How many Utah schools will make the NCAA tourney?

[Duck Rodgers]

Utah seems to be making a nice push late - 20 wins now with one game left. BYU finished the regular season well - 21 wins. UVU and Weber State(looks like Weber will anyway) both won their regular season conferences. Utah State has been kind of mediocre, but they are talented enough to potentially win the MWC tourney still. The answer could be 0 still though.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

My poll didn't work apparently.

 

[fishonjazz]

Probably 1. Don't have any idea which one though

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Probably 1. Don't have any idea which one though

As far as probability goes, I'd say it ranks like this:

BYU - Still up for either an at large or WCC tourney championship . #31 in the RPI currently. Only three teams ranked higher in the RPI have ever been left out of the tourney. Most likely just need to win their first game in the WCC tourney for a bid, but need more wins in the WCC tourney for seeding purposes.

Utah - Still up for either an at large or Pac 12 tourney championship. #72 RPI currently(nobody has ever made it to the tourney with an RPI in the 70's) Could probably get in if they beat Stanford on Saturday and win at least 1...maybe 2 games in the Pac 12 tourney. If they don't beat Stanford, a run to the championship game of the Pac 12 tourney regardless of whether they win or not would probably get them in. Their RPI goes up the more games they play no matter if they win or lose at this point.

Weber - Only going if they win the Big Sky tourney championship. Big sky is weaker than the WAC and MWC.

UVU - Only going if they win the WAC tourney. Harder road than in the Big Sky, but not even close to being as tough as the MWC.

Utah State - Only going if they win the MWC tourney. Much tougher to win the MWC tourney than the Big Sky or WAC.

I'll say 3 of them make it.

 

[♪alt13]

I'd like to see Utah get that win @ stanford to get a good seed in Pac12 tourney. Playing USC or Wash st in the first round and avoiding Zona in the second would be nice.