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UConn officially on the Bubble

We are playing with house money now, enjoy it! This team will be UCONN, take of business on the court, win the AAC TOURNEY and don’t put your fate in the hands in the committee. #whynotus? #hungryhuskies #beacoffeebean
 
ToolzieFan said:
I think we are safely in the NIT no matter what happens next. One more win really locks it up.
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Yup I’d agree, just in response to the guy who though we need 3 wins to get into the NIT
 
nomar said:
They key to doing that will be out-scoring our opponent in every game.
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Yeah if we win the AAC tournament we “should” have a good chance to make the tournament. I am in agreement with you. Well said.
 
evmore said:
Yeah if we win the AAC tournament we “should” have a good chance to make the tournament. I am in agreement with you. Well said.
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I don't know, the coronavirus may stop the whole thing
 
I think we are in NIT as of this second. Prolly 80% in. If we slip against Tulane - we might be back on nit bubble. We beat Tulane , deff In. I don’t see us getting an at-large - unless we win tourney obviously. however , if we do beat Wichita State and cincy in fairly convincing fashion , you’d have to think we leapfrog both of them and onto the tourney bubble - and let’s say we lose a tight one to Houston in overtime In the championship , that is only small way I see us getting an at- large without winning. slight chance of this - maybe 10%.
 
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Beat Tulane and Wichita State to stay relevant into the weekend and create more buzz around the program. From there let’s just enjoy the ride and the turnaround. Hopeful we can get to Sunday but I think for the future getting to Saturday is important.
 
NIT is already a lock....who are you guys kidding. The NIT is all about getting as many big programs in so that part is done.....LOCK. We need Tulane and Wichita State to get on the bubble, 3 wins to get a 50/50 shot of getting in.
 
people seem to have forgotten wichita and cincy are bubble teams when talking about how big bad and scary they are. houston is the class of the aac, we don't wanna see them until the finals. this is a good thing
 
bendm said:
people seem to have forgotten wichita and cincy are bubble teams when talking about how big bad and scary they are. houston is the class of the aac, we don't wanna see them until the finals. this is a good thing
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We can beat anyone and we're gonna have to in order to win the whole thing. SMU might scare me the second most after Houston tbh. You have to think that Houston is happy to avoid us as well though.
 
KEMBAKEMBA said:
NIT is already a lock....who are you guys kidding. The NIT is all about getting as many big programs in so that part is done.....LOCK. We need Tulane and Wichita State to get on the bubble, 3 wins to get a 50/50 shot of getting in.
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That is not the case anymore with the NIT. The NCAA runs it and they actually have a selection process so I would not say the NIT is a lock just yet.
 
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glastonbury50 said:
We can beat anyone and we're gonna have to in order to win the whole thing. SMU might scare me the second most after Houston tbh. You have to think that Houston is happy to avoid us as well though.
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I think the the key that sparked our run in the 2011 Big East Tournament was the fact that when we beat Depaul in round 1, It was stress free and we didn’t have to exert ourselves too much right out of the gate. That is what Im hoping for when we play Tulane again on Thursday. With us being so short handed as it is, I really hope we can just roll over them and kind of just cruise in the second half. Based in what we saw today, that will not be easy.

Wichita does scare me in round 2, I know its a payback game and we owe them one, but they are playing good basketball right now. Wichita St opened February losing 3 straight, but they went on to close the season winning 6 out of 8 with a convincing win vs Tulsa today.
 
Ts5034 said:
That is not the case anymore with the NIT. The NCAA runs it and they actually have a selection process so I would not say the NIT is a lock just yet.
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A loss to Tulane might keep us out if there is absolute chaos. 20 wins and a loss to Wichita would not.
 
tzznandrew said:
A loss to Tulane might keep us out if there is absolute chaos. 20 wins and a loss to Wichita would not.
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We are in the NIT now. Not even a question. Let’s troll for bigger fish.
 
Ts5034 said:
That is not the case anymore with the NIT. The NCAA runs it and they actually have a selection process so I would not say the NIT is a lock just yet.
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It is
 
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.
 
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Palatine said:
We're the NIT equivelent of Duke or UNC. Our presence means eyeballs and dollars. The NCAA always bows down to the almighty buck.
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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.
 
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.
 
Dratings.com has us as a 2 seed along with Memphis and Cinci as a 1 seed right now
 
ucp990411 said:
So who says we are officially on the bubble. A boneyarder? That makes it official? We won't be on the bubble unless we win 3 in the AAC tournament.
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As of today, they are 69 RPI ranking...gonna call that the bubble.
 
One game at a time fellow fans. Let's just beat Tulane on Sunday.[/QUOTE]
gsmooth said:
I can’t agree more. As much as I would love to see us playing on Sunday. I have to take it one game at time. Let’s beat Tulane on Thursday to take on WSU on Friday. I’m trying my hardest to not put the cart before the horse.
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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 !
 
SubbaBub said:
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.
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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.
 
Our Tulane win dropped us one spot from 49 to 50 in the KenPom.
 
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