TN moves to last team into NCAA T. (as of 9:15)pm

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Bballvol said:
Don't get to excited. Unfortunately Lunardi isn't very reliable and the fact two of the three quality wins were against injury plagued teams won't sit well with the committee.
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He had us OUT and then moved us IN after we suffered a bad loss.
I'm not any more confident in where he has us today than where he had us yesterday.
Having us IN before Saturday and then choosing to keep us in because of what happened in other games would have been a much easier sell. I really don't see how UK could go from above us to below us yesterday.
 
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#152
GBO18 said:
Why Belmont? We want them to win.
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We need to pull for Belmont to win their conference tourney, but lose all games leading up to it. They are likely in as an at-large if they don't win their conference tourney.
 
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ukvols said:
He had us OUT and then moved us IN after we suffered a bad loss.
I'm not any more confident in where he has us today than where he had us yesterday.
Having us IN before Saturday and then choosing to keep us in because of what happened in other games would have been a much easier sell. I really don't see how UK could go from above us to below us yesterday.
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Shouldn't have had them in. The committee takes injuries into account. UK has been less then impressive since the Noel injury
 
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saintvol said:
Shouldn't have had them in. The committee takes injuries into account. UK has been less then impressive since the Noel injury
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Fine, but no matter how you slice it, Lunardi was either wrong on Saturday morning or is wrong now. There's no way to reconcile what he did.
If he liked UK's post-Noel performance before yesterday enough to have them above us (they did beat Mizzou and win 3 straight), then they should still be above us. We were defeated just as soundly as they were, and we were playing a worse team.
 
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#156
We sincerely need a bubble sticky that shows wins/losses of last two to three games of bubble teams.
 
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ukvols said:
Fine, but no matter how you slice it, Lunardi was either wrong on Saturday morning or is wrong now. There's no way to reconcile what he did.
If he liked UK's post-Noel performance before yesterday enough to have them above us (they did beat Mizzou and win 3 straight), then they should still be above us. We were defeated just as soundly as they were, and we were playing a worse team.
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Actually, his promotion of Tennessee in makes perfect sense when you consider that almost all of the bubble teams we are competing with also lost yesterday, and almost invariably to worse teams than Georgia. We benefitted from other teams slipping up more than we were hurt by our own loss. And we will benefit again today by Novas loss to Pitt.
 
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ukvols said:
He had us OUT and then moved us IN after we suffered a bad loss.
I'm not any more confident in where he has us today than where he had us yesterday.
Having us IN before Saturday and then choosing to keep us in because of what happened in other games would have been a much easier sell. I really don't see how UK could go from above us to below us yesterday.
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I promise it's because of Noel. They were 3-1 without him, that one loss being to us as their first game without him. Losing yesterday in what wasn't a close game makes them look pretty average. Their season is going to be viewed as a 7 game resume, right now they're 3-2.
 
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Vol_Maul said:
Bull****. No truly reasonable person saw much hope when the team was 11-10.
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Agree. When they were 11-10 they were a bad basketball team, end of story. And at that point nobody saw a 6 game winning streak coming especially vs Ky and Fla. I for one have been very pleasantly surprised at the turnaround but I wasn't saying just let it play out regarding making the NCAA tourney. I was just hoping the nit would take them at that point.
 
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ukvols said:
He had us OUT and then moved us IN after we suffered a bad loss.
I'm not any more confident in where he has us today than where he had us yesterday.
Having us IN before Saturday and then choosing to keep us in because of what happened in other games would have been a much easier sell. I really don't see how UK could go from above us to below us yesterday.
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Georgetown is helping us even though we lost to them by a pt. Everything matters.
 
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jlindsa4 said:
We sincerely need a bubble sticky that shows wins/losses of last two to three games of bubble teams.
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I have not been around long enough to make my own thread, but if someone will make it I will keep it populated and up to date starting Monday afternoon.

EDIT: Never mind - the thread entitled "resume comparison" was exactly what I was going to do, other than adding daily "relevant games scheduled". Nice job Bleeding.
 
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PagingDrVol said:
I have not been around long enough to make my own thread, but if someone will make it I will keep it populated and up to date starting Monday afternoon.

EDIT: Never mind - the thread entitled "resume comparison" was exactly what I was going to do, other than adding daily "relevant games scheduled". Nice job Bleeding.
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The stickied thread official march madness info very first post has relevant games I believe

Thanks :hi:
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
Bubble Watch: Saturday winners and losers - Men's College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
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ukvols said:
He had us OUT and then moved us IN after we suffered a bad loss.
I'm not any more confident in where he has us today than where he had us yesterday.
Having us IN before Saturday and then choosing to keep us in because of what happened in other games would have been a much easier sell. I really don't see how UK could go from above us to below us yesterday.
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ukvols said:
Fine, but no matter how you slice it, Lunardi was either wrong on Saturday morning or is wrong now. There's no way to reconcile what he did.
If he liked UK's post-Noel performance before yesterday enough to have them above us (they did beat Mizzou and win 3 straight), then they should still be above us. We were defeated just as soundly as they were, and we were playing a worse team.
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You need to read the bubble watch article, ukvols. Ky and Ole Miss were one of the last 4 in before Sat's games. UT was one of the first 4 out. Ole Miss' implosion against Miss St is horrific. Here's the blurb about the SEC.

LOSERS

Kentucky, Tennessee, and — gulp — Ole Miss: Does anyone from the SEC actually want to go to the NCAA tournament? Is everybody already thinking about spring football? What on Earth is going on?

We talked about Kentucky in the Arkansas blurb; the Wildcats remain one of the more intriguing at-large cases for the committee to handle, but I'm not sure their status as a just-above-the-bubble squad was totally damaged by a loss at Arkansas. And Tennessee, as we mentioned in the intro, managed to lose at Georgia and still move into the bracket. Wait, what? Huh? How does that happen?

The answer brings us to Ole Miss.

On Saturday, Ole Miss lost to Mississippi State. It's a little bit difficult to explain how bad this loss is without sounding a little bit mean to the Bulldogs, but I don't live in the South, so I don't have to couch my insults with the written equivalent of "Bless your heart": Mississippi State is horrible. Awful. The Bulldogs were riding a 13-game losing streak, to no real fault of theirs or their coach's, as -- thanks to injuries and being at the start of a rebuilding process -- Rick Ray has just seven scholarship players at his command this season. Mississippi State's RPI is No. 236. It began Saturday ranked No. 277 in the KenPom.com efficiency rankings, just one spot below mighty Samford. Many fans believe this to be not only the worst Mississippi State team, but the worst Southeastern Conference team of all time.

That team beat Ole Miss on March 2.

Not only is it a disaster for the Rebels, who have lost in recent weeks at Texas A&M and South Carolina and have turned a 17-2 start into a 21-8 mess, it's also a disaster for coach Andy Kennedy, who began the season on the proverbial hot seat and needed this Ole Miss team to be the redeemed group that got back to the NCAA tournament. It looks less likely than ever that is going to happen. And why? Mississippi State. It doesn't get much worse than that.
 
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#168
Why is everyone so worried about the Mizzou game? TBH i'm more worried about Auburn on the road, due our struggles away from TBA. Mizzou on the other hand? One of the only other teams worse than us on the road (2-7).
If we can pull it out against Auburn we need to come out and make TBA rock like we did against FLA. And watch Pressey and Bowers crumble under the pressure! GBO!!!!!!!!!!:rock2:
 
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#169
If this was all so it was a good time to lose , a nine game win streak heading into tourney is hard to keep moving forward
 
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I'll still hope the Vols get into the NCAAT, but now I'm not convinced they're worthy. When they went down to Athens, the Vols knew they had to keep winning; a chance at the NCAAT was on the line for them. They lost.

Georgia has a losing record and was playing for pride only. They won.
 
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albedo33 said:
I'll still hope the Vols get into the NCAAT, but now I'm not convinced they're worthy. When they went down to Athens, the Vols knew they had to keep winning; a chance at the NCAAT was on the line for them. They lost.

Georgia has a losing record and was playing for pride only. They won.
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Can you not say that about basically every bubble team that lost?
 
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albedo33 said:
I'll still hope the Vols get into the NCAAT, but now I'm not convinced they're worthy. When they went down to Athens, the Vols knew they had to keep winning; a chance at the NCAAT was on the line for them. They lost.

Georgia has a losing record and was playing for pride only. They won.
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tell me who is on the bubble that doesn't have bad losses.
 
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albedo33 said:
I'll still hope the Vols get into the NCAAT, but now I'm not convinced they're worthy. When they went down to Athens, the Vols knew they had to keep winning; a chance at the NCAAT was on the line for them. They lost.

Georgia has a losing record and was playing for pride only. They won.
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Good lord. Every bubble team did the exact same thing this weekend.
 
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