The Annual Bubble Discussion Thread - 2021 Version

[syrBossHogg]

Lunardi has SU in the Field now but Louisville still in one of the last four byes.

 

[oTTo113445]

14 point loss. Acc is tough this year.

 

[Tom W.]

Hey folks! Been out of the loop for most of the bubble talk this year, but was excited to see the bubble discussion up to 35 pages! Hahaha. Classic Cuse.

Anyways, here is what I'm thinking for Cuse rooting guide. Seems like less moving pieces on the bubble this year even with the chaos of COVID.

Did I miss anything? I love getting into random championship week games, though it is much nicer not being on the bubble...

3/10-
Butler over Xavier
Duke over Louisville

3/11-
CUSE over Virginia
UNLV over Utah St
SC over Ole Miss
TBD over Colorado St
Nevada over Boise St

3/12-
TBD over Wichita St

 

[hoopsupstate]

Williams on Duke is going to be SCARY next yeat

He’s playing well enough to declare for the draft. It doesn’t take much for these kids to think they’re ready and for someone getting into their ear.

 

[hoopsupstate]

He’s playing well enough to declare for the draft. It doesn’t take much for these kids to think they’re ready and for someone getting into their ear.

I may call him myself!!!!!

 

[OrangeYaGladi]

Hey folks! Been out of the loop for most of the bubble talk this year, but was excited to see the bubble discussion up to 35 pages! Hahaha. Classic Cuse.

Anyways, here is what I'm thinking for Cuse rooting guide. Seems like less moving pieces on the bubble this year even with the chaos of COVID.

Did I miss anything? I love getting into random championship week games, though it is much nicer not being on the bubble...

3/10-
Butler over Xavier
Duke over Louisville

3/11-
CUSE over Virginia
UNLV over Utah St
SC over Ole Miss
TBD over Colorado St
Nevada over Boise St

3/12-
TBD over Wichita St

Tomorrow prefer losses for Miss and UCLA but those are less important than the games you mentioned

 

[sutomcat]

Interesting question.

Both X and SU are 6-7 in Q1+Q2 wins.

But we have played 7 Q1 games, they have only played 3. Unfortunately, we have only won one of them, as has X.

We are 7-1 in Q3 games, while X is now 4-1.

It's close.

Edit: They will now be at least 10 spots behind us in the NET rankings. Good result for us.

As of today, the bracketmatrix has Xavier on 89 brackets and Syracuse on 36. I think as the brackets are updated with the results from today, those numbers are going to be more or less reversed.

It will probably take a couple of days for everyone to update their bracket though. A bunch only do it once every 2 or 3 days.

 

[690West]

Does the UNC game tonight affect us at all?

 

[Briancuse]

He’s playing well enough to declare for the draft. It doesn’t take much for these kids to think they’re ready and for someone getting into their ear.

I hope so he will slaughter us next year.

 

[orangenauburn]

Does the UNC game tonight affect us at all?

Probably not

Maybe ND slides into top 75 Net with a win

 

[Cuse1055]

Does the UNC game tonight affect us at all?

Want UNC to keep winning to hopefully move them up into top 30 for another Quad 1 win.

 

[walsh2012]

Lunardi has Boise and Colo St in the first four which just shows how dumb he is the committee will never do that

 

[blust2i3d4]

Tomorrow prefer losses for Miss and UCLA but those are less important than the games you mentioned

UCLA is in no matter what. Miss is the one on the bubble.

 

[OrangeYaGladi]

UCLA is in no matter what. Miss is the one on the bubble.

UCLA will be sweating a bit if they lose tomorrow

 

[Orangezoo]

It's a shame UNC had so many bumps early on. They look really good and we should have beat them twice for two quad 1 wins if they hadn't slipped up.

 

[Madbiker]

Boise State with 9 Quad 4 wins. Sorry but that's BS. Their resume is not better than us.

 

[rocfan44]

Want UNC to keep winning to hopefully move them up into top 30 for another Quad 1 win.

They need to go up 9 spots.

 

[pearl31]

They need to go up 9 spots.

Decent chance of that happening if the margin tonight remains this wide and if they can beat VT by a decent margin - might require them getting to the final tho

 

[SouthernCuse]

Decent chance of that happening if the margin tonight remains this wide and if they can beat VT by a decent margin - might require them getting to the final tho

We will just have to beat them again then.

 

[jncuse]

As of today, the bracketmatrix has Xavier on 89 brackets and Syracuse on 36. I think as the brackets are updated with the results from today, those numbers are going to be more or less reversed.

It will probably take a couple of days for everyone to update their bracket though. A bunch only do it once every 2 or 3 days.

From my experiences of reviewing it in prior year, at this time of year (the last week) the matrix will only post day of matrixes / sometimes one day old. It doesn't keep the trailers like they do during most of the season.

 

[jncuse]

I keep saying it, but the Big East is that in name only. The teams look like mid majors.

The Big East was a pretty solid conference up to this year in terms of metrics / teams in.

This year it took a fall. No surprise that it coincides with them taking in a new crap stain program.

 

[Canadian]

The Big East was a pretty solid conference up to this year in terms of metrics / teams in.

This year it took a fall. No surprise that it coincides with them taking in a new crap stain program.

NET ranking up to 39 after today’s win

 

[20plus]

Not if Duke wins the ACC

Bs

 

[STEVEHOLT]

So let me ask you this ... shouldn’t your overall rating mean more than your “quad win” breakdown ? Your overall rating already takes that into account along with many other factors ... seems to me like they’d be using the same data multiple times and acting as if it’s independent criteria ..

 

[CuseBBall]

We moved up to 39 in the new NET rankings... clemson is 40. Us and Colgate would be the only teams in the top 40 even close to the bubble.
xavier is at 62

nc state is holding at 72
Unc is close to a q 1 at 32 as well.