Yeah, that bracket is interesting to look through...
I think it's going to take beating Colorado and then making the semifinals to get into the NCAA tourney...maybe just making a close game against Kansas or Texas or aTm would do...
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If we lose to Colorado...I think it's going to take making it to the finals to get into the dance...just too many loses and a lot of bad losses for the team to rebound from to make the dance.
Here's something interesting...we lost 6 conf. games by a combined 21 points this year:
If we won 2 of those games (Texas Tech and Iowa State), we would've been a 6 seed
If we won 3 of those games (Texas Tech, Iowa State, and Baylor): we would've been a 5 seed
If we won 4 of those games (Texas Tech, Iowa State, Baylor and Kansas State): we would've been a 3 seed
If we won 5 of those games (Texas Tech, Iowa State, Baylor, Kansas State, and Missouri): we would've been a 2 seed
If we won all 6 of those games (Texas Tech, Iowa State, Baylor, Kansas State, Missouri, and Kansas): we would've won the Big XII regular season and be the number 1 seed.
The only game that wasn't close was the Missouri loss so it was very likely, with 4 more FTs or just two more layups, that NU would've been a 2 seed in the tourney and we wouldn't even be talking about "Tournament hopes" we would be talking about which team we would face in the first round.