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Today it is the second. Of March Sunday, Indiana coming
off another big. Victory in the big. 10 as they
continue their drive to the NCAA Tournament.
At least we hope. And we've got some bracketology.
Updates for you today. I promised you on the last show
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Bracket projection of the season.
You know, we've still got. Essentially a couple of weeks in
the season. But conference tournament's
about to start this week. It's time that we start taking
this stuff seriously. And Indiana, who looked
essentially. Like you could leave them for
dead about 3 weeks ago has leapt back into the picture even
further than most of you might be expecting.
We're a. Talk about that.
Here in just a second, as well as what happened in that IU.
Versus Washington game as well as.
The uniforms that Indiana wore. A surprise to some.
People, but a pleasant one. I think a lot.
Of people with some pretty positive reactions.
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Let's talk 1st about the game yesterday.
First, the uniforms. Indiana coming out.
And it was I've gotten. Some advance notice on this.
But Indiana black uniforms. With the red and white script on
the front. We saw these uniforms earlier.
In the year. With the women's team.
And everybody was like, well. We're going to see them with the
men's team didn't. Look like we were.
Going to and this was. Kind of a surprise.
No advance notice, no graphics. From The Athletic.
Department or anything, just boom.
Indiana's wearing them. I was very I.
I thought they looked good. I I don't know.
If I'd want to watch this. All the time in black, but the
script was very nice and. You know.
I just from my perspective. Some change UPS in the uniform
structure. Is a good thing.
I mean I, I think. Indiana has gotten far.
Too focused on looking the exact same.
As they did a while ago and then look, there have been changes
in. Uniforms over time too A.
Lot of people just think we've been.
Wearing the same uniform since. 1899 that's.
Just not the case. So I thought that they look
good. Obviously I know there's going
to be some people who never. Are.
Interested in seeing Indiana wearing?
Black under any circumstances, there are many important.
Things about IU basketball and the health of the.
Program. That one ranks about as low.
As I think you could possibly get, but certainly I understand
some people have aesthetic tastes.
And just can't get the. The vision of Purdue out of
their heads whenever they see the color black.
I actually thought the uniforms look more like Louisville than
Purdue, which is also not necessarily A-Team I would like
to emulate. But I think as a change up they
looked good and I wish we could. Get that script.
In the red and white as well with, with either, you know, red
jerseys or white jerseys. So we'll see what happens moving
forward, but it's nice to know that there's at least something
else in the IU. Uniform arsenal, the game
itself, you know this is where. You you look at.
What Indiana did in that game, and they played.
So well, compared to what the you know they.
Were I think were originally favored to win by like. 1.
And a half or two. And they end up winning 70. 8 to
62 they. Dominated the game throughout.
You know, it was really fascinating to me because I, I,
I. Figured Indiana would win this.
Game. It would have been a real
problem if they hadn't. I didn't expect them to win.
So dominantly and I. I think you, you know, you got
to take your. Your hat off to Indiana.
On defense, this is another really good defensive
performance and I've been. Ragging on Indiana's defense.
For pretty much the entire. Big 10 season.
You know, this is the two out of their last three performances
they've had, you know, essentially their two best
defensive performances of the conference season this game
against Washington. And then the game against.
Purdue and it really just. Feels like it comes down to
effort. It it comes down to, you know,
they did a good job of effectively defending great
Ossibor the the one like reliable player on Washington
squad. They held Washington to an
effective field goal percentage of 41.4%, which is nuts and.
Indiana took advantage on offense.
I mean, it wasn't their best offensive.
Performance from a shooting perspective, they turned the
ball over. Well, actually they didn't.
Sorry they. They didn't turn the ball.
Over hardly at all, which was nice, but they.
They didn't really grab offensive rebounds.
They didn't really get to the free throw line that much, but
they hit shots and they smothered Washington
defensively. So, you know, if you look at
this, this is the kind of game. That Indiana needs to have.
If they're going to go up the predictive rankings, which are
a. Factor in how you get.
Seated in the NC. AA selection process.
And you know when I. Look at.
This type of game, this game kind of pushed Indiana.
Above that bubble cut line significantly, we'll talk about
how. Significantly here in a few
minutes. But these are the kinds of games
Indiana just hasn't had that many.
Of over the course of Mike Woodson's time and really even
Archie Miller's time, there was a.
Period there when Indiana. Was up by 20 and.
I was doing some mathematical calculations and I was like.
When was the last time Indiana? Won a Big 10 game by 20 or more
points. You had to go all the way back
to. Five years ago, March 11th of
2020, that Nebraska. Game in the in the.
Big 10 tournament When Indiana. Won by I think 25.
That was, of course, the. COVID game.
It was the last game that Indiana played that year 'cause
the tournament got cancelled immediately afterwards.
And. If you want a regular.
Season Big 10. Game where Indiana's won by 20
or more. Points.
You got to go all the way. Back to Archie's first.
Year the. 20/17/2018 Season like February of 2018 when they beat
Minnesota. By I think 22 or 23 points, so.
Like, these are the kinds of games that Indiana's largely
been missing. You'll occasionally get like
that Purdue game. Where they win by. 15 even that.
Is really unusual most of. Indiana's wins have not.
Been of the blowout variety. They've been in that, you know,
if if it's a big win in quotes for Indiana, it's been 11:50.
Points and most of the time it's either been a close.
Game or Indiana's come? Up on the wrong side of things,
but. You know, you look at this
Indiana team. Even in their losses, the close
ones. They weren't.
Performing at quite the level you'd like to see in terms of,
you know above. Expectations.
According to the statistics in this game, they.
Did and then the Purdue game they did.
And so they've managed to put themselves in a position now
where if they can keep playing like this.
Even if they lose that. Game at Oregon, which the you
know there is about a six point underdog, according to torvik
they're about a six point underdog, according to Kempalm
Oregon's. I think a better team than a lot
of people are. Giving them credit for.
Even if they lose that. Game.
The way they're playing right now, I think they can afford to
lose that. Game beat Ohio State at home and
still be in the exact same position that they would.
Be you know, if you know or that they would have been before that
streak started. I think they've they've done.
Enough as far as? Winning good games the.
Kind of games at the NC Double. A tournament selection.
Committee is interested in having you win and.
When you look at Indiana. Compared to some of the.
Other teams in the mix. They.
Just they stack up better. So we'll look at that here in
just a minute. But no overall, you know, we, we
talked before about. The kinds of contributions
Indiana's been getting from. Various players.
You know Anthony Leal. Ends up a plus. 26 yesterday
despite not scoring a point, and that's because he has four
assists, 4, rebounds 3. Steals 2 blocks, 0 turnovers.
You know that's. The kind of performance.
That Leo. Out there even though he's
really a non scorer at this point.
He's doing a lot of the little things.
And setting up his teammates. You get a great.
Game off the bench from. Malik Renew, who's coming off?
What apparently was an allergic reaction that kept him.
Out of the Penn State game you've got. 18 points out of
Luke Goody, who's 5. For 9 from three in that.
Game and then you even get a good game out of Mackenzie and.
Baco played. 25 minutes, scored 10 points, grabbed 4 rebounds.
You know. Only had one turnover and.
His his defense, which has been a.
Bit of an issue. Was not nearly as much of an
issue in this one. Indiana's still playing.
A relatively short rotation, and I do wonder how long that's
going to. Stand up.
Given that they're they're still really only bringing Renew and
Carlisle off the bench, they got very little out.
Of Langdon Hatton yesterday. The one thing I will say and and
it's not a. Criticism.
It's just an observation. This is Indiana.
Now three in a row. And four out of five.
And. They they certainly deserve
credit for those Michigan. State and Purdue wins.
I'd be careful with how. Much credit we're giving them
for. The Penn State and Washington.
Wins simply because those are two of the.
Worst, if not the two. Worst teams in the big. 10
Washington in particular, they've had some.
Odd wins. This year, they beat Maryland
earlier in the season. But that was probably the worst
Big 10 team I've seen so. Far this year, Indiana deserves
credit for going on the road and picking up the.
Victory. No question, I just still don't
know how much. You can read into how well this
team is. Playing Given that they
struggled for most of the Penn. State game and only pulled that
out in the end and. They played a Really.
Bad and obviously kind of, you know, disjointed Washington
team. So obviously Oregon, Ohio State,
those are going to be better measuring sticks of how.
IU will match up. Both in the Big 10 tournament as
well. As in the NC.
AA tournament. But I think you.
Got to tip your hat to Mike Woodson and the staff and the
and the team for getting themselves in position.
These were games they couldn't afford to lose.
And they didn't lose them. And certainly with the
Washington. Game they wanted by a.
A respectable beyond respectable margin.
So they've set. Themselves up in good.
Shape here for these last. Two games and giving themselves
the cushion that they needed. To where every game is.
Not an absolute must win. So they play at Oregon on
Tuesday. And then they'll get.
A few days. Off as they fly back and play
Ohio State this upcoming Saturday.
So. Really big week for Indiana as
they're also competing for. Seating within the Big 10.
Tournament. I'm going to call up a graphic
here for. Those of you who are watching on
on video on. YouTube or on Spotify?
Let's. Zoom this in a little bit, a
little hard to see but you can see the current.
Standings for the Big 10 right now, Michigan.
State projected to pick up the one seed overall.
Which would leave Michigan, Wisconsin.
And Purdue as the other teams that get the the.
Buy into the Friday Games. Right below that you've got
Maryland, UCLA, Illinois. That's your 5-6 and. 7 Indiana
right now is in a really interesting spot.
Because at 9:00 and 9:00. They are a full game ahead of
Ohio State. And.
Ohio State hosts Nebraska IN. Goes to Oregon if Indiana loses
that game and Ohio State. Wins their game which are those
are both what you would expect to.
See. From the the mathematical
projections. It sets up to some degree.
One of the most important. Games of the season in the big.
10 in terms of seeding. As it would be a nine and 10
Indiana. Versus A9.
And 10 Ohio State. And the winner of that, you
know. Barring any other obstacles or
any other things that occur. Like you know, and there's
there's a couple of scenarios here, but essentially.
If Indiana wins that game, they would be guaranteed.
No. Worse of the nine seed.
Which is big because. If you get the 9.
Seed you get to skip. The first day of the.
Big 10 tournament, Ohio State if they.
Win gets the nine seed. Indiana would drop to the 10
seed. At that point and now you got.
To play on Wednesday and you've got to win five games in five
days if you want to. Win the Big 10 tournament.
There are some other. Outstanding things there,
Illinois. Right now.
Ten and eight they've got. A really tough last couple of
games on their schedule. You look at Illinois and what
they've got coming up, they've got.
Michigan on the road, and they've got.
To play Purdue at home. Even though they're right now.
Projected to win against Purdue, Illinois has not played
particularly well lately. The one problem there is that
if. Indiana's tied with Illinois.
Illinois. Has the tiebreaker because
Illinois. Won the only game between the
two teams this season, so Indiana would have to finish.
Ahead of. Illinois, and the only way
Indiana can do that is if. They win both of their.
Remaining games and. Illinois loses both of their.
Remaining games which just. Statistically is unlikely, but
we'll have to see what happens. Oregon also you.
Know a team that to. Keep an eye out for Indiana
right in the mix with. Them Oregon gets Indiana.
At home and then travels to that same Washington.
Team while I would expect Washington just through regional
rivalry purposes to play. Harder against Oregon than they
did. Against Indiana, that's a.
Game that I would expect Oregon to win so you know really what
you're. Looking at with.
Indiana right now. They're they might be able to
get to the 8 seed if everything broke right, but it's unlikely
that they will as it's more likely Indiana's looking at.
That nine seed or the 10? Seed so that Ohio State game, a
terribly important one, and Oregon, also an important.
Game, but Indiana can. Still lose.
That game and get. Themselves into a position.
Where they could be the nine seed, so we'll be keeping an eye
on that. Throughout the course of the
week. Should be a fascinating set of
circumstances. As we go through things, let's
go ahead and talk some bracketology and you know.
Let me get the. I'm going to get the screen up
here. Those of you who have been
through this with me before, you've, you've been you've,
you've. Seen how these these sheets?
Work and everything. So I'm I'm calling up.
The. The sheet first for Indiana and
I just want to kind of everybody to see what it.
Looked like. Let me get it.
Set up on the screen here. There we go.
So. For those of you who have seen
these workbooks, which are the product of the great Chad.
Sherwood of Hoops, HD dot. Com.
This is what I use these days to do brackets and it does a great
job of looking at all of the numbers.
And all the important things. That you have to consider when
you're trying to decide whether a team is going to make the
tournament. And then how to?
Seed them compared to everybody. Else in the field.
So we know a couple. Weeks ago, Indiana was on the
fringes. Of the NCAA.
Discussion. It didn't look like.
Indiana was going to, really. Be in a good position to do
anything. Now since.
Then they've picked up two quad. One wins and that's completely
changed. The way that you.
Would look at Indiana the win at Michigan State.
The win at home against Purdue? Those are quad.
One wins and they're going. To stay that way.
They've also. Seen Penn State?
Kind of. Stabilized.
So that win that they had in the Palestra earlier.
This year, that's. Still a quad 1.
And Penn State's 67th in the net?
It seems unlikely they would. Lose enough games the rest of
the way that they would fall out of the top. 75.
And then of course, Ohio State on the road that's going to
remain. A A A tier.
One win or a quad? One win for a while.
What? What's going in Indiana's favor?
Is a couple. Of things, first of all.
If you'll note, like Indiana right now as I'm scrolling
through this Indiana. All of their losses are Quad 1
losses. Their worst loss is that loss at
Iowa. That's a quad one loss.
Still. And the nice thing is Indiana's.
Got two games the. Rest of the way that even if
they lost both games there would be quad 1.
Losses as well out of Oregon and then Ohio State.
Actually, I'm sorry, if they lost to Ohio State, that'd be a
quad two loss. That's still not terrible.
That would be their only quad. Two loss of the season.
But you'd like to not have that on your record as a Quad 2.
Loss if you can avoid. It obviously.
But both of those games. You know could will be.
Important wins if Indiana. Can pick them up.
Indiana would love to add. One more quad, one win in the
regular. Season and the only way they can
do that. Really is by beating Oregon at
Oregon. But even if you just beat Ohio.
State you get a nice. Kind of upper level quad.
Two win with that and. When you look at the rest of
Indiana's predictives and all the things you want to.
Keep an eye on you know they've got 5.
Wins. Away from home 4 Rd.
Wins. One neutral win.
They're right now you know their strength of.
Schedule's 34th so. That's not an issue.
The aggregate of their resume. So looking at what they've done
up to this. Point They're about 41st in the
country. There and in the predictives.
They're about 49th that. Combo of those two.
Things puts Indiana. Squarely in that 1112 seed
range. And when you start looking at
some of the other teams that are in the mix, like if you look at
for instance, Georgia, a team that.
Indiana is kind of battling. With for positioning I still
have Georgia barely. Ahead of Indiana in the.
Mix because they have a. Slightly better strength to
schedule. They have. 4.
Wins in quad one as well. They they don't have any.
Bad losses either they just. Picked a nice win.
On the road at. Texas.
Excuse me? Yeah.
That I'm sorry. It was at Texas yesterday and
their predictives are slightly better than IU.
Their resume is just ever so slightly worse.
But this is an. Example of the teams that
Indiana's going. Up against in this.
Process and I think what's. Important for Indiana is you
look at some of the. Other teams in the big. 10 Like
Nebraska, Nebraska's got. One more quad one win but their
their predictive stuff looks worse their.
Their Ken Palm ranking. And their BPI.
Ranking are all below. Indiana at this point.
Their resume's about the same, slightly worse, and they have
some worse losses. You know Nebraska's got 2 Tier 3
losses, home loss. To USC home loss.
To Minnesota, which they just suffered yesterday.
And of. Course a home loss to.
Rutgers as well. So they just.
They've got more Dings on their resume.
Even though they won at Oregon, they won at Creighton.
They won at home against. Illinois and at home against
UCLA, but this is what you got. To kind of consider when you're.
Looking at these these. Options in the bracketing.
Process it's like. How do you weigh all of?
These things against each other and one of the mistakes I.
Think a lot of people make. When they start getting into
bracketology. Is they'll focus.
Too much on one thing. Rather than focusing on the
variety of things that the committee will look at.
You know Indiana right now 50. 5th in the net, you'd like to
see that get higher, but the fact they're 44th in Kenpalm now
and 52nd in Torvic. They're, you know, at.
Least all of their predictives have kind of come together a
little bit, whereas. Earlier in the.
Season, you could see their. Predictives were heading.
In the wrong direction. That doesn't bode.
Well, when you're dealing with the.
Committee, because the committee.
They want to bring teams in that are going to have a game chance
at winning. In the NCAA tournament,
particularly winning away from home, generally your predictive
statistics are a better indicator of that.
If you look at the overall the the the board.
As we would call it. You know this is.
And again, it's a little hard to see for.
Those of you, I'm going to zoom. In a little bit for those who
are watching, but you got to. Remember there's there's two
primary categories. In the NC.
AA tournament. There's the automatic.
Bids and then there's the. At large selections.
So when you look. At the automatic bids.
Those are locked in. You've got 31 teams going in
there and then you've got 37 teams coming through the at
large process and within the at large process what I try to do.
When I put my boards. Together is I try to order the
at. Larges since the last.
Four at larges are technically. Supposed to be the teams.
In the the last four. In the the 1st 4 so to speak the
the games that happened Tuesday and Wednesday.
So when I went into this over the course of the last couple.
Of days and updated the. Statistics this morning.
My last four in the tournament are Oklahoma, Ohio State,
Nebraska and Arkansas. And then you got Indiana.
As my last by with. Georgia, San Diego State and.
Utah State, just above them, you've got Baylor, West
Virginia, Vanderbilt and. UConn in that next group.
Above, now there's some subjectivity.
You're going to have a situation where.
Individual bracketologist might have.
A different order than. What you see from the committee
ultimately and that's. Largely because committees.
Tend to round each other out. Because you'll have one.
Committee member focusing on one thing.
Another committee member focusing on.
Another they vote, they rank order.
You end up with an. Aggregate whereas I'm sitting
here, I've got my criteria that I look at which I try to match.
The committee on so don't be surprised if you've got like
individual. Bracketologist who have, for
instance, Arkansas much higher or who have Georgia higher or
something like that. So just.
Just kind of a caveat. If you go to bracket matrix you
can kind of see what everybody values 'cause you can see how
their brackets are laid out compared to everybody else.
In this case I guess what I look.
At it. You know, as as I.
Compare like Indiana to Arkansas if I go.
Back to the team sheet. Page again here.
Arkansas is. Kind of an interesting.
Case Arkansas 17 and 12 now after a a pretty bad loss to
South Carolina yesterday. Indiana's 18 and 11, you know.
Indiana's strength of schedule. And not quite as good as
Arkansas. Most of that for Arkansas is
because they're. Playing in the SEC.
You look at, you know what? Both teams have done Indiana.
And Arkansas have the same number of quad 1.
Wins. But.
Indiana's average net wins, so they're the the average.
Rankings in the net of the teams Indiana's beaten.
Is 112.3 Arkansas's average net win is. 157 point.
Six so Arkansas's. Wins have come against
essentially. A worse group of teams.
On the aggregate than Indiana's have you?
Look at again the the resume. Indiana looks slightly better,
averaging a 41. Arkansas averages about a 45.
Arkansas's predictives are better, but they're basically
the same. You know if Arkansas's 40. 2nd
in Ken Palm. Indiana's 44th, Arkansas's 49th
in Torvic. Indiana's 52nd.
This could go either way. But.
When I look at this. What I'm seeing is an Indiana
team. That's got one more Rd. slash
neutral victory. And has I I think.
At least from my perspective. A slightly better collection.
Of wins if you. Account for the tier two wins
alongside the tier ones. So again.
There's some subjectivity here. But This is why I.
Ended up ranking Indiana the way.
That I ranked them. Looking back at that.
Board and then looking at the way that the rank order happens,
the S curve where you take the automatic bids and the at large
bids and you rank them in order, you know, it's a really
interesting field and there's going to be a lot of clustering.
Of SEC teams, Big 10 teams and Big 12 teams up in that top 16
to the point. That I think some.
Of the bracketing procedures that.
We've gotten used to seeing the committee may not be able to
follow them. Simply because you, you know
you're. Supposed to keep the top four
teams from each. Conference in separate regions.
I don't think you can do that with the SEC given that right
now in my top 16 I've got 6 SEC teams.
Yeah, there's there's four Big 10 teams, there's four Big 12
teams. It is a very centralized group
of teams at that top. Level but looking at the.
Order that I've got. I think he, you know, Auburn
right now is the the clear number one seed overall.
Houston and Duke can. Kind of go back and forth.
They gave Houston the nod because they are, they have a a
tougher strength to schedule. I think they're playing in a
much tougher conference. Duke is the third number one.
Seed and even though Tennessee. Beat Alabama last night.
I still like Alabama better than Tennessee, but just barely.
I wouldn't be. Shocked to see those two.
Flip I could see. Alabama as the top 2.
Seed and. The Tennessee is the 4th one
seed. It's really just going to depend
on what. Happens over here the next.
Couple of weeks. Alabama has a much tougher Rd.
down the stretch than Tennessee. Does so we'll see what.
Happens there, then Florida. Michigan State, Wisconsin, Texas
Tech, Iowa State, St. John's, Purdue.
Michigan, Kentucky, Arizona and then.
Texas A&M that's. My protected.
Seeds, so you go. Down the list and you can see
like Indiana where they land in this from my perspective would
be as. You know, one of the last 11.
Seeds that isn't a play in game in fact I believe.
They are the last. And.
We'll. See like that?
That can. Clearly change.
I wouldn't. Be shocked to see Indiana in the
play in game. At this.
Point you know if Indiana. Loses both of their remaining
regular. Season games and also.
Loses in the Big 10 tournament, that's where I think you start
to get into the danger. Zone, but I think even with just
one win the rest of the way. I like Indiana's chances
compared to not just the teams that are in.
The the last four in, but the group of teams that's right
below them or below that group. Is not very.
Good. I mean, you go back and look at
the board and you know, if you're watching.
This on YouTube. The the the.
Schools that are crossed. Out are the ones that are
already in the field. There just aren't that many
other teams that are in significant consideration for
being in that large right now. You know, I've got I've.
I over build. My list so that I make sure I
don't miss. Anybody but if you go down the
list of the. Teams that I had under
consideration that didn't get selected.
Into the field. You've got San Francisco, who I
think is clearly below. Indiana and almost every
meaningful. Metric you've got Texas who's.
Going in the wrong direction and I don't think their resume
really compares to what? Indiana's been able to do it.
It's it. It's.
A bit it's. Close to some degree, but I
mean, if I if I type Texas into the board, Texas right now, 16
and 13, that's a real. Problem you know.
Their their resume is it averages out to 58.3 among the
various services whereas. Indiana's averaging out to. 41
Their predictives are about the same.
As Indiana's and again. They've got a much worse
average. Win than Indiana's got.
If you look at the average rating of the.
The teams in the net. So.
You know, I would put. Texas underneath, not just
Indiana. But also underneath the four.
Teams that are below Indiana in the at.
Large field going. Down the list, Northwestern is.
Probably not making it. North Carolina if they make.
It it's gonna be. A A a miracle run down the
stretch they gotta. They're gonna have to win some
games that they haven't shown being capable of winning.
The other thing about the ACC. What's hurting North Carolina?
What's hurting SMU? What hurt?
Clemson in terms of their. Seeding is that the ACC sucks.
Like you'll hear people talk about well then.
You know this team should be giving credit 'cause they won
12/13/14 games in the. ACC My answer to that is.
No, that's that's wrong. Like this is this is a like?
Every year I feel like. We all we hear about.
Is complaining from ACC sources. About how nobody.
Takes the ACC as seriously. As they should.
And then you look. At their teams and they're like,
well, the reason? For that is your teams suck.
Like, of course we're not taking you seriously.
That's the case here. North Carolina just blew.
Out Miami yesterday. But they blew out Miami.
Miami's got six wins on the season.
Don't take them seriously please.
Other teams that are in the mix. Xavier, probably my first.
Team out, but they have essentially.
No wins of note, Villanova. Same thing.
George Mason's not a serious candidate.
SMU. Not really that serious they're.
Going to need a big run here at the.
End North Texas? No.
Cincinnati No. Boise.
State maybe has an argument. But I don't see them.
Getting in ahead of the. Teams that are currently in the
list. And then you've got.
Boise State, Colorado. State and UC Irvine, I mean,
that's that's. The list of teams so.
I like where Indiana's at right now, and again, even.
If they go on a bit of a. Losing streak they're going to
have for the most part, as long as they're not getting blown.
Out in these games. They're going to have a better
resume and a better. Overall look.
Than the teams that they're. Going up against for the final
spot in the. Field or whatnot.
So you know. Final aspect of this.
You know, and and honestly the the bracket as it sits.
Now is not that important. To focus on because these
matchups. Are going to change, but if
you're the type of person that really likes.
Looking at matchups and seeing where Indiana would be at.
Indiana in this lineup. Would be the 11 seed in the
South. They would have a match up
against Marquette in. Denver in the first round.
And then they would play either Texas Tech or Utah.
Valley in the second round. Wisconsin would be the two seed.
You've got Ole Miss as the seven.
You've got Utah State as the 10. 1000 as the. 15 And then on the
upper part of the bracket, this is Auburn's bracket.
So Auburn is the one seed, Arizona is the four, Maryland is
the five. And then the 8-9 Gonzaga and
New. Mexico, we also get a potential
Kevin Willard versus Will. Wade game in the first round
between Maryland and. Mcnee's That would be a
fascinating match. Up to say the least, but.
That's where I've got Indiana at this point.
And again, they've got their destiny in their hands.
They. Split their last.
Two games of the regular season I think they're in and aren't
really. Particularly sweating it.
But we've. Seen this Indiana team have.
In game runs that will go wildly in One Direction and then.
Swing back to the mean, I wouldn't be shocked to see
Indiana have an up and down. Last week or two here as they
run. Into some tougher competition.
We'll see. If this new Esprit de corps that
this team has. Shown and particularly if their.
Defensive effort that they've shown.
Can continue at the rate that it's been at.
Hopefully it will be and we'll. Be able to talk about Indiana as
solidly in the field when. Selection Sunday rolls around a.
Couple of weeks from now. Anyway, that's gonna wrap it up
for us here. We'll be back with more.
Coaching search updates. Later on in the week we've got a
new batch of coaching candidates to take a look at and we'll be.
Taking a look at that Oregon, Indiana game as.
Well, so watch. For another podcast tomorrow
for. Crimson cast and.
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Clavia, we'll catch you. Folks, on the flip side, stay
never daunted. Bring back the Bisons.
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