With a Bulldog win today, SEC has 5

by SD_UK_FAN on Mar 13, 2010 4:59 PM EST

I believe it was Gary Parrish who said recently that the Mountain West would have 4 teams in the tourney, which would be more than (among others) the SEC. Really? Florida is going to be in. The bubble would have to shrink drastically for that not to happen, and there isn't a lot of bubble left to shrink that far.

Let's do the math, shall we? the SEC has three locks: UK, Vandy, and Tennessee. Florida, in my opinion (as well as a few pundits' opinions), is in as well. That makes 4. Mississippi State, with a win over Vandy today, would certainly play their way in.

Let the rebuttals begin!

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Well now, Vandy has put me on the spot. LOL

Looks like now I’ll have to stand by those words. Yikes!!! ;)

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by SD_UK_FAN on Mar 13, 2010 5:41 PM EST reply actions

I don’t really see how Florida is a lock. Nor do I see MSU as a definite after beating Vandy. I’d like to say it’s so but I don’t think we’ll get 5 teams. Probably 4 but probably not 5.

by Roflectomy on Mar 13, 2010 6:15 PM EST reply actions

Read carefully

I never said Florida was a lock. I said that I and several pundits feel that they’re in, but never did I say they were a lock. I said UK, Vandy, and Tennessee are locks. :)

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by SD_UK_FAN on Mar 13, 2010 6:22 PM EST up reply actions

I read it that way because in the first paragraph you said it as a definite. “Florida is going to be in.”

by Roflectomy on Mar 13, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions

that sounds like a "lock" to me : )

Well, I don’t think they’re a lock OR a definite, if these are in fact two different things. I’m not saying you’re wrong, SD, and the pundits do seem to be saying they’re in. It’s not that I don’t think they’ll get it, I guess, as much as that I don’t see how they deserve it.

by blue kentucky girl on Mar 13, 2010 9:10 PM EST up reply actions

Florida OR Miss St

Doubt both get in.

by FortyYearCatFan on Mar 13, 2010 6:49 PM EST reply actions

Possibly

But I think both. Hell, just conference pride talking here.

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by SD_UK_FAN on Mar 13, 2010 7:03 PM EST up reply actions

That’s about how I feel.

As much as I’d love to see the SEC make 5 teams, I expect it to be one or the other, but not both. Especially with Minnesota beating Purdue and likely getting themselves in tonight.

by Roflectomy on Mar 13, 2010 7:45 PM EST up reply actions

I have to confess, I am not convinced about Florida.....and I hope that Miss St. doesnt need to beat us to get in...

but if they did, I am not so sure they dont take Florida’s slot

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by ALLBLUCAT on Mar 13, 2010 8:46 PM EST reply actions

Going to be tough for both

I just don’t see it. With Houston and Washington getting automatics today that shrinks the bubble a bit. Illinois and Minnesota have both strengthened their cases and Minnesota has a really, really good chance at beating Ohio St tomorrow and taking the automatic bid from the Big 10. They need Utah St to beat New Mexico St tonight in the WAC championship because Utah St is in regardless.

I’m still not sure that Mississippi St is safe even with the win over Vandy. They still have very few good wins and quite a few bad losses. Of course, the bubble seems particularly soft this year with most of the teams doing face plants when given the opportunity to help themselves so maybe they’ll get in.

What helps is that most of the teams ahead of them in the lists I’ve seen have all lost already and many of them lost to really bad teams. MSU’s last loss, should it occur, would obviously be to a really, really good UK team and if they are competitive in the game (along the lines of what Alabama did) then it’s possible even a loss might help push them up a bit.

A lot will depend on what the committee ends up emphasizing this year when looking at those last 4-6 spots.

3 > 2, except for very large values of 2.

by JLeverenz on Mar 13, 2010 9:20 PM EST reply actions

I just saw Lunardi

had Florida as one of the first four out now.

by blue kentucky girl on Mar 13, 2010 11:01 PM EST reply actions

MSU In, Gators Out

MSU deserves NCAA bid over Gators.

by FortyYearCatFan on Mar 14, 2010 3:27 PM EDT reply actions

I think that's true, if it comes down to that.

But, the NCAA selection committee is “off the hook”, so to speak with letting them both in, and for the following reason. The field of bubble teams this year is very weak. Florida has a 20+ win season, which isn’t really good enough to get in. But — do they dis Billy Donovan for another year when they might just as easily not? Billy coaches a major program, and they might just want to throw Florida a bone.

If they do both get in, that’ll be the reason.

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by SD_UK_FAN on Mar 14, 2010 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions