What Is Your NCAA Tourney Seed Prediction?

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StoopsBros said:
Not to start another argument, lol, but Lunardi is not the best. At all. @TEvans4Three

He's ranked #98 for the last 5 years combined.

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Was going to literally post this link ranking from bracketmatrix...great minds.

So DOM is the best and DOM has us as a 9 seed.

The top 10 brackets have us as follows:
9,9,9,8 (Mar 2), 9, N/A no bracket yet, 10, 9, N/A no bracket yet

From Bauer:

"BIG 12

Time for some much-needed housekeeping; Texas Tech and Texas are locks. The Big 12 blurb of Bauer’s Bubble Watch has often gotten pretty unwieldy to write with so many darn teams in the at-large conversation. Thankfully, the Red Raiders and Longhorns have taken care of this problem with the former closing the regular season strong via double-digit wins at Oklahoma State and vs. Baylor, and the latter establishing a no-nonsense victory over Oklahoma in Austin last Saturday. Metrics look good, quadrants look solid, NCSOS remains disgusting (to be expected in this year’s Big 12) but not disgusting enough to ruin the rest of it. Time to lock ’em both—and finally reduce the word count in this section of the page. Phew.

  • Lock: Houston, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, BYU, Texas Tech, Texas
  • Safe: Oklahoma, TCU
  • Bubble: Kansas State
Oklahoma: Gonna say it again—Javian McCollum’s buzzer beater in Stillwater: saving the Sooners! Packing your bags for Kansas City with that game and last Tuesday’s overtime escape against Cincinnati as your only positive results in the past month of play isn’t exactly reason to feel inspired about Oklahoma, though I think their overall body of work is still strong enough to stay above the bubble for now. They’ve got nine Q1/Q2 wins to their name with every metric but KPI at or south of 40, no losses beyond the top-most quadrant, and a handful of non-conference wins over Iowa, USC, and Providence that may not look amazing in a vacuum but are downright gold nuggets when you consider the dearth of non-con quality across the rest of the Big 12. Win or lose in their opening-round tournament game against TCU, I think the Sooners are probably fine… Probably."

Bauertology: Bubble Watch

Also from Jakelikers bubble:
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Bracket Matrix is a great resource. Right now we're in every bracket, and about five spots above the at-large spots where it starts getting wishy-washy.
Lunardi is a very nice man, and usually has a pretty good handle on who's in and who's out. Seeding is where he falls short but, from where we sit, all we care about is the invite anyway. I hope that changes someday.
 
Just to be safe, it would be nice if all of these teams lost early in their conference tournament:
Seton Hall
Michigan State
Colorado
UVA
St John's

Below the cut line:
A*M
New Mexico
Wake (they play Pitt tomorrow in a defacto elimination game)
Nova
Memphis
 
stormspencer said:
Just to be safe, it would be nice if all of these teams lost early in their conference tournament:
Seton Hall
Michigan State
Colorado
UVA
St John's

Below the cut line:
A*M
New Mexico
Wake (they play Pitt tomorrow in a defacto elimination game)
Nova
Memphis
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Providence, Iowa and Kansas State getting a win or two wouldn't hurt.
 
I’m predicting OU squeaks in as “last 4 in” and winds up playing in the play-in. That’s a lot of teams behind them and chances are some are going to do well enough to pass them.
 
I think we're in. Seems like a weak bubble this year and our scheduling metrics work in our favor.

I'd still say we squeaked in, because losing one more game, we were probably out.

Again, normally there are some mid-major types that I'd say deserve to get in over us, but I'm just not seeing it this year. If Cincy or KSU were to go on a run, they could make some noise. but I think we're likely to be fine.

Those of you saying you want a lower seed because the second round game would be easier, that makes me laugh. The farther we fall off that 9 seed, the more unlikely it is we even win that first game.
 
OUSKINS said:
I’m predicting OU squeaks in as “last 4 in” and winds up playing in the play-in. That’s a lot of teams behind them and chances are some are going to do well enough to pass them.
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Chances are there will be some teams below us that play well in their tournaments and make a move into the tournament. However, historically speaking, you really don't get much of a bump when you win conference tournament games....at least not as much as you might think. A lot of that has to do with bubble teams playing other bubble teams.....and once those bubble teams win a game or two and then step up in class against a superior opponent, they almost always lose those games.
 
I think we should be in, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the committee leaves us out after the last month. Feels like we squeak in, like Krugers last teams. Tired of that as well (as not making it), hope it improves next year.
 
I don't care what our resume looks like, when you have to go all the way back to January 6th to find the second most recent game we won against an NCAA Tournament team, you don't belong in the Dance. That is awful. We've been awful against quality teams.
 
WTSooner said:
I think we're in. Seems like a weak bubble this year and our scheduling metrics work in our favor.

I'd still say we squeaked in, because losing one more game, we were probably out.

Again, normally there are some mid-major types that I'd say deserve to get in over us, but I'm just not seeing it this year. If Cincy or KSU were to go on a run, they could make some noise. but I think we're likely to be fine.

Those of you saying you want a lower seed because the second round game would be easier, that makes me laugh. The farther we fall off that 9 seed, the more unlikely it is we even win that first game.
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I think a healthy OU is better than the six line and can play with the three line. That’s my justification.
 
I think OU is in, looks like a 9 seed. Whether we belong is another argument altogether.
 
I think a healthy OU is a national title contender. We have clearly shown that by how well we played the first 12 games of the conference season. I mean, we beat ISU, BYU … I’m sure there are more. Well, at least we played a lot of close games, like Houston, Tech … again, I’m sure there are more. Surely there must be
 
WichitaSooner said:
I think a healthy OU is a national title contender. We have clearly shown that by how well we played the first 12 games of the conference season. I mean, we beat ISU, BYU … I’m sure there are more. Well, at least we played a lot of close games, like Houston, Tech … again, I’m sure there are more. Surely there must be
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When they move NCAA Tournament games to broken-down, beat-up LNC, and we are guaranteed to play/shoot out of minds, we are absolutely title contenders. Didn't you watch the Houston game?
 
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