Comments on: Bubble Notes: 3/2/09

By: ch125

ch125 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:37:16 +0000

Favors from all other conferences, minus OURS

Georgetown to the NIT w/ loss to St. Johns
Maryland – missed opportunity against Wake
Cincinatti to the NIT w/ loss at South Florida (176)
K state to the NIT w/ loss at OK State (30)
Notre Dame to the NIT
UK to the NIT w/ loss to Georgia (204)
Florida – another RPI 50-100 loss (88)
Miami – to the NIT w/ loss to GT (159)
Va Tech – missed opportunity vs UNC
Boston College – RPI 102 loss (N.C. State)

Only bad news is that Minnesota won, which makes Saturday’s game that much more important.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:14:09 +0000

Georgetown was already out of it I’m sure. But certainly the others help us out mightily. Won’t matter if we don’t beat Minny.

By: Josh B

Josh B — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:25:41 +0000

Great Tuesday night, teams doing favors for Michigan all over. Cinncinnati loses to South Florida, Georgetown loses to St. John’s, Kansas State loses to Oklahoma State, Maryland loses to Wake, and Duke won.

About the only help that M didn’t get was from Iowa, who found a way to lose to OSU.

Its been said all over this site, but Michigan still needs a win against Minnesota and 1 BTT win. With everything that happened tonight, and a little more help this week, Michigan should be dancing with 2 more W’s.

By: JimC

JimC — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:17:31 +0000

Dugan Fife, on WTKA yesterday, said that from a players standpoint you only want the big dance.
More news: the Pope is Catholic.

By: Uncle Omar

Uncle Omar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:44:44 +0000

I thought all year that 9-9 in conference made UM a mortal lock for the NCAA. I was wrong because 9-9 is not that great in the Big Ten this year with IU losing to everyone. (Although this is something that the Big East people conventiently overlook in reference to DePaul losing to everyone in that conference.) Nonetheless, a win in the conference tournament should do it if it follows a win in the Barn this weekend. What is disgusting is that an 18-13 record this year–presupposing a loss to Minny–is better than Kentucky’s record last year and they got in and UM probably will not. I would suggest that this has to do with Kentucky’s last ten years compared to Michigan’s. The NCAA selection committee has overlooked UM a couple of times in the Amaker Era when it should not have and these snubs tend to snowball. From a coaching standpoint is an 11 or 12 seed in the NCAA and a trip home after the first game to practice for two more weeks as good for team and player development as five games in the NIT including a trip back to NYC? I don’t know the answer, but if Kentucky was worth last year, Michigan is this year!

By: Go Blue

Go Blue — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:52:44 +0000

CR, Raiderfan had some valid points. No need to put words into his mouth.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:36:11 +0000

Nelson has been out for the entire season save a couple of appearances that did not go smoothly.

But yeah, Oakland can put up the points in bunches, Jones leads the country in total assists.

By: Giddings

Giddings — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:13:24 +0000

Big loss for ND tonight, even if they beat St. John’s at home to finish the season they will need to make it to the finals of the Big East Tournament to even have a chance on Selection Sunday.

Also, watching Baylor right now… I wonder what Ekpe is thinking these days. If we make it in the Tourney and Baylor does not (they’re pretty much out of it), will he regret his decision to transfer? Does he enjoy living closer to home so much that it doesn’t really matter? Does he see Peedi dominating Jajuan Johnson on ESPN and think “that could have been me”?

By: GBMDC02

GBMDC02 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:08:20 +0000

Dylan, what are your thoughts about ND (seeing as they lost tonight)?

By: JimC

JimC — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:41:59 +0000

Not one dime!

(Please give a dime to YpsiTuckyBoy for the setup)