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Old 11-19-2017, 10:40 PM   #131
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Temple wins 67-60. Nice way to start the season. Hopefully they can keep it up. They have some opportunities in their non-conference for big wins.
They seem to be much better than last year.
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Old 11-19-2017, 11:29 PM   #132
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They seem to be much better than last year.
IF they would have continued to actually run offense the last 6 minutes, they could have won by 20. But instead played to not lose and ended a little closer.

I like that team, outside of its mental mistakes. Quinton Rose is uber talented but still very raw. I really like their back up PG.

Also I saw Obi get some buckets at the rim which he wasn't capable of before. thought his defense was bad though
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Old 11-19-2017, 11:30 PM   #133
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Tulane about to pass up Memphis in Kenpom.
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Old 11-20-2017, 06:41 AM   #134
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it seems like the league is better this year. It still isn't great and teams will still have questionable losses but I think it will be much better. If uconn and Temple can at least be bubble teams or NIT teams, thats already much better than last year. Tulane doesn't look like the worst team in college basketball. that a plus.
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Old 11-20-2017, 10:36 AM   #135
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it seems like the league is better this year. It still isn't great and teams will still have questionable losses but I think it will be much better. If uconn and Temple can at least be bubble teams or NIT teams, thats already much better than last year. Tulane doesn't look like the worst team in college basketball. that a plus.
Houston Losing to Drexel sucked ass. And Tulsa sucks. But I tulane go into the UNC game undefeated and potentially Top 100 in Kenpom. That would be great
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Old 11-20-2017, 11:00 AM   #136
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Houston Losing to Drexel sucked ass. And Tulsa sucks. But I tulane go into the UNC game undefeated and potentially Top 100 in Kenpom. That would be great
Tulsa needs to get rid of Frank Haith. Each season with him just pushes them further and further away from relevance. They have to fire him, make the right hire, then hope they get decent 3-4 years later. Gonna be rough for them until then.
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Old 11-20-2017, 02:54 PM   #137
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There are some injuries already that certainly won't help (like UCF). Our marquee game against UCLA will also likely take a hit but should at least remain top 50 rpi.

last year our own rpi was 12...which is a 3-4 seed not a 6 seed. UCLA was #4 which is a 1-2 seed and they got a 3 seed. It was a lack of top 50 rpi wins that killed us...not our own rpi ranking. Even if UCF does not make it...we could still end up with more top 50 wins this year. If the committee looks at other metrics like they said they would...we should be just fine. We are holding steady in Kenpom even with a horrible SOS so far.
I'm beating a dead and decaying horse here, but I made the point ad nauseam last year that it is the height of stupidity to use something like top 50 RPI wins while completely ignoring individual RPI rankings. Put another way, the committee theoretically gave teams that beat UC credit for beating a top 15 team, yet the committee itself viewed UC as only the 23rd or 24th best team. It's something I can't wrap my head around, but as was mentioned before, the committee seeds how they seed and then retroactively assign stats to fit the brackets they want.
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Old 11-20-2017, 05:47 PM   #138
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Jacob, so do you watch WSU on the regular? Do you root for them outside UC? This is my first time really watching them besides the UK game. I think they do a lot of things right and have some active quality bigs and obviously a really good guard. You think we will beat them at least once?
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Old 11-20-2017, 05:56 PM   #139
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I'm beating a dead and decaying horse here, but I made the point ad nauseam last year that it is the height of stupidity to use something like top 50 RPI wins while completely ignoring individual RPI rankings. Put another way, the committee theoretically gave teams that beat UC credit for beating a top 15 team, yet the committee itself viewed UC as only the 23rd or 24th best team. It's something I can't wrap my head around, but as was mentioned before, the committee seeds how they seed and then retroactively assign stats to fit the brackets they want.
You're 100% right, and it's a simple but salient point that illustrates how absurd it is.

Unfortunately that seems to be a metric they really value
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Old 11-21-2017, 04:09 PM   #140
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Found this tidbit on how road wins are going to carry more value than in the past with the committee. Basically what is being said here is that a top 30 win at home is equal to a top 50 win on a neutral site and a top 75 road win. And so on down the line. In the past I think a top 50 win was a top 50 win whether at home or on the road. It also sounds like the committee will use more of a composite of several metrics to make these determinations. I think UC would have benefited with this last year.


Column 1: Home games against teams ranked 1-30, neutral games vs. top-50 teams, road games against top-75 teams

Column 2: Home games against teams ranked 31-75, neutral games vs. 51-100, road games vs. 76-135

Column 3: Home games against teams ranked 76-160, neutral games vs. 101-200, road games vs. 136-240

Column 4: Home games against teams ranked 161-351, neutral games vs. 201-351, road games vs. 241-351
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