Glad we're hosting. I'm not ready for Ohio hoops to be over.

According to their bracket, if we win we'd get the winner of UNC-Greensboro vs. Houston Baptist on March 21.

http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi/wp-content/uploads/s...

And they re-seed the brackets after the first 2 rounds for the semis. They've had this setup for awhile but I think it's weird (though probably mostly in an attempt to maximize games while minimizing travel $).

There are no Saturday or Sunday games in the tournament.

I'm sure that is why, but as we saw a couple years ago, not all of the tournaments avoid having games on the same day as the NCAA. Ohio hosted a Saturday game. And having all the games during the week certainly will lower attendance.

Wow those are some really bad teams at the bottom. Did they just keep going down the list until they got to them or what? Seems like there will be about 100 better programs than some of those teams that won't be in a postseason tourney.

8-10k. Doubt it.


Sometimes you just have to do what needs to be done and whip one on your Albany.

You just do.

Adding to the RPI ranking - I like to look at the composite average (RealClearPolitics style) of RPI, KenPom and Sagarin (using same rankings as Tedd's tracking thread).

Here are the 16 CBI teams ranked by their average, numbers are KenPom/Sagarin/RPI - Average. I've also included all the MAC teams for perspective :

Akron - 85/93/34 - 70.7
1) Siena - 112/123/104 - 113.0
2) Ohio - 129/130/81 - 113.3
3) Albany - 119/124/107 - 116.7
Buffalo - 131/133/91 - 118.3
4) Pepperdine - 135/121/129 - 128.3
5) Nevada - 146/140/118 - 134.7
6) Morehead St - 140/142/127 - 136.3
E Michigan - 152/148/113 - 137.7
7) Vermont - 148/150/126 - 141.3
Toledo - 128/132/182 - 147.3
8) Omaha - 145/155/143 - 147.7
9) Montana - 147/153/144 - 148.0
N Illinois - 164/163/136 - 154.3
C Michigan - 154/159/155 - 156.0
Kent St - 178/171/124 - 157.7
10) Duquesne - 166/158/162 - 162.0
Ball St - 156/162/179 - 165.7
11) W Carolina - 186/205/166 - 185.7
W Michigan - 179/184/203 - 188.7
12) Idaho - 207/208/190 - 201.7
13) E Washington - 191/210/232 - 211.0
Bowling Green - 216/231/201 - 216.0
Miami - 236/229/195 - 220.0
14) UNC Greensboro - 200/234/237 - 223.7
15) Houston Baptist - 276/281/225 - 260.7
16) Seattle - 296/284/287 - 289.0

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Based on that, like I said previously Albany is going to be a tough TOUGH out. However, if we manage to get by them, that second round game with the Greensboro/Houston Baptist winner is EXTREMELY winnable.

Could be either 1 and done or into the semis.

How the heck those bottom 3 teams got into this tourney is beyond me. Eesh.

What a crap tournament field! Why are several teams that are several games under .500 playing in this??? What a joke.

Because it's the CBI - The Crappy Basketball Invitational

The team we are playing on Wednesday is far from crappy. It's going to be a tough game.

Their message board is saying two of their top players are injured and likely out for this game.