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Tournament Resumes

  • Cleveland Buck
    When I've been bored at work and home I've been playing around with some numbers to represent the resumes for some of these teams, and it looks pretty interesting. I assigned points to the following:

    RPI 1-25: +5 for a road win, +4 for a neutral win, +3 for a home win, 0 for a loss
    RPI 26-50: +4 road win, +3 neutral win, +2 home win, 0 loss
    RPI 51-75: +3 road win, +2 neutral win, +1 home win, 0 loss
    RPI 76-100: +2 road win, +1 neutral win, 0 home win, 0 road/neutral loss, -1 home loss
    RPI 101-200: +1 road win, 0 neutral/home win, -1 road loss, -2 neutral loss, -3 home loss
    RPI 201+: 0 win, -2 road loss, -3 neutral loss, -4 home loss

    Here are some of the teams who are in contention for #1 seeds:

    Georgetown 37
    Ohio State 34
    Pittsburgh 33
    Kansas 31
    Texas 30
    Duke 27

    Here are some teams in the general vicinity of the bubble, some who most people have in and some that aren't being considered.

    Cincinnati 16
    Illinois 15
    Memphis 15
    Michigan State 13
    Michigan 13
    Minnesota 11
    Georgia 9
    Richmond 8
    Virginia Tech 7
    Boston College 6
    Baylor 5
    Alabama 4
    Northwestern 4
    Penn State 2
    Utah State 2
  • wildcats20
    Georgetown just lost again tonight. I would say they have NO shot to get a 1.
  • Mulva
    Not sure about the scale you chose. Very, very lenient. 0 for a loss against the RPI 51-75? Those aren't even tournament teams in most cases. If you're a tournament team you should be winning those games, especially at home.

    Illinois is the only one of those bubble teams that I would say is tournament worthy right now anyway though (even though I know at least a few of them would be getting in).
  • Fly4Fun
    Not enough "punishment" for losing on this scale. A team with 6 losses before the Conference Tournaments is not in contention for a #1 seed.
  • SportsAndLady
    Just a terrible scale...you gotta have some type of punishment for losing
  • Cleveland Buck
    I adjusted it to punish losses more. I used the following:

    RPI 1-25: +5 for a road win, +4 for a neutral win, +3 for a home win, 0 for road/neutral loss, -1 for home loss
    RPI 26-50: +4 road win, +3 neutral win, +2 home win, 0 road/neutral loss, -1 home loss
    RPI 51-75: +3 road win, +2 neutral win, +1 home win, 0 road loss, -1 neutral loss, -2 home loss
    RPI 76-100: +2 road win, +1 neutral win, 0 home win, -1 road loss, -2 neutral loss, -3 home loss
    RPI 101-200: +1 road win, 0 neutral/home win, -2 road loss, -3 neutral loss, -4 home loss
    RPI 201+: 0 win, -3 road loss, -4 neutral loss, -5 home loss

    If you take out the conference leaders who would get the auto bids, here is a list of the top resumes. The top 37 would be in the NCAA tournament if this is how the field was selected.

    1 Georgetown 34
    2 Kansas 31
    3 Brigham Young 31
    4 Notre Dame 30
    5 Connecticut 28
    6 Purdue 23
    7 Wisconsin 21
    8 Syracuse 20
    9 West Virginia 18
    10 St. John's 17
    11 North Carolina 17
    12 Kentucky 17
    13 Louisville 16
    14 Villanova 15
    15 Vanderbilt 14
    16 Cincinnati 13
    17 Old Dominion 11
    18 Temple 11
    19 Illinois 10
    20 Texas A&M 10
    21 Missouri 10
    22 Marquette 9
    23 Southern Mississippi 9
    24 Tennessee 8
    25 Michigan State 8
    26 UNLV 8
    27 Minnesota 8
    28 Georgia 8
    29 Kansas State 6
    30 Alabama - Birmingham 6
    31 Michigan 5
    32 Florida State 5
    33 Utah State 5

    Last 4 In:
    34 Harvard 5
    35 UCLA 4
    36 Washington 4
    37 Virginia Tech 4

    First 4 Out:
    38 Colorado State 3
    39 Gonzaga 3
    40 Oklahoma State 3
    41 Richmond 3

    42 Colorado 2
    43 Dayton 2
    44 Maryland 2
    45 New Mexico 2
    46 Boston College 1
    47 Butler 1
    48 California 1
    49 Duquesne 1
    50 Marshall 1
    51 North Carolina State 1
    52 Virginia Commonwealth 1
    53 Clemson 0
    54 Northwestern 0
    55 Mississippi 0
    56 Washington State 0
  • sportswizuhrd
    CBuck...Do you have Pitt-Tennessee game as a neutral game? After reading about the Mock Selection process(I made a thread about it), they said that this was a neutral matchup because it was not played on campus and ESPN managed it. I wasn't aware of where the game was(didn't matter to me either way) and never knew that if ESPN manages a game it becomes neutral. Also, Arizona played Kansas in Phoenix.Shouldn't be a home game for U of A right? It was because Arizona chose to have it there.
  • Cleveland Buck
    CBSSports has has a breakdown for each team that is separated by RPI and home, away, and neutral, and that's what I used. I don't know what they considered the Pitt/Tennessee or the Arizona/Kansas games.
  • SportsAndLady
    Arizona/Kansas was played in Vegas, wizuhrd...I would know, I was there :D
  • sportswizuhrd
    SportsAndLady;682741 wrote:Arizona/Kansas was played in Vegas, wizuhrd...I would know, I was there :D
    Apparently I missed the word, hypothetically when I read that tweet. I remember you saying you were going there for it. Isn't that the same tourny/classic that Kansas destroyed(might be understating it) OU?
  • SportsAndLady
    sportswizuhrd;682852 wrote:Apparently I missed the word, hypothetically when I read that tweet. I remember you saying you were going there for it. Isn't that the same tourny/classic that Kansas destroyed(might be understating it) OU?

    Yeah, they lost by like 50 or something...dear god that was a beatdown. It was sweet though