Computers still have BYU basketball on the bubble

Following the loss to Pacific last Saturday, many BYU basketball fans appeared to throw in the towel for this season, the computers however tell us otherwise.

ESPN, Yahoo Sports, CBS sports and Fox Sports have, to this point, kept the BYU Basketball team out of the NCAA Tournament discussion.

Although it is a committee that makes the final decision of who makes and misses the tournament, the computer based ranking systems RPI, BPI play a role in how they vote. And they are giving the Cougars a lot more respect than you may think.

Every year there are 32 Conference Champions that receive automatic births into the NCAA Tournament. After that there are 36 at-large bids given to teams who do not…