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It is
UConn officially on the Bubble
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We're the NIT equivelent of Duke or UNC. Our presence means eyeballs and dollars. The NCAA always bows down to the almighty buck.
SubbaBub
Your stupidity is ruining my country.
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We have zero chance at an at large bid.
However if you want to root for something that might get UConn a bubble mention on Sunday, we are 3-6 vs. Quad 1 (Top 50) teams. Beat WSU and Cincy to get to the title game and lose to Houston (Tulsa won't be top 50), gets us to 5-7 vs Quad 1.
That would be bubble worthy had we not lost to St. Joes, been horrible on the road vs average teams, and finished fifth behind the three other AAC bubble teams.
If you want to wish for what might have been, two more preferably road/nuetral wins vs quality opponents likely would have put us in at 6-6 vs the Top 50, even with St Joes.
However if you want to root for something that might get UConn a bubble mention on Sunday, we are 3-6 vs. Quad 1 (Top 50) teams. Beat WSU and Cincy to get to the title game and lose to Houston (Tulsa won't be top 50), gets us to 5-7 vs Quad 1.
That would be bubble worthy had we not lost to St. Joes, been horrible on the road vs average teams, and finished fifth behind the three other AAC bubble teams.
If you want to wish for what might have been, two more preferably road/nuetral wins vs quality opponents likely would have put us in at 6-6 vs the Top 50, even with St Joes.
SubbaBub
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They don't do that anymore, allegedly. No matter the AAC should get 3 NIT bids. We'll be one of them.
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UConn is mid-pack NIT right now, think somewhere 5-6 seed. That said, the difference in NIT is they give auto bids to any conference champ that didnt win the conference tourney - think Northern Iowa. So depending on how that shakes out, determines other seeding options. But as of today, we are solidly in the NIT field.
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As of today, they are 69 RPI ranking...gonna call that the bubble.
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They don’t use the RPI anymore, they use NET rankings which we are 59th in
One game at a time fellow fans. Let's just beat Tulane on Sunday.[/QUOTE]
RPI is irrelevant.
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What matters is that we have a chance . Before the Akok injury I thought this team would win the AAC tournament , nothing's changed except the fact that it'll much more difficult , special. We have a chance here to be part of a historically magical underdog type story . I know , I know , it's crazy . I'm not expecting this to happen but to have hope that it can , to feel it happening while its building...... I love it. It's here , I cannot wait for Thursday , Saturday , Sunday and next Friday night. Let's go Huskies !
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The St. Joe's debacle we could overcome.
What we can't overcome is losing 5-6 close games back when we were relying on Gilbert and Vital hero-ball at the end of games.
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Who now is #49?
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Who had post #87 for this?
(Doesn't count if you phrased it "...back when nobody else wanted the ball to take key shots under 4 minutes.")
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Because the only thing we could possibly do to get in is win the AAC tourney, so it's not worth mentioning.
Tulsa’s NET is like 15 spots lower than ours, and we are neck and neck with Memphis. Just saying if they are going to put them on the bubble, we should be too.
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BINGO! (said in my best steve harvey voice)
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And people are wondering why our fan base is trashing the AAC on the way out
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Joe Lunardi (like him or not) actually mentioned UConn in a bubble conversation that was discussing the American as one of only 2/3 conferences he believes bubble teams come from. Something to the effect of "WSU, Tulsa, Cincy, and even UConn are trying to make the case right now for an at large". Take it for what you want...still think we need to win the AACT to get in.
Edit: No link, sorry - On Seth Greenberg/Dan Dakich Podcast...where they spent the majority of the time talking about Indiana, go figure.
Edit: No link, sorry - On Seth Greenberg/Dan Dakich Podcast...where they spent the majority of the time talking about Indiana, go figure.
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Three games we should have actually won: SJU, Indiana and Xavier. We wins those and a game or two in the AAC Tournament we get an at large. Probably a 1% chance we can fet an at large right now, but we have as good a shot as any to win the conference tournament. Can’t leave it to chance.
What people forget about the Xavier game is had we won, we would have faced Florida, not Miami. Not saying we wouldn't have won, but can't just assume we would have. I think the two that hurt more are Houston and Nova, as they were both road games and both games we had under control until late game meltdowns. Those two plus Indiana and I think we would be in.