Tourney watch 3/8/22

[stever20]

1 Gonzaga vs St Mary's-won 82-69
2 Baylor
3 Arizona
4 Auburn
5 Kansas
6 Kentucky
7 Duke
8 Wisconsin
9 Purdue
10 Villanova
11 Tennessee
12 Texas Tech
13 UCLA
14 Illinois
15 Providence
16 Arkansas
17 UConn
18 Texas
19 Houston
20 Alabama
21 LSU
22 St Mary's vs Gonzaga-lost 69-82
23 Iowa
24 Ohio St
25 Colorado St
26 Marquette
27 USC
28 Michigan St
29 Iowa St
30 Boise St
31 Seton Hall
32 TCU
33 North Carolina
34 Murray St
35 San Diego St
36 Creighton
37 Miami
38 San Francisco
39 Rutgers
40 Memphis
41 Notre Dame
42 Wyoming
45 Loyola-Chi
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43 Michigan
44 Xavier
46 Davidson
47 Wake Forest
48 SMU
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69 Indiana
70 BYU
71 VCU
72 Florida
73 Dayton
74 Texas A&M
75 Oklahoma
76 Va Tech

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49 North Texas
50 South Dakota St vs North Dakota St-won 75-69
51 Iona
52 Chattanooga
53 Toledo
54 New Mexico St
55 Vermont
56 Princeton
57 Montana St
58 UNC Wilmington vs Delaware -lost 55-59
59 Long Beach St
60 Georgia St
61 Colgate
62 Longwood
63 Jacksonville-@ Linedenwood-lost 72-77
64 Norfolk St
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65 Nicholls St
66 Northern Kentucky-vs Wright St-lost 71-72
67 Bryant vs Wagner-won 70-43
68 Alcorn St

[stever20]

so up to 4 NIT bid thieves now.

What a finish for Chattanooga/Furman tonight. It's officially March!

[kayako]

so up to 4 NIT bid thieves now.

What a finish for Chattanooga/Furman tonight. It's officially March!

Terrible way to lose for Furman. How safe is St. John's NIT chances?

[stever20]

so up to 4 NIT bid thieves now.

What a finish for Chattanooga/Furman tonight. It's officially March!

Terrible way to lose for Furman. How safe is St. John's NIT chances?

I think they're right on the fringe of it. Can't afford a ton of bid thieves.

Wednesday vs DePaul probably is a must win for those.

[Hall2012]

More importantly, it's a must win to keep a top 75 NET

[Jet915]

More importantly, it's a must win to keep a top 75 NET

Yeah, everyone but Depaul should be rooting for SJU.

[kayako]

Ideal set of results for Xavier this week:

-Santa Clara doesn't win the wcc tourney
-WF, Miami, Notre Dame lose asap in the acc
-SMU does not reach aac finals
-Michigan beats Indiana
-Rutgers lose their first game
-Wyoming lose to UNLV
-No bid thieves or crazy runs in power conferences
-Dayton and VCU lose in A10 quarterfinals & have Davidson win the tourney

Best case scenario X avoids Dayton altogether. Assuming they're able to beat Butler, of course.

[kayako]

If Mary's is able to beat Gonzaga tomorrow, you'd think Arizona takes west 1 seed. Or at least they should, and Gonzaga's 1 seed should be in question. People need to call out their schedule with only 6 road games.

[stever20]

Ideal set of results for Xavier this week:

-Santa Clara doesn't win the wcc tourney
-WF, Miami, Notre Dame lose asap in the acc
-SMU does not reach aac finals
-Michigan beats Indiana
-Rutgers lose their first game
-Wyoming lose to UNLV
-No bid thieves or crazy runs in power conferences
-Dayton and VCU lose in A10 quarterfinals & have Davidson win the tourney

Best case scenario X avoids Dayton altogether. Assuming they're able to beat Butler, of course.

Davidson winning A10 obviously hurts them. Agree with you on SMU. ACC you have Wake playing Pitt or BC and then Miami. Rooting big for Miami there IMO. Michigan winning clinches them over Xavier. Rutgers losing to Iowa wouldn't push them behind Xavier IMO. Wyoming losing a road game to UNLV would be interesting....

Miami, USF, Rutgers, Memphis, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Davidson would all be out of Dayton. Wyoming falls in replacing Michigan. I don't see a 2nd team to get Xavier out of there.

[stever20]

If Mary's is able to beat Gonzaga tomorrow, you'd think Arizona takes west 1 seed. Or at least they should, and Gonzaga's 1 seed should be in question. People need to call out their schedule with only 6 road games.

Gonzaga though has 9 Q1 wins to only 5 for Arizona. Arizona going to have a really tough time- especially given their path-
Arizona St 96 / Stanford 108
Colorado 75 / Oregon 74
UCLA 11/ USC 34

So only 1 more Q1 win. If Gonzaga wins tomorrow they have clinched the #1 overall seed I think w/o a doubt. Lose and it's closer- but Arizona has to win the Pac 12 to have any shot of it. Amazing that WCC tourney would provide more Q1 chances for Gonzaga than Pac 12 tourney will for Arizona.