ohio St. goes down--#1 seeds?

Kansas has a better SOS. They lost to their what one ranked opponent in BYU. Statistically they aren't ranked very high in many categories.

Duke is probably my #1 right now. Kansas, Pitt are 2 of the other #1 seeds. Texas and Ohio St. have shots at the other #1 but need to finish strong.
 
Ohio St still has to face Wisconsin at least one more time in the final regular season game. Then maybe in the Big 10 tourney.
 
Ohio State should definitely be a # 1 seed, they are only top team whose losses are to very high ranked teams on the road, Texas, KU, Duke and Pitt have lost to unranked teams.
 
Texas may need to win out including Big 12 tournament since they have 4 losses and KU, Duke, Ohio State and Pitt have 2 or 3 losses?
 
Ohio St. would be my pick over Texas right now for that last #1 seed. However they have lost 2 of their last 3. I know they are to ranked teams but that is not the kind of results you want from a #1 seed. They weren't ever within 2 possesions of Purdue in that 2nd half either. That is why I leave that last spot open for the time being.
 
to me, the really interesting thing is that we're now in the last 10 games period, and Ohiost, for example is gonna have at least two losses, maybe more.

That's not a typical #1 seed, imo.

Now that Duke is finally blowing out Gtech, I think it's up for grabs, Duke or San Diego St., for #1.

I'm absolutely blown away that so many high-ranked teams could lose within 14 days of each other.

I still think Duke could be the worst #1 overall seed in memory, if they manage to win out.

Wouldn't it be great to be the #2 seed in the Duke region? I think Duke wins their usual 2 games in the tourney, then loses.
 
Duke has played ONE ranked team this whole season (UNC - ranked around #18) and will only have 1 more. Comparatively, Texas has 7 currently ranked teams on their schedule. OSU has 4. Kansas has 3 (with 2 left). Pitt has 6 with 2 left.
 
SDSUs best opponent was BYU, and they lost.

KU got blown out by KSU. OSU got beat good by Purdue.
Pitt lost. Texas' resume isnt any worse than any of those teams. They lost a close game on the road, not blown out.
 
Joe, thanks for that info. With that in mind, if we win out before the B12 conference champ. game, our last 10 would be 9-1, I still think we're a #1 seed. The question is how will the committe view Duke, let's say they lose to North Carolina, but win all of the rest. They would have the identical 9-1 for their last 10, but then looking at SOS, we should get a 1 over them, but if everybody is 9-1 or worse, it may just come down to the championship game in the conference tournaments.

IOw, maybe Barnes needs to change his approach this year and go all out to win the conf. champ. tourney?
 
I hear what ya'll are sayin' about the dukies but c'mon they are duke.

they have 2 losses and their last one was to St. John's who is beating lots of top teams this year. ACC is a bit down this year and that hurts them but it is a very competitive conference none the less.

A Duke team that right now has 2 losses is going to be a #1. They are Duke.
 
Yeah, to clarify, I was just pointing out Duke's relatively weak schedule (no fault of their own - they played a couple of teams like K-State who were expected to be top 10, and nothing they can do about the ACC not having any ranked teams).

I have no idea how the committee will look at that, how much they weigh the Duke name, etc. Conceptually, a 2-loss Duke is less impressive to me than a 3/4 loss Texas or Pitt would be. But at least in Texas' case, we have 2 bad losses - USC is not a tourney team, and who knows with Nebraska. I don't know they weigh that vs. Texas having more good wins as well.
 
Again... look at Ohio State's non-conference schedule.

For the most part... absolutely wretched.

Let's see how battle tested they are in venues they haven't seen before against a quality opponent they haven't seen before.
 
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