Analytics Today

[AmericaNeedsMe]

Kenpom: 54 (12th in B1G)
Torvik: 54 (12th in B1G) (20% probability of making NCAA Tourney)
Haslametrics: 58 (13th in B1G)(projected NCAA play in game)
NET: 52 (12th in B1G)

Consensus is being reached.

 

[HawkeyeGenius]

Road games really hurt Iowa. Losing and losing by 10+. They had worked themselves up to 44/45 in the NET. Then all gone by not showing up.

 

[83Hawk]

Kenpom: 54 (12th in B1G)
Torvik: 54 (12th in B1G) (20% probability of making NCAA Tourney)
Haslametrics: 58 (13th in B1G)(projected NCAA play in game)
NET: 52 (12th in B1G)

Consensus is being reached.

There are no NCAA play in games.

 

[Buffalo43]

Can they make that Crown Tourney?

 

[HawkLogic]

There are no NCAA play in games.

That is mostly semantics and you will need to correct Wikipedia. The teams that have to play an extra game are clearly different from the rest of the tourney invitees.

"The First Four (also the “Early Eight”) is a play-in round of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field (usually the four lowest-ranked conference champions), and two games contested between the four lowest-seeded "at-large" teams in the field, which determine the last four teams to qualify for the 64-team bracket that plays the first round."

 

[SDHawkDoc]

That is mostly semantics and you will need to correct Wikipedia. The teams that have to play an extra game are clearly different from the rest of the tourney invitees.

"The First Four (also the “Early Eight”) is a play-in round of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field (usually the four lowest-ranked conference champions), and two games contested between the four lowest-seeded "at-large" teams in the field, which determine the last four teams to qualify for the 64-team bracket that plays the first round."

If you are a fan of reality, it's a play-in game.
If you want to pump up the record of a bad tourney coach you call it something else.

 

[83Hawk]

That is mostly semantics and you will need to correct Wikipedia. The teams that have to play an extra game are clearly different from the rest of the tourney invitees.

"The First Four (also the “Early Eight”) is a play-in round of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field (usually the four lowest-ranked conference champions), and two games contested between the four lowest-seeded "at-large" teams in the field, which determine the last four teams to qualify for the 64-team bracket that plays the first round."

Wikipedia? LOL! Seriously? Try looking at the NCAA’s website:

“The First Four is the official start to March Madness: four games played earlier in the week before the Round of 64 in the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament.”

“When selecting the teams for the NCAA tournament, the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee ranks every team from No. 1 through No. 68. In its current format, the First Four consists of eight teams — the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams. Each subset plays against itself (i.e., at-large teams face at-large teams, and automatic qualifiers face automatic qualifiers).”

If a team is an “automatic qualifier”, then they are de facto NOT in a play in game. You can’t “play in” to a tournament you are already in.

It’s not “semantics”. You and other ignorant people can incorrectly keep calling them play in games if you want. The FACT is….the tournament has been expanded to 68…just like it was once expanded to 64, and 48, etc.

Oh, and Wikipedia also says this: “The tournament consists of 68 teams competing in seven rounds of a single-elimination bracket.”

 

[HawkeyeGenius]

Can they make that Crown Tourney?

Top two teams in the conference NET wise make this one instead of the NIT that do not make the NCAA Tournament.

 

[RocknRollface]

If you are a fan of reality, it's a play-in game.
If you want to pump up the record of a bad tourney coach you call it something else.

It's part of the march situation.