A10 and Bracketology

St. Louis as a 9 is playing #8 Georgia. This is another good matchup.
We could have 2 A10 teams advance to the second round, with one going to the Sweet 16.
 
Bottom line is that Miami(o) was getting the one token non-Power 5 bubble at-large bid and there was no way they were giving another. Thus no VCU had they lost.

That said, I think they did it well with Miami(O) being in the play in. I would think they are the lowest rated schedule ever to get an at-large and just don't look good on any metric that is typically used. Kudos to the committee for looking past that and properly rewarding them with the chance to prove themselves!
 
EL, let's say they decided they won't have 3 A-10 teams in the field. How does that even come up in conversation? Not saying you are definitely wrong in thinking that, but wondering how that could happen. Let's say they have VCU ahead of SMU before today. Who even brings it up to the committee that they would have 3 A-10 teams in there in Dayton wins? There are different ADs in the room, including mid majors. Who would try to say that in front of a mid major AD? And, how could they even discuss that?
 
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I'm confused. Gerry Mac at Siena? TJ Power at Uva and Duke? If talking about Gerry Mac, we have passed on tons of up and coming coaches every year. But Mooney is trying to figure this thing out this spring.
 
PhillySpider said:
Bottom line is that Miami(o) was getting the one token non-Power 5 bubble at-large bid and there was no way they were giving another. Thus no VCU had they lost.

That said, I think they did it well with Miami(O) being in the play in. I would think they are the lowest rated schedule ever to get an at-large and just don't look good on any metric that is typically used. Kudos to the committee for looking past that and properly rewarding them with the chance to prove themselves!
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Santa Clara got a 10 seed, so I wouldn't say Miami got the lone non P5 bubble bid. And, mutiple non P5 bubble teams have gotten bids in past years, including as recent as 2024, when both Col St and Boise St (from the same conference, EL) got in, and were in the play in games.
 
Yeah I'm not saying it's fair, I just knew there was no way they would take three from our league when there really wasn't a lot of talk of even taking two until 2-3 weeks ago. If we did finish as the seventh-best league, we deserve three, but it wasn't going to happen.

As for the internal discussions, I have no idea how that stuff goes down, but I do think they probably look at OOC record of a conference against good teams to try to ascertain for themselves how strong the league actually was.
 
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We have 5 teams in the NIT, Mason, Dayton, GWU, Davidson, and St. Joe's.

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first shocked to read that Davidson and GW made NIT - then just read that only 4 P5 teams accepted bids - really wonder if this could be the last NIT or at least the last one where P5s are even asked to go.
 
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