Will Pitt make the NCAA tourney?
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No, it is over now.
I am as optimistic a fan as exists in Pitt land .... but the bids stolen by Temple/UAB, NCSU, New Mexico, and Duquesne/VCU are too much.
4 really good bubble teams will be out... and Pitt is one of them
I am as optimistic a fan as exists in Pitt land .... but the bids stolen by Temple/UAB, NCSU, New Mexico, and Duquesne/VCU are too much.
4 really good bubble teams will be out... and Pitt is one of them
People love to exaggerate this, but this is really the strongest bubble I can remember
Oregon about to win as well. This has just been an absolute disaster the last 4-5 hours here for Pitt. I think they should be in and deserve to be in but it’s hard to feel confident about them being in with every result they needed to go their way go completely down the toilet. Overcoming 4 or 5 bid stealers is gonna be hard for Pitt to overcome.
somebody mentioned that 21 top seeds lost in their conference touneys and many early on.
Bilas will be pushing for the 80 team expansion more than ever now.
Absolutely not. And if you're thinking our NC State wins will be graded differently now, then you'd also have to regrade all the wins teams had over Oregon, etc. Also, we gained two wins against teams in the tournament this week, but we also lost a few in Wake and probably Virginia (as of last week both seemed in). Absolutely nothing good came from these past few days.
If anything, this has me wondering if the ACC is as bad as some think. NC State winning five in a row is kind of nuts.
If anything, this has me wondering if the ACC is as bad as some think. NC State winning five in a row is kind of nuts.
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That's a NC State team we haven't seen this year. They played their ass off in the tournament. Their intensity and focus was off the charts.
I am with Bilas on having 80 teams. All autobid winners no ranking system has in its top 64 should be in the tourney only as part of that differential between 64 and 80 teams.
Yeah … probably. Over the last 48 hours, basically not one thing that needed to go our way went our way.
Maybe. I mean they were down at halftime against Louisville. And Virginia not fouling at the end was worse than Cristobal not kneeling the ball.
They found themselves in the second half against us. On one Saturday evening at the Pete, you watched the eventual national champions put it all together like Dr. Frankenstein.
The four #1 seeds of the NIT are going to be some disappointed and pissed off teams.
Because all 4 would have come into today thinking they had a good chance to be in.
Because all 4 would have come into today thinking they had a good chance to be in.
In 1985 we whipped Villanova in the last regular season game at the field house and Rollie benched all his starters and then they won it all.
I think if they use BPI it can knock out 3 mountain west. Then hope that Oklahoma or Michigan State or Northwestern is also knocked out. It’s not over til it’s over. Hoping for a leak though prior.
That was probably the best effort I've seen from Virginia all year too, tbh.
Someone has been saying that all year. SMF knows college basketball. This is the doing of the transfer portal. There's no bad teams anymore. No rebuilding. Good players gravitate towards playing time. Its college basketball socialism. Redistribution of talent every year.
Once again one of smfs most endearing traits referring to himself in the third person . Snap hook approves
I said at the beginning of the week that if we beat Wake we would be in. I said that if you asked me to, I could surely concoct a scenario that would leave us out, multiple scenarios like that in fact, but that the chance of any one of those happening was just way too low.
Well, one of them happened.
As an example (and using the implied win odds from the final point spreads), at the beginning of the week the chances of NC State beating Louisville, Syracuse, Duke, Virginia and North Carolina all in a row was less than 1%. Probably less that 0.5%. And yet here we are.
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