Bubble Watch

[DunderMifflinHk]

Rooting Interests to Help Iowa's NCAA chance:

3/3/2017:
Ill State over Evansville - need Illinois State or Wichita St. to win MVC so noone stills the bid
ISU over WVU - Boosts our RPI
WSU over Bradley - need Illinois State or Wichita St. to win MVC so n0one stills the bid
UNI over MoSt

3/4/2017:
Rutgers over Illinois
Indiana over OSU
St. John's over Providence
Texas Tech over KSU
Arkansas over Georgia
Maryland over MSU
Colorado over Cal
Florida over Vanderbilt
George Mason over VCU
Butler over Seton Hall
Creighton over Marquette
Georgia Tech over Syracuse
Virginia Tech over Wake Forest
Washington over USC

3/5/17
WSU over Ill St
Purdue over Northwestern - RPI
ECU over Houston
Michigan over Nebraska - Keep Mich in top 50
Omaha over Fort Wayne

 

[99topdawg]

Today's bracketology in USA Today has Iowa as the first team out, which is a good place to be right now.

 

[theboat]

Today's bracketology in USA Today has Iowa as the first team out, which is a good place to be right now.

That's a little insane, but I'll take it

 

[ssckelley]

You are missing UNI against Missouri State today.

 

[DunderMifflinHk]

You are missing UNI against Missouri State today.

Added it!

 

[mopkins]

Today's bracketology in USA Today has Iowa as the first team out, which is a good place to be right now.

That is awesome. Good find.

 

[mopkins]

Butler over Seton Hall

This one is weird to me because Iowa lost to Seton Hall so you'd think them beating butler would help us. However, since we're both on the bubble we want Seton Hall to lose...which would in turn slightly hurt our RPI.

The madness of march...

 

[1977Hawkeye]

This one is weird to me because Iowa lost to Seton Hall so you'd think them beating butler would help us. However, since we're both on the bubble we want Seton Hall to lose...which would in turn slightly hurt our RPI.

The madness of march...

Agreed. Get the Hall off the bubble.

I'm thinking that it's better that our good wins look better, than it is for our losses to look better. The point or two our RPI might drop would be worth it IMO if it weakens the bubble even more. Plus, I don't think losing to Butler would hurt Seton Hall's RPI all that much anyway, and by extension, our RPI.

 

[BigD]

 

[ssckelley]

Wouldn't Michigan losing help us more than them winning at Nebraska? A loss drops Michigan's RPI's into the 50s and potentially setting up an elimination game against Illinois in the BTT.

 

[DunderMifflinHk]

Wouldn't Michigan losing help us more than them winning at Nebraska? A loss drops Michigan's RPI's into the 50s and potentially setting up an elimination game against Illinois in the BTT.

I thought about that too. I'm not sure on which result would help us to the most.

 

[theboat]

This one is weird to me because Iowa lost to Seton Hall so you'd think them beating butler would help us. However, since we're both on the bubble we want Seton Hall to lose...which would in turn slightly hurt our RPI.

The madness of march...

Then I guess there's only one thing left to do

 

[Stanzi]

Lunardi at ESPN just put us in his bubble watch. I think we get in if we beat Penn State and win two in the Big 10 tournament. It also helps that we've gotten hot late.

 

[DunderMifflinHk]

Rutgers over Illinois! Indiana over OSU!

 

[ssckelley]

I'm not sure I like the idea of playing Indiana in the BTT.

 

[mopkins]

I'm not sure I like the idea of playing Indiana in the BTT.

Agreed. Hopefully Nebraska can beat Michigan

 

[PCHawk]

So if iowa, MSU, and Minnesota win, we would have finished in a tie for 2nd with that Minnesota win. Crazy. Right now I'm rooting against MSU and Northwestern so we can finish tied for 5th with a win.

 

[tksirius]

Arkansas, Maryland, & Colorado win. Looks like Creighton is going to lose though.

 

[PCHawk]

Arkansas, Maryland, & Colorado win. Looks like Creighton is going to lose though.

Was Arkansas or Georgia the bubble team?

 

[tksirius]

Was Arkansas or Georgia the bubble team?

I'm assuming Georgia. Arkansas now has 23 wins.