OU is getting very close to a hosting berth.

[YCN]

I know, most of you won't take the bait. But this isn't a fantasy.

If the trends I've seen so far continue. OU will host the first two rounds. It won't take much more to get us there.

 

[BigT14]

I know, most of you won't take the bait. But this isn't a fantasy.

If the trends I've seen so far continue. OU will host the first two rounds. It won't take much more to get us there.

If we win the big 12 it's locked in. But we need some teams to get upset in other confrence tourneys.

 

[sybarite]

I think we are a host if we just win one or two. Some of the potential hosts have been faltering. According to the NCAA rpi, we are #20, and we need to be #16 (if that were the deciding factor). With Dayton, George Washington, FGCU, Princeton, and Chattanooga ahead of us, that would really mean that we have made it. GW is the only one of those who was even cited as a potential host.

 

[Mac]

Hosting will be big for recruiting. It'll be good to see the team on ESPN again...

 

[Delta Sooner]

All of this talk is fun, but it's not going to be easy to beat West Virginia and Texas to get to the finals. Two dangerous teams with a lot riding on this tournament.

 

[rocjunkie]

All of this talk is fun, but it's not going to be easy to beat West Virginia and Texas to get to the finals. Two dangerous teams with a lot riding on this tournament.

There's no guarantee that West Virginia or Texas is going to win their first round games either. Any thing can happen in the Big XII. Who thought Baylor would lose two in a row?

 

[sybarite]

I don't think we have to win much to get to host. In order to improve our seed, we may want to win the tournament. But, I suspect that we may be a host if we win only our first game. Some of our competitors probably didn't.

 

[rocjunkie]

I don't think we have to win much to get to host. In order to improve our seed, we may want to win the tournament. But, I suspect that we may be a host if we win only our first game. Some of our competitors probably didn't.

I think the committee will look at those sights and determine who can put bodies in the seats. OU has always had excellent crowds in regional games, that has to have a little say in it I would think.

 

[sybarite]

This comes from the fifth page:

Arizona State (21-3) UNC (19-5)
Baylor (22-1) Notre Dame (23-2)
California (18-5) Oklahoma (15-7)
Duke (18-6) Oregon State (21-2)
Florida St. (22-2) South Carolina (22-1)
Geo. Washington (21-2) Stanford (17-7)
Iowa (19-4) Tennessee (20-3)
Kentucky (18-5) Texas A&M (18-6)
Louisville (20-3) UConn (23-1)
Maryland (22-2) Washington (18-6)

None of these has lost yet.

 

[badger]

I know, most of you won't take the bait. But this isn't a fantasy

I don't see it happening.

The lowliest mid-minor teams could also argue that they are only 3-4 wins away from an NCAA tournament bid. Technically true (all they have to do is win their conference tournament!) but highly unlikely.

It would be much easier to give us the home site if we were on a winning streak since the Baylor upset, but the KU loss on senior night was really a setback. We also looked bad in victory Monday at Pokette.

 

[sybarite]

Looking at the twenty prospective sites: (Bolded)

Washington State 48
#9 Arizona State (rpi #17) 67

#15 North Carolina (rpi #13) 75
#16 Louisville (rpi #8) 77 OT

#6 Baylor -bye (#3 rpi)
When I first moved to Oklahoma, I had never seen a tournament schedule before. I saw the county tournament schedule and asked who Bye was.
Oklahoma --bye (#19 rpi)

Miami 61
#2 Notre Dame (#1 rpi) 77

California (#24 rpi) 53
Washington (#28 rpi) 69

Colorado 68
#8 Oregon State (#11 rpi) 65 Wow!

Wake Forest 68
#16 Duke 77 (#12 rpi)

Virginia Tech 43
#7 Florida State (#10 rpi) 82

Arkansas 36
#3 South Carolina (#4 rpi) 58

St. Louis 63
#21 George Washington 77 (#18 rpi)

UCLA 62
#15 Stanford (#21 rpi) 65

Nebraska 65
#14 Iowa (#7 rpi) 74

Georgia 41
#5 Tennessee (#2 rpi) 75

#18 Texas A&M (#26 rpi)
LSU

#12 Kentucky (#8 rpi) 76
#11 Mississippi State #25 rpi) 67

Michigan State 60
#4 Maryland 70 (#6 rpi)

#1 Connecticut (#5 rpi) ---bye

 

[sybarite]

12:07
Texas A&M 4
LSU 22
!!!!

 

[YCN]

               Conf   All    Rank
## School      W  L  W  L RPI SOS  L15 Attend Rnk *
-- ---------- -- -- -- -- --- --- ---- ------ --- -
 1 Notre Dame 15  1 28  2   1  10 15-0  8,835   5 *
 2 Tennessee  15  1 25  4   2  11 13-2 10,913   2 *
 3 Baylor     16  2 27  3   3  30 13-2  6,536   7
 4 S Carolina 15  1 28  2   4  28 13-2 12,540   1 *
 5 UConn      18  0 29  1   5  44 13-2  8,930   4
 6 Maryland   18  0 28  2   6  15 12-3  4,885  11
 7 Iowa       14  4 23  6   7   9 12-3  5,313   9
 8 Louisville 12  4 24  5   8  52 11-4  9,515   3 *
 9 Kentucky   10  6 22  8   9   4  9-6  6,793   6 *
10 Florida St 14  2 27  3  10  65 14-1  9,515  17 *
11 Oregon St  16  2 26  3  11  53 13-2  4,167  13
12 Duke       11  5 21  9  12  14 10-5  4,851  12 *
13 UNC        10  6 24  7  13  23  9-6  3,467  15 *
14 Arizona St 15  3 26  4  17  37 12-3  3,167  16
15 GWU        15  1 27  3  18  87 14-1    880  20
16 Oklahoma   13  5 19 10  19   6 10-5  5,373   8
17 Stanford   13  5 21  9  21  20 10-5  3,693  14
18 Cal        13  5 21  8  24  27 10-5  2,676  18
19 Texas A&M  10  6 23  8  26  47  9-6  5,034  10 *
20 Washington 11  7 23  8  27  56 10-5  2,289  19

* Team played 16-game conference schedule.
Stats are as of March 5.
L15 refers to a team's record in last 15 games.
RPI is from NCAA.com.
SOS is from RPIratings.com (The Jeff Sagarin/CBN Women's College Basketball Ratings)
Attendance rank is among the group of 20 possible hosting teams.

 

[sybarite]

A&M is the first of the twenty presumptive hosts to go down to defeat, 71-65 to LSU, the second loss to LSU in two weeks. LSU jumped out to a huge lead, and had to hold on. At 8:05 of the second half, Ballard hit a couple of free throws. In the next 7:22, Moncrief was the only person to score for LSU, and she only scored six. LSU simply couldn't hit a shot or get a rebound. But, they pulled it out after A&M got within three. The other LSU guard was Harden.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Syb, I appreciate all that you are doing to keep us up-to-date on the other tournaments around the country. It's very nice of you.

And of course, Norm, thanks once again for all you do to keep us all current on recruiting.

 

[YCN]

Syb, I appreciate all that you are doing to keep us up-to-date on the other tournaments around the country. It's very nice of you.

And of course, Norm, thanks once again for all you do to keep us all current on recruiting.

We have finals on 7 of 20 quarterfinal games in the power 5 conferences. I expect multiple more upsets before the QF round is done.

 

[sybarite]

North Carolina becomes the second of the presumptive twenty to lose, but they lost to Louisville.

 

[YCN]

North Carolina becomes the second of the presumptive twenty to lose, but they lost to Louisville.

That's interesting to mention. I've looked at UNC's non-conference schedule, and it's been decent. But if OU can win two in the conference tourney, I think we pass them in the hosting derby.

 

[Sooner Suzie]

Sorry, I'm just not drinking the Kool Aid. As Joe C. pointed out this week, RPI isn't the only thing considered in ranking teams, and as he's on the men's selection committee, I tend to think he knows what he's talking about. Right now OU is not even in the top 30 in either poll. If OU was picked as a top-16 team, there would be about two dozen teams from just about every conference other than the Big XII raising holy hell with the committee. I think if OU hadn't lost to KU last week, they might have had a chance. I'd for sure like to see it happen, but IMO it's a MAJOR stretch.

 

[sybarite]

What he really said was the some people think that they go strictly by rpi, and that isn't true. He kind of did imply that is was a major consideration along with several other, unspecified things. He did suggest that things like Sagarin, etc., are given consideration.

Fact, it is the NCAA that ranks teams according to rpi, not the media.