Michigan miracle win......not what we wanted to see....
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Maybe a #1 seed in the NIT is what we'll get now....And maybe it's what we deserve.As much as I'd like to see a NCAA bid the NIT is at least a winnable tournament if the team shows up and is motivated.I'm not going into selection Sunday with high hopes for a NCAA bid.That way I wont be as disappointed if it dosen't happen.What will be will be..
And UConn is not helping. I am not pissed if we get passed by. Let's face it, if L'ville didn't banish themselves, we would likely be out. We did this to ourselves.
Got to love all the fans rooting for the NIT, and pitt poker liking all those posts.
Exactly. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. We had a chance to easily solidify a NCAA lock by even winning 1 of the last 2 regular season games. We failed. As I stated before, if we get an NIT bid I don't care if we are a number 1 seed I will not watch 1 second of it.
And also, if we go with Lunardi who has us lower than most people, Michigan was 9 lines behind us. With palm has at least the same amount between us. If michigan wins one more, then I'm concerned about them jumping us. But they aren't jumping 9 teams with one win, and that doesn't cause the other 4 or 5 teams we are still ahead of to jump us. That win hurts st Mary, Monmouth, and cuse way more than us.
I'm not rooting one way or the other.You always want the best result no matter.I'm just not going in with high hopes that way I don't come away pis#ed like selection Sunday's in the past.
We need to get in by hook or by crook. We can worry about whether we deserve to be there or not some other time, we just need to get in. Losing to both VT and GT in our last two games was absolutely killer. This is the latest from ESPN:
Pittsburgh [21-11 (9-9), RPI: 52, SOS: 27] The Panthers didn't do anything crazy Thursday, which is to say they didn't knock off North Carolina in the ACC quarterfinals and didn't make their eventual NCAA tournament appearance a surefire lock. Instead they remained in place. What place is that? Joe Lunardi has Pitt among his last four in. We might nudge them a few spots higher than that -- into last four byes territory, so to speak. Your mileage may vary. Either way, the distinction between those spots is minimal. Wherever they lie on the S-curve by Sunday -- and it could change based on wins or losses elsewhere on the bubble -- the Panthers will be close enough to the cut to ensure the selection show is a nerve-wracking experience.
Pittsburgh [21-11 (9-9), RPI: 52, SOS: 27] The Panthers didn't do anything crazy Thursday, which is to say they didn't knock off North Carolina in the ACC quarterfinals and didn't make their eventual NCAA tournament appearance a surefire lock. Instead they remained in place. What place is that? Joe Lunardi has Pitt among his last four in. We might nudge them a few spots higher than that -- into last four byes territory, so to speak. Your mileage may vary. Either way, the distinction between those spots is minimal. Wherever they lie on the S-curve by Sunday -- and it could change based on wins or losses elsewhere on the bubble -- the Panthers will be close enough to the cut to ensure the selection show is a nerve-wracking experience.
Looks like Lunardi has Michigan as a "first four out", so that win may not have helped them as much as it could have.
Bracketmatrix.com has 42 "experts" with their predictions updated as of before today's games. Of those 41 have Pitt in the tournament, and the guy who has been most accurate had Pitt as a 9 seed going in to today. There are not many more teams that can realistically play their way in. And if they do it seems most of these guys seem to think Pitt is pretty safe regardless.
