The lead is down to 4 with 6 and a half to go. There's still plenty of time for Maryland to come back. Still, it's a shocker that Miami has led wire-to-wire, up until this point.
War Wagon wrote:The first time I click on one of your youtube links will be the first time.
With that loss tonight, Duke should drop to probably an 8 or 9-seed even though they were without one of their best players. The selection committee should be disbanded if they get any higher than a #7. If you had any other team with a 22-11 record and lost the first game of their conference tourney, they'd be on the bubble...but of course, Duke is Duke.
LSU and Tennessee in OT right now. LSU could be a bubble buster now that Temple has come into his own when Big baby was hurt. They underacheived this year, but they have the potential to make a run in the SEC tourney. We'll see.
Shoalzie wrote:With that loss tonight, Duke should drop to probably an 8 or 9-seed even though they were without one of their best players. The selection committee should be disbanded if they get any higher than a #7. If you had any other team with a 22-11 record and lost the first game of their conference tourney, they'd be on the bubble...but of course, Duke is Duke.
Saying they would be on the bubble if they were anyone else is a little extreme in my view. They hae some very impressive wins and as you mentioned were without a key guy in Henderson. That said they should have beat NC St. with or without Henderson in the line-up.
7,8 or 9 seed sure, but bubble team I don't think so.
Take away their name and you have a team that goes .500 in a major conference and finishes the season 4-8 in their final dozen games inlcuding a very early exit in their conference tournament...those teams are always left sweating it out on Selection Sunday because they aren't automatics into the Big Dance. If you put Duke's resume against other bubble teams, their strength of schedule and RPI should get them in but still, the way the ended the season and how mediocre their conference record was, they should be among the lowest seeds an at-large can receive. Anything in the 8 to 10 range is reasonable to me.
The beginning of February was when we had that 4 game losing streak. This team peaked in the first half of the game at St John's. That was when both the offense and defense were clicking.
I think a 6 seed is about right, and I can see anything from a first round loss to a run to the elite 8.
helmet wrote:
I think a 6 seed is about right, and I can see anything from a first round loss to a run to the elite 8.
Well, anything is possible in the tourney but I think a first round loss is more likey than an elite 8 appearance. Duke is slow and lack the inside presence to dominate the glass over a mid-major. They will exit in the first or second round IMAO.
