Rooting Interest: 2/27/14

[Retire33]

I know we all believe X controls it's own destiny over the next three games to garner an at-large birth. That said, I felt like creating this "Rooting interest" can give us all reasons to watch games and root against those teams that could make it interesting down the stretch and those that can help improve X's overall resume; via seeding or at-large berths. I plan to create a new daily thread to continue this and create some additional discussion.

Rooting Interest for 2/27/14

(All games EST)

Teams on Bubble:
Arkansas @ Kentucky 7pm (ESPN)
FIU @ Southern Miss 7pm
Middle Tennessee vs Louisiana Tech 7:30pm
Georgetown @ Marquette 9pm (FS1)
Tulsa @ UTEP 9pm
Oregon @ UCLA 11pm (ESPN2)


Improved Seeding
VCU @ Fordham 7pm (CBSSN)
Gonzaga @ Pacific 10pm (ESPNU)


Improve X RPI
Tennessee St @ Morehead St 7:30pm
Iowa @ Indiana 9pm (ESPN)
Oregon St @ USC 11pm (FS1)

[xumuskies08]

Not that I'm cheering for UK to win, but it'd be nice if Arkansas can pull out a loss here in OT.

[xumuskies08]

Huge win for Arkansas' resume.

[Retire33]

Huge win for Arkansas' resume.

Basically a Ticket Puncher...

[Xavier]

Am I reading it wrong...aren't we suppose to be rooting against things like that?

[MADXSTER]

Right now Marquette is playing Georgetown. I'm rooting for Georgetown. Georgetown wins then Xavier remains in 3rd place all alone. Georgetown loses then Marquette is tied with Xavier for 3rd place.

[Retire33]

Right now Marquette is playing Georgetown. I'm rooting for Georgetown. Georgetown wins then Xavier remains in 3rd place all alone. Georgetown loses then Marquette is tied with Xavier for 3rd place.

Also a Marquette lose would most likely eliminate any possible at-large bid; which was a long shot anyway.

[Retire33]

- Morehead loses to lowly Tennessee St to give them zero shot at getting into the top 100.
- Arkansas probably punches ticket to dance with win at Rupp.
- Louisiana Tech leaves small door open for at-large and most likely eliminates Middle Tennessee
- Southern Miss hangs with La Tech as C-USA bubble team with win vs. FIU
- VCU ripped Fordham to stay projected with white jerseys in 2nd round matchup

Overall not a great day for X so far...

Just win on Saturday

[xumuskies08]

Georgetown trails by 7...2 Hoyas have fouled out...and there is 11:31 left to play. Not looking good.

[MADXSTER]

Buzz Williams looks like a FAT Mick Cronin.

[MADXSTER]

Lets go Georgetown!!

[MADXSTER]

I hate Buzz Williams

[MADXSTER]

GW down by 1 with the ball - 30 secs left

[The_Mack_Pack]

And I thought we were bad at making layups..

[Retire33]

What a battle for GT. Really thought they would pull it out.

[xsteve1]

I guess Jake Thomas ain't too bad. Six more 3's tonight and 22 points.

[Retire33]

....and FS1 switches to Oregon St/USC and the Trojans down 17-3. Andy Enfield really has some work to do. How X ever lost to them is beyond defensible.

Iowa's collapse continues.

Really, Really bad day for X RPI.

[gladdenguy]

Well tonight sucked. Need to win Saturday to relax a little.

[gladdenguy]

This UCLA game is ridiculous.
UCLA was down 6 with 22 seconds and down 3 with with 1.3 seconds and forced overtime with a buzzer 3 on a great pass to set it up. Wow. College basketball fever 2 days from March.

[Smails]

Andy Enfield really has some work to do.

Andy Enfield has done some really good work to this point.



http://p1.trrsf.com/image/fget/cf/619/464/images.terra.com/2013/03/20/enfield8.jpg

[GoMuskies]

I think Enfield may be a truly horrible coach who knows he caught lightning in a bottle and got paid in the brief window before his 15 minutes would otherwise have been up. Steve Prohm is probably kicking himself for not doing the same.

Don't know who Prohm is? Exactly.