RE: Cats are going to the NCAA

[Shinkle, Randy]

Joe Lunardi (ESPN's "bracketologist") said recently that the whole selection process can best be summed up as:

    "Who did you beat, when did you beat them, and where?"

If this is in fact the overriding philosophy, UC is in trouble (IMO).  Here's why ....

UC has 3 road wins:  TCU, Saint Louis and East Carolina.  Two of those are the very bottom of C-USA this year.  The third has since beaten UC at the Shoe.  The most recent of these wins was January 22nd.

UC has one neutral court win:  Oregon, on December 17th.  If Oregon were still considered as good as they were then, I wouldn't be writing this message.

UC has one neutral court loss:  Southern Miss, on Wednesday.

UC's 2 "marquis" wins, over Oklahoma State and Louisville, were both in the Shoe, and both teams have been less than stellar since.

If we could take away any one of 1) the fall of Oregon, 2) the home loss to Saint Louis, or 3) the loss to Southern Miss, UC would be in, with room to spare.  Together, those 3 things will quite possibly keep them out.

Randy '78


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dfairchild [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Cats are going to the NCAA
>
>
> I made a mistake in my previous post - it looks like there will be 18
> conferences with only one bid - which leaves 47 bids to be 
> claimed.  UC is
> currently 31 in the RPI.  If you go strictly be the rpi the 
> cutoff as of
> this morning would be including Oregon at 48 (Weber St has an 
> automatic bid,
> from a 1 bid conference at 39).  The last four out would be 
> Texas Tech (50),
> St. Louis (51), Tennessee (52), and North Carolina (54).  The 
> last four in
> would be Oregon (48), Indiana (47), LSU (44), and Gonzaga (43).
>
> The most suspect of those in, IMHO, are UC (31), ASU (32), 
> Alabama (37) and
> Auburn (38).
>
> UC, Alabama, Auburn, and Texas Tech are all 4-6 in their last 10.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Holdheide [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:28 AM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: [UC Basketball] Cats are going to the NCAA
>
>
> Amazing to see what the Cats fans think about our chances of 
> going to the
> NCAA tournament.  The Bearcatnews poll is tied at exactly 132 
> votes each
> way.