He's not coming back. You can relent and say something positive and not sweat it. Every bracketologist I've heard has them safely in. Not as many bid stealers this year and the folks in our "area" for the tourney all have weaker resumes. Weird, because isn't this essentially the same record as last year?
It would take lots of Bid Stealers to keep us out. Looking at most of the top rated Bracketologists we are somewhere near the bottom of the Last Four Byes or the top of Last Four In, which means it would take 4 or 5 bid thieves to keep us out. It is possible, but I certainly wouldn't call Oregon a 'must win'.
I would agree that beating Oregon would very likely keep us out of Dayton.
No its not. IU could miss out with a loss. Stranger things have happened. But them making it is much more likely, at this point.
I think both guys who do bracketology on Assembly Call have us in and Field of 68. Like I said, when you start looking around at the other teams in our area code (UNC, OSU, Wake, Xavier, etc....) we have better wins. Also fewer bid stealers this year it seems.
There are still some bid stealers, but it does seem like less this year.
Hey do you want to try to get a win in this tourney or not? Leal in Dayton will get hell of ratings.
For that cash Indiana should have been Big Ten champions..A #1 seed ..And the betting favorite in Vegas to win it all.
I'm sure there will be 1 maybe 2 surprises, but I think of bid stealers coming out of the smaller conferences like Big South or MVC and the regular season champ not winning the tourney, which didn't happen much at all. Super unlikely that a team not already in wins in the SEC, B10, ACC or Big East. I think we can weather 2 surprises. But obviously the easiest path is to beat OR. When has IU taken the easy path though?
They all are.
I'm excited over making the tournament over not making the tournament. It's possible to be disappointed in this season, but still excited to be in the tournament. We don't need a 'how the mighty have fallen' post everytime we talk about something positive.They all are.
Even if we're "already in", getting a better seed is important.
And to think we're excited about making the Big Dance. How the mighty have fallen
Looking at any team in isolation is pointless. Some years that resume would be miles away from the bubble, and some years that resume will get you into the tournament. It's all about comparison to others on the bubble. And there are lots of other metrics that matter. We have the best win of any bubble team @ MSU. We have 0 Q2, Q3 or Q4 losses.
The reason for the low NET ranking is because of the spreads in these losses. Its bad....
This is exactly why OSU was a must-win game while ORE is a good-to-have-but-probably-not-necessary game. The @MSU game in particular travels well, as MSU hasn’t lost a game since then.
name the amount, will bet you we will be in the tournament on selection Sunday
If IU had knocked 10 points off of each of those losing margins, they probably wouldn’t have to be worried about bid stealers.
I don’t want to bet because I agree that we will be in the tournament. If there are 4 bid thieves things will be very interesting for us on Sunday.
But aside from that MSU game, we have only 3 other good wins. And Penn State and OSU are only Q1 wins because they were away games. True, no bad losses either but that's putting a lot of weight on 4 games. We need another quality win IMO.
We certainly are no position to relax now, but we are in the good-to-have-but-probably-not-necessary stage, with “necessary” meaning lose and you’re definitely out.
On the other side of the coin, assuming We beat Oregon, and beat MSU a second time, will that be enough to move Us up the NCAA seeding line? In part that depends on what the Teams around Us on the seeding lines do. If a couple of those Teams lose in the first round of their Conference Tournaments, or get upset, or lose badly, maybe We can move up a line or two. You have to think that a second win against MSU will cover a lot of blemishes and have some effect on our Seeding.
The young see IU basketball from a different perspective than that of the old. Once the current geezers of gray beards are dead and dusted, the tired "how the mighty have fallen" posts will no longer be heard. Patience, Grasshopper.
Thank you. Now that Woodson is gone, I don’t really understand all the whining and negativity.
I watched there last 2 games, how they hell did we ever beat them on their home court. would be shocked if we even played them close in a rematch
