With non-tournament teams stealing spots by winning their tournaments (USC, Mississippi State, Temple, etc), there were very few bubble spots left for us to grab.
Looks like Arizona, Wisconsin, Maryland (#10 seed!), and Michigan took the spots left.
So no Penn State, no St. Mary's, no Auburn.
Oh well, it was a nice run, they fought hard to make it interesting for us and came up one game short.
"To me Auburn is not in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is the people who care about Auburn, the people who love Auburn. Wherever they are, that’s Auburn, Auburn is in your heart. You play for it."
With non-tournament teams stealing spots by winning their tournaments (USC, Mississippi State, Temple, etc), there were very few bubble spots left for us to grab.
Looks like Arizona, Wisconsin, Maryland (#10 seed!), and Michigan took the spots left.
So no Penn State, no St. Mary's, no Auburn.
Oh well, it was a nice run, they fought hard to make it interesting for us and came up one game short.
NIT will do for this year.
Congrats guys.
We never had one. If Tennessee wins the tournament today, the SEC only gets two invites.
Look at how low all the SEC teams are seeded. Nothing above eighth. That's BAD.
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What I want to know is, who exactly decided that the SEC was WAY down? It's like one person said it, then everyone else latched on and just started tossing it out as a fact.
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What I want to know is, who exactly decided that the SEC was WAY down? It's like one person said it, then everyone else latched on and just started tossing it out as a fact.
SEC performance against out-of-conference was the rationale I heard. it was pretty bad.
We lost to Mercer for jenny's sake. That didn't help.
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It's going to have to be MSU for me.....I can grit my teeth and root for UT....
lsu? not a chance. And am I the only one that thought they fell apart there in the end?
We destroyed them and they didn't pick themselves back up for the tourney.
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I guess I should change the heading, i don't think anyone got our spot because i think we were legitimately around #67 to #69 in a field of 65.
I just meant, of the 7 or 8 teams in the hat hoping for one of the 3 or 4 open spots, who got them (since we didn't).
Personally I think the SEC being down was just a matter of watching the teams play. Most of the SEC this year was a lot of solid, decent teams, but not one team above "pretty good" on a national scale....hence the seedings of the SEC teams.
Not only did the SEC not do well out of conference, aside from Tennessee, and kind of Ole Miss, no one even played tough opponents out of conference, which hurts more than playing tough teams and losing to them.
Of the 12 SEC teams, only 2 had non-conference schedule strengths ranked under 160 in the nation, and only 5 ranked in the top 200. Also, only 4 teams had an overall SOS under 80.
For comparison, here are other conferences non-conference schedule strenghts...
ACC had 7 ranked in the top 200, but every single team had a overall SOS in the top 80).
The Big Ten had 9 ranked in the top 200, all but one team had an overall SOS in the top 100.
Big XII had 9 ranked in the top 200, all but two teams had an overall SOS in the top 100.
Big East had 12 ranked in the top 200, with all 16 teams with an overall SOS in the top 100.
Pac 10 had 7 ranked in the top 200, with all but one team with an overall SOS in the top 100.
"To me Auburn is not in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is the people who care about Auburn, the people who love Auburn. Wherever they are, that’s Auburn, Auburn is in your heart. You play for it."
So who got the final spots?
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