Bracketology 2015...
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Love Palm's bracket, a 3 seed in Omaha with the #2 being a vastly overrated (in my opinion) 'Nova. Yes please!
Yep, because we are ISU.
I haven't looked at all the sites this year, but if it is possible, I'm sure the game will be in Louisville or Cincy or whatever else is in UK's backyard.
I would accept that bracket quite willingly.
Lunardi has ISU in same region with same 1, 2 and 4, with similar possibility of getting 6 SMU in second round — but playing in Louisville instead of Omaha.
I think SMU would lose to 11 Miami (play-in) in Palm's bracket, and 11 Stanford in Lunardi's. For some reason I don't trust SMU to go far. Those 11's wouldn't be easy outs.
Not much difference between playing 14 UC Davis (Palm) and 14 Sam Houston State (Lunardi), although I don't think SHS will get the bid, even though it's in first place in Southland (SFA will prevail).
Kansas is nearing a lock for Omaha, so it comes down to ISU/Wisconsin. It seems about 50/50 if both teams maintain current seeding or better.
Only other contenders for it are WSU/UNI, but one would have to climb to a 3 and ISU would have to drop to 4 or below. (Even then, UW might get it instead).
It partly will depend on movement of other teams nationally, but secure second in Big 12, and it's possible. It may require winning out, though (or no worse than 1-1 this week, then winning out).
I don't understand the point of this question. It's probably a 5% chance we somehow win out the rest of the year, I guess you can always dream. Way better chance of falling to a 4-seed than winning up to a 2-seed. I still think a 3-seed is right, just easier to fall than to climb.
Even if we won out and won the big12 tourney we would need some of the teams ahead of us to lose a couple IMO
2 scenarios I can think of would be
A. Win the Big 12(outright would do it, tied with KU would be a bit iffy)
B. We win 3 out of our 4 road games left, because a 2 seed isn't going to have a record on the road that is as bad as our is. We would also need both Utah and Arizona to pick up another bad loss, and probably need Wisconsin, Gonzaga, or Villanova to stumble a little bit too. We can't finish any lower than 2nd in the conference to have this scenario happen though because we aren't getting a 2 seed with a 3rd or 4th place finish in conference when others have conference championships under their belts.
A severe limitation to being able to climb (even assuming a near-perfect finish to the season and no bad loss in Big 12 tournament) is there isn't much resume-booster left on the schedule (no 1 or 2 seed candidates left to play). If we were in same 3-seed area as we are now, and still could play KU again, for example (maybe to get a sweep), that could help. Even then it's remote (not impossible).
Plus, ISU is fringe between 3 & 4, it'd be different if it was a high-3 right now.
The top 8 has been fairly consistant and the 3's and 4's have been playing musical chairs. Madison is 9 miles closer to Omaha than Louisville so technically Wisconsin and Kansas should get those Omaha spots. If we are a high 3 since the difference is negligible for Wisky I could see us getting that if they are thinking logically (the list mileage to each site by the teams on their cards so it is possible they see how negligable) but since Wisky is seeded before us I doubt they go proactive to help us. Unless the mileage they list is actually to the arena and it works out that the yum center or whatever it is called is closer to wisky. If I had to bet I would bet on us getting Louisville assuming we stay a top 4 seed.
Edit: I ran the milage to the actual arenas.... 443.7 m to the Yum Center from Madison and 425m to century link in Omaha..... yeah I would say we are going to KFC world.
Edit: I ran the milage to the actual arenas.... 443.7 m to the Yum Center from Madison and 425m to century link in Omaha..... yeah I would say we are going to KFC world.
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http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
I'd really like ISU's chances with that bracket.
I'd really like ISU's chances with that bracket.
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