13 Seed Within Reach

[IdaGriz01]

Some food for thought, with only five championship (auto-bids) left to be decided. Below I have listed the teams that the Griz are currently in “competition” with for a good seed. I started at #50, then ranked them in the order of their RPI. "Columns" in order: RPI, Strength of Schedule, BPI rank. (The BPI numbers are not up-to-date, but they are probably fairly close).

Charleston (26-7) . . . . . . . . 058 199 114
San Diego State (22-10) . . . 063 101 063
NC Greensboro (27-07) . . . 065 206 086
Montana (26-7) . . . . . . . . . 076 253 110
Bucknell (25-9) . . . . . . . . . 080 214 089
Marshall (24-10) . . . . . . . . 087 164 137
Wright State (25-9) . . .. . . . 099 240 144
Lipscomb (23-9) . . . . . . . . 101 231 179
Iona (20-13) . . . . . . . . . . . 106 161 109
SFA (28-6) . . . . . . . . .. . . . 107 334 123
UMBC (24-10) . . . . . . . . . . 114 244 172
Harvard* (18-12) . . . . . . . 115 193 155
Radford (22-12) . . . . . . . . 128 250 170
CSU Fullerton (20-11) .. . . 131 210 191
Georgia State* (23-10) . . . 132 274 102
Texas So (15-19) . . . . . . . 223 295 248
LIU Brooklyn (18-16) . . . . 232 314 245
NC Central (19-15) . . .. . . 279 350 276

* Playing today. Highest remaining seed, so their opponents’ numbers are equally feeble.

Note: I suppose we should be happy that the current system only allowed one team with a losing record into the Dance.

 

[grizzlyjournal]

Haslametrics has been "on" the Grizzlies since early January.... remarkably accurate with predictions. He's got Montana a solid 13th seed, along with Buffalo, Davidson and UNCG.

http://www.haslametrics.com/ratings.php

 

[PlayerRep]

Oguine view:

"t'd be cool if we were matched up with Gonzaga because we had them beat my freshman year but let it slip away. A chance for payback.
I think a 13 or 14 seed would be fair. I'd love to have a 12 seed tho but idk about that"

This is from his Reddit thing he's got going on.

Oguine is a very good student, by the way, or that's what I've heard.

 

[EZGRIZ51]

Oguine view:

"t'd be cool if we were matched up with Gonzaga because we had them beat my freshman year but let it slip away. A chance for payback.
I think a 13 or 14 seed would be fair. I'd love to have a 12 seed tho but idk about that"

This is from his Reddit thing he's got going on.

Oguine is a very good student, by the way, or that's what I've heard.

SBNATION has Grizzly as 13 vs Zags in San Diego. Cool!