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Looking like a 2 bid conference

Cosmic Cowboy

Cosmic Cowboy

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So after watching the league yesterday I feel like we're clearly a 2 bid conference this year. It doesn't look like there is even 1 team that is heads and shoulders above the competition either. Looking like anyone can get picked off any given night by any given team.

I'm guessing 2 teams go to the tourney they are
1. The regular season champ
2. The tourney champ (who I believe will be different then the above)

I'm pretty disappointed with just about every team I saw yesterday and I don't like the fact that the conference doesn't have a solid team to bank it's reputation on this year. The good news is the Pokes seem to be in the top 3 of this shit shake blender of a conference. Bad news is that might not mean much :cry: My Pokes high has temporarily come crashing down and I need a new solid performance fix BAD to put me into that euphoric brown n gold state again. :help:
 
There have been some very solid out of conference wins for top three schools. It's a little early to say anything definitive about NCAA tourney teams, but it is true that nobody has been head and shoulders above others.

Let's just win the mwc tourney and let all other teams worry about bids ;)

When we are good we are very good and when we play an avg game we are very pedestrian. We played good enough to win last night and so far are 2-0 in mwc play.
 
Yeah I don't know if we are a 2 or 3 bid league. But let's see what happens as the conference play unfolds. Teams like New Mexico may find them selves at the top of the MWC yet again. SDSU will be towards the top. Is CSU actually a MWC contender? IS UNLV? Is Wyo?
If things start picking up, the MWC could get up to 3 or 4. But I would not be surprised with 2.
 
You don't have to have a good RPI to get into the tournament. It's just one of many tools that the committee uses. If we have enough quality wins and no bad losses, we'll get in. Doesn't matter what the RPI says.
 
joshvanklomp said:
I'm not sure if we'll make the tourney unless we win the MWC tournament. Too much ground to make up in RPI.
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Also a lot of opportunities to get the RPI to climb. 16 MWC games left.
 
I really think it'll only be 2. OOC wins won't mean shit when our top dogs start dropping games in Fresno, Utah State, New Mexico, hell just about anywhere. I don't think anyone is that GREAT and all are susceptible to a bad game. I think this trend is gonna continue. I do think we have a nice upside though in this kind of environment. We are going to be in every game. Good, Bad, and Ugly we will have a shot to win in the final 3 mins. That's great, but I just think everyone is gonna get picked off by everyone dropping our conference value. It's already begun.
 
wyopig said:
You don't have to have a good RPI to get into the tournament. It's just one of many tools that the committee uses. If we have enough quality wins and no bad losses, we'll get in. Doesn't matter what the RPI says.
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The lowest rated teams to get at-large bids (ALB): #67 USC, #64 Marquette (2011), #63 NC State (2005), #63 Stanford (2007).

http://www.collegerpi.com/subs/rpitrivia.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wyoming is at 116, even after beating a top-50 team like UNLV.
 
Well we could very well be the team to beat and the regular season champs. We just might be on of those teams that wins all the close ones and rarely wins by double digits. We still have a chance to get into the top 25. I could see that happening very quickly if we bump CSU off Wednesday then crank up the intensity at the DOME OF DOOM against Boise and SDSU. I mean we could win all 3 of those games and have around a 10 point margin of victory combined between all of them, but still we do that we'll be right back on the national radar in the MWC driver's seat. I don't expect it to be pretty anymore though :thefan:

We are getting these teams at the perfect time too as they are all struggling. Let's pile on the misery :nutkick:
 
Way too early to make this assessment. If we were a month into conference play, I might somewhat agree, but there's a lot of basketball to be played. And not just in the MW, but in every other conference too.
 
Wyovanian said:
Way too early to make this assessment. If we were a month into conference play, I might somewhat agree, but there's a lot of basketball to be played. And not just in the MW, but in every other conference too.
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Yeah your probably right but I'm just going by my eye test and the traditional east coast/power conference bias that always seems to play out. It's true that a lot could happen and any team could shit the bed at this point in time moving forward or get red hot. Getting hot late seems to count for a lot too so we won't really know for a couple months. Just stating what I'm feeling in my gut right now.
 
I believe we got one vote in the polls. Even after the mediocre showing at little Sparty.

Just keep winning baby!
 
BeaverPoke said:
AfiPoke said:
I believe we got one vote in the polls. Even after the mediocre showing at little Sparty.

Just keep winning baby!
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What? Like... tomorrows poll we have a vote in?
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Seth Davis tweeted his vote for the Pokes today. Should be the lone one out tomorrow.
 
Yep, he has us parked behind Old Dominion at #25 as of five hours ago. Just confirmed.

It's something anyway.
 
AfiPoke said:
BeaverPoke said:
AfiPoke said:
I believe we got one vote in the polls. Even after the mediocre showing at little Sparty.

Just keep winning baby!
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What? Like... tomorrows poll we have a vote in?
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Seth Davis tweeted his vote for the Pokes today. Should be the lone one out tomorrow.
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Uconn men's basketball beat writer has us at 21st.
 
joshvanklomp said:
wyopig said:
You don't have to have a good RPI to get into the tournament. It's just one of many tools that the committee uses. If we have enough quality wins and no bad losses, we'll get in. Doesn't matter what the RPI says.
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The lowest rated teams to get at-large bids (ALB): #67 USC, #64 Marquette (2011), #63 NC State (2005), #63 Stanford (2007).

http://www.collegerpi.com/subs/rpitrivia.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wyoming is at 116, even after beating a top-50 team like UNLV.
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Yep. Our at-large chances are on life support. Anything less than a MWC regular season title (and at least a 14-4 mark in doing so) and we will be NIT bound.
 
It all works itself out. RPI doesn't matter right now. If we win the regular season title, our worst case RPI will be in the 40's. We have a ton of resume building opportunities ahead of us, with a big one on Wednesday.
 
ESPN just put out about 3 articles about all this stuff. Here's one saying pretty much what I was saying
http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/dailyword150105/daily-word" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The good news is this article has us picked as the default top team in the MWC
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/page/fourcorners150105/sizing-conference-races" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bracketology has us in as 13 seed!!! He has 3 MWC teams making it
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I feel like that 13 seed is gonna be low if we take care of business and win the conference. If CSU and SDSU is listed as a 7 that could very well be us or higher if we overachieve. Now say we flip with CSU in this scenario...How many of you would LOVE to get BYU first round??? Consider me on board to beat those fuckers with our most legit team in 12 years. No better time to face off with those super villains....however if they somehow managed to beat us you could cue up the deeeeeeppp depression that is no stranger to this fan base. All hypothetical at this point of course.
 
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