Bubble Watch Thread

• SportsAndLady

  

  Well the first Bubble Watch from ESPN is out.
  
  Some interesting notes in this early document:
  
  --Purdue, the #10 team in the country, is not a lock.
  
  --Gonzaga, Butler, and Memphis could all miss the tourney.
  
  --The Big Ten, ACC, and PAC-10 have just 1 lock a piece.
  
  --Syracuse at 18-4 is not a lock.
• killer_ewok

  

  http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch
• wildcats20

  

  2 thoughts...
  
  Cuse and Carolina are IN, barring any(more) 3-5 game losing streaks.
  
  
  Well it was going to be 2 thoughts, but I made it one.
• Laley23

  

  Indianas chances took a huge hit today with the loss of Christian Watford. Sigh. Now without our 3 best players and top 2 scorers...Oh well.
• reclegend22

  

  If we are looking at team resumes through today only and projecting their future results based off the measuring material we have to this point, then Gonzaga, Michigan State, Kansas State and Butler would be near locks not to get tickets. Astonishing, really. Injuries and player dismissals have certainly factored, but Michigan State was the preseason No. 2 team in the land, and coming off a Final Four appearance. Kansas State was an Elite Eight contestant last season and the nation's No. 3 team this year. Gonzaga has been in the NCAA Tournament every season since reaching the Elite Eight of the 1999 NCAA Tournament. And there's a very good chance none of these teams will Dance this March.
  
  Butler is clearly the least surprising of the three, but still a surprise nonetheless being a team that is a year removed from participating in the national championship game and featuring three key starters from that NCAA runner-up squad. Matt Howard, while still a very productive player, is just not the force he was with Gordon Hayward stealing some of the attention at the forward position.
• sleeper

  

  Purdue Minnesota and Wisconsin are all locks, what a joke.
  
  MSU won't make the tournament, bank it.
  
  The Big East won't get 10 teams in.
• Classyposter58

  

  sleeper;661642 wrote:Purdue Minnesota and Wisconsin are all locks, what a joke.
  
  MSU won't make the tournament, bank it.
  
  The Big East won't get 10 teams in.

  
  Lol it has them gettin 11 in
• sleeper

  

  Classyposter58;661669 wrote:Lol it has them gettin 11 in

  
  One would normally exclude 11 if 10 would not get in.
• se-alum

  

  Purdue and Wisconsin are locks. I believe Minnesota, MSU, and Illinois all get in.
• SportsAndLady

  

  sleeper;661671 wrote:One would normally exclude 11 if 10 would not get in.

  
  I think he's laughing at the fact that they think 11 teams from the BE will get in.
• se-alum

  

  Yea, ESPN likes to hype the BE in basketball like they do the SEC in football.
• johngrizzly

  You think maybe that the SEC is good in football and the Big East is good in basketball has something to do with the publicity.
  
  I know they are not the Big Ten in either sports, but gosh.
• se-alum

  

  johngrizzly;661899 wrote:You think maybe that the SEC is good in football and the Big East is good in basketball has something to do with the publicity.
  
  I know they are not the Big Ten in either sports, but gosh.

  or it's the lucrative TV contracts.....
• johngrizzly

  se-alum;661923 wrote:or it's the lucrative TV contracts.....

  Yea, that's probably it.
• sleeper

  

  johngrizzly;661899 wrote:You think maybe that the SEC is good in football and the Big East is good in basketball has something to do with the publicity.
  
  I know they are not the Big Ten in either sports, but gosh.

  
  Is the Big East good in basketball? They have 16 teams, half of which blow cock. This inflates the top teams overall record. So the Big East is like essentially every other power conference, top heavy.
• johngrizzly

  sleeper;662257 wrote:Is the Big East good in basketball? They have 16 teams, half of which blow cock. This inflates the top teams overall record. So the Big East is like essentially every other power conference, top heavy.

  
  Notice I said good, not great. Big Ten is where it's at.
• Mulva

  

  I'm not sure how Butler is even considered on the bubble at this point. They aren't even close in my opinion.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Minnesota is playing themselves onto the bubble, getting run at Indiana. It's a shame, with Nolan and Joseph they were a team that could have made a deep run in the NCAA tournament.
• Laley23

  

  Cleveland Buck;662544 wrote:Minnesota is playing themselves onto the bubble, getting run at Indiana. It's a shame, with Nolan and Joseph they were a team that could have made a deep run in the NCAA tournament.

  
  Even without them...you cant lose to a team that lost Christian Watford and Maurice Creek, and Verdell Jones III was playing his first game back in 2-3 weeks.
  
  I said after the last loss to Purdue that Minny is done without a PG. I stand by that. How many TO did Haffarber have tonight and IU just gave the Big Ten the blueprint. Box and 1 all over the court with him. That Hollins kid, #20, was the ONLY other option on offense for Minny...IU was just giving them 10 feet on the perimeter to shoot.
• killer_ewok

  

  Syracuse got a much needed win tonight at #7 Uconn.
• karen lotz

  

  Sparty's chances took a rather large hit tonight.
• athlete37

  

  lmao @ the SEC overrated by media comments. The last 5 national championships speak otherwise. And also, rpi shows that Big East is easily the best and rpi is unbiased.
• karen lotz

  

  Mulva;662433 wrote:I'm not sure how Butler is even considered on the bubble at this point. They aren't even close in my opinion.

  
  
  They didn't help their resume at all tonight.
• wildcats20

  

  athlete37;664038 wrote:lmao @ the SEC overrated by media comments. The last 5 national championships speak otherwise. And also, rpi shows that Big East is easily the best and rpi is unbiased.

  
  Wait what??
• reclegend22

  

  Wildcats, athlete is referencing March. The last five national champions were Florida, Florida, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi.
  
  I'm sure he's speaking to Florida's back-to-back (at least I hope so), but I don't see what that has to do with much of anything. That was a really good team; however, not necessarily representative of the rest of the conference, which was substandard in terms of national success compared to the Big East, ACC, Big Ten and Big 12 over that time.