An Open Letter to Xavier Fans

[stever20]

I still remember the year, I think it was Scottie's 1st season(IIRC, some Nova fan correct me if I'm wrong), that Lunardi had Nova on the wrong side of the bubble all year and not even close(not in the 1st 4 out). We ended up making fairly comfortably as a 9 seed. All year he dogged Nova, only to suddenly change his bracket at the last minute. Literally like 10 mins before the brackets were announced on live network TV, he changed and put Nova in at like a 10 seed after not even having them in pretty much all year or in his 1st 4 out at the time. He has an insider on the committee who gives him a low down on the bracket so he can change it at the last moment so it looks like he knows his shit.

Yeah, 2007. The year of the magical movement. No teams in the grouping for last four in and first eight out had played in days, but loonardi for some reason moved nova up 9 spots the morning of the selection. Bilas called him out for it as loonardi was clearly pushing his A10 sjuofpa agenda and lacking journalistic integrity with respect to nova and the big east (ended up syracuse was the first team left out that yr, and loonardi gave them no respect).

I do think loonardi was humbled for getting called out with his bias and has improved.

The thing with these bracket sites is that a bunch of them just copy each other and make slight changes. At least Palm sticks to his guns about how he sees the teams based on the criteria provided instead of trying to get the popular vote correct. That's what makes Palm one of the best.

That's fine if you are looking for bracketology to tell you what it should be. When I'm looking at bracketology I'm looking at it for what the committee is thinking. There's a huge difference there.

Palm was great before they went to 68. Ever since then, he's been awful.

[NovaBall]

Wtf X?? Home loss to georgetown? I was rooting hard for you guys. No more slip ups!

[handdownmandown]

Do they really need you to tell them that?

[NovaBall]

Sure. Why not?

[fellahmuskie]

Standing room only tickets sold out in less than 7 hours today for the big showdown on Wednesday. If Xavier and Nova can both take care of business tomorrow, the hype for that game is going to be unreal.

[Hall2012]

Standing room only tickets sold out in less than 7 hours today for the big showdown on Wednesday. If Xavier and Nova can both take care of business tomorrow, the hype for that game is going to be unreal.

I'm mostly looking forward to the part where X follows up this massive win with a letdown in Newark next Sunday.

[fellahmuskie]

I'm mostly looking forward to the part where X follows up this massive win with a letdown in Newark next Sunday.

I've been nervous about that game for a long time. But I'd rather beat nova and lose to you than vice versa.

[Hall2012]

I'm mostly looking forward to the part where X follows up this massive win with a letdown in Newark next Sunday.

I've been nervous about that game for a long time. But I'd rather beat nova and lose to you than vice versa.

Makes sense. If X beats Nova they may very well be able to absorb a loss @SHU and still hold on to a 1 seed. Assuming that's their only loss until maybe the Big East final.