Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
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.
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.
ahead either help higher however ninth polls teams
They are going to need to get higher in the polls than ninth or 10th, however that happens. Either teams ahead of them need to lose, or the pollsters would need to help them out.
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.
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.
bid given three
They haven?t given a bid to a (team that finished) 3-7 in three years.
mediocrity tough year
There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.
decent few help next opponent playing surprise texas week
The thing is, Texas is playing a decent opponent this week (No. 24 Colorado), and that will probably help Texas, at least this week. It would not surprise me if Texas fluctuates over the next few weeks.
sugar tech virginia
If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.
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.
poll seen understand
I've seen they were in the poll and couldn't understand why. They haven't done anything special.
words
It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.
computer current ends gap human last number polls scenario six tech texas third three virginia year
If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.
oklahoma usc
It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.