That’s funny I just read that the average bracketologist has RU as a 10 seed and Providence as an 11
Dayton per Wachtel Saturday 330
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OOC SOS is the most overrated metric used. Overall SOS matters soooo much more
I'd only really consider it for smaller conferences. If they at least tried to have a stronger OOC schedule give them some credit
Rutgers overall SOS is 39. That's really good.
Lol your takes on Geo/Caleb and Young/Montez were so bad I almost forgot.
Thanks for reminding us all.
Whatever from him…enough of that boilermaker
Yea he always takes the contrarian view and in most cases anti Rutgers
Do people forget that he is a Rutgers graduate and worked for the MBB staff for three different coaches prior to SP?? He definitely is lurking on the the boards and I would be suprised if he is even commenting on this thread.
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That means the committee will seed us higher. Thank you Jerry !
Even BAC drives me nuts. We don’t play many OOC games. It’s the least important factor. And Miami, Temple, SHU, Wake and UMass Lowell were perfectly fine!!!
Jerry is so biased.
And Brad last two days is trying too hard with RU to be impartial that it’s affecting his analysis the wrong way.
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I agree 1000%. Why would it be important to know just out of conference schedule when over all strength of schedule tells you way more information and it includes both
OOC specific metrics are dumb and bad. Overall metrics contain both conference and OOC.
If Michigan hadn’t lost to Central Michigan and bubble team Arizona St. they would be safely in with 19 wins.
The point is this. I don’t care how good Alabama is, on the day Vandy lost to them 101-44 they had to play horrendous. Playing like that, they would not have beaten UK and would’ve lost to many other teams too that they beat on days when they played better. Now suppose you flipped the opponents. Quite likely Vandy’s 7 point win over UK would’ve still been a loss with the same performance against Alabama. And with the effort they gave in the 101-44 loss, there’s no shot they beat UK. There’s also could be a reasonable shot they lose to a team like Fresno.
I’m not a MOV fan for power ranking purposes, because of the blending effect. It’s still only one game. But particularly on the loss side, it’s one heck of an awful performance and should by no means get bunched as a “quality” Q1 loss. That’s all I’m saying.
Lunardi last 4 byes. Just updated.
Exactly. If Paul, Caleb and Mag didn’t get hurt we’d be a 1 seed
Anyway, basically it will come down to this. If the committee focuses on your losses, we’ll be in Dayton. If they focus on the quality of your wins, we’ll be safe and maybe even a 10 seed.
I think we’re still okay with loss focus getting consideration as long as the games being played are actually reviewed. If there’s lazy reliance on the sorting tool to quickly assess the loss side - that’s where we’d get dinged the most.
All I have to say is - come on committee. Please don’t do the latter. Pitt lost to Michigan by 31 points. They lost to WVU by 25. Their last memory of Pitt is a 27 point loss to Duke in a game where Duke could’ve won by 50 if they wanted to. These are not good losses. Combine them with dreadful losses to Florida St and ND and Pitt hardly has a cleaner loss profile than us.
Then when you shift to the win side there is no comparison. We match their best win @NW. What else they got? @ NC State, Virginia, Miami and UNC sweep. That doesn’t even come close to trumping Indiana, Maryland, Michigan State (Garden), PSU (sweep), @ Wisconsin. The win @ Purdue is check mate with an exclamation point.
Unless all they look at are the quads…
