Butler loses at Wisconsin Green Bay

[Da Coach]

Butler's 21 game Horizon League win streak snapped-
Butler 66
Wisc.GB 75

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=200902020652

[MacabreMob]

They musta been thinkin about Curry and Davidson.

[georgethedog]

Go UW-Green Bay Fighting Phoenix... my alma mater (1986)!!!

[georgethedog]

Oh, and by the way, Green Bay is only 1/2 game out of first and could win that conference. The schedule looks to favor them slightly. That would be funny... All the press and ranking for Butler only to see Green Bay win the conference! Go Green Bay!!!

I would love to see BU get Green Bay on its schedule. Heck, we play all the other schools in that league... why not Green Bay? They are on an upswing now so it would be a good game for both teams next year.

[Bravesfan]

Oh, and by the way, Green Bay is only 1/2 game out of first and could win that conference. The schedule looks to favor them slightly. That would be funny... All the press and ranking for Butler only to see Green Bay win the conference! Go Green Bay!!!

I would love to see BU get Green Bay on its schedule. Heck, we play all the other schools in that league... why not Green Bay? They are on an upswing now so it would be a good game for both teams next year.

This illustrates everything that is wrong with the NCAA selection process. Here you have a team in Green Bay that does not have the real juicy OOC wins and winning percentage that Butler has. But they could, as you stated george win the Horizon, but get completely shafted in the selection process. The committee I'm sure takes conference standing into consideration, but I don't think enough.

I believe that winning one's conference should be weighed equally to a win or two over a top 50 team, particularly if the conference ranks in the top half of D-I. I think many of the selection members and BCS pundits underestimate just how difficult it is to win one's conference. That's why UNI, Wisc-GB, Siena and VCU should in a perfect world get bids over teams like a slumping Wisconsin, Syracuse or any other BCS team that finishes under .500 and in 8th place in their conference.

So Wisc-GB has no real decent non-conference wins. So what? They just knocked off a top 10 or 11 team in the country and can finish first in the #11 conference in the country. What else do they need to do?

[georgethedog]

Good post. If a team wins a conference that is in the top 1/3 or even 1/2 of conferences, then they should get an automatic bid, period. That should mean more than a team that gets hot over one weekend to win a conference tourney.

[Tulsa Brave]

Green Bay gets to go to Long Beach State for bracket-busters. Now that they are a viable at-large candidate, they really got a raw deal despite a TV game...no chance at all for a second big win that they probably need. Anything short of winning out the rest of the way until the Horizon championship game and they're probably done as far as at-large hopes.