FWIW, Bilas says UConn was in regardless of yesterday's game

[uconngb]

not that he is the be all, end all on picking the brackets, but he says our top 50 wins get us in no matter what else happens. with Calhoun back on sidelines, who knows???

 

[UConn990411]

The problem with people on this board is that they're ONLY comparing this UConn team to ones in the past that did/did not make the tourney (i.e. the "UConn in a vacuum" mindset).

Lunardi, Bilas, etc. are paid to cover college basketball as a whole, so they have a much better idea how UConn compares to the rest of the field - particularly the other bubble teams. That why I think UConn is in with a win over DePaul (and is safefly in with 2 wins in the BET).

For many reasons, though, I want to see UConn leave no doubt with a nice lil' run in the Big East Tourney.

 

[SubbaBub]

Nice of Bilas to have our back, but he's Monday Morning this one. A loss would have had us at best in the play in game and at worst given the committee every excuse to leave us out.

Right now we are solidly in and ahead of Wvu, SH, and USF in the at-large. Avoiding a bad loss to DePaul clinches a berth. Although a pessimist might say the second round vs. Wvu is a bubble game, I think both would be already in.

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[RuffRuff]

Just moreso that we aren't weighing in how bad the bubble is - I mean, let's look at this resume before the Pitt win? In almost any year, would a wilting team that lost 9 of 12(with three lousy wins in there) with a 7-10 conference record, a 17-12 overall record and not really much of any signature win get into the tournament? No way. Somehow even though we all recognized the OOC schedule in the preseason as being soft, the computers are seeing it much differently. The scheduling did a great, great job of just not putting many horrible SOS damaging opponents on there and sneaking in some under the radar types.

If you look at Lunardi's brackets, he's has this team in as a ten seed, that with at larges through 13 seeds. That means there are plenty of teams between this Uconn team and the bubble. I do think Calhoun's return/absence and Boatright's situation will be weighed in a bit and this team is in fairly safe shape. It will add some interesting drama to the 2nd round if they get there given they'd play a 2 seed. It's hard to fathom, but the bubble is just that bad.

 

[bobbygt]

With a 17-14 record, they'd be on the wrong side of the bubble.

I usually agree with Bilas, but not this time.

 

[mcs333]

Win against DePaul we are a 10-11 seed, 2 win we are a 9 seed. 3 wins we are a 8 seed, 4 wins a 6-7 seed and 5 wins we are a 5 seed.

 

[TheRogers]

If we win 5 games, that pretty much sounds the gong putting everyone on notice that the UCONN team everyone thought was the 4th best team in the nation at the start of the season has finally arrived. That's if we win the BET. If we do, we go back to a 3 seed.

There I said it.

 

[Vuce]

Let's win that first game and see how many other bubble teams are still standing. If Uconn wins their first game there are sure to be some others that lose and it solidifies our position. Most of the brackets you find have Uconn as a 10 or 11 seed right now. I'd agree with that.