03-10-2011, 07:32 AM | #1 |
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#4 Notre Dame Round 2
What a great spot to be in. I love this type of game. Everything to gain and nothing to lose. This is where it benefits to be in the Big East. While some teams can really only hurt their position we have a great opportunity to significantly improve our NCAA tournament seed.
We played so poorly in the first half last time we played them and they got a shit ton of calls. We are a different team that ND saw last time. A win would put us in a 4 seed discussion IMO. We would have wins verse: - Nd, St. Johns, Louisville, Gtown 2x, Marquette and Xavier That would be a very impressive 6 RPI top 25 wins and a couple other really solid wins. We need to press the shit out of ND. They really struggled verse St. Johns when they pushed the defensive tempo. I really like our matchup. |
03-10-2011, 07:54 AM | #2 |
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I believe UC is a 6 seed at this point.
I think a win over ND puts us on the #5 line. I think we need to do more to move up to a #4...like make it to the Big East Final. |
03-10-2011, 08:02 AM | #3 | |
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No bad losses the entire year with 5 top 25 wins....IMO that does not warrant a 6 seed.
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UC has a ton of good wins. But, looking at the Top 6 seeds in the Big East tournament, UC was 2-5 against them. I think the WVU loss last night could help UC move up to a 5 seed (taking what WVU may have had). Who knows though, all guess work. |
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03-10-2011, 08:21 AM | #6 |
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I've seen a scenario where Xavier is a 7 seed playing Marquette as a 10 seed. I find this extremely intriguing. Let's see how strong the A-10 really is against one of the BEast's lower teams.
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If we can win tonight....that should certainly open the selection committee's eyes! Go CATS
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03-10-2011, 09:53 AM | #8 |
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As a fan, I'm way less interested in the seeding right now than the possibility to win the BE tournament. I'll give my take anyway.
It's going to be hard for UC to be a 5 seed because they normally seed 1-4 first. When they do that, I have a feeling that Syracuse, StJ, and Louisville will all fall on the 4 line. That essentially means that only 1 BE can realistically be a 5 seed regardless if the next 4 teams are all BE teams as well. At this point, I'd say Uconn or WV has a slight edge over UC for that spot. If its UConn, that pushes WV and UC to 6 seeds. The WV loss did help though, because if we can beat ND and Uconn loses to Pitt, we still have a chance to leap those teams and get them bumped down instead of us. Also, a deep run by Syracuse or Louisville could move them up off the 4 line. Or we can just go ahead and win the whole BET and let everybody else scramble for seeds. |
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UC opens as a 1.5 point underdog.
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