http://m.espn.com/ncb/bracketology?iteration=202®ion=2&year=2018
Latest mock has MTSU as an 11 seed and Western Kentucky as a 12.
Latest mock has MTSU as an 11 seed and Western Kentucky as a 12.
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http://m.espn.com/ncb/bracketology?iteration=202®ion=2&year=2018
Latest mock has MTSU as an 11 seed and Western Kentucky as a 12.
Then secure a win over UAB on Saturday...and then they figure into Bracketology consideration.
No, we wouldn't.
WHY NOT?
I will assure you the Herd will give WKU a strong test in Kentucky in a few weeks....providing they take two starting tonight & Saturday. The Toppers can not play anywhere like they did in Huntington.....Charlotte lost by 10 points at home to WKU.... and the 49ers are BAD
IMPORTANT Home games...for sure!
Zilla22
11-6 (13-6 if we win those two games) and and RPI of 110+ (138 currently). There's no chance for any team with that record and RPI ranking to get in the tournament unless you win the conference tourney.
Exactly....The HERD needs to put together a long WIN streak...It's possible! The Golden Retriever (Dan) has some bark in his bite.....
Zilla22
true, hopefully we show well and position ourselves for an NIT this year.11-6 (13-6 if we win those two games) and and RPI of 110+ (138 currently). There's no chance for any team with that record and RPI ranking to get in the tournament unless you win the conference tourney.
Exactly....The HERD needs to put together a long WIN streak...It's possible! The Golden Retriever (Dan) has some bark in his bite.....
Zilla22
WHY NOT?
I will assure you the Herd will give WKU a strong test in Kentucky in a few weeks....providing they take two starting tonight & Saturday. The Toppers can not play anywhere like they did in Huntington.....Charlotte lost by 10 points at home to WKU.... and the 49ers are BAD
IMPORTANT Home games...for sure!
Zilla22
“Golden Retriever”?
Are we just going to all gloss over the fact that he just called Dan “The Golden Retriever”?
The NCAA discussion is certainly delusional. As has been exhaustively explained, our O N L Y shot is "get hot in the CUSA tournament and who knows". We have lost our way out of ANY consideration otherwise.
But I fail to understand this NIT talk. Likewise, pure delusion. First the NCAA does not take the "top 68 teams". Because of autobids, it really takes about the top 40. If you look at the brackets the lowest "at large" teams are usually 10th or 11th seeds. So we have the top 40 teams in the NCAA, plus some autobids.
Now we move to the NIT. Does it take "the next 32" ? Nope. Because it has autobids as well. Any team that wins its regular season but loses its conference tournament and does not get an "at large" to the NCAA gets an autobid to the NIT. That averages about 12 teams per year, winning a one-bid league and losing its tournament. So 32 - 12 = 20.
So 40 + 20 = 60. You are telling me this bunch is in the top 60 teams in the country?
Delusional.
No tournament. Again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oddly enough nothing came up when googling Dan D’Antoni golden retreiever. It does return a nice article from Business Insider on Mike though. Unfortunately no talk of golden retreievers that I could see.In another post comparing Doc & Dan.......................someone referred to Doc as a Pitbull....Dan's personality is akin to a Golden Retriever....
Do your RESEARCH before questioning?
Zilla22
Exactly....The HERD needs to put together a long WIN streak...It's possible! The Golden Retriever (Dan) has some bark in his bite.....
Zilla22
When did I say Danny needs fired? What I said, and still say, is that the delusional green colored glasses crazy optimism about basketball makes us look, with all due respect, like WVU fans, who are, IMHO, the most out-of-touch and delusional know nothings in college sports.
When people start talking about the NCAA, or even the NIT, they make our whole fan base look crazy.
The fact is MU, which is to say MH, is simply not willing, or perhaps able, to put sufficient resources into basketball, such that we have any realistic shot at even the NIT, this year, next year, any year.
I enjoy the games. I hope we win. Go Herd. But leave me out of a WVU-esque requirement that I buy into things that simply are not true in order to enjoy the games.
I will be at opening day for the Reds this year as well. Root like heck for my team. My fandom is not based on having to believe that we are going to the World Series. .500 would be an acomplishment.
The NCAA discussion is certainly delusional. As has been exhaustively explained, our O N L Y shot is "get hot in the CUSA tournament and who knows". We have lost our way out of ANY consideration otherwise.
But I fail to understand this NIT talk. Likewise, pure delusion. First the NCAA does not take the "top 68 teams". Because of autobids, it really takes about the top 40. If you look at the brackets the lowest "at large" teams are usually 10th or 11th seeds. So we have the top 40 teams in the NCAA, plus some autobids.
Now we move to the NIT. Does it take "the next 32" ? Nope. Because it has autobids as well. Any team that wins its regular season but loses its conference tournament and does not get an "at large" to the NCAA gets an autobid to the NIT. That averages about 12 teams per year, winning a one-bid league and losing its tournament. So 32 - 12 = 20.
So 40 + 20 = 60. You are telling me this bunch is in the top 60 teams in the country?
Delusional.
No tournament. Again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oddly enough nothing came up when googling Dan D’Antoni golden retreiever. It does return a nice article from Business Insider on Mike though. Unfortunately no talk of golden retreievers that I could see.
You mean bite in his bark? Golden retrievers hardly bite anything, lol.
IF we beat wku...we should use ucf's model for sports...
Since wku beat Purdue and IF we beat wku, we should be ranked #2 in the nation...
Guaranteed a #1 region spot come tournament time!!!
Haha I bet! Here’s the link to the article I was talking about. Not sure if it’s been posted yet. Has some quotes from Dan in it as well. Pretty good read.No mackdaddypapaw......another poster on HN referred to Doc's & Dan's personalities as being===Doc a pitbull; Dan a golden retriever...I think it is funny and going forward..... I will call my Cuz-in-Law...The Golden Retriever. Believe me, he has been called worse inside the family!
Zilla22
This.
Sam, you are a real puzzle to me. On the one hand, you have excruciatingly high expectations for Marshall sports in general & the basketball program in particular.
...but anything less than 32-0 for the Herd basketball team is a major disappointment?
but if Marshall doesn't bust into the Big Dance every season, we are cursed and unwilling to provide the resources necessary to be "successful".
So, asking to make the NCAA tournament more than zero times in the last 30 years is "excruciatingly high expectations".
32-0?
How about, make the tournament (zero times in 30 years) or even, make the NIT (2 unrelated times in 30 years). 100s of teams have at least made the tournament ONCE in the last 30 years. More than half of the Division has made it once. We have not.
"Every season". How about ANY SEASON? THIRTY YEARS.
But here is the real answer. We have had two long basketball threads and two football threads. Both basketball ones fueled by the same coach relative/poster.
I have lived a lifetime in WV. Almost done. And through my entire lifetime the one thing that has, IMHO, separated MU fans from WVU fans is a grasp on reality. To be a WVU fan, from as long as I can remember, and that is a long time, one has to buy into things that were/are just idiotic. A delusional (and unique to WVU fandom, as far as I can tell from a lifetime of travel and reading other team's material) level of idiocy. Meanwhile, and I take great pride in this, Herd fans know what the Herd is, what our university is, what our state is, and what is going to happen. Frim grasp of reality. Which lead to a great pride in what we acomplish, which, I would say, is MORE WITH LESS than any program at any level anywhere.
However, just this year, we have had two long basketball threads and two long NFL draft football threads that are born of PURE DELUSION. And, I, and several other posters, who simply point out reality, get jumped on for it.
We are Herd fans. We are Marshall. We know better than to conduct ourselves like that crowd. We are the normal ones.
You know better than to admit that we have a pretty good basketball program that is on the rise?
You know better than to admit that we have a pretty good basketball program that is on the rise? It simply is not getting 25-30 wins year right now? Neato bro
Every year it’s ON THE RISE! I’m so sick of being on the rise. Make the GD tournament one time. ONCE.
I think they’re playing better too. But better than shitty doesn’t get me excited.
We are 14-6 and just played in a conference title game you dimwit.