Joe Lunardi now has us as one of the last four in

[SportsFan88]

I’m loving the drown or not drown debate. Just riveting

 

[Friarsnoop]

The truth is no one knows how the committee is going to select teams this year, since the NET (and even the old RPI) is useless this year.
UConn is definitely in as of now, and would have to play their way out. When it comes to seeding, the committee will take Bouknight's absence intro account. I'd bet they'd be in the 7-9 range right now, with several more opportunities to improve their standing.

 

[ucawn]

4-1 the rest of the way should be the goal. That would land us as a solid 6 seed.

 

[Scot-e]

I’m loving the drown or not drown debate. Just riveting

Is water wet?

 

[Get a Job]

The truth is no one knows how the committee is going to select teams this year, since the NET (and even the old RPI) is useless this year.
UConn is definitely in as of now, and would have to play their way out. When it comes to seeding, the committee will take Bouknight's absence intro account. I'd bet they'd be in the 7-9 range right now, with several more opportunities to improve their standing.

You know, I always said you PC fans were alright!

 

[Get a Job]

4-1 the rest of the way should be the goal. That would land us as a solid 6 seed.

I know what you mean, but I think everyone on this board and on the team would agree there is only one goal. 5-0 up to Selection Sunday.

(Someone will disagree and say, "No, the only goal is win the next game." To him or her I say that's the same thing I am saying.)

 

[87Xfer]

Looking at Sagarin this morning they have a recent line which as a recency bias. UConn is the highest rated BE team (27th) using that measure. College Basketball Ratings Page

I'll take your word for it. I took one look at that website and bailed.

 

[87Xfer]

I’m loving the drown or not drown debate. Just riveting

and totally appropriate in a thread about UConn's Lunardi spot....

 

[Tenspro2002]

I'd rather be projected onto the 8 line with 2 games and the BET to go than the 11.

On Selection Sunday? That's a different story.

Top priorities:
1) Get in
2) Avoid a play-in game
3) Avoid the #1 seed

If we end up with a 6, 7, 10, or 11 (assuming not among the Last Four In), that will be a good outcome.

I think getting to a 7 or higher requires going 3-1 or better the stretch (i.e. win at least 3 in a row).

I think going 2-2 is probably OK to get in, likely 9 or 10 seed.

Going 1-2 is going to have us right on the edge.

 

[BlueDogs]

Must beat Seton as job 1.

 

[tzznandrew]

TZZAndrew, who I think is a great poster, actually said he doesn't like using dictionary definitions to settle arguments. As if the alternative to using dictionary definitions isn't just to fight about what individuals think the word should mean.

I mean, yeah. Fundamentally I don't like using a dictionary because it's an appeal to authority that seems to most as if it were authoritative when it isn't necessarily so. Something like the OED takes multiple snapshots of how a word is used at a given time. It's not telling us what drown must mean in usage, just what it has. From the moment after the snapshot has been taken the word may begin its drift to newer or more subtle uses. Happens all the time. Especially since the definitions are tied to media in some way (has to appear in print/radio/tv/internet) and not the way people may use it in spoken vernacular, often in nonstandard or nonliteral ways like this, certain meanings and uses get lost.

Still, if we want to resort to the OED (which I think is unnecessary), there seems to be a perfectly reasonable usage that fits what he said attested in the Wycliffe Bible, Fanny Burney, and Dickens' Nickelby among others (II.3.b).

The attestation from Robert Pollock's The Course of Time, published in 1827, of "He drowned himself in sleep, / In wine" hardly reads any different than "If we lose out to Duke in making the field, I will drown myself in hot sauce and puke on Coach K" because in both cases we know the speaker is alive.

So, I guess I should say that I think fighting over the precise meaning of a word in most contexts is a complete waste of time. There's a sphere of meaning that most accept, and provided the usage falls within that it's not really a useful or interesting debate beyond pedantry. We all understood what he meant because he used the term in the general sphere of meaning we're familiar with.

 

[87Xfer]

I mean, yeah. Fundamentally I don't like using a dictionary because it's an appeal to authority that seems to most as if it were authoritative when it isn't necessarily so. Something like the OED takes multiple snapshots of how a word is used at a given time. It's not telling us what drown must mean in usage, just what it has. From the moment after the snapshot has been taken the word may begin its drift to newer or more subtle uses. Happens all the time. Especially since the definitions are tied to media in some way (has to appear in print/radio/tv/internet) and not the way people may use it in spoken vernacular, often in nonstandard or nonliteral ways like this, certain meanings and uses get lost.

Still, if we want to resort to the OED (which I think is unnecessary), there seems to be a perfectly reasonable usage that fits what he said attested in the Wycliffe Bible, Fanny Burney, and Dickens' Nickelby among others (II.3.b).

The attestation from Rober Pollock's The Course of Time, published posthumously in 1857, of "He drowned himself in sleep, / In wine" hardly reads any different than "If we lose out to Duke in making the field, I will drown myself in hot sauce and puke on Coach K" because in both cases we know the speaker is alive.

So, I guess I should that I think fighting over the exact meaning of a word in most contexts is a complete waste of time. There's a sphere of meaning that most accept, and we all understood what he meant because he used the term in the general sphere of meaning we're familiar with.

where do you stand on peoples' current usage of "literally" when they mean "figuratively"?

 

[tzznandrew]

where do you stand on peoples' current usage of "literally" when they mean "figuratively"?

Joyce made fun of it in Dubliners over 100 years ago. It's right in the opening sentence of "The Dead." Which means it was essentially standard English then.

If a student put it in a paper or I saw it in a formal setting I would correct it. Register matters. In conversation, classroom discussion, message boards, whatever else, I don't think it matters. Everyone in the conversation knew what it meant. It seems more a faux pas on my end then on theirs if I corrected them. There's no need for that sort of pedantry other than to suggest I'm somehow better and smarter than them.

 

[Stinger92860]

CBS has UConn up on the 8 seed line. I'd rather be 11.

2021 NCAA Tournament Bracket Predictions - Bracketology - College Basketball - CBSSports.com

if we play like we can, a 7 seed is possible and with some luck a 6. Obviously I’d rather get a 7, otherwise 10 is better.

 

[Stinger92860]

Is water wet?

only in liquid and gas form.

 

[Greathusky]

I’m loving the drown or not drown debate. Just riveting

Did you ever post something and then have the Boneyard take it down a road you would have never guessed? It happens!

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

 

[Kolumbo]

Did you ever post something and then have the Boneyard take it down a road you would have never guessed? It happens!

And that has made all the difference.

 

[Dooooooomed]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

Their final game is at Minnesota. Lose that and a first round Big10 tourney exit, and they may be in trouble.

 

[SportsFan88]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

The big10 is so “great” that with a win even Nebraska will enter the bubble talk LOL

 

[Drew]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

The big10 is so “great” that with a win even Nebraska will enter the bubble talk LOL

NU definitely stinks but with the win gets to 92 in KenPom which is only Q2. Weird quirk of the B1G this year.

 

[mauconnfan]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

Huskers leading scorer left the program and didn’t play but they still hammered RU in what should’ve been a huge game for the Scarlet Knights. Should be last 4 in with a lot to prove.

 

[CTBasketball]

Rutgers getting absolutely annihilated by a brutally awful Nebraska team. About to fall to 13-10. Somehow no one talks about them as a bubble team or a team in any kind of danger.

They beat Illinois back in December, and by Big 10 logic that means they’re a lock unless they finish below .500

 

[AuRevoirAAC]

They beat Illinois back in December, and by Big 10 logic that means they’re a lock unless they finish below .500

Exactly. What have they accomplished besides a win at home against Illinois before Christmas?!? They now have 10 losses. This is the definition of a bubble team.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Their final game is at Minnesota. Lose that and a first round Big10 tourney exit, and they may be in trouble.

They’d be 13-12. That’s not even NIT

 

[ScottVib]

Luanardi has moved UConn out of the play-ins and now has them listed as a 10. (would end up with Virginia Tech as the 7 and Iowa as the 2 seed in the Gonzaga bracket)

 

[billybud]

Luanardi has moved UConn out of the play-ins and now has them listed as a 10. (would end up with Virginia Tech as the 7 and Iowa as the 2 seed in the Gonzaga bracket)

VT is a hard to predict team..a win over Nova early on...then a 20 point loss in Blacksburg to a bad Penn State, an 18 point loss to Syracuse...yet still 9-4 in conference.

The Zags look like a team of destiny....

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Looking at www.bracketmatrix.com Seton Hall is the final at-large team, in about 60% of projected fields. Michigan State first out, in just under 50% of projections.

Bottom line Seton Hall is going to have a lot to play for tomorrow. Won't be easy

 

[Hi-Low]

Looking at www.bracketmatrix.com Seton Hall is the final at-large team, in about 60% of projected fields. Michigan State first out, in just under 50% of projections.

Bottom line Seton Hall is going to have a lot to play for tomorrow. Won't be easy

UConn & Seton Hall both have a lot to play for but Seton Hall definitely in a worse spot. If UConn loses that probably makes the G'Town game a must win....I don't believe they would lose to G'Town but it's best to avoid that scenario.

Seton Hall is not dead with a loss, they still have @ St. John's & BE tourney so they could still sneak in depending on how the bubble teams shake out.

UConn seals the deal with a win so plenty of motivation for the Huskies, should treat tomorrow like a Tourney game.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

VT is a hard to predict team..a win over Nova early on...then a 20 point loss in Blacksburg to a bad Penn State, an 18 point loss to Syracuse...yet still 9-4 in conference.

The Zags look like a team of destiny....

I’ve caught a few (pun intended) Zags games. They are like Nova on steroids. 5 out offense with size everywhere. Extremely well coached and makes limited mistakes. Freshman PG but he’s a lotto pick so that doesn’t matter much.
LMU did give them some trouble speeding them up in the first half last weekend.