Re: Cats are going to the NCAA

[Chris]

I think you will find that many of the "bubble" teams have similar profiles.
Seton Hall, who everyone seems to claim is in, has only 2 road wins against
the likes of Georgetown and West Virginia. And they have NO decent neutral
court win even. AND we have won several high profile games in relatively
impressive fashion, which is noticeably missing in many other resumes.

If you look at the criteria and historical selections, it does seem the
Bearcats should be in. So I for one will take this as a test of whether the
committee has it in for us (reference previous seedings and bad matchups
against everyone's pick to knock someone off in the second round). Does
anyone doubt that if our name was Duke or North Carolina that we wouldn't
need to sweat for a second with the exact same set of circumstances?

Should be interesting :)

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shinkle, Randy" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Cats are going to the NCAA


> 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.