Nightmare gets worse as USF & Cincy....

[jibsey]

lets worry about sat first......pitt's offense was on fire tonight. we need to win that first!

Dixon has pitt convinced they can get in with a win against us and 3 in the tourney for all we know, but 3 wins gets us in, of course we have no evidence that we are capable.

 

[TopDog18]

Jon (Norwalk, CT)​

Uconn wins 2 more games (including the Big East Tourney) and they're in. fact or fiction?

Joe Lunardi​

(3:38 PM)

Fact.

 

[Hi-Low]

Jon (Norwalk, CT)​

Uconn wins 2 more games (including the Big East Tourney) and they're in. fact or fiction?

Joe Lunardi​

(3:38 PM)

Fact.

Hope so, i bet he said that before last night. Things are fluid and change daily, so what's true one day could be less certain the next. To be safe I think 3 wins are needed but, as always, it will depend on what other teams do and the results of Conf tourneys that could "steal" bids. Heck 1 win could be enough if things break our way but I wouldn't count on it.

 

[NHUConnfan]

Hope so, i bet he said that before last night. Things are fluid and change daily, so what's true one day could be less certain the next. To be safe I think 3 wins are needed but, as always, it will depend on what other teams do and the results of Conf tourneys that could "steal" bids. Heck 1 win could be enough if things break our way but I wouldn't count on it.

Seriously dude, name me any of these conferences schools that have a better record against RPI top 50 than UConn.

The answer is ZERO!

 

[Scoe]

Right now it is in the hands of the committee Uconn still has a shot to put the tournament hopes in their own hands so its up to them.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Not much bubble action tonight:

Oregon and Colorado play basically an elimination game (each is 5-6 spots away from the cut line).

A little bit further down the list, Illinois is playing a must-win vs. Michigan.

And New Mexico State has a must-win @ Nevada.

All of those teams have a way to go to overtake us thought.

 

[Hi-Low]

Seriously dude, name me any of these conferences schools that have a better record against RPI top 50 than UConn.

The answer is ZERO!

Sorry, I guess I was unclear...by "bids stolen" I meant when there are conf tourney upsets...ie Mo Valley Conf won by someone other than Witchita St or Creighton (both tourney locks) thus one less "at large" bid avaiable.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Not much bubble action tonight:

Oregon and Colorado play basically an elimination game (each is 5-6 spots away from the cut line).

A little bit further down the list, Illinois is playing a must-win vs. Michigan.

And New Mexico State has a must-win @ Nevada.

All of those teams have a way to go to overtake us thought.

No chance on earth that NMSU makes the tourney unless they win the WAC tournament. Not an issue as Nevada is going to kick their ass. Im on my way to the game in about an hour.

 

[Hi-Low]

Good win by Fla St....helps our rpi a little.

 

[Fishy]

Hope so, i bet he said that before last night. Things are fluid and change daily, so what's true one day could be less certain the next. To be safe I think 3 wins are needed but, as always, it will depend on what other teams do and the results of Conf tourneys that could "steal" bids. Heck 1 win could be enough if things break our way but I wouldn't count on it.

There weren't any major changes yesterday. No one who was out earned their way in.

The bubble is so critically weak that even two wins puts UConn so far up that it would be hard for enough dominoes to fall to knock them off.

One game to watch - Penn's game at Princeton next Tuesday. That's Penn's best chance at a loss in their last three games and Harvard needs Penn to lose at least one game to have a chance at a playoff for the Ivy title.

(Both teams play two home games this weekend.)

 

[champs99and04]

We get it guy. You like rooting for our "good" teams. We'll see you next time the wagon comes 'round.

We get it, you enjoy making vague generalizations about people on the internet because you disagree with what they said. I'm a bandwagon fan because I don't enjoy watching this team make the same mistakes over and over, just like I'm a racist for not buying into the Jeremy Lin hype. *k outta here with that attitude.

 

[champs99and04]

Please change your name to Bandwagon

Hey...if you want to wake up at 1 in the morning to check the Colorado State score, be my guest. If you want to bite your fingernails on selection sunday, fret about the Providence re-match next Tuesday, and beg the committee to let us in, then that's your call. I'll continue to root for and support the team as always, but I care about them getting better. If they keep playing this way and make the tournament I won't give a , because I know they'll lose in the first round. I'd rather they improve, maybe make a small run in the NIT, and build towards next year.

Personally, I don't see the difference between playing and the NIT and losing 53-40 in the round of 64. Hang me.

 

[8893]

We get it, you enjoy making vague generalizations about people on the internet because you disagree with what they said. I'm a bandwagon fan because I don't enjoy watching this team make the same mistakes over and over, just like I'm a racist for not buying into the Jeremy Lin hype. *k outta here with that attitude.

No, you are a bandwagon fan because you have defined yourself that way in several essays in which you have detailed how you are no longer rooting for UConn and you are actively hoping that they do not make the NCAA tournament and that other teams make it instead. You have also detailed how you have enjoyed rooting for the good teams and the championships they have won in years past. That, by definition is a bandwagon fan, and that is you. No one needs to make a judgment call there; you have defined yourself. Sorry if you don't like it, but that's what you are, and you are hardly alone; you're just the one writing essays about it.

As for Lin, I don't recall an exchange with you, but I know I didn't call you a racist. If you are the one who called him cocky and said he was getting Jordan calls, I probably remarked that you weren't watching the games, and I stand by that. I am actually 100% certain of it.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Hope so, i bet he said that before last night. Things are fluid and change daily, so what's true one day could be less certain the next. To be safe I think 3 wins are needed but, as always, it will depend on what other teams do and the results of Conf tourneys that could "steal" bids. Heck 1 win could be enough if things break our way but I wouldn't count on it.

It's worth noting that Lunardi often plays to the crowd leading up to Selection Sunday, and usually makes 1 or 2 about faces on schools on Selection Sunday with little or no explanation. Lunardi's actual job is to generate page hits, and as we can guess, UConn basketball has a much bigger web fan base than say Miami or Colorado State. We complain endlessly how Rivals and Scout bias their football recruiting rankings to the schools with the most online subscribers, so we shouldn't be blind to the same thing happening with Lunardi. I tend to agree with the "2 and in" theory, although I am a little less sure with Cincinnati, USF and Colorado State picking off Top 25 teams on Wednesday.

 

[NHUConnfan]

Sorry, I guess I was unclear...by "bids stolen" I meant when there are conf tourney upsets...ie Mo Valley Conf won by someone other than Witchita St or Creighton (both tourney locks) thus one less "at large" bid avaiable.

Yeah and you realize that there are A TON of weak teams this year. And UConn is at the top of that list.

 

[bobbygt]

Good win by Fla St....helps our rpi a little.

The Florida State / Uconn game was ironic in so many ways.

FSU had that game won. But uconn wouldn't let themselves lose. Boatright has to make 3 free throws, which is pretty impressive considering it was his first game back, and he does. Then, uconn guts out (imagine that now) an OT win against a good team.

Not that luck was involved, but you could say that FSU was unlucky not to win.

Since that game, FSU has won 3 (!) games with buzzer beaters (Duke, VT, UVA). They could've easily lost all 3, yet they somehow managed to win. They would be 17-12 (ugh) if they had lost those games.

Uconn, after outwilling FSU in that OT, has not won any close games, nor many games, since.

Strange season indeed.

Never put salt in your eyes.

 

[huskymagic]

I don't give a s*** what's happened to date - just do what you gotta do to get into the tournament and then see what happens from there. Back in, win their way in, cheat their way in...don't care. Get there.

However, I can't believe we're in the position of having to spend February 29th rooting against Colorado State.

this is the first thing I agree with you about Fish lol. I dont care if we are a sixteen seed just get into the damn tournament. I want to be out west with Duke as the number 1 seed or Kentucky so we can smack them down like we always have, and ruin all the ad money that they would have generated for the NCAAs lol.

 

[zls44]

Harvard needs Penn to lose at least one game to have a chance at a playoff for the Ivy title.

I thought they were tied in the loss column? Penn has a game in hand, but if they both win out, playoff, I believe.

 

[Fishy]

You're right.

For a time tonight, it looked like the three-way playoff had some legs, but Yale screwed the pooch.

 

[champs99and04]

No, you are a bandwagon fan because you have defined yourself that way in several essays in which you have detailed how you are no longer rooting for UConn and you are actively hoping that they do not make the NCAA tournament and that other teams make it instead. You have also detailed how you have enjoyed rooting for the good teams and the championships they have won in years past. That, by definition is a bandwagon fan, and that is you. No one needs to make a judgment call there; you have defined yourself. Sorry if you don't like it, but that's what you are, and you are hardly alone; you're just the one writing essays about it.

As for Lin, I don't recall an exchange with you, but I know I didn't call you a racist. If you are the one who called him cocky and said he was getting Jordan calls, I probably remarked that you weren't watching the games, and I stand by that. I am actually 100% certain of it.

Really? I am by no means actively rooting against UConn...that's ridiculous. I was at the Marquette game two weeks ago and at the Cuse game last week...rooting my ass off for them to pull off the upset. I was hoping they'd plow through Providence and I hope they beat Pitt tommorow. You seem to have taken my comments out of context. I simply said that if UConn continues to play tty basketball, I will not be at all upset to see them left out. Rightly or wrongly, you're kind of relieved as a fan when a frustrating season ends. If they don't make the tournament, I'll be rooting for them in the NIT, just like I did in 09-10.

If you weren't the one who implied I was racist then I apologize...must have confused you for someone else. He's certainly not cocky, so if I said he was, I was wrong on that. I'm just sick of hearing about him, really. You can appreciate the story but ESPN's really stuffed it down my throat.