2024 NCAA Men's basketball tournament

The Dazzlers.

 

Michigan beat #11 Wisconsin and Pitt won at NC State tonight. Helps our SOS.

 

Why?

 

Thanks. Those are compelling points. I wonder, though about that 12-0 Ohio State team that might have been legit good before losing a player or having a scandal and dropping. How would consideration of their end-of-season NET ranking be fair or valid?

And what if Kentucky beat a lousy OSU team early in the season, but then OSU got two key players back from injury or suspension and went on a run. Should Kentucky be credited with a Q1 win when they didn't play the same OSU team that ended the season?

 

Sadly (and wrongly) the NET doesn't give a sh*t about any of that.
Per the NCAA: Game date and game order were not included in the NET rankings so a team's first game counts the same as its 30th.

 

Hmmm . . . couldn't this be interpreted either way? IOW - our Q1 record might be based upon the rankings when the games were played. If the season ended today for the Gators but our opponents kept playing, the Q1 record wouldn't change. Sorry if I'm misinterpreting.

 

I've seen it confirmed elsewhere by non-NCAA sources.
Anyway, the Selection Committee does reserve the right to not strictly go by the math and their own rankings. They can make snap judgements on judgement day, and might take into consideration injuries and such.
As always.
That way, even if Duke is on a 7-game losing streak, they can snap them up and make them a 2-seed by saying that their 3rd-string center had a hangnail but now he's healthy. And because it's Duke, and TV ratings matter.

 

We’re going to be in the tournament, and going to be a very scary team for any of the high seeds.

 

Gators jumped up to #26 in KenPom with the win today.
#17 in Torvik.

NET won't be out until tomorrow.

 

Really cool. Auburn hardly moved. Hard to believe we are tied conference record with Kentucky, a half-game behind overall record, and two spots behind them in KenPom. And Kentucky lost at home today to unranked Gonzaga.

Too much distance to catch Auburn for #4 in SEC, but perhaps do-able for UK. Their remaining schedule looks about as hard as ours.

If A&M wins tonight, they get into the tie for 5th place. But...they're not winning tonight.

 

We're only 1 game behind Awbrin. They're 7-3, we're 6-4.

 

Hmmm, Google lists them as 8-3. So does the SEC page.

 

Correction, Awbrin is 8-3. Still, they're catchable.

 

You are correct, sir. I am a deeply flawed human being.

 

I think we now more or less officially find ourselves occupying "don't do anything cataclysmically stupid and we're in" territory.

 

Gonzaga looked really good for an unranked team.