Dayton hasn’t beaten a single team in the field and they are a #7 seed
That doesn’t even sound possible
Big props to anyone who finds the bracket with tip times, spread, and Ken Pom ratings. Usually someone does one each year that is floating around but I haven't seen it yet
Big East folks seem upset. Guess they were ranked the #2 conference behind the Big 12 and all of their bubble teams got snubbed.
While watching conference tournaments, I figured there would be a lot of people winding up upset with how things turned out due to how it seemed there were a TON of teams with 18-21 wins who all had their ups and downs where they all had some merits, but also had red flags. Like, in just the Big 10, you had Northwestern (haven't been the same since Ty Berry got hurt), Wisconsin (good recovery in conference tournament, but had a long "they suck" stretch late in the regular season), Michigan State (played a brutal schedule and lost most of those tough games -- meaning they are totally that team pundits will be all like "It's Izzo, it's March, no one wants to play them" and then they'll lose 78-69 in a game where they were down by 10 for 35 of the 40 minutes), Indiana (somehow won 19 games despite seemingly having no impact on anything that happened in the sport all year), Ohio State (good finish under Diebler, but those last two months of Holtmann were a killer that gave them no margin for error), Iowa (finished with two losses in back-to-back must wins) and Minnesota (surprisingly in some sort of "barely in it" contention until faltering down the stretch) all in this sort of gray area where you knew which of them were likely in and which ones needed some/lots of help, but none of them felt overly inspiring.
And with there being a lot of teams like that in most conferences, I'm totally looking forward to seeing just how quickly my bracket gets busted to hell! At least let me have fun with it for Thursday, guys! I'll even take a year like one of my friends had a decade or so ago where he was 16-of-16 the first day and then lost his champion in the noon game on Friday because he at least had one awesome day before it all went to shit.
posted by Ironman92#3 Creighton vs #14 Akron…game in Pittsburgh
Will be big Akron crowd
See how Akron got in? Poor dude on Kent State didn't realize his team just took the lead and quickly fouled an Akron player with about 6 seconds left. He made both shots and Akron won by 1.
posted by HereticSee how Akron got in? Poor dude on Kent State didn't realize his team just took the lead and quickly fouled an Akron player with about 6 seconds left. He made both shots and Akron won by 1.
Yeah crazy
For the 2nd straight year I’m not buying the Mountain West and their 6 teams
posted by Ironman92So the committee can’t really say they consider NET rankings much
New Mexico NET #22
Duquesne NET #86
Both #11 seeds
BYU gets Duquesne and Clemson gets New Mexico
Wondering if any ACC dudes are on the committee lol
https://old.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1bhb1tw/whats_the_point_of_the_net/kvcjq32/
This reddit comment pretty much sums it up. The NET rating of a team isn't a ranking of how good of a team they are, it's just used to put teams into piles of Q1, Q2, Q3 to determine if you're a quality victory or not.
A true "power ranking" would be something like kenpom or BSPN's BPI where it ranks what it thinks the best teams are in order (2 would beat 5, etc)
posted by MontyBrunswickhttps://old.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1bhb1tw/whats_the_point_of_the_net/kvcjq32/
This reddit comment pretty much sums it up. The NET rating of a team isn't a ranking of how good of a team they are, it's just used to put teams into piles of Q1, Q2, Q3 to determine if you're a quality victory or not.
A true "power ranking" would be something like kenpom or BSPN's BPI where it ranks what it thinks the best teams are in order (2 would beat 5, etc)
Ken Pom has them 23 and 86
ESPN BPI had thrm at 43 and 89
feel free to restate your original complaint but instead substitute NET for bpi and/or kenpom and then i won't have a retort
for fun, i looked up the KPI (another rating system the ncaa uses) and it has them a lot tighter. new mexico was 24th and duquense 35th.
some of these ranking systems have OSU in the 40's so...
posted by MontyBrunswickfeel free to restate your original complaint but instead substitute NET for bpi and/or kenpom and then i won't have a retort
Thanks for the correction…glad they keep it so simple. All 3, be it pertinent or not show huge gaps between the two teams that are both 11 seeds.
Wagner up 67-54 with 3:21 and hoping to hang on
Not real sure that Virginia for any decent but looked like a tournament team this year.
What a miserable showing.
Virginia’s offense has been gross all season. Good riddance.
Boise St a bad 10 seed in back to back years
Can these refs make a call without having to go nitpick at the monitor every time
Tired of the Mountain West
Wouldn’t be March without Izzo/MSU winning a tournament game after being dead in the water all season.
SEC 0-2 so far, both losses to a worse seed by double digits
posted by friendfromlowrySEC 0-2 so far, both losses to a worse seed by double digits
Not greatly surprised….one I picked them a lot because SEC, but I also watched them tie with ACC in ACC/SEC challenge
CSU beat Virginia and has assumed Virginia’s form. Sitting at 11 points at halftime.
posted by GOONx19CSU beat Virginia and has assumed Virginia’s form. Sitting at 11 points at halftime.
Mountain West needs not have 5-6 teams every year