Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
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The trouble with figuring out where New Mexico is going is that the women's selection committee's decisions are really tough to predict, and New Mexico has to fall in line behind BYU and Utah. Those teams have to get higher seeds and favorable draws close to home. New Mexico can't be in the same side of the bracket, so their destiny depends on how the selection committee views BYU and Utah.
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Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech is not only behind Texas but Georgia as well when the first release comes out.
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Pitt still has some work to do. They are doing well in a pretty good league. They are in pretty good shape. They don't have a lot of good wins, but they also don't have any bad losses, either. They have good victories over Villanova and South Florida.
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I would say their chances of making the NIT aren't good if they lose their first game.
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This year, the conference is just better. They did what they had to do to earn national respect. They scheduled tough games and they won a lot of them. Even teams in the lower part of the conference, teams like Air Force, really improved their RPI.
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Votes like that hurt the credibility. Whether it's carelessness or ignorance, you can't have votes for Idaho. It only takes one guy voting for Idaho to ruin it for the rest of the 114.
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The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.
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Vanderbilt's got two Top-25 RPI wins, over Old Dominion and Western Kentucky. That's more than a lot of teams. But Arkansas is a bad loss. All the teams that have beaten Vanderbilt are pretty good except Arkansas.
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USC is in the middle of a lull in the schedule. Texas is about to hit a lull.
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More than likely it's just for one week. They are not going to stay there long-term unless they get closer to USC in the human polls.
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There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.
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It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.
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Even if Ohio State is ahead this week, it's no more permanent than Southern Cal being ahead last week.
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I've seen they were in the poll and couldn't understand why. They haven't done anything special.