Comments on: Basketball: UNLV scouting report http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2011/12/22/basketball-unlv-scouting-report-2/ Thu, 23 May 2013 23:28:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jim crow http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2011/12/22/basketball-unlv-scouting-report-2/comment-page-1/#comment-74271 jim crow Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:43:12 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/?p=25301#comment-74271 Agreed that it will be a fascinating measuring stick. Hard to say what is most important game. Perhaps in a negative sense, the game against Mizzou will haunt the Bears at NCAA seeding time and hence may have been the most important game.

Couple that with a loss to UNLV, and anything less than a destruction of all Pac-12 rivals (18-0?), then the Bears may be in real seeding trouble. Meaning that if they win the conference, but in no really dominating way, they may get an 8 or 9 seed, pitting them against a top seed in round 2, should they win their first game and advance. (See 2 years ago, when Duke demolished them in the second round game.)

So this actually may be the most important game left on their schedule. They will look to be a pretty weak road team, with losses to Mizzou, SDSU, and UNLV, the only 3 games so far played against teams that had home court advantage on them.

If their lack of depth and unfortunate injuries–or whatever–keep them from winning the Pac-12 regular season or the Pac-12 tourney, then various Pac-12 games will become more important, but then Cal may not even make the NCAA tourney and seeding in the NIT will be the issue.

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