the bracketologists are a bit off on this one. Mostly because BYU was not in up until we beat Gonzaga. They haven't fully taken this development into account yet.

Also, they might not be aware that Tom Holmoe and Scott Barnes, USU AD, are both on the selection committee. The rules are that Holmoe will not be in the room when BYU is discussed so will have no direct impact on BYU's situation. But you've got to think that the other members are not going to diss one of their member's school. Just to make sure, Barnes will be there and should be expected to at least support BYU. As Tom would do for USU.

Looking at BYU's body of work, we should be around a 7 seed. Of course, at this point, we'll be happy to just get in anywhere.

Now what the bracketologists do consider in their seedings is how BYU compares to all the other teams. And there lies the problem. As much as BYU deserves to be in the Tourney and deserves maybe a 7 or whatever seed, so do many other schools. The bracketologists presumably weigh all the pluses and minuses, although mostly through the use of computer programs, to come up with their predictions.

The big kicker now that it's coming down to the wire is that we need to keep on winning and finish strong. We've made a case with a strong regular season finish and the icing on the cake of beating Gonzaga at their place and convincingly (10 point lead that tightened at the end, we faltered but hung on). Now we've got to win at least a couple in the WCC Tourney to seal the deal. We get to the finals and there should be no doubt that we're in and, depending on what all those other teams do, hopefully get a 7 or so seed.

Best case is if we win the WCC Tourney and nail it down for sure. Next to that would be making it to the championship game and putting up a good battle. That should be more than enough to do it.