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Palm doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Palm doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Back when UCF was in first place of the AAC (through 5 or 6 games), they were the only AAC team in Palm's bracket. As a 16 seed. Dude is whacked.
Over on bracketmatrix.com, UConn is in 91 of 94 brackets.
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Palm is the worst guy out there at this.
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and for the 100th time this season, Palm is not someone to follow
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And we are a consensus 8 seed there
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Get back to me if we drop 2 in the next 72 hours (which is entirely possible. a pessimist might say probable) We are in right now. But we have a razor thin margin. Thinner than I think many realize. Drop the next 2 and we are in serious peril.
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ESPN kept showing us as a 10 seed last night. Either way if we lose two more in the regular season we are going to be sweating unless we win the AAC tournament.
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Ha, I mean, there is stupid, and then there is this post
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Agreed, I wonder if KO gets axed before the cinci game.
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I agree he's wrong, but I don't think there's much question our margin is thin. We have tough games coming up and we need to win at least a few of them.
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Ok, now you are going to the other extreme than some of positive posters on the BY. We can lose 1 and be fine but two and a lost early in the AAC tournament will put is squarely on the bubble and I don't feel confident about our chances if that happens.
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Absolutely, but the idea we need to run the table to get in is non-sense
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I don't have a ton of confidence that we are solidly in the tournament. Temple is a top AAC school and they just got run at home...of course it was against the #1 team, so tough to say how much it hurt.
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I mean, was it at home? Those Philly schools don't really have a home court against one another.
Also, is Temple a top school from the NCAA's mind? Despite their wins, they might be fourth or fifth on the totem pole (putting SMU in there as well, even though I know they don't count).
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What does Temple's loss to Nova have anything to do with UConn? Temple is an 11 seed, UConn is a 9 seed in today bracket prediction, or according to Bracket Matrix UConn is an 8 seed.
Does PC not get in because Nova lost by 100 to Oklahoma?
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It is not a 1 to 1 correlation.
You are speaking in Utopian absolutes. Not current landscape as it stands in today's realities. Read Larry Brown's comments from yesterday.
Villanova losing to Oklahoma early in the year doesnt make a blip on anyone's radar or drag down the Big East in perception or stature. That league is having a pretty decent year as much as I hate to admit it. Multiple teams in top 10 at times this year, etc.....
Temple getting housed while sitting at the top of the AAC this late in the year is a very bad look for a league that already is laughed out of every serious basketball discussion. I mean the other top 3 teams in the AAC cant beat Temple but Temple cant stay on the court with Nova? Fair or not its the way it is and we live in that world.
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I understand what you are saying, and do not disagree with it, but my point was that UConn's NCAAT position did not change last night because Temple lost to Nova.
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your keyword(s) is "last night" No it did not change UConn's position "last night" Agreed. It may change UConn's position on selection Sunday though.
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Funny you mention that. On Monday night I was watching the Kansas-OK St. game and they had a graphic of all of Lunardi's Bracketology 8-9 games. UConn wasn't on there. I thought that was strange since earlier in the day I saw his updated Bracketology and UConn was a 9 seed playing Michigan. I figured maybe they weren't using the one that was updated Monday morning. So I checked and the last Bracketology updated before that was February 11. And UConn was an 8 seed in that one playing Pitt. So what were they using for the graphic? It specifically said Lunardi's Bracketology on the top of the graphic. Do they just make stuff up to promote the ACC and Big Ten as much as possible?!
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Anyone who doesn't think Selection Sunday may be brutal to us is ignoring the past couple of years. This league gets zero respect.
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I really fear people are in for a Rude awakening. I feel that people think that what happened to other AAC teams the last couple years can't happen to UConn because we are UConn and we are a bigger "brand" than anything else in the AAC, and we are recent 2 time title winners...yada yada yada.
Unfortunately my gut tells me none of that matters. We will get just as screwed as any other AAC team if we limp in the selection room with a Bubble-y resume.
We just have to win games like tonight. Just win and we dont worry. I feel very ill at ease getting the nod over other bubble teams out of this conference.
We are in the tournament as of today. At the end of the season that may not be true if we lose most of our remaining games. I think 22 wins is the number we need to get to including the AAC tournament. Any number less than 22 wins will make me feel uncomfortable on selection Sunday.
Thank you August - West for agreeing. Our conference gets no respect and frankly, does not deserve any. And our out of conference schedule was not strong enough to make up for our pathetic conference. How many quality wins do we have? 4?
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Look at the schedule
Beating SMU tonight it pretty much a must win.
Even with that win we must beat Houston,USF,and UCF
Even with road losses to SMU and Cinncy. I believe we're in good shape.
Lose tonight and we have to win at SMU, even a Cinncy win won't help that's a tall order.
Lose tonight and our only hope is winning the AAC .
I had a strange thought , SMU is in a situation were there is a slight financial benifit to them, to lose to UConn. They would normally share in NCAA money earned by every AAC schools unless that's part of the penalty.
Beating SMU tonight it pretty much a must win.
Even with that win we must beat Houston,USF,and UCF
Even with road losses to SMU and Cinncy. I believe we're in good shape.
Lose tonight and we have to win at SMU, even a Cinncy win won't help that's a tall order.
Lose tonight and our only hope is winning the AAC .
I had a strange thought , SMU is in a situation were there is a slight financial benifit to them, to lose to UConn. They would normally share in NCAA money earned by every AAC schools unless that's part of the penalty.
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Hey man, a bit off topic, but I sent you a message earlier - you still have those UConn VHS tapes? I stumbled across a thread from a long time ago where you said you had tapes from 93/94 to 05/06. Let me know.
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