Our rankings going down the stretch...

[SinceBeenBtown'82]

Here some different rating/ranking systems and where they have us as of today

Ken Pom 51

Jeff Sagarin 36

RPI 32

BPI 49

Joe Lunardi has us in as a 7 seed, but the BPI prediction has us as out with 2 teams ahead of us that are also out.

We are squarely on the bubble. Wednesday's game will go a long way to either help or hurt these numbers.

 

[stripetology]

Barring big collapse, we're in. Not worried if we lose on the road in this one as far as tournament goes. Always worry about losing though. Not as fun obviously.
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[Dubiak5454]

Bubble!
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[Hoosier Mack]

We are nowhere near the bubble. As of now, IU is comfortably in the

tournament. Sure, things can change. However, make no mistake about it, at the present time, IU would be in the tournament and get no lower than a 6 or 7 seed.

This post was edited on 2/9 6:30 PM by Hoosier Mack

 

[Tony20]

Newsflash 82. NCAA expanded to 64 teams in 1985 from 32....

because that's the only way we would be on the bubble this year.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

I love the "no lower" comment.

As though there is any chance we could be a five right now. We are a six at best. Seven is much more likely.

But that's really not the most important thing. What's most important is that our remaining schedule offers more chances for bad losses than good wins. In other words, we need to hold serve if we want to stay out of that 8-9 game.

 

[Catfish_ Crazy]

Final Four baby! Positive thinking and a lot of praying.

 

[iu1211]

Losing to Maryland on the road is not going to kill IUs ranking. nt

nt

 

[Hoosier Mack]

That's not what was being discussed. Pay attention!

The OP contended that "right now" we are on the bubble. I explained that it wasn't case. The fact that you feel IU is a 7 seed at the moment shows that you agree with the point I was trying to make.

This post was edited on 2/9 7:48 PM by Hoosier Mack

 

[SWINDIANAIUFAN]

The Maryland game can definitely help, but it won't

hurt IU if they lose. Just hold court at home, win at NW and Rutgers. IU is not on the bubble in the least. A few bad losses an they could be, though

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

I know. I was trying to turn it into something more interesting.

Really, who cares where we are "right now" anyway? I care more about where we might go.

But yes, agree that calling us a bubble team right now is silly.

 

[SRIV94]

BPI is worthless, because they have FLA way ahead of us

and they're not remotely close to a tourney team (no real good wins and worse losses than we have).

ESPN can pimp BPI all it wants, but it's not a true indicator of who will be in and who won't. Lunardi's a better indicator.

 

[SinceBeenBtown'82]

Newflash 2015

There are only 45 at-large bids that make the tournament. Therefore if we are ranked 47 out of that group (ESPN's BPI) then we are out unless we win the BIG tournament.

 

[SRIV94]

The problem is five of those teams ahead of us in the BPI rankings

shouldn't be. FLA (32), BYU (35), MINN (37), DAV (39) and VAND (45) all have lesser resumes than ours. Hell, Florida's 12-11 with no RPI top-50 wins (we have three top-25 wins) and two sub-100 losses (we have none)--one of the two is to Vandy. The lowest ever at-large had an RPI of 74 (New Mexico in 1999). Vandy's at 114 right now. They ain't getting in unless they win the SECT (which UK is going to). BYU has a sub-150 loss (USD). Davidson has a sub-150 loss (St. Joe's). And while Minny has a really good win over Georgia and no sub-100 losses, they played as bad an OOC sked as we did (save for LOU and St. John's--but they lost both those games). They had six sub-200 games (two of them sub-300).

You're giving the B(S)PI way too much credence.

This post was edited on 2/10 11:13 AM by SRIV94

 

[SRIV94]

And while the five teams are still ahead of us, we've moved up into

projected at-large territory. (We're now 44, with St. John's at 45--as the last two at-larges in the field [Purdue at 46 is the first team out])

Still say the B(S)PI is worthless. Florida's at least 30 spots too high.