These conferences are a mess

K

KosherHorn

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UPDATED after 2/23:

The committee should take an extra week to figure out the bubble this year...

Pac 10:
UCLA 24-3 (12-2)
Stanford 21-4 (10-3)
Washington St. 21-6 (9-6)
Southern California 17-9 (8-6)
Arizona 17-10 (7-7)
Arizona St. 17-9 (7-7)
California 15-9 (6-7)
Oregon 15-12 (6-9)
Washington 15-13 (6-9)
Oregon St. 6-21 (0-15)

Big XII:
Texas 23-4 (10-2)
Kansas 24-3 (9-3)
Kansas St. 18-8 (8-4)
Oklahoma 18-9 (6-6)
Texas A&M 20-7 (6-6)
Baylor 18-8 (6-6)
TX Tech 15-11 (6-6)
Nebraska 16-9 (5-7)
Missouri 15-12 (5-7)
Okie State 14-12 (5-7)

Atlantic 14:
Xavier 23-4 (11-1)
Saint Joseph's 16-8 (7-4)
Temple 14-12 (7-5)
Richmond 14-11 (7-5)
La Salle 12-13 (6-5)
Massachusetts 17-9 (6-6)
Rhode Island 20-7 (6-6)
Duquesne 16-9 (6-6)
Charlotte 15-11 (6-6)
St. Louis 15-12 (6-7)
Dayton 17-8 (5-7)

EDIT on 2/24:
Man, the Big XII is even more of a mess. Thankfully Texas isn't involved.

A&M is in deep, deep trouble now. At 6-6, their next games are home to Tech, at OU, at Baylor and home to Kansas. If they go 2-2 to make it to 8-8 in conference, unless they blow their first game of the Big XII Tournament they should still get into the NCAAs, but that Nebraska loss leaves them no room for error.
 
The Pac 10 is absolutely brutal this year. Top to bottom it's the best conference in the country. Oregon St. is the only gimme in the conference.

The Big 12 is relatively weak, IMHO.
 
I don't think the Pac-10 is that brutal at all. It has one good team (UCLA) and a bunch of mediocre teams. If it were that great, Stanford wouldn't be sitting at 10-3 in conference. Their best out of conference win was by one point at Texas Tech and they lost to Sienna, yet they are dominating everyone else in the conference. The Pac-10 has 4 tourney-worthy teams and a couple of bubble teams. I'm unimpressed.
 
If you watch a Pac-10 telecast, you may see, as I did, a pitch for nine of the 10 teams to get in to the NCAAs.
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Aside from the Big XII-Pac 10 challenge, Stanford's best wins are against Washington State, USC, and Arizona State. Washington State's best wins are against USC, Arizona State, and Oregon. USC's best wins are against UCLA, Arizona State, and Oregon. Arizona's best wins are against Washington State, Cal, and Houston. Cal's best wins are against USC, Washington State, and Arizona State. Starting to see a pattern here?
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i liked seattle husker until that post. i guess he's just all into the hype al all the media is. come back down to earth please. i would wager 20 bucks that no more than 2 teams mke the sweet 16 from that conference.
 
Back to KH's original point: I figure things will sort themselves out. There's still three weeks to go. If not, it's the committee's job to choose but not the committee's job to make a case.

If only four Pac-10 teams or three A-10 teams or four Big 12 teams get in because the teams behind them were .500 or a game over in the league, that's just tough.

BTW, I've watched a few A-10 games this year. The A-10's better than it has been the last couple of years, but the teams behind Xavier just don't make me think, "Wow, the committee's gotta pick those guys."
 
Although the Big 12 isn't divided into North / South per se, the South teams are pretty solid. Kansas, and Kansas St. lead a weaker Northern tier, although Mizzou has bitten a couple of teams in the rear (ouch!).
 
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