Lucky nitters

[SteelBowl70]

Another last second win which doesn’t help the cause. They were the last team in. Down 35-19 they hit a lucky 3 right before the half and then down 5 late, they win at the buzzer again on a rebound after a missed 3.

The top of the Big 10 keeps rehabilitating the bubble teams. Northwestern will probably lose to Rutgers and Indiana to Michigan tonight. Wisky plays at Minnesota. Lunardi has all these teams behind Pitt going into today.

I do not get how a 10-10 10th place team in a conference which lost the challenge with the ACC is in the field. How can this conference have potentially twice as many teams in than the ACC?

 

[Elsalvador]

I hate them so goddamn much.
Need IU to win and NW. plus Minnesota. I want to be in the tourney so damn much.

 

[SteelBowl70]

I hate them so goddamn much.
Need IU to win and NW. plus Minnesota. I want to be in the tourney so damn much.

They will probably all lose. After Purdue, this a mediocre conference which has the computers convinced they are great.

 

[Pitt2006]

I hate them so goddamn much.
Need IU to win and NW. plus Minnesota. I want to be in the tourney so damn much.

Yep. Also, the fact that third place Clemson is going to get left out after going 15-5 despite wins against Iowa and Penn state. SMFH.

 

[pierre93]

🖕to st penn and wvcc

 

[pierre93]

They will probably all lose. After Purdue, this a mediocre conference which has the computers convinced they are great.

Every year it's the same BS with the big10

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

ruh roh

 

[KennyHeisman8]

It’s absurd to me that a bunch of near .500 conference teams can beat up on each other and we call them a great conference but a bunch of 14-6 and 15-5 ACC teams suck

 

[pittguy81]

No reason to be a little bitch about it. They have a guard that is better than anybody on this Pitt team. I don;t care what happens to PSU, I care about Pitt.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

By the second weekend, the B1G might have 2 teams left in the tourney if they're lucky. And PissU has no business being in it at all.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Didnt watch the game but they blew an 11 point lead with 4:00? WTF? I crush the ACC but beyond Purdue, the B10 is absolutely no better yet will get 10 in

 

[KennyHeisman8]

Take MSU for example. They beat Kentucky solid not great win. They lost by one to Gonzaga solid loss. They beat Villanova by two which isn’t awesome. They got kind of blown out by Alabama. They got run off the floor by ND. They barely beat Portland who are awful and barely beat oregon.

For some reason they are solidly in and Pitt is looked at as a bubble team but their resume is not particularly great

 

[KennyHeisman8]

The good news is that the tournament can answer the question of the strength of the BIG. The real question is if the BIG craps the bed again in March will anything be reevaluated? Same thing happened last year and nothing changed. I’m not expecting the big to be shut out of the elite eight but if they get none in and 6 or 7 are gone in the first weekend there needs to be some reevaluating how they determine conference strength

 

[SteelBowl70]

Nebraska beat Iowa - nobody but Purdue has more than 11 conference wins right now - that’s the definition of mediocrity

 

[columbus mike]

The big pretend hasn’t won March madness in over 29 years!

 

[columbus mike]

Damn thumb, 20 years

 

[SteelBowl70]

Indiana doing its duty and losing to Michigan now

I’ve never seen a conference following a script to ensure the maximum teams get consideration. Northwestern next up to lose to Rutgers.

 

[SteelBowl70]

Indiana tried by missing 3 straight free throws in OT but won by 2

 

[Pitt2006]

Indiana tried by missing 3 straight free throws in OT but won by 2

That win helps regardless. Wisky and Rutgers up next.