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[QUOTE="sugrad68, post: 2523879, member: 5600"]
The team I think does NOT deserve a bid is Oklahoma.  They haven't won a road game this calendar year.  3-9 in their last 12 games.  18-13 overall.  They haven't had a win against an RPI 1-50 team in about 6 weeks, with 5 losses during that time.  Oklahoma State is 19-13 with a RPI of 83.  Very soft OOC teams.  Alabama is in now.  Arizona State lost 5 of their last 6 and lost in the first round of their tournament to Colorado.  Notre Dame got very lucky when Virginia Tech decided to stop playing with about 10 minutes to go in the game.  Colson throws in a banked 3-pointer with ND trailing and the shot clock running out.  This was after barely beating Pitt, Pitt's closest loss in the league.

Joe Lunardi is but one prognosticator on the scene.  It will be a crap shoot for all the teams on the bubble.  I could make a case for all teams on the bubble and against all teams on the bubble.  Syracuse is 20-13 and plays in the ACC which has more good teams than any other conference.  On the other hand SU played one of the weaker ACC conference schedules with 2 games against Pitt, BC, and Wake.  And UVA.  SU has beaten Iona, Miami, Virginia Tech, and Clemson which will be in the tournament, and several others like Louisville, Texas Southern, and Toledo which still may make the tournament.  But SU lost to GT, WF, and BC, but all on the road.  SU played other good teams ridiculously close before losing -- St. Bonaventure, ND, FSU, GT, WF on the road, NC State, and the 1st game against UNC.

So to me it all depends on which factors the selection committee focuses the most.   Will the committee look at Colson missing so many games for ND and let their 20-14 record slide?  Will the committee look at Big 12 teams with bias since it is the highest ranked conference?  There are going to be a lot of unhappy teams on Sunday.

The loss by Middle Tennessee certainly did not help SU's chances.
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