Zags go down, someone's bubble just burst
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St Mary’s is an interesting one. Analytics love them, but their resume itself doesn’t match up (to most that look at them). Guessing they’ll be a 10-11 seed.
For some reason St. Mary's always plays Gonzaga real tough, but honestly I'm not shocked over this loss. For decades I've always felt that West Coast basketball leans more towards a finesse style offense, with defense being soft and lacking. Think about this, with the exception of the UCLA dynasty teams during the late 60's and early 70's college BB has been dominated by the physical play of East Coast teams. Take the last 20 National Championship teams, none have gone west of Kansas and only twice did it go west of Pennsylvania. In two of my brackets I have Gonzaga getting beat in the Sweet 16 round and the other two I have them getting beat in the elite 8. JMHO
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That’s impressive that you already have the bracket picked. What did the almanac say about who beat them and the score. I’m looking to revive my betting account.
Both teams were in the NCAAs regardless, so St Mary's win didn't burst anyone's bubble.
St Mary’s was very, very unlikely to dance with a loss last night. They needed that win.
They had the win over New Mexico St and not much else. Home losses to Harvard and Irvine. Lost at Pepperdine. Would have been 21-12 coming out of the WCC. I thought Palm and Lunardi were generous having them at the bottom of their 1st 4 out.
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Perhaps. I'm assuming that the NCAA will weight their new NET rankings highly (could be a false assumption on my part - time will tell). St Mary's has a ranking in the 30s (Pomeroy has them 29), which I would expect would be enough to get them in.
I expect them to use it similarly to how they used the RPI (a guide, a sorting tool, a way to separate teams on each extreme, etc). St Mary’s would have likely been left out in the past with s RPI in the mid-30s (their likely NET with a loss last night) and so little else on their resume.
I think 2017 was an anomaly. If you want to gamble have them going down in the sweet 16, definitely in the Elite 8. Most betters will have them in the final 4 or the Championship game. JMHO.
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You could be right. Let's see what their seed is. That might give us some idea if they were on the bubble or not.
