Poll: Are you rooting for Wake to win or lose Wednesday?

[Sean Miller Fan]

Figured I'd do this as a poll instead. This is a really tough one. Usually, you root for the easiest path to advance. I'd estimate we have about a 45% chance to beat Wake but about an 85% chance to beat ND/GT so the decision on those grounds seem to be easy. However, if we beat ND/GT and then lose to UNC, is 2-7 vs Q1 going to get us in? Or do we need to beat Wake to get to 3-6 and then 3-7 if we lose to UNC?

Wake losing, though, knocks them out of NCAAT discussion meaning that even if we beat ND/GT and lose to UNC, we'd have a better chance of making it than if we lose to Wake. Not sure what to root for.

 

[Fredact]

Winning the ACCT should be the goal. Wake losing should make that easier.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Winning the ACCT should be the goal. Wake losing should make that easier.

Making the NCAA Tournament is the goal. Beating UNC and Duke on back to back nights is next to impossible.

 

[Fredact]

Making the NCAA Tournament is the goal. Beating UNC and Duke on back to back nights is next to impossible.

Of winning the ACC Tournament and winning the NCAA tournament, the first is far easier. I'm about winning, not participating.

 

[Pitt666]

Of winning the ACC Tournament and winning the NCAA tournament, the first is far easier. I'm about winning, not participating.

I’d gladly trade the big east titles Pitt won for the final fours Nova and UConn had.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Of winning the ACC Tournament and winning the NCAA tournament, the first is far easier. I'm about winning, not participating.

Pitt is a +1100 odds to win the ACC Tournament. I'd love to win it but we arent. I want the best path to make the NCAA Tournament. For me, making the NCAA Tournament is the ultimate goal.

 

[SteelBowl70]

Making the NCAA Tournament is the goal. Beating UNC and Duke on back to back nights is next to impossible.

Clemson is going to make the finals. I’m looking forward to playing them a third time on Saturday night.

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

Look, to be sure, we have to win our game on Thursday. So winning it over Wake is a Quad 1 win and just more resume stuffing to solidify a bid.

 

[Pitt79]

Winning the ACCT should be the goal. Wake losing should make that easier.

Exactly, the hell with the Q1, Q2, NET BS, I want to "Make Basketball Great Again" and GO BACK IN TIME, to when we didn't care who Lunardi was or what he said and just want to straight up play to win the ACCT.

 

[Pitt79]

I’d gladly trade the big east titles Pitt won for the final fours Nova and UConn had.

Not winning the Big East titles wouldn't guarantee you go any farther in the tournament, so the hell with it, I'd rather win the conference tournament and worry about the Final 4 if and when I get to the Elite 8.

 

[Pitt79]

Pitt is a +1100 odds to win the ACC Tournament. I'd love to win it but we arent. I want the best path to make the NCAA Tournament. For me, making the NCAA Tournament is the ultimate goal.

Some people think BIGGER, I hope the players don't think like you, calculating the odds and expecting to lose, I suppose if we did get to the ACC final you'd be thinking its +3000 odds to beat Duke, so let's rest the starters for the play in game in Dayton. It's pathetic how some people think these days, it's always a metric or calculation, never confidence or belief. Do I think Pitt will win the ACCT? NO, But I do want them to go all in the next few days to TRY and not be calculating the metrics of what to do next?

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Do I think Pitt will win the ACCT? NO

So you have no confidence or belief either.

 

[eng78]

If Wake loses, how can they be in the NCAA tournament? That would be losing the last 4 out of 5 of something like that. I think that puts us over them and we would have an easier game but you never know. I still think that the ACC gets 5 teams and Wake losing helps us...

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

If Wake loses, how can they be in the NCAA tournament? That would be losing the last 4 out of 5 of something like that. I think that puts us over them and we would have an easier game but you never know. I still think that the ACC gets 5 teams and Wake losing helps us...

They wont be. We have a slight chance to get in with a loss. They dont

 

[Dointhatrag]

So the question is do we root for wake to be potentially eliminated or Pitt to play a team that would help their resume.

 

[Gep Dawg]

I say lay it on the line. We should be able to beat Wake on a true neutral floor with a trip to the Big Dance on the line. You know we are getting in if we win that game. If Wake loses and we don't win that game or do win and get blown out by UNC ACC could end up being a 3 bid conference.

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

It's not even a question what the answer is in its purest form. We need the Q1 win that Wake would provide. And, frankly, if we can't beat a bubble team on a neutral court that beat us by like 30 last time (i.e. you'd think we would give them our best punch) and just played a game the day before, then we shouldn't be in the NCAAT anyway.

 

[H2PisIT]

It's not even a question what the answer is in its purest form. We need the Q1 win that Wake would provide. And, frankly, if we can't beat a bubble team on a neutral court that beat us by like 30 last time (i.e. you'd think we would give them our best punch) and just played a game the day before, then we shouldn't be in the NCAAT anyway.

Good point.

 

[JS School]

I don't care. I want to beat Wake, or beat the team that beat Wake. And then beat someone on Friday, and beat someone on Saturday.

If we lose any of those games, let the chips fall where they may. If you don't control your own destiny, you have to accept what fate gives you.

 

[Pitt79]

So you have no confidence or belief either.

Not really, but I still want to try. I don't want to make it harder for the sake of some Q1 BS.

 

[upj87]

It's not even a question what the answer is in its purest form. We need the Q1 win that Wake would provide. And, frankly, if we can't beat a bubble team on a neutral court that beat us by like 30 last time (i.e. you'd think we would give them our best punch) and just played a game the day before, then we shouldn't be in the NCAAT anyway.

uh, Pitt needs teams they are competing with on the bubble to be gone....Wake loses they are gone.. Pitt beats the lesser team that beat them and they are in by winning four of their last five. There is still a twinge of human element left and that win over Wake instead of the lesser foe not needed I think. In summation, win on Thursday punch your ticket so why not do so by playing a team you have a better chance to beat? With all that gibberish being said, I'm not sure if Notre Dame is the lesser opponent lately..

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

uh, Pitt needs teams they are competing with on the bubble to be gone....Wake loses they are gone.. Pitt beats the lesser team that beat them and they are in by winning four of their last five. There is still a twinge of human element left and that win over Wake instead of the lesser foe not needed I think. In summation, win on Thursday punch your ticket so why not do so by playing a team you have a better chance to beat?

You can say there's a human element that lends bias to recent results, but every comment the committee has made on it says otherwise.

And that logic would make sense if it was just us and Wake battling for the final spot like the two recipients of the pool cue the Joker just Bo Jacksoned. But there aren't some guaranteed number of ACC invitations. If Wake loses and we beat GT but get trounced by - or perhaps even just lose to - UNC, neither team is getting in.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

It looked like ND was going to win, but GT came storming back. Hopefully it goes 4OT.

 

[PITT 76]

my goal is to win. Always. Of course, it doesn't cause me a lot of fret regarding other games that I have no control over.

However, I would prefer to play Notre Dame on Thursday because their playing the 2 nights before our game should work to their disadvantage.

As for worrying about North Carolina. Not really an issue. North Carolina is the champ. If I want to be the champ, I have to beat the champ. I want to be the champ.

 

[buckage]

Winning the ACCT should be the goal. Wake losing should make that easier.

Can't bank on beating UNC, therefore need the realistic resume builder beating Wake.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Play better

Beat whomever they put on the court with us.

 

[MarshallGoldberg]

Rooting for 7 overtimes. Tipping off about 5 minutes.

Kinda cool this poll is tied 31-31. Entirely reasonable. I am leaning towards Notre Dame but it's less likely of course.

 

[Atch]

I could never root for N.D. in anyfhing at anytime for any reason.

 

[Blair_45]

Should be a nerve wracking and fun day tomorrow waiting for this game around 230-3 o clock. Such a huge game for Pitt. Everybody would have signed in blood for this type of game when Pitt was 1-5 in mid January before they beat Duke.

 

[Fredact]

I’d gladly trade the big east titles Pitt won for the final fours Nova and UConn had.

But that’s not the trade off.

 

[Pitt79]

Should be a nerve wracking and fun day tomorrow waiting for this game around 230-3 o clock. Such a huge game for Pitt. Everybody would have signed in blood for this type of game when Pitt was 1-5 in mid January before they beat Duke.

I wish it was on at night, like 7, I hate getting the weekday afternoon games.