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Nebraska’s unlikely to stay in 1 seed discussions. It’s mostly based on the merit of them being undefeated, and their schedule will get even more challenging later on.
 
Umami Zen said:
Rough week for Wolverines. At home vs Nebraska on Tues and away at Mich St on Friday. Don't see them winning both
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Hopefully two great games. Too bad the Nebraska game is same time as UConn. I haven’t been interested in this many games outside of UConn in a long time, maybe ever.
 
FightOnCT said:
Nebraska’s unlikely to stay in 1 seed discussions. It’s mostly based on the merit of them being undefeated, and their schedule will get even more challenging later on.
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We'll find out this week. They do have a win at Illinois, which right now looks like one of the better wins out there. I haven't watched them much, only know they're well coached.
 
FightOnCT said:
Nebraska’s unlikely to stay in 1 seed discussions. It’s mostly based on the merit of them being undefeated, and their schedule will get even more challenging later on.
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They've accumulated a lot of good wins already (at Illinois, home Mich St, neutral New Mexico, at Ohio State, at Indiana). Tied for 3rd for most Q1 wins. They're not going to drop a ton unless they lose to bad teams.
 
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They’ll still be highly ranked, but their metrics are relatively low overall which is why most don’t have them as a 1 seed despite being undefeated. I expect them to be a 2 or 3 seed when it’s all said and done.

To be fair, they already are ranked higher than Creighton ever has
 
auror said:
They've accumulated a lot of good wins already (at Illinois, home Mich St, neutral New Mexico, at Ohio State, at Indiana). Tied for 3rd for most Q1 wins. They're not going to drop a ton unless they lose to bad teams.
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They're also winning against these non top teams by pretty good margins.
 
Marquette up on Creighton 49-23 with a few seconds left in first half.
 
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Marq putting it one creighton right now. Still another half to go and we saw what happens to providence last Saturday. But looks like your classic trap game.

They saw Marquette’s record and had blown them out earlier this year. Thought they could look past them to UConn on Saturday.
 
SwingDog said:
Marquette up on Creighton 49-23 with a few seconds left in first half.
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Long three at the buzzer. Now 52-23. Oh great, now Creighton is going to come home pissed off and take it out on the Huskies.
 
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Its Ohama on a Saturday night so I expect we get Creightons best shot. That being said, they are down 29 at the half to a bad Marquette team. They had miracle comebacks against GTown AND Xavier at home. I think we can pound them down low.
 
Creighton can erase that loss with a win against UConn this weekend. But then that reverts them back to where they were before yesterday, which is needing a miracle

Curtain is closed
 
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jibsey said:
In case no one has noticed St. John’s has been beating teams in the BE rather easily compared to us. Some concern as I don’t like them or their coach.
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they've had some blowouts, they were also down 15 points and 16 points in the 2nd half to both Seton hall and Xavier in their previous 2 games before mounting comebacks
 
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St Johns caught fire from 3 and is smoking Butler at halftime

Butler needs this win. They have very limited opportunities for impressive wins after this one
 
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jibsey said:
In case no one has noticed St. John’s has been beating teams in the BE rather easily compared to us. Some concern as I don’t like them or their coach.
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Except that's not really true. Here are the common games so far:

@ Georgetown - UConn +2, St John's +12
H Providence - UConn +6, St John's -6
H Marquette - UConn +16, St John's +24
@ Xavier - UConn +23, St John's +5

The only game there's a tangible difference in is @ Georgetown
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Seton Hall’s Prudential Center attendance for Xavier tonight appears on par with typical BCU Conte Forum games.
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I noticed that, too. When UConn was in town for that game the seats looked like they were filled. UConn is every Big East team's Super Bowl. Also with Seton Hall's recent slide, I am sure it has reduced their fan enthusiasm.
 
there's apparently traffic issues but with their recent slide I'd imagine folks aren't too pumped to brave the elements to watch them

 
REB1094 said:
St Johns caught fire from 3 and is smoking Butler at halftime

Butler needs this win. They have very limited opportunities for impressive wins after this one
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Do people understand that the other bubble teams are not all going to win 70% of their remaining games?

20 wins probably gets Butler a bid, 21 wins very likely gets Butler a bid.
 
Seton Hall trying to save their season, 12-0 run to start the 2nd half
 
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