Way Too Early Bracketology

[GoMuskies]

Xavier is listed second among the first four out. This is the best position we've held in a long time in on of these sorts of exercises, so stupid as it is I'm enjoying it.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Lunardi has 4 Big East teams (40% ain't bad) with 2 (Butler to go along with us) among the last 8 out.

For what it is worth, he thinks the A-10 is sitting at 4 as well (with GW as the first team out), but I wouldn't be that comfortable if I was VCU (who Lunardi awarded a 9 seed).

[XUOHTX]

Well we know this can't be right. I don't see a day when UD gets in and we don't.

[xubrew]

I'm of the belief that it is never too early for bracketology. I actually like the idea of evaluating the importance of wins and losses all season long.

We have a top 25 all throughout the year. Having bracketology all year long doesn't make any less sense.

[Muskied]

These next 2 games will be absolutely huge in terms of our tournament chances. Say we finish anywhere between 4-6 in the conference, which is completely reasonable, the non conference could be the deciding factor. We play our only true road game against a SEC team Saturday, and then another quality league opponent a week after that. Should we win, with our only 3 losses coming in Atlantis, it's hard to argue with that non conference resume. Non Conference aside-if we finish in the top 3 in the league, or the bottom 4...obviously the conference play can still boost us one way or antoher.

[GoMuskies]

The SEC is horribad. We may get points deducted for scheduling two of their members not named Kentucky. We should have scheduled from a tougher conference, like the Southland.

[BBC 08]

Interesting that he now has us as first four out since right before the UC game he had us as about 20 spots away from the top 68 per a tweet.

[UCGRAD4X]

It's just too early to take it very seriously.

However, right before conference play is a good time to start considering this since non-conference play seems to be such a big consideration come tourney time.