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They mentioned during the broadcast last night that there have already been several top seeds from smaller conferences lose in their tournaments. That means fewer at-large spots available in the NIT.
MVC is one. Does Loyola-Chicago have the cache to be an NCAA bid stealer or are they an NIT bid stealer?
Of all the things I would say about this team, “fight” and “tough” would be very very low on the list.
Not sure that would do the trick for any of the three. Each displays a record that is similar to the teams in the blue-blood conference and as we all know the NCAA seems to favor them. All we can do is let the games be played and see where the chips fall.
Memphis isn't 'in' until we actually knock off Tulane simply because that's the kind of bad L that could knock us out IMHO.
Not the same level of Loyola this year. Not sure what happened but they had a lot of good pieces returning to the mix this year and they just fell way short of expectations. MVC is a one bid league this year.
Got to still keep in mind regular season winners that don’t win the conference title stealing those bids
I think I did, if you look through net rankings there are several who are under the 90 or so ranking with the auto bid if they lose. Altogether there about 15 conferences who have really strong possibilities of getting a bid and are guarenteed outside the top 100.
So somewhere in that 80ish number people will be getting left out. If we're not close to that we have no shot. Probably need a low 70 to be sure.
Last year Penn St was 77, Standford 86, OSU 88, LSU 94, and Boston College 95.
There were 11 autobids, 3 fell inside the top 100. So lop off the last 3/4 for the autobids this year and 77 penn state was last one in.
Most of the at-larges fell in the 60s-70s, with numbers 67-73 all in, one an auto (Rider at 69). RPI 60 and 63 were also in, but as qualifiers.
http://bracketmatrix.com/nit.html
So somewhere in that 80ish number people will be getting left out. If we're not close to that we have no shot. Probably need a low 70 to be sure.
Last year Penn St was 77, Standford 86, OSU 88, LSU 94, and Boston College 95.
There were 11 autobids, 3 fell inside the top 100. So lop off the last 3/4 for the autobids this year and 77 penn state was last one in.
Most of the at-larges fell in the 60s-70s, with numbers 67-73 all in, one an auto (Rider at 69). RPI 60 and 63 were also in, but as qualifiers.
http://bracketmatrix.com/nit.html
Our big killer was the home loss to Wichita State. Otherwise we would be sitting in the low 70s.
That seems like a stretch with a sub-70 NET. I do like Belmont's chances as an at-large (NET #46) though so I left them off the list.
