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My current s-curve:

1 - 1)Virginia 2)Villanova 3)Kansas 4)Xavier
2 - 8)Purdue 7)Cincinnati 6)Duke 5)UNC
3 - 9)Auburn 10)Mich St 11)Tenn 12)WVU
4 - 16)Nev 15)Houston 14)Wich St 13)TT
 
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BruinVol said:
I would like to know the worst a top 4 RPI league champ has been seeded.
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I’m not sure...but a couple things, would it hurt that it’s a co-champ? Not apples to apples verse an outright. Also, this is the first year they’ve moved a little away from RPI, so also might not be apples to apples.

Tennessee just needs to keep winning, there’s a lot of things that could happen in our favor to get us to Nashville and we only need 1-2 of them to happen if we continue to win...

Loser of Duke/UNC game has early exit in ACCT, opening up the door for us to move ahead.

Michigan State and/or Purdue has an early exit in Big10T, opening door for us to move ahead.

Auburn loses once in the next 2 games, opening the door for us to move ahead.

Cincinnati loses to Wichita State this weekend, or they lose in AACT.


In short, I don’t see all the teams ahead of us finishing strong, if Tennessee wins Saturday it will open the door heading into SECT. I could be wrong but I think ultimately 2-1 in our next 3 will land us in Nashville as a 3 seed, JMO.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
I’m not sure...but a couple things, would it hurt that it’s a co-champ? Not apples to apples verse an outright. Also, this is the first year they’ve moved a little away from RPI, so also might not be apples to apples.

Tennessee just needs to keep winning, there’s a lot of things that could happen in our favor to get us to Nashville and we only need 1-2 of them to happen if we continue to win...

Loser of Duke/UNC game has early exit in ACCT, opening up the door for us to move ahead.

Michigan State and/or Purdue has an early exit in Big10T, opening door for us to move ahead.

Auburn loses once in the next 2 games, opening the door for us to move ahead.

Cincinnati loses to Wichita State this weekend, or they lose in AACT.


In short, I don’t see all the teams ahead of us finishing strong, if Tennessee wins Saturday it will open the door heading into SECT. I could be wrong but I think ultimately 2-1 in our next 3 will land us in Nashville as a 3 seed, JMO.
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That is why I have continued to say that winning in the SECT will help us more than losing will hurt us.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
I’m not sure...but a couple things, would it hurt that it’s a co-champ? Not apples to apples verse an outright. Also, this is the first year they’ve moved a little away from RPI, so also might not be apples to apples.

Tennessee just needs to keep winning, there’s a lot of things that could happen in our favor to get us to Nashville and we only need 1-2 of them to happen if we continue to win...

Loser of Duke/UNC game has early exit in ACCT, opening up the door for us to move ahead.

Michigan State and/or Purdue has an early exit in Big10T, opening door for us to move ahead.

Auburn loses once in the next 2 games, opening the door for us to move ahead.

Cincinnati loses to Wichita State this weekend, or they lose in AACT.


In short, I don’t see all the teams ahead of us finishing strong, if Tennessee wins Saturday it will open the door heading into SECT. I could be wrong but I think ultimately 2-1 in our next 3 will land us in Nashville as a 3 seed, JMO.
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When I say champion is am saying who the committee sees as the number one seed in a tie scenario. For now that is auburn via their win on our home court and their Q1 record.


My main point is American is ranked 7th and the Big10 is ranked 6th while we are 4th. Our best team isn't going be behind the Big10 2nd place team IMO
 
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I wish we got more credit and notoriety for the fact that we've only played 4 teams (out of 30) with RPI's outside of 150. And two of those are in the 160s (@GT-163, and Mercer-169).

High Point and Presbyterian are the only two cupcakes we played all year, and we did exactly what you're supposed to do in those type games; win by 30+ points.
 
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BruinVol said:
When I say champion is am saying who the committee sees as the number one seed in a tie scenario. For now that is auburn via their win on our home court and their Q1 record.


My main point is American is ranked 7th and the Big10 is ranked 6th while we are 4th. Our best team isn't going be behind the Big10 2nd place team IMO
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That’s a pretty big assumption considering committee says conference affiliation means nothing, but hopefully you’re correct.
 
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If Michigan State (Maryland/Wisconsin) or Purdue (Rutgers/Minnesota/Indiana) loses their opening Big 10 tournament game then I think it opens the door. If they win just 1 game then I think outside of winning the SECT it will be hard to catch them.

To me the most likely teams we could catch is the loser of UNC/Duke, Cincinnati and Auburn.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I wish we got more credit and notoriety for the fact that we've only played 4 teams (out of 30) with RPI's outside of 150. And two of those are in the 160s (@GT-163, and Mercer-169).

High Point and Presbyterian are the only two cupcakes we played all year, and we did exactly what you're supposed to do in those type games; win by 30+ points.
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No doubt. When you are making that schedule, you don't even think that GTech would be that bad.
 
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I think the odds of being the in the Atlanta region are higher than us playing the first two rounds in Nashville.

Which if I had to pick is what I would prefer.
 
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golfballs said:
As a 3 seed I would take my chances playing elsewhere. Certainly as a 2 as well. It’s not like we don’t play well away from TBA
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I agree but we all know how tourney upsets work. We can get upset anywhere but some kind of home court advantage would be nice. I will take the bird in hand mentality in wanting it the first 2 rounds
 
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BruinVol said:
I agree but we all know how tourney upsets work. We can get upset anywhere but some kind of home court advantage would be nice. I will take the bird in hand mentality in wanting it the first 2 rounds
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I would hope we wouldn’t have to play TCU in Dallas for our second round game...
 
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