Austin Peay and Murray State blew it in the OVC.
Fairfield just bombed out in the MAAC.
Coastal Carolina Caves in the whatever conference.
BYU wins with Virgins.
George Mason loses first in 18 games to VCU in Colonial
Boston College downed by Wake?
Tennessee sucks to Kentucky
Minnesota can't beat anyone
And Jut's in first place???? WTF???????????
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Shit, Indiana State won the Missouri Valley tounament! Does Missouri State or Wichita State go dancing or not???
babs
Oh wait, BC beat Wake. My bad.
No MVC double- bid. They sucked this year.
However, George Mason secures the double-bid for the Colonial. And if VCU wins over Old D, the f'en Colonial will have 3 bids!!!
And Fairfield punches first ticket of many for the CEO headed to the NIT (MAAC conf champ gets a guaranteed bid to to NIT). Perhaps that will work out better for me.
This will be a very interesting week, with the city of Milwaukee determining Butler's destiny Tuesday night.....
Vermont bows out!
Quniincipicicaac also calls falters.
Belmont and Long Island entering with the nation's longest win streaks at 12
Looks like we're sending a bunch of conf champs to the NIT:
Vermont
Coastal Carolina
Cleveland St
Fairfield
Missouri St
Murray St
And runner up Wichita St
One thing is for sure, with the expansion to 13 players, there will be plenty of head to head opportunities in the NIT
It has been a point of discussion all season between Bab's and I - was Old D a good pick for rnd 4? This has resulted in my numerous attempts to post good things about them throughout the last two months or so.
Obviously, SGII's snag of George Mason in the last round, worth pts in the 40s is huge.
Old D, playing tomorrow vs VCU for the conf tourney champion, comes in worth 46 + 3 for their almost-certain bid to the ncaas.
However, should Old D knock down Gunz's VCU tomorrow and win the tourney, they would add 11 (3 for vcu, 3 for ncaa, 5 for conf tourney), bringing them up to 57 pts.
Now, entering tomorrow, only two other rnd 4s top the oldD, in the damn lucky St Johns and Mader's UCLA.
This is my way of explaining a "well done Old D, now beat the hell out of Gunz and VCU".
Have you guys ever had such a close contest heading into the tournaments? It appears we have five squads within nine points, and two more lurking right behind.
Go Hilltoppers.
Musashisan almost has a losing record!
Last year at this point - i.e. the end of the regular season with about half the conference tournaments underway, the standings were:
* 1. Akaoni - 374 (191-73)
* 2. Babblemur - 334 (187-73)
* 3. Boaris - 333 (191-71)
* 4. Jaybird - 327 (185-79)
* 5. Gunz - 319 (178-87)
* 6. Jutdog - 312 (181-76)
* 7. NotaTurtle - 307 (160-97)
* 8. The CEO - 303 (172-90)
* 9. Phunmunki - 277 (162-95)
* 10. Some Guy in Illinois - 251 (169-96)
Unlike this year, last year one player had a commanding 40 point lead while 6 others were within 31 points of each other (303-334).
One week later, with all conference tournaments concluded and the NCAA Tournament teams selected, we had this to say:
"Championship Week proved that the Endgame is worth as much as the rest of the season, as in one week Boaris shot into first place, Jutdog and Babblemur replaced Gunz and Jaybird in the #3 and #4 slots, and NotaTurtle slipped back down into 8th place. "
I'm predicting the NIT is huge this year, with almost all of the games being head to heads. Lots of addy points there, with such a close battle could be the deciding factor.
Should Ohio St be considered the favorite, they earn about 75 pts for winning the league. Add another say 20 for West V and Xavier, plus another 5 for NIT bonueses from Cleveland St and Maryland, and Slake B jumps up 100 pts from his current standings.
A couple of the Major tourneys should play out quite interesting, here is why:
Big 10 - Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Purdue all finished undefeated at home, but did lose on the road (see Iowa most recently for Purdue). Indy is a "Neutral" site, let's see how the boy's play there and who can truly emerge at this level, Wisconson out of conf had some neutral site meltdowns.
SEC - Again, many teams struggled on the road, Kentucky was in so many close games, but lost in the last few minutes on the road, the win at Tennesse was huge for them on that front, Vandy could not win on the road, or at home at the end of the year, Alabama and Georgia have to win to get in, should make for an interesting tourney.
Pac 10 - The best player in the conf carried his team to a title, but I'm not convinced that Arizona wins this tourney, there are really 6 teams who could win it, and with the location being "neutral" will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Big East - Can St John's use their Madison Square Garden mojo to pull this thing down? Will Pitt defend their regular conf title? Can Notre Dame rise up and grab a 1 seed? Will Marquette make a push and secure a tourney spot? Can Seton Hall leverage their collective tough experiences to rise up and steal a bid? Will West Virigina continue their momentum here at the end of the year into a run in the tourney? With Chris Wright's injury, I see it as a two horse race, with Notre Dame and Pitt motivated for the number 1 seed.
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