Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
sugar tech virginia
If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.
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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.
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It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.
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I would say their chances of making the NIT aren't good if they lose their first game.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've seen they were in the poll and couldn't understand why. They haven't done anything special.
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It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.
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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.