WVU and uconn

[bobbygt]

Huge game for West Virginia tonight against Marquette. Pretty strange that it's a Friday night game in the big east, but uconn did play at Louisville last year on a friday.

It looks like Cincy and Seton Hall got the big wins they needed this week and have locked up bids, barring both going 0-3 to close the season.

Both uconn and West Virginia have one more 'big' game remaining, followed by two games against the bottom teams.

I think WVU and uconn have similar resumes. A win against Marquette and Syracuse would put these teams close to locks, but if they can't, they absolutely must win their final two.

 

[Rico444]

It's all star weekend for the NBA, right? Usually there's no Friday night games because of a conflict with the NBA, but I'm pretty sure there's no games tonight.

 

[-Huskiediehard-]

Yea if UConn and WVU don't win these games it will put a lot of pressure on them to win the next two games. I feel if UConn doesn't beat SU they'll find a way in anyways only because the very weak bubble. But, we need a win to improve our seed I rather not see a 6 or 5 seed in the first round.

 

[jibsey]

What if we lose to SU and either Prov or Pitt, are we out?

 

[caw]

What if we lose to SU and either Prov or Pitt, are we out?

Depends on BET but would have to win at least 2 if not 3 in the BET to be in, IMO.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Depends on BET but would have to win at least 2 if not 3 in the BET to be in, IMO.

I think we'd need 1-2 wins rather than 2-3. Here's how I look at. Right now, every single "bracketologist" says that we are in the field as a 9-11 seed. If we lose to Syracuse but beat Providence, I wouldn't think that would change our position all that much. Losing to Cuse won't hurt us that much, beating PC won't help us that much.

So if we're still a 9-11 seed after the PC game, would losing to Pitt really knock us back to the point where we'd need 3 wins in the Big East Tournament? I think 2 would have us in pretty safely since the second game would be against another bubblish team like Seton Hall, Cinci, or WVU.

 

[caw]

I think we'd need 1-2 wins rather than 2-3. Here's how I look at. Right now, every single "bracketologist" says that we are in the field as a 9-11 seed. If we lose to Syracuse but beat Providence, I wouldn't think that would change our position all that much. Losing to Cuse won't hurt us that much, beating PC won't help us that much.

So if we're still a 9-11 seed after the PC game, would losing to Pitt really knock us back to the point where we'd need 3 wins in the Big East Tournament? I think 2 would have us in pretty safely since the second game would be against another bubblish team like Seton Hall, Cinci, or WVU.

I guess it depends on who UConn plays. I don't see a win on the first day helping at all (it might actually lower SOS and RPI).