2023-2024 season

[GoJays2020]

My guess is the committee will set CU up to play either UNL or Drake in the second round (or Oregon if they somehow win the Pac 12 tourney), maybe even South Dakota State in the first round.

[JayPak]

Creighton's got a good chance at the 2 with a win or two in NY coupled with an early conference tourney exit by Marquette and/or Iowa St.
Important to get at least a 3-seed for the NCAAT and avoid potentially dangerous spoilers like Samford, McNeese, and Vermont, who are going to be on the 13 line.

Right on...You OD NOT want to be playing a 12 or 13 seed. Many of those teams are teams (In the 12 seed and a couple in the 13 seed anyway) that aren't auto-qualifiers from the bottom-feeder conferences and are around #45 to #60 range... similar to Seton Hall, Providence, Xavier, Nova. They are the dangerous ones.

I know 12-seeds tend to be the upset darlings, but they still only win about 35% of the 5-12 matchups and they only have a .336 overall win percentage in the NCAA tourney. That's probably all moot anyway because it seems inconceivable that the Jays drop to the 5 line at this point. Still, I'm not sure I can agree that you don't want to be playing a 13 -- 13-seeds have only won 32 first-round games since the tourney expanded, which is only a little better than the 22 first-round games that 14-seeds have won.

Of course you'd rather play a 13 than a 10, 11, or 12 but my point was that there's a big drop from the 13's to the 14's and I'd rather play a 14 (or 15).

[BenningtonBluejay]

Not sure where to put this, but in the latest coaching carousel ranking JCW is mentioned as a candidate for Central Arkansas. Mac sure knows how to pick damn good assistant coaches

[go_jays]

Creighton's got a good chance at the 2 with a win or two in NY coupled with an early conference tourney exit by Marquette and/or Iowa St.
Important to get at least a 3-seed for the NCAAT and avoid potentially dangerous spoilers like Samford, McNeese, and Vermont, who are going to be on the 13 line.

Right on...You OD NOT want to be playing a 12 or 13 seed. Many of those teams are teams (In the 12 seed and a couple in the 13 seed anyway) that aren't auto-qualifiers from the bottom-feeder conferences and are around #45 to #60 range... similar to Seton Hall, Providence, Xavier, Nova. They are the dangerous ones.

I know 12-seeds tend to be the upset darlings, but they still only win about 35% of the 5-12 matchups and they only have a .336 overall win percentage in the NCAA tourney. That's probably all moot anyway because it seems inconceivable that the Jays drop to the 5 line at this point. Still, I'm not sure I can agree that you don't want to be playing a 13 -- 13-seeds have only won 32 first-round games since the tourney expanded, which is only a little better than the 22 first-round games that 14-seeds have won.

35% is a pretty damn good winning percentage given the supposed difference between a 5 seed and 12 seed... only 15% away from Pick 'em odds!!!!!!!!

And I said "some 13's" because that's usually where the split between auto-qualifiers and the much higher ranked at-large qualifiers split happens.

[OKBluejay]

My guess is the committee will set CU up to play either UNL or Drake in the second round (or Oregon if they somehow win the Pac 12 tourney), maybe even South Dakota State in the first round.

The committee sometimes likes to create "interesting" matchups, but I don't know if they would go out of their way to make any of those happen. Obviously, they could just happen randomly anyway, depending on how the seeds play out. I think a CU/UNL tournament game would be interesting, but that would almost certainly involve UNL doing something good beforehand (either by somehow climbing to a #6/7 seed by winning the Big 10 tourney, or else winning their first round tournament game as #10/11 seed), so I should probably be careful what I wish for.

Along the lines of "interesting" matchups, I'm sure the committee would love to have St. John's/New Mexico (Pitino vs. Pitino) as a play-in game.

[Eye of the Jay]

In former Jays news, found this while watching and seeing how Shereef was doing. Had MAC player of the week honors last week averaging 20.5 ppg. Hoping for the best for him in MACtion this week.

https://ohiobobcats.com/news/2024/3/11/ ... -week.aspx

Also Kaluma's KSU team beat up on Texas. Hope they can make the tourney along with Nembhard's Gonzaga (don't want to see the Zags as a 7 seed though!)

Very random, but also saw Antwann Jones in action at UCF yesterday. He's been around a lonnnnggg time in college basketball.

[CPJays]

In former Jays news, found this while watching and seeing how Shereef was doing. Had MAC player of the week honors last week averaging 20.5 ppg. Hoping for the best for him in MACtion this week.

https://ohiobobcats.com/news/2024/3/11/ ... -week.aspx

Also Kaluma's KSU team beat up on Texas. Hope they can make the tourney along with Nembhard's Gonzaga (don't want to see the Zags as a 7 seed though!)

Very random, but also saw Antwann Jones in action at UCF yesterday. He's been around a lonnnnggg time in college basketball.

Jones was a 2018 recruit. Creighton's freshman class that year was Zegarowski, Bishop, and Froling!

[RyanHolmgren]

4 seed back in play. Hopefully we hold onto a 3.

[GoatGibbs]

Just passing along what I've heard, but there's a rumor out there that Kalk will put his name in the portal when he declares for the draft to take offers.

Sorry if it's already been posted

[bluejayfan00]

Lol