Speaking of that, take a look at Louisville. Don't get me wrong, great story and so happy for that team who went through hell these past few years. But they beat Clemson at home and West. Virginia. Otherwise they beat no one. And they played Duke and Clemson only once. I have seen the as high as a 5 seed. It's crazy.
What’s the magic number?
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Also should note that a lot of these non conf games are early in the year. Some of these SEC teams are full of portal guys playing their 4th or 5th year that are 23 years old. Those teams are likely going to do better earlier in the year. You never know what will happen in March, but older/experienced teams in theory should do better. I’m pretty sure the Big 10 will flame out as usual because when your “top 10 team” in that league wins games scoring 50 points that just doesn’t cut it in the NCAA tournament…that league is garbage. Hoping the BE can get 4 teams in and make some noise. St. John’s reminds me too much of those Pitt teams that won the BE and then flamed out in the tournament. Only time will tell. Hoping our offense continues to click and we can play at least mediocre defense. Our offense alone can get us to the Sweet 16, but beyond that it gets dicey.
They're 9-1 in conference road games. It's really hard to win on the road, even if the ACC sucks and there are plenty of bad teams.
That may be, but the only tournament teams they beat would be W. Virginia and Clemson. Not saying that aren't a tournament team, but one of the 25 best??
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OOC wins look worse every week.
Looks like the last 2 at home are needed and then getting bounced second round of Big East tourney to anyone other than SHU and perhaps DePaul is fine.
Looks like the last 2 at home are needed and then getting bounced second round of Big East tourney to anyone other than SHU and perhaps DePaul is fine.
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That works. UConn needs either of those on it’s Championship run bingo card still.
ESPN has UConn a tournament lock after today's win. The road wins against Creighton and Marquette and the neutral floor win over Gonzaga will carry the day (certainly Texas and Baylor still have a chance to make the tournament). I think today's win likely has them in lock status. A win over Seton Hall keeps them out of any play in games. And then see whether they can beat Marquette on Wednesday.