Season on the line Saturday

[orangenirvana]

I disagree. See the RPI post. If Syracuse had beaten the Big East teams then I'd agree.

I mean, how the hell did St. John's beat them. That's what will keep th out at 9-9.

Bottom line. Beat FSU and a 1st round ACC opponent or likely NIT

The committee generally doesn't care about bad losses. It hurts a team's RPI but that's it.

Granted, this committee could do things completely different than in years past, but that's usually how it works. "Which good teams did you beat" is significantly more important than "Which bad teams did you lose to".

 

[Knicks411]

I never understand why we insist on doing this thing where we pretend everything happens in a vacuum and what other teams do doesn't matter. This cut line people have created at 9/10 ACC wins is false. The committee is required to pick 34 at large teams. Look at the other teams on the bubble here, especially those considered to be just barely out and tell me that a loss at fsu drops Syracuse behind these teams. Washington? Stanford? Oregon st? St bonaventure? Lsu? These are the typa teams just barely outside looking in. Look at their records/resumes. Most "brackeology" predictions from yesterday had cuse as a 9 seed, meaning there are somewhere between 12-14 teams currently IN the field that cuse was ahead of. I doubt a close loss at unc changes much in that regard. Yes a loss at fsu would ding the resume and a W would probably clinch a bid, but I have a hard time believing that a loss , and even a 2 loss week would drop them from a 9 seed to out with this weak
Bubble.

Especially when you have some people that have been doing really good working looking at the bubble teams on this board and that stuff gets ignored.

 

[Cusefan0307]

People are going to flip on this board (even the people that say we won't get in) if we win at least one more and UCONN gets in and we don't. Our profiles are virtually the same, we beat them, and they play in a garbage conference. People need to stop looking at our season in a silo.

 

[pearl31]

Especially when you have some people that have been doing really good working looking at the bubble teams on this board and that stuff gets ignored.

^^^^^

 

[pearl31]

One thing I will say about this FSU game - sure wish they didn't have a whole week to prepare for us

 

[br801]

One thing I will say about this FSU game - sure wish they didn't have a whole week to prepare for us

You know what they say about Leonard Hamilton when he has a few extra days to prepare.