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Post by laaztec on Dec 28, 2017 10:37:26 GMT -8
We all know the MWC regular season title is meaningless in the eyes of the NCAA section committee. The rest of the games in the regular season are just for conference tourney seeding. Just have to win the MWC tourney for an NCAA bid now.
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Post by longtimesdsufan on Dec 28, 2017 11:27:03 GMT -8
After the loss to Washington State a bod was questionable. After Cal is was a fact.
We still could win the MW championship, and that is important. We are deep and could win the MW playoff.
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Post by fisher1fan on Dec 28, 2017 11:48:33 GMT -8
After the loss to Washington State a bod was questionable. After Cal is was a fact. We still could win the MW championship, and that is important. We are deep and could win the MW playoff. See you in LV |
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Post by standiego on Dec 28, 2017 11:50:56 GMT -8
can we get first round bye
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Post by mactec on Dec 28, 2017 11:51:07 GMT -8
On the bright side, being a fan of a bubble team is one of the most stressful fan experiences there is. Lowering your expectations sometimes makes the games more enjoyable as your expectations can only be exceeded. But don't let NCM see that I wrote that.
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Post by richpjr on Dec 28, 2017 15:54:52 GMT -8
Nothing has changed. We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now.
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Post by La Mesa Aztec on Dec 28, 2017 19:55:09 GMT -8
Nothing has changed. We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. That's not true that winning the MGC tournament was the only way in at the beginning of the season. It is now, but a strong non conference resume + few conference losses = at large birth. We got INVITED to the tournament from 2012-2015 and would have been in 2011 had we not won the MGC tournament that year. So for 5 straight recent years winning the MGC tournament was not necessary. |
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Post by richpjr on Dec 28, 2017 20:05:14 GMT -8
Nothing has changed. We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. That's not true that winning the MGC tournament was the only way in at the beginning of the season. It is now, but a strong non conference resume + few conference losses = at large birth. We got INVITED to the tournament from 2012-2015 and would have been in 2011 had we not won the MGC tournament that year. So for 5 straight recent years winning the MGC tournament was not necessary. Sure it was. This team is pretty good, but nothing special and has played like it so far this season. Teams like that from a conference like the MW don't get invited to the tournament. The 2012-15 years are a rapidly fading memory, sadly. |
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Post by heuschele on Dec 28, 2017 23:10:13 GMT -8
It is my belief that if we do not lose another regular season game we would get an invite without winning the MWC tournament.
Do I think it will happen? Very unlikely. The Aztecs have shown to be inconsistent. They lose to Cal, dominate the Zags, then lose to Wyoming. Wyoming is tough at home but we had just dominated the Zags!
Dalton in last game looked like Jimmer did against the Aztecs. I would say that is unlikely to occur again but Jimmer did it twice to the Aztecs in the regular season.
So far this Aztec team has shown me that they can beat good teams and lose to not so good teams. Basically the definition of inconsistent.
So I think we will need to win the MWC tournament to go to the NCAA tournament.
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Post by azteccc on Dec 28, 2017 23:12:47 GMT -8
We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. Anyone who thinks this is wrong and possesses a fundamental misunderstanding of college basketball. |
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Post by heuschele on Dec 28, 2017 23:17:54 GMT -8
We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. Anyone who thinks this is wrong and possesses a fundamental misunderstanding of college basketball. Really? You think if we enter MWC with only 4 losses that we do not get an at large offer no matter how we do in MWC Tournament? I have a lot of confidence we would. Unfortunately I have a lot more confidence that there will be other losses before the MWV tournament. |
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Post by azteccc on Dec 28, 2017 23:19:17 GMT -8
Anyone who thinks this is wrong and possesses a fundamental misunderstanding of college basketball. Really? You think if we enter MWC with only 4 losses that we do not get an at large offer no matter how we do in MWC Tournament? I have a lot of confidence we would. Unfortunately I have a lot more confidence that there will be other losses before the MWV tournament. Reread the psot por favor |
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Post by azson on Dec 29, 2017 9:49:12 GMT -8
can we get first round bye In past years I'd scoff at that, but no longer after last year. Not playing on Wed is YUGE. I have no doubt we're in the champ game last year if we had the bye. |
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Post by aztecnails on Dec 29, 2017 10:54:13 GMT -8
I remember that csu game in vegas 2017 and all the 50-50% calls that went to csu. So officials played a role in that close game.
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Post by jdaztec on Dec 29, 2017 18:21:13 GMT -8
We expected as much before the season began.
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Post by docmm on Dec 30, 2017 6:42:38 GMT -8
Nothing has changed. We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. That doesn't even make sense. Are you claiming that if we'd beaten ASU (and had them win the rest of theirs up to now), won the Wooden and beaten Cal and Gonzaga, we wouldn't have assured ourselves a bid without winning the MWC tournament? Unless you're saying that you're correct because we could still lose 10 conference games, you're delusional. |
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Post by csfoster on Dec 30, 2017 8:40:17 GMT -8
Wyoming played lights out. Very very few teams would have beaten them. Whether we will make the NCAA Tournament without winning the MWC Tournament is still unknown.
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Post by richpjr on Dec 30, 2017 21:06:35 GMT -8
Nothing has changed. We had to win the tournament to get in at the beginning of the year, just like now. That doesn't even make sense. Are you claiming that if we'd beaten ASU (and had them win the rest of theirs up to now), won the Wooden and beaten Cal and Gonzaga, we wouldn't have assured ourselves a bid without winning the MWC tournament? Unless you're saying that you're correct because we could still lose 10 conference games, you're delusional. Since there was ZERO chance that was going to happen, I repeat - we have to win the tournament to make it. |
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