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I think this BPI rating is a misleading byproduct of losing so many close games to good teams. No way we get in. Too many losses. Not enough quality wins.

However, it shows that if we would have just won a couple of those close games, we would be pretty "safe" as a 10-12 seed.

N.ot I.n T.ournament

Could you imagine the meltdown on ESPN if we were picked? Vitale would have a heart attack and Knight an aneurysm. We could actually do the general basketball watching public a favor.

I'd just be happy to make it in.

It is weird when you look at the various stats and rankings as an aggregate. We end up as higher ranked than most of the other bubble teams. And if the committee is serious about the non-con schedule being so important, it seems we would be considered. Some of those members have even previously stated the W/L record in those games isn't as big as even being willing to play that schedule.

As hard it is to believe I'm sure we'll be among the 10-15 teams discussed for the last spot and even though the numbers would be strong compared to some of the others, we all know we're heading to the NIT.

No doubt. When you look at the individual team rankings on the original link Ashley posted and compare our numbers with LaSalle, we should be in over them, but I don't believe that will happen. We have one more win against top 1-50 opponents, although we do have more losses since we played a lot more top teams. In these situations, it seems like they are favoring more wins against weaker competition.

Let me be clear that I don't think they would be terribly wrong in picking LaSalle over us as we had plenty of chances to not leave things in the hands of other people. Just interesting when you look at the numbers.

one guy has us in...