seeding. I don't think he will necessarily push for something crazy good like a 2 or 3 seed, but I see him as one less member for us to worry about having a crazy idea like placing WSU as a 7.

Unless I've missed a new announcement, Schaus won't be on the committee until next year.

[engrshock]

I assume you would leave out Texas? They are KenPom 21.
To give the Big 12 only 5 teams, you would also have to leave out Oklahoma St. They are KenPom 32.

Would you prefer Illinios make it? They are KenPom 53 and lost to Nebraska.
How about Old Dominion? KenPom 56, lost to UTSA, Western Kentucky, and Middle Tennessee
Stanford? KenPom 44, lost to Washington St and DePaul.
Temple? KenPom 52, Lost to St Joseph's.
Boise St? A decent KenPom of 36, but their bad losses are a very long list!

The point is, bubble teams have bad losses. They are flawed teams, thus the reason they are on the bubble in the first place. At the end of the day, you gotta fill out the bracket with 68 teams, and losing to a Texas Tech level team is a common occurrence for all the possible bubble candidates.

While this rule is not official, it should be. If you cannot finish better than 0.500 in your conference you do not have the right to play for the NCAA championship.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Unless I've missed a new announcement, Schaus won't be on the committee until next year.

Good catch.

[Kel Varnsen]

I think they'll give us a 6. I hope we avoid a 5. I don't see us getting a 4 though.

Put us in Omaha and have KU as the three seed.

[wu_shizzle]

Just for reference these were the teams in the 4-7 range last year:

4) #20 UCLA (26-8) #11 Michigan State (26-8) #13 San Diego St (29-4) #5 Louisville (29-5)
5) #24 VCU (26-8) #15 Cinncinnati (27-6) #21 Oklahoma (23-9) #25 Saint Louis (26-6)
6) #22 Ohio State (25-9) #19 North Carolina (23-9) #23 Baylor (24-11) NR UMASS (24-8)
7) #17 New Mexico (27-6) #18 UCONN (26-8) NR Oregon (23-9) NR Texas (23-10)

Rankings are AP

[AZ Shocker]

A lot of losses from the 4 seeds last year. San Diego St. is the only 4 seed with only 4 losses like ours THIS year. The 5 seeds from last year have 8, 6, 9 and 6 losses. Gonna look kinda weird on paper that Wichita St. with only 4 losses is gonna be a 5 seed more than likely. Seems like more of an overall W/L record of a 4 or even 3 seed. But I digress...the MVC sos kills it...I know. I'm sure there's been some 5 seeds with only 4 or less losses in the tourney's recent history no???

[tw805]

Put us in Omaha and have KU as the three seed.

I think we'd have to go 2-7 for that to happen.

[Play Angry]

FWIW, Lunardi has us very securely slotted as a 5 seed entering championship week (#18 on his S-Curve). UNI, at #16, is projected as the weakest 4 seed.

He is just okay at what he does so this is hardly gospel, but it matches up pretty well with where I'd place both teams at this point. A 5 seed is fine with me so long as it is not in the Midwest (you can apply that caveat to pretty much every seed). I do not know that playing Villanova, Virginia or Duke would be appreciably more difficult than Wisconsin, Gonzaga or Arizona in the S16. Those are pretty interchangeable and are excellent but very beatable teams. Also, this year's regional sites do not offer anyone other than Kentucky an enormous home court advantage as sometimes happens.

No Midwest draw on Sunday and I will be thrilled, whether we are a 5 or a 6.

[shocka khan]

I'm OK with a 5 seed, and I was pleasantly surprised that we didn't get punished any more in the polls than we did.

Some here have speculated the effect of Marshall's illness had against IlSt. Maybe that had something to do with it.

We tried to fix the SOS problem by upgrading our schedule. We laid a couple of eggs (GW and IlSt) and we lost a hard-fought game against Utah. A couple of the teams (Alabama and Memphis) ended up having bad years.

It will be very difficult for us to get a protected seed playing in the valley unless the other teams step it up. Even then, we can't lay eggs like we did this year and expect a protected seed.

Hopefully our bigs will progress and our post play will improve next year. I'm also hoping the coaching staff is still looking for a big that can help us, as I think the juco's we brought in this year have disappointed.

I'd like to see Ron and Fred close their careers out with another trip to the final four.

[WillieJeffJeffries]

FWIW, Lunardi has us very securely slotted as a 5 seed entering championship week (#18 on his S-Curve). UNI, at #16, is projected as the weakest 4 seed.

He is just okay at what he does so this is hardly gospel, but it matches up pretty well with where I'd place both teams at this point. A 5 seed is fine with me so long as it is not in the Midwest (you can apply that caveat to pretty much every seed). I do not know that playing Villanova, Virginia or Duke would be appreciably more difficult than Wisconsin, Gonzaga or Arizona in the S16. Those are pretty interchangeable and are excellent but very beatable teams. Also, this year's regional sites do not offer anyone other than Kentucky an enormous home court advantage as sometimes happens.

No Midwest draw on Sunday and I will be thrilled, whether we are a 5 or a 6.

Other than UK,...... Wisky and Duke would brutal matchups for the Shox. Okafor and Kominski (sp?) would score at will down low.