BG 92 - Bulls 88. Say good-bye to Top 25 ranking.
And say goodbye to at-large bid as well. Have to win it all in Cleveland now.
I agree 1000%. MAC tourney winner is in. As for the rest: none shall pass.
Disagree - IF and only if, UB manages to run out the string all the way to Saturday night in Cleveland without another loss. Frankly, that's sad to me. There is more than one good team at the top of the MAC good enough to beat mid pack or worse P6 teams on a neutral floor. Not just UB, but also BG, Toledo, and Kent.
Fair or not...I think one more regular season loss makes this very dicey for UB to get an at-large. 12-4 regular season and the Bulls are going to have to win the tournament in my opinion. I just don't trust the committee to do the right thing. UB needs to go 8-1 in second half of MAC....at worst.
Two things - first, they can't be 12-4 because we play 18 games in the MAC. Second, like I said in the post about the NET, it's gonna be really interesting if the selection committee leaves out any team that's sitting in the op 35 of it's own proprietary, yet public shared weekly metric. Buffalo is one, but there's also Wofford, Lipscomb, Utah State who are all very much like the Monmouth team that got screwed over a few years ago.
To me, they almost have to make any mid-major that's in the top 35 an at-large, or it completely discredits their entire weekly release of the NET ranking. That said, I have little faith in the selection committee and the NCAA to do the right things, so I tend to agree with your line of thinking.