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

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

Beav's can't hang

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?

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.

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.

^ 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.

oregontrack wrote:^ 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..

oregontrack wrote:^ 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.

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.

yahoo's projection has us but barely as 12 seed

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

TheMaehlMan wrote: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.

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

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.