Predict Auburn’s 1st Round opponent in the NIT

Looks like,it will be the Motor City Cruise…

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Auburn has 5 wins against the projected field and zero losses outside the field. Barring a catastrophic loss to LSU or Ole Miss at home, we aren’t going to miss the Tournament.

I mean compare Auburn’s resume to Lunardi’s first two teams out, TCU and Virginia Tech:

NET:
31- Auburn
47- TCU
51- Virginia Tech

WAB Rank:
32- Auburn
52- TCU
44- Virginia Tech

KenPom:
31- Auburn
53- TCU
54- Virginia Tech

Wins against the projected field (NET Ranking shown):

5- Auburn (#7 Florida, #20 Arkansas, #24 St John’s, #29 NC State, #48 Texas)

3- TCU (#7 Florida, #9 Iowa State, #37 Wisconsin)

2- Virginia Tech (#18 Virginia, #33 Clemson)

Losses to teams outside the projected field:

0- Auburn

4- TCU (#79 Colorado, #88 Notre Dame, #130 Utah, #222 New Orleans)

3- Virginia Tech (#48 VCU, #65 Wake Forest, #69 Stanford)


The gap between Auburn’s resume and the resumes of the two teams right on the outside of the bubble is massive. While Auburn isn’t a lock at the moment, it would take quite a collapse to fall behind either of those teams or anyone else on the bubble at the moment.

Maybe auburn gets in because of ncaa ignoring loss to the fighting bediakos

I changed it cause we hire a Russian Baw

ETA he bought a 2025 in June lol

quote:

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Which 1-5 seed will Bama lose to in the Tournament? Nate Chokes can’t beat those teams

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there's only been one tournament held since we beat a 1 seed.

I’m updating this to Miami of Ohio

They’ll probably accept an invite to The Crown in Vegas. All the bubble teams last year did

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UAB or Lipscomb or Samford