Basketball in the State of Oklahoma

[bocabull]

Uh, actually, both Jerry Palm and Joe Lunardi have TU in as an 11 seed as of today.

Like has been said, they need to keep winning, but if they finish strong, I think they can get in without winning their tourney. ESPECIALLY if they finish in 1st during the regular season.

Palm & Lunardi have them in what? Their way too early fictional bracket? The committee has been very transparent how important performance in the last 10 games are for bubble teams. That stretch just began. Tulsa is no better than 50-50 to get in. If they win 4 of the 5 games Jeff listed they will get in. If the lose 3 of those 5 they won't unless they win the conference tournament.

I sure wouldn't place a bet on a team that list to SE Oklahoma State and was just recently taken to OT by 7-17 South Florida at home.

 

[coolm]

I would have sworn that happened too but I thought it was in the 90s. Apparently we both remember incorrectly.

After the Mark Price years at Enid High I was really into keeping up with college ball more than I had been and I remember watching OU and Tulsa and ORU all 3 in their tournament games (parts of Tulsa's and ORU's). I was thinking OSU was there too ... but that might have been the Hansen years I guess. I do remember watching that OSU/Mizzou 3OT game really well ... maybe that was the year before and I am mixing them up.

 

[skyvue]

Nicely played.

(Thanks! I do what I can.)

 

[sheepdogs1]

Palm & Lunardi have them in what? Their way too early fictional bracket? The committee has been very transparent how important performance in the last 10 games are for bubble teams. That stretch just began. Tulsa is no better than 50-50 to get in. If they win 4 of the 5 games Jeff listed they will get in. If the lose 3 of those 5 they won't unless they win the conference tournament.

I sure wouldn't place a bet on a team that list to SE Oklahoma State and was just recently taken to OT by 7-17 South Florida at home.

Soup Nazi Invitational (turning down an invite is verboten).

 

[DenverSooner]

Not necessarily.

Their schedule is back-loaded with high RPI teams. They still have left:

@ #98 UConn (tough, but winnable)
@ #85 Memphis (they destroyed Memphis at home)
vs. #27 Cincinnati
vs. #36 Temple (they already won at Temple)
@ #22 SMU

They still have 3 RPI top 50 wins they could get out there, plus two other top 100 wins.

If they can manage to win, say, 4 of these 5 games (very doable for them), they would be in good shape, IMO.

I agree. Multiple teams from that conference will make the tournament.
Tulsa has five non conference losses but three of them are OSU, OU and Wichita State. Tulsa should not be penalized for playing all of the toughest competition in the region.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Palm & Lunardi have them in what? Their way too early fictional bracket? The committee has been very transparent how important performance in the last 10 games are for bubble teams. That stretch just began. Tulsa is no better than 50-50 to get in. If they win 4 of the 5 games Jeff listed they will get in. If the lose 3 of those 5 they won't unless they win the conference tournament.

I sure wouldn't place a bet on a team that list to SE Oklahoma State and was just recently taken to OT by 7-17 South Florida at home.

Dude, you do this every year.

You never think this or that bubble teams will get in because you compare them with teams that have strong resumes.

You also cherry-pick this game or that game to prove your point instead of looking at a team's complete body of work.

Tulsa is in a fine position to get an at-large bid. Their RPI is good enough that all they have to do is take care of business and they're in.

 

[bocabull]

RPI, conference record and wins against top 50 teams are a teams complete body of work. A team from the 8th ranked conference with a 47 RPI, only 1 top 50 win and multiple terrible losses is historically on very shaky ground. The only reason Tulsa is considered in as of now is due to their conference record. If that slips at all their out.

 

[bocabull]

Dude, you do this every year.

You never think this or that bubble teams will get in.

Like SMU last year?

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[skyvue]

Tulsa lost to UConn by 25 tonight.

 

[HoHum]

This is true because there are blockheads like you who don't have a clue how the system works. And just like SMU last year I'm almost always correct. This is not rocket science for anybody who understands junior high math. As an aggy your excused.

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There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in your last few posts. What is your excuse?

 

[sheepdogs1]

Tulsa lost to UConn by 25 tonight.

30% shooting over their past two games. Woof!

 

[BigTime]

There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in your last few posts. What is your excuse?

What is your point?

 

[oSuJeff97]

Tulsa lost to UConn by 25 tonight.

Yep.

Terrible loss for them.

That game did NOT fall under the category of "taking care of business."

 

[WTSooner]

Yep.

Terrible loss for them.

That game did NOT fall under the category of "taking care of business."

Nope. Hate to say it, but that one loss might be enough to mean they'd have to win the conference tourney to get in. Certainly cannot afford another regular season loss.

 

[DenverSooner]

Nope. Hate to say it, but that one loss might be enough to mean they'd have to win the conference tourney to get in. Certainly cannot afford another regular season loss.

I disagree and I don't like Tulsa. They are tied for first in their conference. I think if they finish in the top 3 they will get in. I know they have some bad out of conference losses but three of their out of conference losses are against really good teams.

 

[WTSooner]

I disagree and I don't like Tulsa. They are tied for first in their conference. I think if they finish in the top 3 they will get in. I know they have some bad out of conference losses but three of their out of conference losses are against really good teams.

Not gonna happen. That conference, this year, is getting one, maybe two teams if Tulsa can get in (either auto bid, or finish out winning but not win the conf tourney).

They are only an 11 seed currently, after being first in the league and losing one game off a 12 game win streak. They just don't have the resume wins, and they have two bad losses, to get in if they don't win out. JMO.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Not gonna happen. That conference, this year, is getting one, maybe two teams if Tulsa can get in (either auto bid, or finish out winning but not win the conf tourney).

I disagree. SMU (RPI #24) and Cincinnati (RPI #29) are both solidly "in" right now; Temple (RPI #32) is on the bubble, but every bracketologist currently has them in.

Tulsa could still play their way in as a 4th AAC team without getting the auto bid, but they have little margin for error. They absolutely HAVE to beat both Cincy and Temple in their upcoming home games. They may also need to win at SMU, depending on what other bubble teams do.

Point being is that I don't think Tulsa HAS to "win out", but the only game they have left that may be "OK" to drop is the game at SMU.

 

[DenverSooner]

Not gonna happen. That conference, this year, is getting one, maybe two teams if Tulsa can get in (either auto bid, or finish out winning but not win the conf tourney).

They are only an 11 seed currently, after being first in the league and losing one game off a 12 game win streak. They just don't have the resume wins, and they have two bad losses, to get in if they don't win out. JMO.

I think that conference will get more than 2 teams. I don't really want them to because it could cost the Big XII a 7th team.

 

[scrybe]

There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in your last few posts. What is your excuse?

What is your point?

Though I'm not often one to jump to our aggie brethren's defense, I'll have to do so on this occasion.

If boca is going to call posters who don't agree with him "blockheads" and question their ability to perform even the most rudimentary math, then he needs to be able to exercise spelling and grammar skills that approach at least a third-grade level.

I'd opine that questioning one's spelling/grammar is equally relevant to questioning another's math skills. JMO, though.