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ESPN had Memphis as one of the last 4 in and was a 12 seed. I think with them losing today to Houston, they are out of the tourney - I think conference USA only gets 1 team in instead of 2 (assuming the UTEP wins the tourney). I also think that if another surprise team wins, we could move to a 14 seed. Do you think their loss helps us?

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ESPN had Memphis as one of the last 4 in and was a 12 seed. I think with them losing today to Houston, they are out of the tourney - I think conference USA only gets 1 team in instead of 2 (assuming the UTEP wins the tourney). I also think that if another surprise team wins, we could move to a 14 seed. Do you think their loss helps us?

No, this (on its own) doesn't help us.

Memphis would have been an at-large team. That's not going to happen now. Instead, another at-large team will take their place; one with a better record/RPI/SOS than us.

Now, if Houston goes on and wins the C-USA tournament, that would put another team with an inferior resume in the tournament and boost us up.

But Memphis alone losing doesn't put a team with a worse resume than ours in the tournament. Houston, Southern Miss, or UCF winning the C-USA auto-bid would help us, though. And Houston is 2 wins away from doing it. At the moment, Southern Miss has a double digit lead on UAB, and if they win, that would guarantee that either Southern Miss or Houston would play in the final.

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Which is good, since ESPN has UAB on the bubble also.

Again... If someone mentions a team being "on the bubble", they're talking about them as a potential at-large team. Any at-large team is going to have a better seed than us.

What we need is lesser teams to win tournaments and earn automatic bids. That raises our floor.

EDIT to clarify: It's not about UAB losing, it's about USM winning, and either them or Houston being one game away from the NCAA Tournament.

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Mean Green blog says these are the teams we should root for to gain their conference auto bid, to push UNT up into the 14th seed or better....

American East- Boston U

Big Sky - Montana

Big West- Anyone but Long Beach State or Pacific

The MAC- Buffalo or Eastern Michigan

MEAC- Delaware State

NEC- Robert Morris

Patriot League- Lafayette

Southland- Texas A&M-CC

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