Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
dropping ends higher looking seed team tennessee
Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.
came east major might opportunity six teams together top weaknesses year
There may not be any top 25 teams - but 26 through 40, six of them might be in that group. There's been an opportunity this year because of weaknesses in the major conferences, other than the Big East and Big Ten. It's just one of those things where all these (factors) came together at once.
catching seeing signs tech virginia
You're already seeing signs that Virginia Tech is catching Texas.
falling further great hurt last losing strong stuck themselves three
You never want to be stuck in the middle, but I don't see them falling much further than that. They hurt themselves by losing two of their last three games, but their RPI is strong at 30 and they did a lot of great things this season.
data
The more data you have, the better it is.
feather loss team win
A win over Rutgers would have been a feather in their cap, but you can't have a loss to a team which you should beat.
candidate committee game good injuries knows
Albany is a good candidate for that game as well. Also, the committee knows about everyone's injuries and those are a consideration.
beat care collection nice terrible wins
They have a pretty nice collection of wins and no terrible losses. So if they take care of business, they could still be a No. 2 (seed), even if they don't beat Illinois.
kindness remains seen skeptical start teams
I'm kind of skeptical of that. They may not have the restriction, but it remains to be seen how many under-.500 teams start to show up in the tournament.
bracket bumped eight fall far less loss lucky mexico middle performed seed six win
I think New Mexico has performed far too well to fall completely out, but the loss bumped them from about a six seed down to the middle of the bracket at eight or nine, where you're lucky to win one game, much less two.
cal catch catching faint hope southern tech virginia
It's a paper-thin margin. It's irrelevant, because Virginia Tech is not going to catch Southern Cal and they have a faint hope of catching Texas. Virginia Tech isn't going to catch Southern Cal before they (the Trojans) catch Texas.
words
It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.
based four losing losses road strength
It's all pretty much based on strength of schedule. Another thing you have to look at is all four of Pitt's losses have been on the road. In the new RPI formula, losing on the road is useful.
battle closer number three
The battle for number three is a lot closer than the battle for number two right now.