Arch madness seeding

[BuBrave2006]

Did Ronnie Russou leave the team?

Yes

[BirdsEyeView]

I received my all-session tickets today for Arch Madness. I would assume the seating chart would be out soon then?

[Cdizzle]

I received my all-session tickets today for Arch Madness. I would assume the seating chart would be out soon then?

Usually right about this time. I'd guess within the next week.

[uniftw]

I wouldn't lock UNI into that mix just yet...if BU wins Wednesday and loses Saturday, UNI will likely still need to beat BU next week to get out of PIG mess for good. FWIW, I think MSU and Lusk are the real candidates to go 1-5 down the stretch and play on Thursday. Marty did BU a big favor Saturday. BU fans are big SIU fans the rest of the way against whoever they play until mvc tourney as well.

UNI won tonight
Loyola lost tonight
SIU lost tonight (to UNI)
Drake last last night
Chance are MSU loses tomorrow.

UNI is currently your three seed as UNI holds a season sweep of SIU as a tie break.

Likely seedsthis time tomorrow after the top 2

3. UNI 7-6 with tie break over SIU
4. SIU 7-6
5. MSU 6-7
6. Loyola 6-7
7. Drake 5-8
8. Bradley 4-9
9. Evansville 3-10
10. Indiana State 3-10

A loss Saturday certainly could change things but as of now I'd bet Hacksaws chart will have UNI at about a 4% Hamer of landing in the PIG. 3 of the next 4 are MSU, Bradley and ISUb. I think a win Saturday might lock us out.

[Redbirds4Life]

I wouldn't lock UNI into that mix just yet...if BU wins Wednesday and loses Saturday, UNI will likely still need to beat BU next week to get out of PIG mess for good. FWIW, I think MSU and Lusk are the real candidates to go 1-5 down the stretch and play on Thursday. Marty did BU a big favor Saturday. BU fans are big SIU fans the rest of the way against whoever they play until mvc tourney as well.

UNI won tonight
Loyola lost tonight
SIU lost tonight (to UNI)
Drake last last night
Chance are MSU loses tomorrow.

UNI is currently your three seed as UNI holds a season sweep of SIU as a tie break.

Likely seedsthis time tomorrow after the top 2

3. UNI 7-6 with tie break over SIU
4. SIU 7-6
5. MSU 6-7
6. Loyola 6-7
7. Drake 5-8
8. Bradley 4-9
9. Evansville 3-10
10. Indiana State 3-10

A loss Saturday certainly could change things but as of now I'd bet Hacksaws chart will have UNI at about a 4% Hamer of landing in the PIG. 3 of the next 4 are MSU, Bradley and ISUb. I think a win Saturday might lock us out.

I think that if UNI can take care of business in the 3 games against the bottom teams, they will avoid the PIG. 10-8 wont be in a PIG.

I think that it is looking like BU, Evans, and Ind St. as locks and team 4 probably being Drake at the end of the day...although, Drake doesn't play any of the top 4 the rest of the way.

[SubGod22]

Are MSU fans kinda hoping that they're in the PIG? It sounds like that would mean the end of Lusk.

[BCPanther]

I wouldn't lock UNI into that mix just yet...if BU wins Wednesday and loses Saturday, UNI will likely still need to beat BU next week to get out of PIG mess for good. FWIW, I think MSU and Lusk are the real candidates to go 1-5 down the stretch and play on Thursday. Marty did BU a big favor Saturday. BU fans are big SIU fans the rest of the way against whoever they play until mvc tourney as well.

UNI won tonight
Loyola lost tonight
SIU lost tonight (to UNI)
Drake last last night
Chance are MSU loses tomorrow.

UNI is currently your three seed as UNI holds a season sweep of SIU as a tie break.

Likely seedsthis time tomorrow after the top 2

3. UNI 7-6 with tie break over SIU
4. SIU 7-6
5. MSU 6-7
6. Loyola 6-7
7. Drake 5-8
8. Bradley 4-9
9. Evansville 3-10
10. Indiana State 3-10

A loss Saturday certainly could change things but as of now I'd bet Hacksaws chart will have UNI at about a 4% Hamer of landing in the PIG. 3 of the next 4 are MSU, Bradley and ISUb. I think a win Saturday might lock us out.

I think that if UNI can take care of business in the 3 games against the bottom teams, they will avoid the PIG. 10-8 wont be in a PIG.

I think that it is looking like BU, Evans, and Ind St. as locks and team 4 probably being Drake at the end of the day...although, Drake doesn't play any of the top 4 the rest of the way.

Read Hacksaw's stuff.

7 wins might get you out of Thursday, 8 does for sure.

When you have two teams that are going to have over a 3rd of the total wins, it makes the records at the bottom ugly.

[uniftw]

I wouldn't lock UNI into that mix just yet...if BU wins Wednesday and loses Saturday, UNI will likely still need to beat BU next week to get out of PIG mess for good. FWIW, I think MSU and Lusk are the real candidates to go 1-5 down the stretch and play on Thursday. Marty did BU a big favor Saturday. BU fans are big SIU fans the rest of the way against whoever they play until mvc tourney as well.

UNI won tonight
Loyola lost tonight
SIU lost tonight (to UNI)
Drake last last night
Chance are MSU loses tomorrow.

UNI is currently your three seed as UNI holds a season sweep of SIU as a tie break.

Likely seedsthis time tomorrow after the top 2

3. UNI 7-6 with tie break over SIU
4. SIU 7-6
5. MSU 6-7
6. Loyola 6-7
7. Drake 5-8
8. Bradley 4-9
9. Evansville 3-10
10. Indiana State 3-10

A loss Saturday certainly could change things but as of now I'd bet Hacksaws chart will have UNI at about a 4% Hamer of landing in the PIG. 3 of the next 4 are MSU, Bradley and ISUb. I think a win Saturday might lock us out.

I think that if UNI can take care of business in the 3 games against the bottom teams, they will avoid the PIG. 10-8 wont be in a PIG.

I think that it is looking like BU, Evans, and Ind St. as locks and team 4 probably being Drake at the end of the day...although, Drake doesn't play any of the top 4 the rest of the way.

You have to remember that:
UNI swept SIU so if they finish with the same record UNI gets the higher seed.
UNI swept Drake so if they finish with the same record UNI gets the higher seed
UNI has, will have the, RPI edge over every other school in the conference (currently 14 spots higher than the 4th best RPI, which is Loyola).

Based on that it's going to be real, real, hard to UNI to be a PIG team unless they go winless, or maybe 1 more win, the rest of the season. Which, I guess is possible given the fact they lost 7 in a row and 11 of 13 between Thanksgiving and Jan 11th.

However, I'd think UNI is able to pull at least 1 or 2 more wins. Given the tie breaker situation, and rest of the conference, 8 keeps UNI out

[Redbirds4Life]

^Makes sense, hopefully the Birds can get through the rest of the way untouched and can let you and Wichita State battle it out on Saturday.

[BEARZ77]

Are MSU fans kinda hoping that they're in the PIG? It sounds like that would mean the end of Lusk.

We're in that terrible place where you love your school, you want to see your players taste success so rooting for a defeat is just not palatable, but even meager levels of success seem to encourage our administration towards stupidity in retaining Lusk. I think we root for wins, but don't agonize over defeats right now, and if it's going to be a defeat, then help us and blow us out of the gym. [ you probably will tonight]