Let me put it this way.
On
BracketMatrix.com, OU is currently the best 9 seed. All polled brackets have updated either yesterday or today.
There are four 9 seeds, four 10 seeds, and six 11 seeds (assuming the last four at-large bids are 11's, which looks likely).
To knock OU out, one would have to believe that after showing a better resume for thirty games, the thirty-first game is enough to move fourteen teams past OU. I don't believe it for a second. You're talking about teams like Providence, who has lost three times to teams with losing records,
twice at home; or St. Mary's, who has only two good wins and is coming off a loss to a team that's not much better than OSU; or Syracuse, who has also lost a couple of games to teams with losing records. And you're not getting to pick one of these; you have to put ALL of them in. Plus 11 others who aren't any better.
As bad as OU may look from close up, there just aren't that many teams that you can justify having in the tournament instead.
I also believe this will be irrelevant after OU wins tomorrow. :OU-logo:
Having said that, if we lose by 50 and key player gets hurt, things can change. Short of something drastic, though, we are in MUCH better shape than about 15 teams around the country who are looing to play their way in.
