Starting to look like the Big 12 could have 7/10 teams in the tourny...

[misterTeasyEmalcomXf'inAkicksome]

Going into this week, Bracketology had 6 Big 12 teams in the tournament with Baylor the lowest seeded of the bunch at a 6 seed. They also had Tech as one of the "Next 4 out" (essentially the 5th team not to make it into the field) and Tech just knocked off OU! Looks like they should be favored to win 3/5 of their remaining games (not favored @ WVU or @ Kansas, but favored @ OSU, vs TCU, and vs KSU).

This just makes me want us to beat OU here in Austin all the more...

 

[txn_in_wa]

Going into this week, Bracketology had 6 Big 12 teams in the tournament with Baylor the lowest seeded of the bunch at a 6 seed. They also had Tech as one of the "Next 4 out" (essentially the 5th team not to make it into the field) and Tech just knocked off OU! Looks like they should be favored to win 3/5 of their remaining games (not favored @ WVU or @ Kansas, but favored @ OSU, vs TCU, and vs KSU).

This just makes me want us to beat OU here in Austin all the more...

I think it says something for Big 12 basketball. I just noticed tonight, and I don't follow basketball that closely, that the aggies are no longer ranked with a better record than us, and we still stayed on the top 25 after two losses last week to Big 12 teams, but another top 10 win this week. The Big 12 is a good basketball conference. The SEC, SEC, SEC is not so much.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

Tech has really come alive these past couple of weeks. Impressive job by Tubby. I would bet they're in if they just hold serve at home. The bubble is really weak this year with Louisville and SMU out of the postseason.

 

[jsto60]

I can see Daylon Mack tweeting the argument that "so what if 7/10 BigXII teams make it in the tourney......cuz 8 out of 26 SEC teams will make the tourney and 8 is more than 7. So do the math, the SEC has more kids in the tourney."

 

[misterTeasyEmalcomXf'inAkicksome]

And there we go! The new Bracketology has Tech in as a play-in 12th seed (one of the last 4 in, one below LSU who is one of the last 4 byes). And the ACC lost a team, so now the ACC, Big 10, and Big 12 all have 7 teams. But given that those conferences have 15, 14, and 10 teams respectively. So as far as percentages of teams making the tournament go:

1. Big 12 - 70.0%
t2. Big 10 - 50.0%
t2. Pac 12 - 50.0%
t2. Big East - 50.0%
5. ACC - 46.7%
6. SEC - 42.9%
7. Amercian - 27.3%
8. Atlantic 10 - 21.4%
... etc.