Win Tuesday and we are in the dance

[calidawg]

Don't listen to the talking heads. Win Tuesday and we are in. We pass the eye test and have finished the season as strong as anyone in the country. This will overcome the RPI deficit if we lose @LSU.

[IMissJack]

Just saw on some game we have 21% chance, which I don't understand at all.

[AlmostPositive]

Who knows what some committee will do, but it is obvious that MSU should be in the field. The way Howland has these guys playing, they may just win the SEC tournament and put the issue to rest a little early.

[Liverpooldawg]

Don't listen to the talking heads. Win Tuesday and we are in. We pass the eye test and have finished the season as strong as anyone in the country. This will overcome the RPI deficit if we lose @LSU.

Our OCS is killing us. We need three more wins....and one has to be UT. That game is the biggest game we have played in years.

[Dawg61]

Win both and 1 in SECT just to be sure. Watch us do that and still have to play in the first four game. I am convinced the committee will try to **** us any way possible.

[KOdawg1]

RPI up to 56. A win tuesday will boost that big time. What's frustrating is, had we not gotten robbed @ Mizzou and Vandy, we would have won 9 straight games I believe.

[drummerdawg]

Isn't the goal of the committee to get the top 68 teams in the country? If so, how can you say State isn't one of the top 68 teams?

[IMissJack]

I don't get the love for Ark rather than us. Ok they had a better ooc schedule. In conference record is not as good.

[Bully13]

this team now is totally different from the beginning of the season. typical for a young team. There are not 20 teams playing better than us right now. those are the facts. we are playing like a top 20 team at this time. The retardation of the selection process is amazing. had we traveled earlier in the year to Duke and Kansas and gotten our asses handed to us we would be in without question right now. which is retarded.

[Covercorner2]

I don't get the love for Ark rather than us. Ok they had a better ooc schedule. In conference record is not as good.

I can MAYBE see Arkansas (even though we beat them), but Bama is what frustrates me. They are about to lose 3 straight and be 17-12, 8-8. Yet, somehow they are a lock. They aren't that good

And, by the way, slight hijack, but Sexton is overrated.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Don't listen to the talking heads. Win Tuesday and we are in. We pass the eye test and have finished the season as strong as anyone in the country. This will overcome the RPI deficit if we lose @LSU.

I disagree. Let's say we win Tuesday, then lose to LSU, then lose in the first round of the SEC tourney. Then have some teams around the country get an automatic berth by winning their conference tournaments that otherwise would not have gotten in. Then we are in trouble.

[klong-dog]

RPI up to 56. A win tuesday will boost that big time. What's frustrating is, had we not gotten robbed @ Mizzou and Vandy, we would have won 9 straight games I believe.

Yep and we would be just playing for higher seed right now.

[klong-dog]

I disagree. Let's say we win Tuesday, then lose to LSU, then lose in the first round of the SEC tourney. Then have some teams around the country get an automatic berth by winning their conference tournaments that otherwise would not have gotten in. Then we are in trouble.

Yeah if we lose one of the next two games, we gotta at least get the semis, if not the championship.

[Liverpooldawg]

Isn't the goal of the committee to get the top 68 teams in the country? If so, how can you say State isn't one of the top 68 teams?

You are forgetting about all the automatic bids.

[Liverpooldawg]

I don't get the love for Ark rather than us. Ok they had a better ooc schedule. In conference record is not as good.

You answered your own question. It's the OOC schedule we played.

[Bully13]

Yeah if we lose one of the next two games, we gotta at least get the semis, if not the championship.

no.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

You are forgetting about all the automatic bids.

Let's say 11-18 Vandy or 11-18 Georgia Tech wins their conference tourney. Then they take the place of a deserving team in the NCAA tournament.

[drummerdawg]

You are forgetting about all the automatic bids.

Automatic bids are technically part of that top 68. Sure some teams get lucky but most of the conference champions were already going anyway.

[Coach34]

Our OCS is killing us. We need three more wins....and one has to be UT. That game is the biggest game we have played in years.

meh- we win these last 2 and we are 100% in

[Dawg61]

Automatic bids are technically part of that top 68. Sure some teams get lucky but most of the conference champions were already going anyway.

Yes and sometimes conference winners aren't a top 68 team. Like the winner of the SWAC sometimes still isn't a top 68 team. It's more like the top 60 teams that make it. There's probably about 8 teams every year that couldn't beat the top 8 teams in the NIT.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

meh- we win these last 2 and we are 100% in

This is probably right. UT and one more is probably what we need.

[Quaoarsking]

Yes and sometimes conference winners aren't a top 68 team. Like the winner of the SWAC sometimes still isn't a top 68 team. It's more like the top 60 teams that make it. There's probably about 8 teams every year that couldn't beat the top 8 teams in the NIT.

There's actually about 20 teams that wouldn't be in without the autobid most years, so top 48 + 20 scrubs, give or take couple.

It's rare that an at-large team gets a 12-seed, much less a 13 or worse. Although to be fair some of the 12 and 13 seeds would still get a bid if there were no autobids and the committee just picked the best 64/68.

[msstate7]

Interesting topic on sps is will Arizona turn down tourney. I can actually see this happening, which would open another slot

[Liverpooldawg]

meh- we win these last 2 and we are 100% in

Let's win them and hope you are right. We both agree we need to win those two.

[msstate7]

If Florida loses tonight, could Florida vs bama be an elimination game?

[CapitalCityDawg]

meh- we win these last 2 and we are 100% in

Will you sticky this? Thanks.

[msstate7]

Will you sticky this? Thanks.

It is almost like you hope we do not make so you can be right

[Root hawg]

I don't get the love for Ark rather than us. Ok they had a better ooc schedule. In conference record is not as good.

Both teams are 9-7?

[Pit Bull]

RPI up to 56. A win tuesday will boost that big time. What's frustrating is, had we not gotten robbed @ Mizzou and Vandy, we would have won 9 straight games I believe.

We may all well look back after the season is done and figure LaChance did us in. Losing at Mizzou was one thing, losing to one of the worst Vandy teams of all time was quite another.

[klong-dog]

We were sandwiched with them beating Georgia, us, then Fla in consecutive games I believe.

[Bully13]

We may all well look back after the season is done and figure LaChance did us in. Losing at Mizzou was one thing, losing to one of the worst Vandy teams of all time was quite another.

AL, LSU, TCU, UGA & FL have all been beaten in the 17'd arena Vandy has. I'm sick of that 17'd up arena. I'm sick of curb stomping those bitches at home and losing up there in their 17'd up arena. they haven't won a road SEC game this year I think. they should be forced to change their 17'd up arena.

[Dawg61]

We may all well look back after the season is done and figure LaChance did us in. Losing at Mizzou was one thing, losing to one of the worst Vandy teams of all time was quite another.

Vandy was hot that night, it was a struggle just to get it back to the point they could break our hearts at the end. They were whipping our asses for 30 minutes of that game.

[Quaoarsking]

What I don't understand is how so many "bracketologists" still have Georgia and LSU in front of us:

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/ You can click on the links at the top to see each exact bracket and who their first 4/8/whatever out are. Many are updated through yesterday's games.

[Madisonmd]

Do or die Tuesday!

[msstate7]

What I don't understand is how so many "bracketologists" still have Georgia and LSU in front of us:

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/ You can click on the links at the top to see each exact bracket and who their first 4/8/whatever out are. Many are updated through yesterday's games.

I think it pretty much boils down to no one wants to put us in bc of our OOC schedule.

[RAYn_Man]

The magic number IMO is 2 with one being UT. Win Tuesday, and just need one more win. Wouldn't be opposed to a run in the SEC tourney though.

[Bully13]

Why are there no discussions of us possibly replacing A&M?

[msstate7]

Why are there no discussions of us possibly replacing A&M?

aTm rpi = 28
State rpi = 60

[HoopsDawg]

It’s like some of you haven’t followed college basketball the last 20 years. The committee hates teams that schedule like we did. We will only get in if absolutely forced. Must win 3 more games.