Looks like Only 5 to NCAA'S

Discussion in 'Women’s Basketball' started by 56 Bells, Feb 4, 2016.

  1. 56 Bells

    56 Bells 500+ Posts

    Looks like only 5 teams from the Big XII will make the NCAA's this year.
    Texas
    Baylor
    Oklahoma State
    West Virginia
    Oklahoma

    No other team is deserving of a spot.
     
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  2. mb227

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    One never knows what can happen in the last few weeks of a season or in the conference tourneys...
     
  3. 56 Bells

    56 Bells 500+ Posts

    Neither K.State nor Iowa State is worthy of an invite.
    Actually, TCU is a better team than either of them, although their record doesn't show it.
    Only 5 from the Big XII this year.
     
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  4. mb227

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    Not worthy NOW is not the same as saying not worthy once the tourney season has finished up...more than once, including in THIS conference, someone has risen up and outperformed in the last week of a season and into the conference tourney to get a bid that was otherwise unexpected...
     
  5. 56 Bells

    56 Bells 500+ Posts

    The only way the Big XII gets a 6th team in the field is if the 5 teams who are getting invited to The Big Dance get together and rest all their players throughout the Big XII tourney. There's just a complete drop-off in talent after team #5.
     
  6. mb227

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    Having gone to both KC and OKC more than once and seen teams outperform expectations, I would opine that tournament play can come down to more than just raw talent...
     
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  7. loyallonghorn

    loyallonghorn 500+ Posts

    Absolutely agree, and so would Charlie Creme. The only thing I would differ is removing the qualifier, "ONLY" to describe 5 teams from the conference making the tournament. That's half of the conference making the tournament and is an achievement.
     
  8. 56 Bells

    56 Bells 500+ Posts

    If K.State Or Iowa State (the only remote possibilities of a 6th team) win the conference tourney, , I'll buy everyone drinks!
    Neither team is good enough to win the conference tourney...no way! Not even close.
    And 5 teams is not an accomplishment/achievement. 7 teams would be an accomplishment/achievement for the conference.
     
  9. Moooooo

    Moooooo 5,000+ Posts

    The bottom half of the teams in the standings just don't have the talent or depth to win the conference tourney this season. Such a team would have to win 4 games in 4 days, I believe. Granted, if the top two seeds (Baylor and Texas at the moment) were to get knocked out prior to the finals, then yes, I guess anything is possible at that point.
     
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  10. 56 Bells

    56 Bells 500+ Posts

    Well, K. State's dismantling of Okiehoma last night sure helped their resume. Wessemann was on fire, hitting 6 of 8 3-pointers! If they can hold their own at home, and upset Okie
    State on the road....and make a run to the semis of the Big XII Tourney, they just might sneak into the tourney.
    Six teams would be great for our conference.
    Do you think they have a shot at being the 6th team in?
    Or was last night a fluke?
     
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  11. mb227

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    All it takes is a few hot weeks to go from NCAA bubble to NIT (or whatever they call that one nowadays) to sitting at home after bouncing from the conference tournament. If I remember right, Texas had one of those seasons somewhere around 2005 or 2006 where they won the last three or four regular season games and then had a good run at KC. I'm thinking that was the year that everybody got helped by Mizzou knocking out :ousucksnana: :ousucks:in the very first game of the tournament (maybe the second game of the day). But between the end of the regular season and the tournament, it was enough to put Texas over the 20 win mark and squeak into the field of 64.

    Does that mean it would necessarily happen again? No. But there is too much season left to make pronouncements of ONLY five...
     
  12. hoopsalot

    hoopsalot 500+ Posts

    Does the KSU win say more about KSU or OU? OU defense has some holes that KSU is perfectly suited to exploit.
     
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