NU still solidly in NCAAs after IU loss; may not need another win after all

[ParisCat]

Back down to a #8 seed per Jerry Palm today, facing #9 VCU in Salt Lake City. 15 teams are on the bubble; we're not one of them.

 

[Sec.112]

... I prefer to wait until the dust settles and see what happens rather than project doom and gloom.

I'd prefer ... if they shoot in the high 30s from 3 and WIN ONE FRIGGIN' GAME!!

I just had to say that. Sorry.

 

[Fitz51]

Just win one game so we can all shut up. That is all.

 

[ubercat]

"All" shut up? Good luck with that.

 

[Figrating]

The Crisis Clinic is on fire and floating over the falls. But everything is all right. Somehow I don't feel reassured yet...

 

[phatcat]

Under your "lose out" scenario, there's a good chance that ILL would go into the BTT as the #8 seed, playing NU as the #9 seed, which means ILL would have a chance to beat NU for the third time. Yikes!

Despite any "Palm reading", I don't see us getting in if we lose out, and I feel we will lose out. Too many years of beatings, this abused child is cringing from the next blow

 

[willycat]

Despite any "Palm reading", I don't see us getting in if we lose out, and I feel we will lose out. Too many years of beatings, this abused child is cringing from the next blow

Hope your enthusiasm is not contagious.

 

[TheC]

Hope your enthusiasm is not contagious.

Even if we do get in, I suspect there is a whole slew of us older fans who will need some kind of group therapy to be able to accept that it is real.

 

[NJCat]

Even if we do get in, I suspect there is a whole slew of us older fans who will need some kind of group therapy to be able to accept that it is real.

Fake Bid.

 

[Wrestlerneverdiesasacatfan]

Just win one game so we can all shut up. That is all.

Just one friggen game and I can sleep!

 

[NJCat]

Just one friggen game and I can sleep!

Don't sleep on Michigan!!

 

[SmellyCat]

Even if we do get in, I suspect there is a whole slew of us older fans who will need some kind of group therapy to be able to accept that it is real.

^^This^^

I met my wife long after 1995, so she doesn't quite know what she's getting into. She knows how devastated I am by the losses, but she's really going to be sick of me if NU is a tourney team.

 

[mikewebb68]

Anyone who thinks that a team can get a bid by finishing its regular season wining ONLY TWO of it's final NINE games, one against the weakest team in its league, (2/9=.222 win percentage) -- with exactly ONE 'good' win for the season, which everyday looks less good given the badgers falling fortunes -- is deluding him/herself or smoking "something".

Iowa got in only winning 3 of its final 10 regular season games just a few years ago, and then lost in the opening round of the BTT decisively to us to make it 3 of their last 11 (and the loss to us was a BAD loss). I thought of that example off of the top of my head, so I am certain there are others. But feel free to keep sharing your opinion without having it align with actual facts-- sounds like YOU are the one who is smoking something.