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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 5207475, member: 9844"] I say yes but not yet. The regular season may be drawing to a close, but the conference tournaments, particularly the SEC and Big10 could make a big difference. Every team ahead of us, and LSU behind us, has a greater chance of losing in their tournament than we do. I figure because of the conference strength, the winners of the SEC and Big10 tournaments gets two of the number 1 seeds. But if you don't win your conference tournament, and don't come that close, I don't think a top seed is guaranteed for any of South Carolina, Texas, and LSU in the SEC, USC or UCLA in the Big10, or Notre Dame in the ACC . By definition one of the top 3 in the SEC won't even make it to their conference final. Is the third or fourth finisher in that tournament still ahead of us? If Notre Dame got upset by say NC State in the ACC tournament, would they still be ahead of us? I guess in terms of what I will be rooting for, first is for someone to knock out Notre Dame in their tournament, because whoever that might be, their overall resume would probably not move them ahead of Uconn. Next I hope the winners of the top two conferences dominate and secure the top two seeds, but that the other top challengers from those conferences are either eliminated before the finals, or lose badly in the finals. I still think there is a path to a number 1 seed, but Notre Dame's loss to Florida State while it helps a lot doesn't do it by itself. The bad news is it is out of our control, we don't control our destiny here. Obviously we have to win out to make the other conference tournaments relevant, but some of the teams ahead of us are going to lose again, so I don't think the top line of the brackets can be completed until the big conference tournaments are done. [/QUOTE]

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