Lunardi's latest: Vols one of last four in

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#78
99gator said:
No team, sitting two games behind Georgia in the sec standings, is going to the NCAA tournament.

I also can't say enough how much reputation matters, no matter what they say.

The sec got three last year because ole miss won the tourney.

As of today, only 2 deserve to get in
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Where you sit in the conference doesn't matter. The conference season is just an extension of the non conference season. Now, they may not take a team with a losing conference record (but it has been done). But if one team is 10-6 and another is 8-8, they will absolutely take the 8-8 team if it excelled in the pre-conference schedule. UT was second in the conference two years ago, and I am fairly sure that teams below us went to the Dance. We had some terrible pre conference losses. They look at the overall body of work, especially now with unbalanced conference schedules. For instance, UGA gets South Carolina and Mississippi State twice this year, so that could be the two game difference at the end of the year.
 
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Does anyone here actually think this team makes it into the tourney? I don't think we win out from here or do anything in the SEC tourney. NIT purgatory.
 
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99gator said:
That ain't happening either
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Like I said, they're currently projected in.

There have been multiple teams finish with a losing conference record get in btw.

Also, as Gee pointed out, standings don't mean $hit. 2 years in a row the SEC team that finished 2nd didn't get in the dance but teams behind them did.
 
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NEVolFan said:
If you all want to change the coach, then you don't want to be dancing.
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I think most that want a coaching change have decided that this team lacks the consistency to make the dance. Therefore, they have all but given up on this season, and are looking to the future.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
No they don't
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We'll never know because even with 3 winnable road games left, we have lost 7 on the road now. Not good odds. Haven't won 2 games in a row since Ole Miss and bammer. The 3 home games left are all winnable and all losable for this team and coach. Bottom line: this team's hallmark has been inconsistency. Result: if I were a betting man, I'd bet on NIT. Again.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Like I said, they're currently projected in.

There have been multiple teams finish with a losing conference record get in btw.

Also, as Gee pointed out, standings don't mean $hit. 2 years in a row the SEC team that finished 2nd didn't get in the dance but teams behind them did.
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It means something bc there is always a human element involved ......that can't be taken out of it.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Like I said, they're currently projected in.

There have been multiple teams finish with a losing conference record get in btw.

Also, as Gee pointed out, standings don't mean $hit. 2 years in a row the SEC team that finished 2nd didn't get in the dance but teams behind them did.
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Joe Lunardi had UT on the bubble last year as I recall and "projected" us in, right up to Ole Miss bouncing us out of the SEC tourney in the first game. Also, we finished the regular season last year winning 8 of the last 9 games. We also beat the gators twice.

Sorry, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
 
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TNslammabama said:
Joe Lunardi had UT on the bubble last year as I recall and "projected" us in, right up to Ole Miss bouncing us out of the SEC tourney in the first game. Also, we finished the regular season last year winning 8 of the last 9 games. We also beat the gators twice.

Sorry, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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First, we lost to Alabama in the second game of the SECT. Second, Lunardi had us out in the end, and he was correct.

We lost to OM two years ago, and even though we swept UF, we had terrible early season losses. I don't believe Lunardi ever had us in. People are trying to rationalize it, but he knows what he is doing for the most part. He has done it enough that he generally knows what the committee looks for.
 
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TNslammabama said:
Joe Lunardi had UT on the bubble last year as I recall and "projected" us in, right up to Ole Miss bouncing us out of the SEC tourney in the first game. Also, we finished the regular season last year winning 8 of the last 9 games. We also beat the gators twice.

Sorry, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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I think you are meshing two years together.
 
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I hope I am wrong because I want Tennessee in.

But, if they are in, it's a pretty damn soft bubble.

I assume there are teams out there who have done more on the year than win two games and be .500 in a terrible league.

Don't forget, you can always count on about 4 teams to "steal" bids in conference tournaments.

Personally, I think it sets up like last year.

If Tennessee does not win the sec tournament, than you better be in front of your tv cheering for Kentucky or Florida.
 
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TNslammabama said:
Joe Lunardi had UT on the bubble last year as I recall and "projected" us in, right up to Ole Miss bouncing us out of the SEC tourney in the first game. Also, we finished the regular season last year winning 8 of the last 9 games. We also beat the gators twice.

Sorry, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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There's a lot of wrong in this post, not sure where I should start.

I'll leave it at this, as of this date last year, nobody had us in.
 
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99gator said:
I hope I am wrong because I want Tennessee in.

But, if they are in, it's a pretty damn soft bubble.

I assume there are teams out there who have done more on the year than win two games and be .500 in a terrible league.

Don't forget, you can always count on about 4 teams to "steal" bids in conference tournaments.

Personally, I think it sets up like last year.

If Tennessee does not win the sec tournament, than you better be in front of your tv cheering for Kentucky or Florida.
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Of course you want us in, every opponent wants Cuonzo back.
 
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99gator said:
I hope I am wrong because I want Tennessee in.

But, if they are in, it's a pretty damn soft bubble.

Don't forget, you can always count on about 4 teams to "steal" bids in conference tournaments.
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1. It's been a very soft bubble every year since they expanded to 68, look back through the teams who were last in.

2. You can't "always count on about 4 teams to steal bids", iirc there was maybe 1 bid stealer last year.
 
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99gator said:
I hope I am wrong because I want Tennessee in.

But, if they are in, it's a pretty damn soft bubble.

I assume there are teams out there who have done more on the year than win two games and be .500 in a terrible league.

Don't forget, you can always count on about 4 teams to "steal" bids in conference tournaments.

Personally, I think it sets up like last year.

If Tennessee does not win the sec tournament, than you better be in front of your tv cheering for Kentucky or Florida.
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there are only two teams making it into the ncaa tourney this year from the sec unless the vols or another team not named florida and kentucky win the sec tourney.
 
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ZeroDarkThirty said:
there are only two teams making it into the ncaa tourney this year from the sec unless the vols or another team not named florida and kentucky win the sec tourney.
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I would bet anything that this is false. It's been almost 50 years since that happened and that's when only 40 teams made it. At least 3 SEC teams gets in, and quite possibly 4.
 
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