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View Poll Results: What seed will UC get? | |||
1-2 | 9 | 14.52% | |
3 | 27 | 43.55% | |
4 | 15 | 24.19% | |
5 | 9 | 14.52% | |
6 | 2 | 3.23% | |
7 or worse | 0 | 0% | |
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01-19-2018, 10:18 AM | #101 | |
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maybe it needs to expand beyond just top 25 at home? or maybe come down from 75 road teams. im not sure. kenpom 27 fsu would be favored at 67 ncsu and 74 BC by 1 point according to kenpom. but fsu would be a group 2 home game while wins at ncsu and BC would be group 1 road wins. Last edited by cincrulz11; 01-19-2018 at 10:29 AM. |
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01-19-2018, 10:27 AM | #102 |
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Our schedule has been met with some adversity all along. UCLA lost a few players and a lot of teams lost games right in front of us making our games against them kind of "must win" situations for them. UCF lost two players but they were supposed to be a top level AAC team. We played UCF with Taylor his first game back on a night when the football team was honored. We are playing off campus for the first time in 30 years. We are playing more away/neutral games because of that. We had to pick up some poor non con games because of that. We will play away on senior night two times for the second year in a row. That should not happen.
If we come through this without too much damage it's going to be a great year. The committee isn't going to realize half of this stuff which is unfortunate. But we should be very well prepared as a team in March regardless of our non con SOS. |
01-19-2018, 10:34 AM | #103 |
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Its early still and the RPI can be pretty volatile. But the league is hugely improved in that category which really helps teams maintain their ranking by playing top 100 teams.
I'm all about Kenpom but looking at RPI since its what the committee uses Last year top 100 RPI teams: 4 (UC, SMU, Houston, UCF) This year Top 100 RPI teams: 9 ( UC, WSU, SMU, Houston, Tulane, Tulsa, UCF, Memphis, UCONN) Tulsa is 121 currently When top 100 teams play each, win or lose, generally will stay top 100. If the teams in the top 9 of RPI can avoid losses to ECU and USF, we could finish with 9 teams in the RPI top 100. Which gives us a lot of good win opportunities. While this league could still be a 2-3 bid league, there is no doubting that its improved on all fronts. Once they fire Ollie and get Tom crean, UConn will start winning again. |
01-19-2018, 10:46 AM | #104 | |
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warren nolan's predicted results only have the first 4 finishing in the top 100 in rpi. |
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01-19-2018, 10:47 AM | #105 |
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I'm not quite sold on this idea. We were around #7 as a conference in OOC and that is probably where we landed last year. We are top heavy with two teams just like last year. The middle of the conference is getting mucky again.
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01-19-2018, 10:48 AM | #106 | |
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And that's why I root for the teams on our schedule to stay on the right side of those cutoffs. It doesn't necessarily mean a team is significantly better, but it makes a big difference in how they appear to the committee. |
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01-19-2018, 10:53 AM | #107 |
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But rpiforecast has six finishing in the top 100 (actually all six end up top 75, which is what really matters). Warren Nolan's predictions are biased toward higher ranked teams, since he assumes the favorite wins every single game. That hurts predicted records for middle of the pack teams.
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01-19-2018, 10:56 AM | #108 | |
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but it still remains possible they all miss the cut. i wouldn't expect UCF to miss the top 100 and i think temple can stay in it too (who wasn't even in the 9 teams he listed). i dont really have much faith in any of the others though. |
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01-19-2018, 11:05 AM | #109 | |
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We have too many border teams which means we are going to have to get the job done in a big way to avoid getting jobbed again. |
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01-19-2018, 11:12 AM | #110 | |
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but the original point from justin still remains. the conference is trending up and hopefully this is just the start. this can be a solid bball conference. |
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