Plus they bring enough bodies to fill the student section!
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Who is this doing play-by-play on the video feed? I like AP, but this guy is really enthusiastic!
Big 4th foul on Robertson. He was clearly sliding.
Pipes has been playing like a legit ALL WCC player the last 6 games. He really âfoundâ it.
67 pts from our Seniors today!!! I donât think that Senior day record will be broken any time soon.
Such a beautiful second half of offensive basketball we played.
And props to the Pilots. I thought the USF games might have been outliers for them but I was really impressed by their offense. They can definitely beat any non Gonzaga teams in the WCC tournament.
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Great win⌠Go 'Cos.
Excited for Vegas. Congrats to the seniors⌠Pipes has been awesome the last couple weeks.
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From Rocco Miller on twitterâŚ
Reminder: The WCC will use KenPom's ACWP model to seed teams once again for the conference tournament.
â Rocco Miller (@RoccoMiller8) February 27, 2022
Per sources, the Top 5 seeds will be:
1. Gonzaga
2. Saint Mary's
3. Santa Clara
4. San Francisco
5. BYU
Top 2 are set. This assumes a BYU win over Pepperdine tonight.#WCC
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Great week with two big wins! Congrats to our seniors as Josip, PJ, and Keshawn all played really well today. I agree, Portland is no slouch especially on offense. They are capable of beating anyone outside of GU.
I know we have our eye on the big prize this next coming week in Vegas, but have to think we have done enough to secure NIT bid.
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Best finish since 2007 is impressive!
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No bad losses in conference playâŚlet that sink inâŚalso, a decisive win on a Saturday afternoon tiltâŚhope springs eternal
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And the Gaelâs are up 36-21 at half!
Timme is 0-8
Bennett drew up a great defensive game plan
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And TCU beat #9 Texas Tech today.
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I know USF wasnât a bad loss on paper but it was like backwash in a glass, a dingleberry in the ____ or bile in the throat loss. Hard to take in person.
Love being able to give my spokane SCU classmates a little ribbing over this loss. Doubly good given they are football alums and hate St maryâs.
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Phew, a loss today wouldâve felt to all here like an absolute gut punch. But now we get to dream for another week that we have the smallest outside chance at a couple wins in the tourney.
Did any of us predict or expect a top 3 wcc finish? I feel like most of us said our ceiling was 4th place.
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I certainly didnât. And if I could have seen, in advance, the current computer rankings on Gonzaga through BYU, I donât think I would have picked Santa Clara to finish higher than 5th. The WCC is the strongest it has been in 30 some years. It will have three NCAA teams and may have four. Yet SCU finishes third, ahead of at least one at-large. Pretty cool.
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Another Q1 win with TCU moving into the top 50,
weird that SCU didnât bump up in NET after a 100 point game!
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I didnât expect it either, although I did feel from the early part of the season that this team had the talent to do so and challenge for an at-large bid. Right now they look like that team we saw at the start of the year. High powered offense can overcome many mistakes. Iâd love to see them make a run at the WCC tourney title and at the very least secure and NIT invite. They are good enough to contend.
Yeah, redandwhite, I am shocked that SCU did not move up in the NET rankings. The Gaels didnât move up, either, despite the convincing win against the Bulldogs. Yet, USF moved up, and BYU dropped back two spots. Definitely a headscratcher to me.
I donât see any confirmation of seedings yet from the WCC.
Portlandâs NET is mediocre; beating them doesnât really help us in the NET and waters down the benefit of TCU moving up. And as the season nears the end there are more data points for the NET so youâre less likely to see significant moves up or down.
I think BYU is a bit of a paper tigerâŚtheir solid NET is riding the coattails of their strong non-con schedule and performanceâŚthey arenât playing that well now.
Re: finishing 3rdâŚBYU faltering in league plus USF losing to Portland and coughing up double digit 2nd half leads to BYU and SMC opened the door for us. Hard to argue weâre better than USF since they beat us twice (one a beatdown) but we took care of business with no losses to anyone 5th place or worse.
3rd place instead of 4th helpsâŚbetter to play someone like USD or Portland in our first game instead of BYU then likely SMC in the semifinal instead of GU.
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I was figuring that our wins vs. SMC and TCU wouldâve outcalculated the Pilots low NET. As I understand it, a win against a Quad3 or Quad4 doesnât help you, but also doesnât hurt you. But a win against Quad1 helps.
I guess without knowing the EXACT algorithm of the NET ranking, it is just idle speculation.
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