Ducks in bracketology?

[UOducksTK1]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Don't wanna jinx us, but look who is 'next four out'. Beat those beavers!

[woundedknees]

Stanford and Cal appear to be the only PAC teams "in", so far.

[Quack_12]

Beav's can't hang

[duckgrad99]

If the season ended today, we should be in. Even though the pac-12 is down, we are tied for first. Will 20 wins do it?

[TheMaehlMan]

20 wins is not the magic number that it used to be. We need to finish in the top 3 to have a shot, and we need a strong showing in the Pac-12 Tournament.

[Boom]

Unless Cal doesn't win the conference tourney... it wouldn't surprise me to see that the Pac12 only gets 1 team in the tourney this year.

[oregontrack]

^ i would consider that very surprising. the pac-12 is obviously down, but only getting one bid is a slight exaggeration. we're better this year than we were in our two-bid year (2010).

as an aside, i don't know why stanford keeps getting a free pass. both oregon and colorado have done more than the trees.

[UOducksTK1]

^ i would consider that very surprising. the pac-12 is obviously down, but only getting one bid is a slight exaggeration. we're better this year than we were in our two-bid year (2010).

as an aside, i don't know why stanford keeps getting a free pass. both oregon and colorado have done more than the trees.

Colorado has won one road game all year, good luck..

[Boom]

^ i would consider that very surprising. the pac-12 is obviously down, but only getting one bid is a slight exaggeration. we're better this year than we were in our two-bid year (2010).

as an aside, i don't know why stanford keeps getting a free pass. both oregon and colorado have done more than the trees.

What makes you think we're better this year? we only have 1 team in the top 50

2010 conference RPI rankings
9 Pac-12 0.535

2012 conference RPI ranking
9 Pac-12 0.532


I'm pretty sure UW wouldn't have made it into the tourney that year(2010) if it wasn't for winning the automatic bid.

[oregontrack]

2010 was pretty much cal, washington, asu, and a bunch of .500 or worse trainwrecks. we seem to have a lot more depth this year. cal, stanford, washington, oregon, oregon state, colorado, and hell, even wazzu are passable, if unspectacular.

[cordy02c]

yahoo's projection has us but barely as 12 seed

[TheMaehlMan]

Even if Oregon was a twelve seed I wouldn't care, just want to get in the tourney!

[DarronThomas5]

Even if Oregon was a twelve seed I wouldn't care, just want to get in the tourney!

exactly. We could be a 16 (I know BCS conference schools can't be lower than a 12, I know) and lose by 60 to Kentucky and I would be more than satisfied with this season.

[AugustDuck]

Most years missing UA, ASU, USC, and UCLA for the second game would be a good thing-this year not so much.

[northbeachsf]

I think we need at least 13 conference wins to have a shot, which means winning 5 of the last 6. Otherwise, I am afraid that all our hopes are resting on the conference tourney. We need to finish in the top 4 so we don't have to play the first day.