Lose out regular season, then a miracle run for the automatic bid.
Probably. There usually is 1-2 teams every year with 17-14 type records. Hopefully we are lucky enough it’s us. I’d say let’s just keep winning at home and see what happens. Would love to steal a road one at the end against OU and maybe win 1-2 in Big 12 tourney.Pretty sure a vast majority of NIT teams last year had 20ish wins.
Lose out regular season, then a miracle run for the automatic bid.
Need to go 5-1 down stretch to make NCAA, our non con SOS was pretty weak and we still don't have any road wins. NIT is harder to project because mid major teams that win the regular season championship, but lose in their conference tourney get an auto bid. 3-3 I think would get us into NIT.
The weak non-con SOS is just part of it, we still don't have any road wins at all and our only good win away from home is Boise State which is a solid win, but it's not going to move the needle too much. My going 5-1 reasoning was mainly just because that would mean 2 road wins. We could go 4-2 and win 2 in KC and I think we'd be in, but I think 2 of those wins would need to be on the road and not just on a neutral site. Of course given how we have played on the road as of late even winning 1 road game is asking a lot.As the potential king of haters for our noncon schedule, we don't need to go 5-1 to offset it. Royce's team didn't need to hit that standard, and neither does this one.
Go 3-3 and get a couple in KC and we're right on the edge or very possibly in.
5-1 would probably lock it in outright, but we don't need to go 5-1 from this point.
The weak non-con SOS is just part of it, we still don't have any road wins at all and our only good win away from home is Boise State which is a solid win, but it's not going to move the needle too much. My going 5-1 reasoning was mainly just because that would mean 2 road wins. We could go 4-2 and win 2 in KC and I think we'd be in, but I think 2 of those wins would need to be on the road and not just on a neutral site. Of course given how we have played on the road as of late even winning 1 road game is asking a lot.
The B12 chances at 8 teams receiving bids would probably much better if the B12 didn't go 5-5 in the SEC/B12 challenge. Overall, B12 non-conference strength of record is pretty solid though.
They were saying during the game yesterday that the Big 12 was still the only league with every team having a winning record.Still quite impressive that Big12 has two teams with just one noncon loss, four teams have only two noncon losses and four teams have three noncon losses. Must be the best nonconference record of any league.
Last year's team also had road wins over OSU and KSU who both made the tournament, now whether you consider those good road wins is up to you, but that's 3 wins on the road over tournament teams. If you have a weak Non-con like we do then you need something else to point to such as road wins.How many of our last 6 tourney teams had good road wins?
Last year had Kansas. The road hasn't been completely futile those 6 years, but it hasn't been friendly. It's not really that important for sneaking in.
If we were talking about a 3-6 seed, we'd probably need something like that. We're talking about getting in as a 10 or 11 here.
Last year's team also had road wins over OSU and KSU who both made the tournament, now whether you consider those good road wins is up to you, but that's 3 wins on the road over tournament teams. If you have a weak Non-con like we do then you need something else to point to such as road wins.