Bracketology 2012-2013

[shocker3]

New Lunardi is out, and illustrates a fickle points with the bracket:

WSU stays as a 5 seed, but this time gets sent to San Jose instead of Kansas City.

Why?

Because of changes around them. Wichita gets procedured into a western sub-regional because the other three 5-seeds (a B1G team, ACC team, and BEast team) can't be in that region because their conference mates are the 1, 2 and 3 seeds in the region, and the "top 3 in conference" rule means Wichita is forced to travel west.

The point? Get to the 4 line.

Lunardi also has 3 Valley teams in the dance in his latest bracket. Besides WSU as a #5 seed, he has Creighton as a #6 and the Sycamores in as a #12.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

[TheAsianSensation]

I think I may take the week off and pound away every week starting 2/10.

Glimmer of hope for ISU: Remember, you guys have not one, but two Top 25 wins. And not just that, you have two road/neutral top 25 wins. That's significant.

[TheAsianSensation]

Well, that's the end of the Kansas City subregional sideplot for Wichita.

[bradley_brave1989]

Pry drops WSU down two lines, maybe three with wins for UK and UNC tonight

[shoxrox]

Well, that's the end of the Kansas City subregional sideplot for Wichita.

What if UMKC sneaks in to the NIT and hosts?

[TheAsianSensation]

Pry drops WSU down two lines, maybe three with wins for UK and UNC tonight

UNC yes, Kentucky no.

But that was a 2-line loss right there. WSU needs a rather immediate quality win via BB to erase this on-er, wait....

[TheAsianSensation]

By the way, this probably takes Indiana St down a seed line too (and careering out of the tourney depending on your cutline). A large portion of their profile is predicated upon @WSU being a signature win.

[bradley_brave1989]

By the way, this probably takes Indiana St down a seed line too (and careering out of the tourney depending on your cutline). A large portion of their profile is predicated upon @WSU being a signature win.

great point, how shiny is that Miami win though?

[Jet915]

Pry drops WSU down two lines, maybe three with wins for UK and UNC tonight

UNC yes, Kentucky no.

But that was a 2-line loss right there. WSU needs a rather immediate quality win via BB to erase this on-er, wait....

Bracketbusters probably just turned into a must win for WSU to stay off the bubble.

[TheAsianSensation]

By the way, this probably takes Indiana St down a seed line too (and careering out of the tourney depending on your cutline). A large portion of their profile is predicated upon @WSU being a signature win.

great point, how shiny is that Miami win though?

It's like a headlight.

The problem is you need two headlights on a car.

As for Wichita, they're still 2 bad losses away from being in legitimate trouble. There's enough goodwill there - they're basically a rich-man's Indiana St, 3-0 against RPI top 50, a lot of overall good in the profile. You don't go from the 4 line to out in 2 weeks.