Setting up to be a 7 Seed

[Billy Jack]

The top 8 teams in post #48, for example.

Here’s where you run into problems going there. Kansas & Texas are in the same league and haven’t faced each other yet. In addition, they will be the favorites to meet in the conference tournament. If they don’t it will be because at least one of them has lost a game earlier in the tournament. So, at least one of the two will pick up 2 more losses. Kansas already has 4 losses.

In addition to KU & TX matchups, TX has a road game vs Tennessee, one of the other teams on your list. TN will be favored to win that game, creating another potential loss for TX. IF TX wins, then that’s a loss for TN, who has 2 more games vs Alabama, another team from your list. TN & AL each already has 3 losses. One of them is losing more games.

You have the same situation with UCLA and Arizona, both in the same conference at least for now. They have 2 more games against each other. UCLA already has 4 losses and Arizona has 3. One or both of them isn’t finished with losing games.

All of this is to say that UConn has a shot at a 2-seed if they win out because their competition will be losing games between now and Selection Sunday. Because of the matchups, they have to. They can’t all win out.

If UConn wins the BE Tournament, the championship of the 3rd best conference, the notion that they will be passed over for the runner up of the PAC 12, the 5th best conference, really isn’t likely to happen.

The point is that there’s still time for UConn to turn their season around and get a 2-seed. Despite the recent discouraging losses, I happen to think they’ll do exactly that.

 

[Get a Job]

Here’s where you run into problems going there. Kansas & Texas are in the same league and haven’t faced each other yet. In addition, they will be the favorites to meet in the conference tournament. If they don’t it will be because at least one of them has lost a game earlier in the tournament. So, at least one of the two will pick up 2 more losses. Kansas already has 4 losses.

In addition to KU & TX matchups, TX has a road game vs Tennessee, one of the other teams on your list. TN will be favored to win that game, creating another potential loss for TX. IF TX wins, then that’s a loss for TN, who has 2 more games vs Alabama, another team from your list. TN & AL each already has 3 losses. One of them is losing more games.

You have the same situation with UCLA and Arizona, both in the same conference at least for now. They have 2 more games against each other. UCLA already has 4 losses and Arizona has 3. One or both of them isn’t finished with losing games.

All of this is to say that UConn has a shot at a 2-seed if they win out because their competition will be losing games between now and Selection Sunday. Because of the matchups, they have to. They can’t all win out.

If UConn wins the BE Tournament, the championship of the 3rd best conference, the notion that they will be passed over for the runner up of the PAC 12, the 5th best conference, really isn’t likely to happen.

The point is that there’s still time for UConn to turn their season around and get a 2-seed. Despite the recent discouraging losses, I happen to think they’ll do exactly that.

I hope you're right. I would be ecstatic to lose this argument.