http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
Arizona moves up to 5.
Colorado up to 8.
USC down to 10.

Cal's RPI is now better than all of Lundardi's 4 Seeds.

1 Seeds:
.6645 Kansas beat Baylor, plays West Virginia on Saturday
.6563 Virginia beat Miami, plays North Carolina on Saturday
.6493 Villanova beat Providence, plays Seton Hall on Saturday
.6354 North Carolina beat Notre Dame, plays Virginia on Saturday

2 Seeds:
.6501 Oregon beat Arizona, plays winner of Cal/Utah on Saturday
.6435 Oklahoma lost to West Virginia
.6415 Xavier lost to Seton Hall
.6173 Michigan St. beat Ohio St., plays Maryland on Saturday

3 Seeds:
.6402 Miami lost to Virginia
.6349 Utah beat Cal plays Oregon on Saturday
.6250 West Virginia beat Oklahoma, plays Kansas on Saturday
.6081 Indiana lost to Michigan

4 Seeds
.6195 Kentucky beat Alabama, plays Georgia on Saturday
.6154 Purdue beat Illinois, plays Michigan on Saturday
.6077 Texas A&M beat Florida, plays LSU on Saturday
.6070 Duke

5 Seeds
.6205 California lost to Utah
.6189 Maryland beat Nebraska, plays Michigan St. on Saturday
.6057 Iowa St
.6012 Arizona lost to Oregon

6 Seeds
.6089 Dayton beat Richmond, plays St. Joseph's Saturday
.6006 Baylor lost to Kansas
.5971 Texas
.5946 Iowa

7 Seeds
.5919 Seton Hall beat Xavier, plays Villanova on Saturday
.5918 Notre Dame lost to North Carolina
.5873 Colorado
.5855 Wisconsin

8 Seeds
.5888 Texas Tech
.5860 Providence lost to Villanova
.5803 South Carolina lost to Georgia
.5773 Wichita St.

9 Seeds
.5935 St. Joseph's beat George Washington, plays Dayton on Saturday
.5848 Cincinnati lost to Connecticut
.5835 VCU beat Massachusetts, plays Davidson on Saturday
.5770 Butler

10 Seeds
.5976 St. Bonaventure lost to Davidson
.5927 Oregon St.
.5789 USC
(Play-in 10s)
.5828 St. Mary's
.5769 Pittsburgh

11 Seeds
.5817 San Diego St. beat Nevada, plays Fresno St. on Saturday
.5739 Temple beat South Florida, plays Connecticut
.5771 Gonzaga
(Play-in 11s)
.5737 Monmouth
.5707 Vanderbilt

12 Seeds
.5919 Akron beat Bowling Green, plays Buffalo on Saturday
.5884 South Dakota St.
.5799 Yale
.5769 Arkansas Little Rock plays Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday

13 Seeds
.5747 Chattanooga
.5642 Stony Brook plays Vermont on Saturday
.5607 Northern Iowa
.5572 Stephen F. Austin beat Houston Baptist plays winner of Sam Houston/TAMU-CC on Saturday

14 Seeds
.5769 UNC Wilmington
.5514 Iona
.5500 Middle Tennessee beat Marshall, plays Old Dominion on Saturday
.5443 Hawaii beat UC Santa Barbara, plays winner of Long Beach St./UC Irvine

15 Seeds
.5338 New Mexico St. beat UMKC, plays CSU Bakersfield on Saturday
.5287 Green Bay
.5264 Weber St. beat North Dakota, plays Montana on Saturday
.5181 UNC Asheville

16 Seeds
.4912 Texas Southern lost to Southern. Southern and Jackson St. play for auto-bid.
.4753 Florida Gulf Coast
(16 Play-ins)
.4963 Hampton beat Savannah St., plays winner of South Carolina St./Norfolk St. on Saturday
.4897 Austin Peay
.4784 Fairleigh Dickenson
.4552 Holy Cross

First 8 Out
.5786 Florida lost to Texas A&M
.5761 Tulsa lost to Memphis
.5761 Valparaiso
.5753 Connecticut beat Cincinnati, plays Temple Saturday
.5697 George Washington lost to St. Joseph's
.5683 Michigan beat Indiana
.5657 Syracuse
.5624 Ohio St. lost to Michigan St.


The SEC, Atlantic 10, American, Big Ten and Sun Belt conferences are in their quarterfinal round. Other conferences are in their semifinal round.

Seattle plays Cal St. Bakersfield at 8:30 PM

Pretty sure the way that Karma works is that we get Kentucky and Marcus Lee goes for about 57 points and 27 rebounds while his brother posts every other possession on BI

socaltownie;842661289 said:

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Pretty sure the way that Karma works is that we get Kentucky and Marcus Lee goes for about 57 points and 27 rebounds while his brother posts every other possession on BI

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Lol

Oregon deserves a 1 and they'll get it if they win the P12T. If they lose tonight or Saturday a 1 or 2 seed in the west seems to be a given.

Cal should at least have a 4 spot and may be playing Utah tonight for who gets a 3 and who gets a 4.

Arizona may be shaky in that 5 spot, needing to beat Oregon to keep it.

R90;842661315 said:

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Oregon deserves a 1 and they'll get it if they win the P12T. If they lose tonight or Saturday a 1 or 2 seed in the west seems to be a given.

Cal should at least have a 4 spot and may be playing Utah tonight for who gets a 3 and who gets a 4.

Arizona may be shaky in that 5 spot, needing to beat Oregon to keep it.

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Since ua and Oregon have only played once it could be an interesting game. If I'm not mistaken, ua was down Trier when they lost to oregon, correct?

Would it be better to land in a 6 spot? The 4s and 5s eventually have to play a 1, which is undesireable. If you are a 6 you play the 2s and 3s. If you really should be a 4 or 5 maybe that's the better side of the bracket to be on????

Vandalus;842661359 said:

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If I'm not mistaken, ua was down Trier when they lost to oregon, correct?

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Correct. Trier missed Arizona's losses to Cal and Oregon. He did play in their 4 other conference losses:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/gamelog/_/id/3907525/allonzo-trier

tequila4kapp;842661361 said:

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Would it be better to land in a 6 spot? The 4s and 5s eventually have to play a 1, which is undesireable. If you are a 6 you play the 2s and 3s. If you really should be a 4 or 5 maybe that's the better side of the bracket to be on????

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4s and 5s have to win two games and make the Sweet-16 before they would have to play a 1. There's a much better chance of making the Sweet-16 if you're a 4 or 5 than if you are a 6.

Of course a 3 Seed would be better still. Win tonight and we might get one. Win Saturday too and we probably will get that 3 Seed.

R90;842661280 said:

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Cal's RPI is now better than all of Lundardi's 4 Seeds.

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And one of his 3 seeds and one of his 2 seeds. That is six spots down from where our RPI would put us which I think is even more off the mark when you consider that our only loss in over a month is a last minute loss on the road to zona. Frankly, given the momentum, Cal should be punching ABOVE their RPI right now, not below, as they are a much, much better team than they were earlier, AND they had a portion of their season without TY. We'll see what the committee does, but I'm not giving up hope for a higher seed than predicted, especially if we win the tournament.

R90;842661367 said:

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4s and 5s have to win two games and make the Sweet-16 before they would have to play a 1. There's a much better chance of making the Sweet-16 if you're a 4 or 5 than if you are a 6.

Of course a 3 Seed would be better still. Win tonight and we might get one. Win Saturday too and we probably will get that 3 Seed.

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Not the case this year that being a 5 is necessarily better than a 6.

We know we can play with at least one #1 in Virginia. Kansas is the only team that scares me.

Lunardi's overrated:
North Carolina is the last 1-Seed, but #8 RPI. #1 BPI and #7 AP, so BPI probably influencing him.
Michigan St. is a 2-Seed, but #14 RPI. #4 BPI and #2 AP, so again BPI a likely factor.
Indiana is a 3-Seed, but #17 RPI. #16 BPI and #10 AP. Conference regular season championship probably a factor.
Duke is a 4-Seed, but #19 RPI. #9 BPI and #18 AP. BPI a likely factor.

Lunardi's Underrated:
Oregon a 2-Seed, but #3 RPI. #17 BPI and #8 AP. BPI pushing them down on Lunardi's bracket it seems.
California a 5-Seed, but #11 RPI. #18 BPI and #23 AP. Lunardi and East Coast media just aren't paying attention.

SFBearz;842661373 said:

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Not the case this year that being a 5 is necessarily better than a 6.

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Michigan just beat Indiana. This has to help the Bears!!!!!!

calgldnbear;842661405 said:

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Michigan just beat Indiana. This has to help the Bears!!!!!!

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Exciting game. Michigan kept doing dumb things down the stretch that gave Indiana a 5 point lead late. Michigan made two clutch 3s in the last minute to win it.

We should be ahead of Indiana on the committee's bracket now if we weren't already. Probably far enough ahead of them that we'd stay ahead even if we lose tonight.

R90;842661411 said:

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Exciting game. Michigan kept doing dumb things down the stretch that gave Indiana a 5 point lead late. Michigan made two clutch 3s in the last minute to win it.

We should be ahead of Indiana on the committee's bracket now if we weren't already. Probably far enough ahead of them that we'd stay ahead even if we lose tonight.

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Unlikely- Indiana probably on the 3/4 edge while Cal a solid 5.

Texas A&M won a close one against Florida and has a relatively easy path to the SEC final on Sunday with Vandy out of the way. Cal probably has to win tonight to get (or stay) ahead of them.

Lunardi's latest espn.com bracket link has a picture of Rabb - nice national exposure!

Cincinnati and UConn going to a 3rd overtime in an epic battle between two bubble teams.

And a miracle 3/4 court shot by UConn forces 4th overtime. Madness.

4 Seeds
.6195 Kentucky beat Alabama (18-14)
.6154 Purdue beat Illinois (15-19)
.6077 Texas A&M beat Florida (19-14)
.6070 Duke didn't play.

5 Seeds
.6205 California plays Utah (25-7)
.6189 Maryland plays Nebraska (16-17)

Playing Utah does much more for the Opponent's Winning Percentage portion of the RPI than any of the others' opponents will. If Cal can win we'll move further ahead of them all on the RPI.

Buddy Hield releases his half court game winner about 0.1 seconds too late. Another amazing finish.

The loss leaves us as a 4 or 5 seed. RPI should be about the same or slightly lower when today's games are calculated.

R90;842662206 said:

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The loss leaves us as a 4 or 5 seed. RPI should be about the same or slightly lower when today's games are calculated.

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Today, 3/12, Lunardi has us a #5 seed playing South Dakota State in the first round and Indiana (#4) seed likely in the next round. He has us in the South region with Virginia the #1 seed.