Stickboy46 wrote:BuBrave2006 wrote:Red wrote:I hate that wins by KState and TCU against teams who don't have much to play for or have suspended players could knock out non-BCS teams from the bubble.
You could hardly say that teams like Baylor or Kansas don't have much to play for. Everyone wants to win their conference tournament. Everyone wants to lock up as good a seed as they can get for the NCAA tournament. Some teams may be more desperate than others, but everyone is still trying to win. A win over Baylor is a damn good win. As for playing Kansas without Josh Jackson due to a suspension, I don't think Illinois State is the right program to be able to complain about that given some of the incidents with some of your players.
I kind of disagree. Baylor yes, but KU no. They went from a 1 Seed ... To a 1 seed with the loss. It really did zero harm to them, and gave them 2 extra days rest for a roster that really only goes 7 deep.
Everyone wants to win every game they play. Sure Kansas likely stayed at a 1 seed. But you don't think Bill Self wants to continue his conference dominance and win the Big 12 Tournament? You think he wants a loss on his resume? If you watched the game yesterday, you could tell that several of the Kansas players did NOT want to lose that game. It's tournament atmosphere.
It's a tough break for ISU that TCU got to play against Kansas with Jackson suspended. But that's all it is, a tough break. To imply that Kansas was unmotivated for this game is just wrong to me. I'd be way more inclined to believe that they simply looked passed TCU and assumed that they would win.