RECAP
The Top 3 (Boaris 310, Akaoni 308, Babblemur 307) tightened up as Boaris' slump continued as he was held to 23 points. Akaoni had enough (28) to catch up and finish one back, and Babblemur's 38 points was the second highest of the week to close in on the other two.
The CEO was the big winner of the week though with 42 points. He was led by LSU defeating Florida and Kentucky to take the SEC champs, and Duke beating Maryland and Virginia Tech to stay one game behind UNC in the ACC. Also Northern Iowa beat Illinois St and Evansville to share the MVC champs, and VCU won the Colonial. This was enough points to vault him into a tie with Brother Jut at 291 points. Jutdog's 26 points was respectable but gained him no ground.
Jaybird also took in 38 points with Kansas & Alabama winning big games and taking two low major conferences. North Carolina and Kansas are both in position to win 7 points a piece for the ACC and Big 12 if they can hang on this week. Marquette however is entering a losing streak after whats-his-name got injured. Jaybird moved from 8th to 6th place.
ProgressMedia's 32 points kept him in 7th, Phunmunki's 25 dropped her to 8th, Gunz took 30 to stay in 9th place, Musashisan 29 to stay in 10th place, HippieD took 20 and NotaTurtle took 16.
WEEK SEVENTEEN
We have 11 more conference champs potentially in the making this week, including the big ones: ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10. That is an additional 71 points that will be out by the end of the week. Some conferences are all ready to start conference tournaments, so by next Sunday we might have points for that on top of the one's still playing regular season ball.
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK (Part 1)
These conferences start their tournaments this week. Every team now has a chance to fight their way into the Big Dance, as well as pick up the 5 points for winning a Major Conference Tourney, or 4 points for all other Conference Tournies.
- Big South (March 3, 5, 7) - VMI
- Horizon (March 3, 6-7, 10) - Butler, Green Bay, Cleveland St, Wright St, Milwaukee
- OVC (March 3, 6-7) - Murray St.,
- Atlantic Sun (March 4-7) - Jacksonville, E. Tenn. St., Belmont
- Patriot (March 4, 8, 13) - American, Holy Cross
- Sun Belt (March 4, 8-10) - Western Kentucky, Arkansas-Little Rock
- Missouri Valley (March 5-8) - Creighton, UNI, Illinois St., Southern Ill, Drake
- NEC (March 5, 8, 11) - Robert Morris, Mt. St. Mary's
- Southern (March 5-9) - Davidson,
- America East (March 6-8, 14) - Vermont, Boston
- Colonial (March 6-9) - VCU, George Mason, Old Dominion, Northeastern
- MAAC (March 6-9) - Siena
- West Coast (March 6-9) - Gonzaga, St. Mary's
- Big Sky (March 7, 10-11) - Weber St., Portland St.,
- Summit (March 7-10) - North Dakota St., Oral Roberts,
SQUIGLY CHART
This is just since Jan 1 2009, gives a little more je ne sais quoi. Click image to embiggen it.
There you are.
Please be patient as we update the schedule from here on out daily based on who wins and loses conference tourney games.
21 comments:
Today is a big day for me - opportunity to make up for this past weekend, and snag 10 pts, plus at least a share of the MWC. We'll see though - New Mexico at home is as tough as any mid-major game there is.
If Duke loses tonight (which they won't) then North Carolina takes the ACC.
Conference Tournaments start today - one loss and YER OUT!
In the Horizon:
Wright St (Akaoni) vs. Valpo
Cleveland St (Turtle) vs Detroit
Milwaukee (Turtle) vs Loyola IL
In the Big South:
VMI (Babs) vs. Coastal
In the OVC:
Austin Peay (Boaris) vs. E. Illinois
Murray St (HippieD) vs. Tenn St
Cleveland St makes the NIT if they lose. VMI and Austin Peay go to the CBI. Milwaukee should be in for one of them.
Looks like Boaris has a ton of win-able matchups this week, I don't think I'm going to be able to hang near the top much longer...
-aka
ACC shakeup coming Sunday:
Duke vs Carolina
Wake Forest vs Clemson
V Tech vs Florida State
Top six teams in action, nothing like changing who plays who for the conf tourney, should be interesting......
The CEO
Jut, you are full of shit, VMI will be NIT fer sho in the highly unlikely event that they don't win their conference tournament.
As for Boaris fear - fear Oklahoma winning the Big 12 (root for Kansas), fear Pittsburgh winnning the Big East (root for UCONN, not Louisville). If he wins both that is 14 points, but if he loses both then he could fall behind Akaoni (Washington Pac 10 for 7) and Babs (Mich St Big 10 for 7). Plus he has a lot of potential points this week.
Boaris is probably going to get 6 teams in the NCAA: Pitt, Okla, Butler, Virginia Tech, Kentucky and Providence.
I, Babs, will likely get 6 teams in: Mich St, Ariz St, Creighton, West Virginia, Syracuse, and Jacksonville, and I'm sure VMI will be my 7th.
Akaoni- you got only 4 good dancers: Purdue, Washington, Dayton, and South Carolina, with New Mexico and Michigan knocking on the door.
Florida has an ok chance as well, but a wins against Miss St. and Kentucky are pretty crucial. Also, A&M's a bubble team who has some good wins this season if they finish strong they could make the tourney as well. Unfortunately, all these teams are competing for at-large bids, so the chances of one crowding out another are possible...
aka
Wow,
Jut wins two key games by 2 pts, Duke survives the scare and sets up some meaning for the Carolina Duke showdown on Sunday. Georgetown gets enough energy or Villanova I guess didn't care enough over the weekend, but the G-men kissed their dancing away this evening unless they win the Big East tourney. Utah drops their second in a row, and I don't think anyones teams got knocked out of conf tourneys yet. I think I, as CEO, should declare March a national holiday, kinda like Europe takes all of August off, we hoops loving Americans should celebrate the ides of March with copious amounts of beer and unending hoops. Here's to the underdogs, great games, and good times...
-The CEO
Any guess who one of the top 3 expansion teams could have been?
Auburn, winning 6 games over other teams and one others over a non-player team, for a 7-2 record since expansion draft, 4th place in the SEC overall, and a chance to beat the hell out of LSU at home. Dammit Babs, you commie pig. At least my substitution of Weber State had done quite well.
~ Jut
You know, there is something fishy about playin on the road. Michigan St by 5 over an Indiana team without their leading scorer? I think most predicted Utah to lose their last two, but finish with a nice win over TCU. We're shaping up for a 3-way tie for the MWC - none including the lame San Diego St. They can join Temple in the NIT.
~ Jut
San Diego St beat Utah by 9 so blow that out your pipe. They beat your precious San Diego Losers (the team you dropped) by 11 back in December. Still sore?
In fact look at their losses:
Arizona St.
@Arizona
St. Mary's
@Wyoming
@BYU
@New Mexico
@Utah
BYU
I believe that after the tournament there will be no question which tournament San Diego St belongs in.
Auburn has certainly been an overachiever as of late, or an underachiever earlier in the year. I'd like to feel good about LSU, but in the back on my head, there is this voice screaming the SEC is really really bad this year.......However, if there is a team peaking at the right time, LSU fits that bill, they seem to be getting stronger each game, we'll see how the SEC tourney goes
-The CEO
Michigan State's win over Indiana last night makes them sole champs in the Big Ten, so 7 points for Michigan State & Babblemur!
In the SWAC, Alabama St has secured at minimum a tie for conference champs with Jackson St, and that is only if they lose their last two games.
So 6 points for Alabama St & Jaybird!
I misposted my congratulations to babs and Mich St. on another thread. Congrats on taking the lead. Also, a smaller congrats to Jaybird and 'Bama St...
More conference tourney games tonight:
Patriot:
Holy Cross (Babs) vs Bucknell
American (Progress) vs Lafayette
Atlantic Sun:
E. Tenn St (Progress) vs Stetson
Sun Belt:
Mid Tenn St (The CEO) vs Arkansas St
Also Stephen F. Austin (Jut) had better win tonight to stay in the race for the Southland Champ. Louisville (Jut) needs a win over Seton Hall to stay in the race for the Big East Champ.
Marquette (Jaybird) vs Pitt (Boaris) is a huge game to sort out the Big East mess.
North Carolina can guarantee 7 points for Jaybird by beating V Tech tonight, before facing Duke this weekend to see if the Dukeys get 7 points too.
And Kansas (Jaybird) can secure the Big 12 Champs tonight with a win over Texas Tech. At worse Kansas ties with Oklahoma but Kansas beat the Sooners in their only meeting.
So many good games tonight!
Wow are things tightening up. Except for Musash, Hippie, and Turtle, everyone is relatively close.
There is great competition for the top with Aka, Babs, and Boaris, a nice and close second tier with the Mitchell Bros, and a not-too-far-off 3rd tier in Prog, Phun, & Gunz.
Even HippieD has a shot with #1 UCONN. They could produce another 100+ points for him.
I'm not sure if Kansas's win over Oklahoma was something great, seeing as how Okla's best player was out for the entire game. Much like SanDiegoSt's win over San Diego, idiot. The only difference is when you're at a small mid major, you can't just pull another all-american off the bench.
A win's a win. You didn't see me bitching about losses to St. Louis and Rhode Island after Dayton lost their starting point guard for the season...
-aka
Yeah, chumpy. But my point was that if Kansas and Oklahoma wind up tied at the end of the week, Kansas wins the Conference Champ because they beat Oklahoma in their only meeting. I'm not saying Kansas' win was good, just that Jaybird's got 7 points coming to him if he beats Tech tonight.
Stephen F. Austin's win tonight ensures that they are going to either win the Southland outright, or if they lose their next game share the championship with either Nichols St. or Sam Houston St. So 6 points for SFA and Jutdog for the Southland!
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