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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3301621, member: 27"] Good job listing the schools we would be in competition with for an at large bid. There is no question that the road to getting one is tough. You say at 19-12, we would have 1 win over an NCAAT team. I assume based on earlier posts, you consider UVa to be that team. Do you not think Colgate is getting a bid? They are 21-7, 12-3 in the Patriot League, up 2 games on everyone else and barring a major upset in the Patriot League tournament, they are in. Also, North Florida has been doing really well in their conference. They are 12-3, neck and neck with Liberty for first place in the ASUN. and I think most experts expect the bid for that conference to go to one of those teams. Lastly. I don’t think anyone is saying we would get a bid based on a 19-12 regular season. What some are saying, and I join them in this, is that if we go 4-0 to close out the regular season and [B]also[/B] get 2 wins in the ACCT, to get to 21-12, we might have a chance. In that event, Syracuse would have another win over an NCAAT team in Virginia. Some of the teams on your list are going to finish up 2-5 or 3-4. A couple might finish 1-6. That will help a lot. In the end, I think the ACC, perhaps unfairly, will end up getting 5 teams in. NC State has pulled well in front of us with their win at the Dome and their win over Duke, but they have some bad losses and maybe we can squeak by them if they lose to UNC and Duke down the stretch and do not have a good ACCT. That would give them a 19-12/8-10 regular season record, so if they do poorly in the ACCT, we would have a better overall record and a far better conference record. I think getting the 5 seed and establishing ourselves as the 5th best team in the ACC is our best hope towards getting a bid. It is a long shot but I do think it is a possibility. It will get more interesting if NC State loses against to UNC (among their bad losses are getting swept by GT and possibly getting swept by UNC). [/QUOTE]

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