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by ChiTownCOUG · 1/23/2014

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BroncoBot
Something about counting chickens...
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scott715
Right now we are barely in. If they were doing their selections, some tourny upsets could knock us out. We need to beat GU at home and SF on Saturday.
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Gunk
scott715 wrote:
Right now we are barely in. If they were doing their selections, some tourny upsets could knock us out. We need to beat GU at home and SF on Saturday.


We need to beat St. Mary's on the road. A good road win would do us wonders.
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ChiTownCOUG
scott715 wrote:
Right now we are barely in. If they were doing their selections, some tourny upsets could knock us out. We need to beat GU at home and SF on Saturday.

In is in..I agree we just need to keeping getting the W's..
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BroncoBot
ChiTownCOUG wrote:
Right now we are barely in. If they were doing their selections, some tourny upsets could knock us out. We need to beat GU at home and SF on Saturday.

In is in..I agree we just need to keeping getting the W's..

Except, BYU is NOT in... yet. I'll keep the fingers crossed though.
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ChiTownCOUG
BroncoBot wrote:
scott715 wrote:
Right now we are barely in. If they were doing their selections, some tourny upsets could knock us out. We need to beat GU at home and SF on Saturday.

In is in..I agree we just need to keeping getting the W's..

Except, BYU is NOT in... yet. I'll keep the fingers crossed though.

He is like 98% accurate so if he has us in u can bet we prob r..I understand what ur saying
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Mars
Gunk wrote:
Only way we get in at this point is if we win the WCC tournament.

Texas smoked Kansas this week by double digits. Kansas was #1 in the RPI, and of course BYU beat Texas. Stanford is doing well too. BYU has some wiggle room. Just not much.
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ChiTownCOUG
Mars wrote:
Only way we get in at this point is if we win the WCC tournament.

Texas smoked Kansas this week by double digits. Kansas was #1 in the RPI, and of course BYU beat Texas. Stanford is doing well too. BYU has some wiggle room. Just not much.

Standford got some big games coming ucla and zona be nice if they won both..
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Cougarbib
It was too bad that Oregon choked at Arizona. IDK how much it helps us to have a team we lost to on the road do well, but it cannot hurt.
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BroncoBot
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BroncoBot
I don't think it helps either (speaking of oregon's loss to zona). Right now BYU may be the last team in, but that doesn't mean that they will be there in the next month, those brackets are going to be pretty fluid which means whoever is predicting at 98% is going to be changing their bracket a lot before official seleciont. A lot of ball to be played. If BYU won out (meaning remaining schedule and the tournament) from this point forward they COULD be ranked as high as a 7-8 seed I imagine. Or they could do just enough to squeak into the tournament. OR they could lose a few games, and be welcomed back with open arms to the NIT.



I really have not idea how this will play out. Hoping for the best. BYU could certainly make the tournament if they can win the games they are supposed to and win a few of the 50/50 games.
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BroncoBot
Summary of BYU basketball to this point



Record 16-9

RPI 45 (fairly mediocre)

Rank 49 (according to ESPN)



remaining schedule:

SF

@PAC

@SMC

GONZ

Port

@SD



To make the tournament I think BYU is going to have to win all remaining games except the Gonzaga game. If BYU goes into selection sunday tied up with SMC for 2nd place it will really hurt their chances. Beating the zags at home would be nice, but a win at SMC is huge. As is today's game with SF @provo.



In summary if BYU goes 5-1 in the remaining 6 games and that loss is to the zags, I think they've done just enough to maybe make the field of 68.
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BroncoBot
Currently Lunardi has BYU OUT, if they lose to USF. I'd imagine they will be on that bubble the rest of the season.



He also has them ranked #47.
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ChiTownCOUG
Lunardi has this game as a must win for BYU...Pack the Marriott boys..Got my season tix for next year for hoops now too..Can't wait for next season in football and hoops all be at every home game...2nd Row sec 134 iam super happy..
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Wolverine
Out of these 5 frustrating losses...@Oregon, @LMU, @Pepperdine, @Portland, vs Iowa State....which combination of wins and losses in these 5 games do you think would have gotten BYU into "lock" status at this point? IMO 3-2 or 4-1 with wins over ISU and O or maybe even a split with those two would probably be enough at this point, but 2-3 or 1-4 with no win over ISU or O would have BYU right where they are today. What could've should've been :~( Oh well, just win baby. Go Cougars!
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SpiffCoug
Yeah, I think beating Oregon and Iowa State would have locked us in.
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ChiTownCOUG
Just the win over Iowa st prob would have locked it down..
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Cougarbib
BroncoBot wrote:
Summary of BYU basketball to this point



Record 16-9

RPI 45 (fairly mediocre)

Rank 49 (according to ESPN)



remaining schedule:

SF

@PAC

@SMC

GONZ

Port

@SD



To make the tournament I think BYU is going to have to win all remaining games except the Gonzaga game. If BYU goes into selection sunday tied up with SMC for 2nd place it will really hurt their chances. Beating the zags at home would be nice, but a win at SMC is huge. As is today's game with SF @provo.



In summary if BYU goes 5-1 in the remaining 6 games and that loss is to the zags, I think they've done just enough to maybe make the field of 68.


There are 351 Basketball teams. RPI 45 is hardly mediocre. Not elite either. Bubble material. Many teams worse than BYU will make the field of 64 by winning a weak league. RPI of 45 indicates that BYU is good enough to come in and go 1 and done.



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Cougarbib
BroncoBot wrote:
Currentlyin the Lunardi has BYU OUT, if they lose to USF. I'd imagine they will be on that bubble the rest of the season.



He also has them ranked #47.


BYU should be out if they lose to USF. Failure to beat highly ranked teams, mostly I need the road, has not hurt BYU.



Losing to Portland hurt the most. Losing to LMU hurt 2nd most. Losing to Pepperdine hurt next most. Losing to U hurt next most.



BYU cannot lose to another team in regular conference play or in the tournament not named Zags or Gaels and get in unless they beat both of those teams but suffer 1 loss on the road.



There will be several teams dancing that would lose to ISU in a close game at home and to UMASS, Wichita State, Oregon, and Gonzaga on the road.



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