PaulCrewe Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 As was mentioned in an article linked somewhere above, people QUIT fixating on finishing fourth in the league and that being good enough. Play OSU, MSU, Michigan, Maryland and Purdue only once. Heck throw Indiana in there as well. That is the perceived elite of the conference. And that holds weight with the selection committee. Win out and get to the semis or finals, book the hotel rooms. win out and lose to Michigan in the tourney, very iffy. Lose one and it better be Maryland if it happens, better get the semi final and it’s iffy. Lose one and again it’s to Maryland, get to the finals, looks promissing Lose to someone other than Maryland or lose two, well Jake Taylor said it best in Major League. 1 Quote Link to comment
The Murphinator Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hey, I don't know if this has been posted yet or not, but here is a link that show the odds of Nebraska making the tournament that is updated every hour. It is pretty interesting. https://bvankat.github.io/nebrasketball/ Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 26 minutes ago, PaulCrewe said: As was mentioned in an article linked somewhere above, people QUIT fixating on finishing fourth in the league and that being good enough. Play OSU, MSU, Michigan, Maryland and Purdue only once. Heck throw Indiana in there as well. That is the perceived elite of the conference. And that holds weight with the selection committee. Win out and get to the semis or finals, book the hotel rooms. win out and lose to Michigan in the tourney, very iffy. Lose one and it better be Maryland if it happens, better get the semi final and it’s iffy. Lose one and again it’s to Maryland, get to the finals, looks promissing Lose to someone other than Maryland or lose two, well Jake Taylor said it best in Major League. On the first bolded scenario, I'd be pretty confident in a 22 win Nebraska team (regular season) getting in the tournament with an appearance in the B1G semi-final round. On the second bolded, That's a 22 win regular season, and winning 2 (?) more in conference tournament.... Sounds like a lock. Because of the reasons you mentioned in your above scenarios, I still have doubts that Nebraska gets in the tournament. Which would be a shame, because I think they're talented enough to compete, and maybe even win a game in it. Quote Link to comment
PaulCrewe Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Mr Hemingway Your still looking at either 2 or 3 wins then against the Top 50. That’s hard to put up against a lot of other teams. And again if there are a couple of Cinderella teams/major upsets in other conferences pretty much throw everything out the window Edited January 31, 2018 by PaulCrewe Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, BIG ERN said: They won 19 regular season games and finished 2-3 out of their last 5. Big difference IMO than a team that gets to 22 regular season wins like we can this year They still had a comparable RPI, better SOS, and better quality wins. What about Washington in 2012? Finished with 24 wins overall, won the Pac-12 at 14-4, had an RPI of 54 (comparable) and a SOS of 63, and yet, they lost in the 2nd round of their conference tournament and go left clean out of the Dance. Now, Nebraska has a better win this year (on paper), but the precedent is there to leave a team with Nebraska's resume out. Edited January 31, 2018 by Cdog923 Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Sure. The committee is also big on what you've done lately, and how you've played down the stretch. So assuming Nebraska lost to Maryland, and made it to the conference semi or finals, that'd put them something like 13-2/14-2 down the stretch. Hard for me to see that team getting left out. 1 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) ------------------------ <br /> <br /> Edited January 31, 2018 by GSG 2 Quote Link to comment
seaofred92 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, GSG said: ------------------------ &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; yeeeeeeeup. What I've been saying all along. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, seaofred92 said: yeeeeeeeup. What I've been saying all along. For sure! And I'm not trying to rain on the parade (and you're not either) but we are very much still on the outside looking in. 1 Quote Link to comment
seaofred92 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, GSG said: For sure! And I'm not trying to rain on the parade (and you're not either) but we are very much still on the outside looking in. yeah no not at all. Definitely not attacking anyone. Just hope that people cool their jets a bit here with the "they can't leave us out if we win 23 games!" talk. Because the committee has proven before that they will do exactly that if a team falls short in other areas (which Nebraska clearly does) that matter. 1 Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 To be fair, Lunardi isn't very good at bracketology, despite it being his only job. 3 Quote Link to comment
ECisGod Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) 24 minutes ago, seaofred92 said: yeah no not at all. Definitely not attacking anyone. Just hope that people cool their jets a bit here with the "they can't leave us out if we win 23 games!" talk. Because the committee has proven before that they will do exactly that if a team falls short in other areas (which Nebraska clearly does) that matter. I think if they get to 23 wins in the regular season they have a good chance. I know that 20+ of their wins will be useless, but the committee also looks at how they are playing at the end of the season and winning 11 of 12 to end the season including 4 road wins and the only loss being in OT on the road will look pretty good compared to all of the other equally flawed bubble teams. If they don't get in they should be a high seed in the NIT which most people who follow the team would have been happy with in November. Edit - only loss to at OSU by 5 Edited January 31, 2018 by ECisGod Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 33 minutes ago, GSG said: For sure! And I'm not trying to rain on the parade (and you're not either) but we are very much still on the outside looking in. 32 minutes ago, seaofred92 said: yeah no not at all. Definitely not attacking anyone. Just hope that people cool their jets a bit here with the "they can't leave us out if we win 23 games!" talk. Because the committee has proven before that they will do exactly that if a team falls short in other areas (which Nebraska clearly does) that matter. This is the exact thing I've been harping all week on Twitter about; with Nebraska's resume, they need to win as many games as possible, as impressively as possible, to leave as little doubte as possible. Quote Link to comment
HS_Coach_C Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 40 minutes ago, GSG said: ------------------------ &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; 0-5 against the worst teams on their schedule? Assuming he meant the best... too bad close losses count for absolutely nothing Quote Link to comment
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