Miami and Oklahoma both lose at home this afternoon. Certainly helps michigans chances of moving up seed lines.
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Oklahoma is overrated. Iām disgusted their considered a higher seed than us. Thereās no doubt in my mind weād mash them up along with most of these overrated big 12 schools.
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The best part of the Texas win is it looks very likely that will remain a quadrant 1 win for us. If they steal a game on the road down the stretch we should feel good about that W. May end up saving us from a seeding standpoint.
Hopefully, we pick up 2 wins down the stretch ourselves and beat Nebraska in BTT. That should get us off the 8-9 line.
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Big win for LSU against Mizzou. Needed that to keep them in safe range inside the top 100.
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Not sure how much road losses move the needle, but Texas A&M, Tennessee, and West Virginia also all lost, but on the road.
This is exactly where Iām at. I think 2 out 3, plus revenge over Nebraska, can include us as part of the 5/6 seed conversation. Anything less, and we should expect a 7-11 seed. B1G is probably going to be under-seeded this year, no?
This game today will tell us a lot about the trajectory of our teamā¦Iām on pins and needles! Go Blue!
If we can win one of our last three, weāll be doing well, and if I had to pick, it would be todayās game. Thatāll do the most to boost our resume.
Regardless, itās pretty much guaranteed that on Selection Sunday, this fanbase will be outraged because MSU got such a high seed and is in the easiest bracket, and because we got seeded too low and have the toughest draw possible.
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āWe think theyāre already in the tournament, but this win really helpsā. Weāre ranked #22 in the country how on earth is that something acceptable to say as we beat Ohio State down the stretch
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Itās because we recognize that the committee is made up of a bunch of confused old men.
Weāre definitely in the field now, at any rate.
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I donāt think it was inconceivable for us to miss the tournament if we had lost out. Our bracket metrics arenāt as good as our ranking. This completely locks it up now though.
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Because the ranking doesnāt mean anything and Michigan was a little light on quality wins.
Being ranked would imply thereās roughly 21 teams better than Michigan in the country. 36 at-large teams will make the field. Find me the last ranked team that didnāt qualify.
To imply during a double digit win against a top 10 team that thereās even a slight chance that Michigan would miss the tournament is ridiculous unless the conclusion was āthis is clearly a tournament teamā, which is not what was said.
I think the argument worth making was āwere we a tournament team, at the time, before the OSU win?ā which is obviously a yes, versus āare we guaranteed to be a tournament team, regardless of our future record?ā which was up for debate, if we were to lose out.
But to suggest that we werent currently a tournament team, before the OSU game, was pretty absurd.
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So twice in fifteen years. But still, touchƩ haha
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When I read your post, I knew it had happened somewhat recently haha
Michigan has a really great shot here to turn its resume from average to great over the final week though. Win these two games and suddenly you are looking at a top-20 RPI and 5 Q1 wins.
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Going into these final 5 games of the regular season, I thought we would probably go 2-3. Since we are already 3-0, they have out performed my expectations. A split this week would be great.
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I would love to be slotted to play Cincinnati in the second round. They seem wildly overrated right now. In a bracket with them as a 2 or 3 seed and us as a 6 or 7, would be a very promising path to the second weekend.
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Latest Lunardi bracket has Michigan as a 5.
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