Sports Illustrated 2011 NCAA Tournament Projection

by **MVCfans** » November 9th, 2010, 6:15 pm

Never too early to start thinking about March.

Wichita State as a 7 seed.
Creighton as a 12 seed playing a play in game against Okie State.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/w ... ?eref=sihp

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by **MSUDuo** » November 9th, 2010, 7:29 pm

Preseason picks from Jerry Palm and Gary Parish:

GP -- WSU 9 Seed, MSU 13 Seed
JP -- WSU 6 Seed, MSU 11 Seed

Have CU and UNI on the fence.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... rojections

by **bigdawg** » November 9th, 2010, 8:07 pm

It doesn't matter who it is but the MVC needs to get more than one bid.

by **unipanther99** » November 9th, 2010, 8:24 pm

bigdawg wrote:It doesn't matter who it is but the MVC needs to get more than one bid.

And that will more or less be decided by what happens the next 6 weeks.

by **hot nuts** » November 9th, 2010, 9:09 pm

unipanther99 wrote:
bigdawg wrote:It doesn't matter who it is but the MVC needs to get more than one bid.

And that will more or less be decided by what happens the next 6 weeks.

Or the regular season champ losing in St. Louis.

by **Unsmooth Moment** » November 9th, 2010, 9:23 pm

hot nuts wrote:
unipanther99 wrote:
bigdawg wrote:It doesn't matter who it is but the MVC needs to get more than one bid.

And that will more or less be decided by what happens the next 6 weeks.

Or the regular season champ losing in St. Louis.

Hopefully the 1 seed doesn't have bad losses on the resume at the end of the year

by **cu8493** » November 10th, 2010, 12:30 pm

I have not paid attention, so can someone enlighten me? With the expansion to 68 teams, I assumed there would be a 16 and 17 seed in each region who would play each other as the play in games. The bracket suggests that there will be two play-in games involving the four lowest ranked automatic qualifies and then two play-in games involving the four lowest ranked at large bids. Is that correct? Has the NCAA given an explanation why they would do it that way?

by **landmark** » November 10th, 2010, 12:40 pm

its so it looks fair to the little conference schools.

by **MVCfans** » November 10th, 2010, 4:58 pm

cu8493 wrote:I have not paid attention, so can someone enlighten me? With the expansion to 68 teams, I assumed there would be a 16 and 17 seed in each region who would play each other as the play in games. The bracket suggests that there will be two play-in games involving the four lowest ranked automatic qualifies and then two play-in games involving the four lowest ranked at large bids. Is that correct? Has the NCAA given an explanation why they would do it that way?

I think it makes sense, in theory at least, to have the last at large selections playing each other to get into the 64 team field.