A few of these streaks are ending this year
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Lesbihonest. Some of those streaks were ending in 2020 but tourney got cancelled.
Seems wrong to not list Duke because we opted out for health and safety purposes in ‘21, but hey, just another journalist with an agenda.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all, if Villanova wins the big east tournament and keeps their streak going. They’re finally healthy and have their chemistry back.
Pretty wild that there are only currently 8 teams with streaks of 5+ years.
EvilMonkeyInTheCloset
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Unfortunate that we can't count 2020 on that list for teams that undoubtedly would have made the tournament.
I don’t know much about “College Basketball Report,” but I got the vibe that it was a serious list and they actually omitted Duke
Yep. Still can’t tell if you’re joking or not. I’m assuming that you are.
Thought the exact thing Kevin...
BTW, I want UK to play every time from on out, and WIN, when IU/PU play. IU beat PU on the same days UK beat Florida, then Auburn.
And that 1/8 of those teams is VaTech
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I didn’t realize we had been eliminated for the B1G tournament.16-15, 9-11 says otherwise.
Yeah, that is pretty weird. I would have expected a lot of teams to have 15+ year streaks.
16-15, 9-11 says otherwise.
Purdue did well in the SOS, but yes, very, very unlikely that they would have made it.
The most obvious streak that was preserved, however, was UNC. They were 14-19 and were already defeated in the ACC Tournament.
Villanova might be a sleeper team to steal a bid in the BE Tourney. They beat Xavier and Creighton last week. And they've won 5 of their last 6. Resume is obviously lacking, and they won't receive an at-large, but they're peaking at the right time to at least give themselves a chance in the conference tourney.
Definitely unlikely but:
- Purdue was #24 at KenPom - Only 2 teams have ever been that high at KenPom and been snubbed and that was when the committee purposefully penalized teams with pathetic Non-Con SOS rankings.
- Purdue was #32 in the NET - In the short time the NET has existed, no team ranked that high has been left out of the field.
- Purdue had 9 Q1/Q2 wins and only 1 loss outside Q2. That's identical to 2023 West Virginia, who at 16-13 is currently an 11 seed at Bracketmatrix.
- Purdue, as the 10 seeded, needed only beat 7 seed OSU and 2 seed MSU (who Purdue beat by 29 earlier in the season) to get 2 games above .500. And there have been multiple teams receive at large bids at just two games above .500, including one who went on to win a national title (not saying Purdue would win a title....just mentioning that).
- I think had Purdue beat OSU and lost to MSU to be just one game above .500, it would have been a fascinating case study for the committee.
