[NU Sports] CATS Win again! 55-49

[Michael Vance]

Semis would be a tough nut to crack.  Our current ninth place in the 
conference standings would have us playing the #1 team on Friday, 
assuming we win the Thursday game. That would mean another upset of 
MSU.  I'm not saying we can't, because we obviously did it once this 
year, but it would be a very tough draw.  And it'll be nearly impossible 
to get out of that #8/#9 spot because Michigan and Minnesota, who are 
8-8 to our 7-9, play each other in the last game of the season.  That 
means that one of them will definitely get their ninth loss, but that 
they can't both get 10.  Interestingly, those two teams both play 
Wisconsin (Michigan tomorrow in Madison and Minnesota on Wednesday in 
Minneapolis), so I'm a Badger Fan this week.  I think our only real shot 
at getting up to #7 is:

-We win out, finishing 9-9
-Michigan loses out, finishing 8-10
-Minnesota loses to Wisconsin and beats Michigan, finishing 9-9
-Whatever the tiebreakers are, we win them.  We split the series against 
Minny, I'm not sure what comes after that.

That would give us the #7 spot, with a matchup against Iowa on Thursday 
and Purdue or the Illini on Friday.  But more likely, we're going to end 
up in #8 or #9 which means a chance to run the Michigan gauntlet by 
redeeming ourselves against the Wolverines on Thursday and then facing 
the Spartans on Friday.

-Michael

Roy Lamberton wrote:
> I think NIT Home opener depends on who else from Chicago makes that
> tournament. 
>
> Of course we've played just about everyone tough (except Minny and Wiscy on
> the road) so the next two away games should be winable, if we want to do it.
>
> It would be a fine way to finish up the season, and for Craig to make a
> farewell statement.
>
> rsl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Scott Zeller
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:45 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] CATS Win again! 55-49
>
> The worst we could finish now would be 16-14 and I would be surprised if
> that was not good enough for the NIT, though maybe not a home game. This is
> not like the last time we had a winning record and got snubbed -- most of
> our wins that year were over very low-RPI teams. We have several quality
> wins over top 25 teams this year (FSU, Minny, MSU on the road) and our
> strength of schedule was much stronger. I'm figuring we end up 17-14, and as
> a BT team with a good RPI we should be a shoo-in for the NIT.
>
> Scott Zeller MD
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:17 PM, <neonrye at aol.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> We need at least two more wins to assure NIT berth and hopefully one or
>> more home games in bracket.  If we could snag a win out of next two and
>>     
> get
>   
>> to at least BT semis, we could still be fitted for some dancing shoes.
>>
>> Paul Levinson
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: sjtruog at yahoo.com
>> Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
>> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>>  ReplyTo: sjtruog at yahoo.com
>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] CATS Win again!  55-49
>> Sent: Feb 28, 2009 5:54 PM
>>
>>
>> Nice to see Moore go out with a win. It will be tough with the last two on
>> the road, but hopefully we can move up a bit and make some noise in the
>>     
> Big
>   
>> Ten tourney.
>>
>> When I see that (16-11 / 7-9) after the Cats, all I can think of is those
>> late collapses against Purdue and Illinois at home (or the Iowa road
>> stinker) ... 18-9 / 9-7 would have us a win from dancing right now.
>> AArrrggghhh!
>>
>> Still a solid season and hopefully we can get a couple more wins and an
>> upset or two in Indy to make it interesting at least.
>>
>> GO CATS!!!
>> -SjT
>>
>> * * * * * * * * *
>> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
>> sjtruog at yahoo.com
>> GO CATS!!!
>>
>>
>>
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