The Math Likely Worse Than Many Here Thought.

I ran some stats for the upcoming B10 Tourney thru the 1st tiebreakers (hey, it's tax season!).

It tended to support the comments coming out of the mediots during yesterday's telecast of the RUT game, where they had both UCLA & $cum likely making the Dance as the Last Four in.

The B10 Tourney has 4 tranches, wherein UCLA holds a solid edge over $cum as the 8 seed vs their #10 seed. UCLA is 8-4 and is currently positioned to receive two byes in the Tourney vs only 1 for 6-6 Fig Tech:

Seeds 1-4 receive THREE byes;
Seeds 5-8 - two byes;
Seeds 9-14 - one bye; and
Seeds 15-18 - no byes.

The problem is, $cum's upcoming 8-gm B10 sched is much easier than UCLA's ~~~ almost 30% easier thru the 1st tiebreakers:

UCLA's 8 B10 opponents currently hold an average 6.88 cumulative Seed, far tuffer than a notably softer 9.63 $cum opponents' cumulative Seed. The main diff is we get #1 MI and #4 MiSt on the road vs them @ #18 PSU & #9 OhSt on the road.

There is an easy solution, but it hasn't been the yellow brick road in the past:

We play $cum twice and a sweep would pretty much clinch our Dance bona fides (plus, if the hoops gods are kind, maybe bounce $cum out of the Dance) over the Galens. Problem is, CMC, in his prior 6 yrs at UCLA is an uber disappointing 5-7 vs LA Trade Tech.

Follow Ups:

• We'll know long before we play SC Pyperkub 18:30:45 02/04/26 (0)
• Re: The Math Likely Worse Than Many Here Thought. BruinsFTW 15:15:23 02/04/26 (0)
• Another problem and I hate to say this, USC is pretty good traprh 14:40:33 02/04/26 (7)
  • Re: Another problem and I hate to say this, USC is pretty good barrya 15:36:23 02/04/26 (6)
    • I was heartened last night to see an improvement ej 16:14:33 02/04/26 (5)
      • I hate to get too excited when the Bruins play well against traprh 10:46:33 02/05/26 (4)
        • You're right of course, but ej 11:47:45 02/05/26 (3)
          • Agree and I liked what I saw of Booker--looked very confident traprh 11:56:56 02/05/26 (2)
            • We've often talked about how important visualization is when ej 12:13:59 02/05/26 (1)
              • Good points on positive visualization. Yes it is easier traprh 14:39:14 02/05/26 (0)
• I agree. It's looking dismal Cachorro 14:30:04 02/04/26 (2)
  • Re: I agree. It's looking dismal BruinsFTW 19:16:51 02/04/26 (1)
    • LOL, You're Off Your Rocker About Lavin * UCLA78 03:37:44 02/05/26 (0)
• This may help you sleep a little easier at night. mh 14:08:42 02/04/26 (8)
  • Sorry Old Schools UCLA91 01:20:29 02/05/26 (0)
  • Didn't Work. NYBruin 14:28:50 02/04/26 (6)
    • I doubt this will help you, but ESPN's bubble guy weighs in. mh 16:14:53 02/04/26 (1)
      • Your Speculation Is Correct. NYBruin 16:48:32 02/04/26 (0)
    • Pomeroy also has our rivals going 3-5 in their last 8 games... Born2BBruin 14:58:42 02/04/26 (3)
      • Check Your Math Brother B2B. 4-4 vs Our 3-5..* NYBruin 15:35:10 02/04/26 (2)
        • Checked and double checked. They beat Penn State, Oregon... Born2BBruin 19:07:31 02/04/26 (1)
          • You Are 1 Of 2 PrimeTime Adherents Of Pom Pom, And I Am Not. NYBruin 20:26:22 02/04/26 (0)

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