A win against GU, SMU and Pepp will give us what we need. As long as we win the others too.
That is the advantage of being Gonzaga. You play national interest games vs. perceived tougher competition and they win those frequently, even in off years. Also, when you have that you gain advantages over your league opponents and typically get favoritism from refs. It doesnât mean you win those games but you have an advantage.
That is what makes Gonzaga a bigger draw and, according to Scottâs conspiracy, makes them more likely than BYU to get an invite.
So what you are saying is that BYU has to win the rest of their games⌠sort of what most everyone else is saying. Okay, just clarifying that.
They could lose a couple and still make it.
While it doesnât really matter, do you mean two more losses including the conference championship game or two more losses before the conference championship game?
If you mean two more losses including the conference championship game, that puts our RPI at 47. We would have at most 2 top 50 wins and at least 4 100+ losses. That is not a resume for an automatic bid. Last year we had an RPI of 36 with 2 top 50 wins, 4 top 100 wins, and only 3 100 plus losses, none to teams over 200. This year, we currently have 0 top 50 wins (Gonzaga is not top 50 in the RPI), only 2 top 100 wins, 3 loses to teams between 100-200 and one loss to a team over 200. We were literally the last team in last year.
Our resume this year does not benefit from a win against a top 5 team late in the year. With a 47 RPI, we are on the outside looking in.
If you mean losing two more before the conference championship game, that puts our RPI at about 67. That would be close to a record high RPI for an at large bid. With our current resume, we risk missing the NIT with a 67 RPI. There is no way we get in with a 67 RPI.
Doggone it Richard⌠quit using fact based information to suggest that Scott might be wrong, he doesnât like that. 
I happen to agree, based on everything I have seen in the past and on what this team had done so far. Today they are nowhere close to a ncaa bid. Lunardi and all of the expert prognosticators that do this stuff for a living say the same thing. There is a long shot chance that if they win out and do the things you are saying they can make it in, but right now it is still a long shot.
I honestly believe that this team can prove more and have more success making it to the NIT than they can in the ncaa tourney. This yearsâ team is NIT ready, not ncaa ready.
Will see at the end of the season. âHe who laughs first laughs last.â 