UA - NCAA bound...WE ARE CHAMPIONS!

[Michigan_Dane]

What a great year. Both mens and women's b ball to the NCAAs. Football shares the conference championship. Lax is in the top 20 and knocked off Syracuse. Track is always rocking.

 

Can we get a conference upgrade!

[LoganAronhaltsKnees]

Lunardi says 16 seed in the First Four against Liberty for the right to play Indiana. Kind of frustrating though, since Albany's RPI is at least 40 spots higher than any of his other 16 seeds, and also higher than 1 of his 15 seeds. Keep in mind that Liberty and Morgan St. are absolute locks for the First Four, so that leaves the committee to rank Albany, James Madison, Southern, LIU Brooklyn, and maybe Western Kentucky. I would hope we might rank above Southern and LIU.

 

Not to be "that guy," but RPI is kind of becoming an extinct metric for evaluating how worthy a team is of being in a certain slot (or in the tournament at all). It only measures our win percentage, our opponents' win percentage, and our opponents opponents' win percentage. That means that South Carolina State's existence factors into our RPI, along with the reprehensibly bad teams in South Carolina State's conference affect where we stand, along with other teams that have no bearing on where we are as a team. The fifth place finish will unfortunately loom much larger, although I'm hoping I'm wrong and we end up a 15.

[MRSGDG]

We have a better RPI 128, more wins (24) and more wins against 100 RPI teams (2-4), (4-6) for top 150, and good road record 11-5. I'm sure our knock is that we were 4th seeded in our conf, but we had three teams with 20+ wins in our conf. I'd hope that will get us a solid 15 or at least a solid 16 and no play in.

 

LIU has been there for the past few years, so that might get them an undeserved knock up in ranking and Western Kentucky is a name people have heard.. I sure hope that doesn't give them a better seeding but that's all I can think of with Lunardi's rankings thus far.

 

Some other predictions have us 15 in Philly against Georgetown.. let's hope that's more accurate.

Edited March 17, 2013 by MsGDG

[Eli]

Brown on Iati:

 

"UAlbany coach Will Brown said to him, "The one thing I'm pissed about is that your parents didn't have one more."

"I wish we had another one coming," Brown said."

 

LOL

[MRSGDG]

GDG and I being numbers ppl worked on this, this morning. Some threw in Iona as a 15 seed.

 

EDIT: ‏@MarkSingelais

@ESPNLunardi now has the UAlbany men as No. 16 seed playing No. 1 Kansas in Kansas City in the 2nd round. Previously had UA in First Four.

 

Edited March 17, 2013 by MsGDG

[MRSGDG]

Will on ESPN radio right now http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?s=espn

[MRSGDG]

From Nike

"@nikebasketball: The Great Danes are ready to make a great statement. @UAlbanySports is prepared. "

 

Edited March 17, 2013 by MsGDG

[UA_MA_2000]

Back to Philly to play #2 seed Duke. Got a #15 seed.

 

Great matchup for us as far as TV exposure and audience.

Edited March 17, 2013 by UA_MA_2000

[DanesRGood]

How do we get tickets? haha!

[GreatDanes06]

I really want this to be a night game in Philly. I'm gonna do everything to get there if it is.

[UA_MA_2000]

Yes how do we get tickets? What are our options?

[DanesRGood]

I really want this to be a night game in Philly. I'm gonna do everything to get there if it is.

 

I'm hoping for day game so we can hit Atlantic City at night.

[UAalum72]

Sagarin has us about an 18+ point underdog

[DanesRGood]

Any idea when they will announce the game time?

[sarge965]

Stubhub lists us in the noon session with Creighton and Cincinnati