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Old 11-18-2017, 04:31 PM   #121
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Rankings and seeds are different things. You know that right? Just because a team is ranked 8th in the polls doesn’t mean they are a 2 seed
That's what my whole post was about....lol. Seeds and rpi don't match. If we end up with rpi of 10...it's not going to matter how many bottom 300 are in there. It's only going to matter about top 50 wins.
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Old 11-18-2017, 08:39 PM   #122
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That's what my whole post was about....lol. Seeds and rpi don't match. If we end up with rpi of 10...it's not going to matter how many bottom 300 are in there. It's only going to matter about top 50 wins.
X10. I am tired of the handringing that we don’t have enough top 150 teams on our schedule. The only thing that the committee cared about last year was top 50 wins. There were some bad teams that were seeded high simply because they had a played a high volume of top 50 teams and were able to win 40-50% of the games. It was stupid.
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Old 11-18-2017, 09:06 PM   #123
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the committee only cares about what is important to them in that specific year to justify what they've done. that mark always moves but they dont tell you until after.



its all a joke. all we can do is win the games we need to win and go from there. even then we'll probably get under seeded and shipped out west. such is life.
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Old 11-19-2017, 02:40 PM   #124
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If they seeded strickly based on the rpi, people would just game the rpi. You seem to be confused by that
Let's say we play 8 teams in the rpi top 50 and we win 5 of them. We also have 4 sub 300 games and we end with an rpi of 10.

Scenario B. We play 5 teams rpi top 50 and we win 3 of them. Now change our sub 300 games to sub 200 games and we end with an rpi of 10.


Which resume would you like to show the committee given their history? I would guess we would move up a seed line or two in scenario #1.
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Old 11-19-2017, 04:28 PM   #125
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Let's say we play 8 teams in the rpi top 50 and we win 5 of them. We also have 4 sub 300 games and we end with an rpi of 10.

Scenario B. We play 5 teams rpi top 50 and we win 3 of them. Now change our sub 300 games to sub 200 games and we end with an rpi of 10.


Which resume would you like to show the committee given their history? I would guess we would move up a seed line or two in scenario #1.
Beat lots of good teams, you’re golden....beat a few, lose to a few, seeding is iffy - beat mediocre to bad teams in either scenario, not much difference....beat really crappy teams, same result
Cats beat X, UCLA & Florida, along with a good conference showing & no one cares about the 300’s
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Old 11-19-2017, 05:37 PM   #126
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Let's say we play 8 teams in the rpi top 50 and we win 5 of them. We also have 4 sub 300 games and we end with an rpi of 10.

Scenario B. We play 5 teams rpi top 50 and we win 3 of them. Now change our sub 300 games to sub 200 games and we end with an rpi of 10.


Which resume would you like to show the committee given their history? I would guess we would move up a seed line or two in scenario #1.
I agree. People also remember you winning those big games and that matters. I think that one reason whichta is ranked so high this year. They have a good team but they also gave Kentucky all the could handle last year and people remember that. If we beat Florida and Xavier on national stages, we will have some wiggle room
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Old 11-19-2017, 06:46 PM   #127
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Illinois state beat Tulsa very easily ....not good
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Old 11-19-2017, 07:18 PM   #128
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Big game for temple tonight they play Clemson who’s is #44 in kenpom, would be big if they could pick up another solid win this year.
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Old 11-19-2017, 08:43 PM   #129
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Tulane is 4-0 after winning the tourney they were in.

Dunleavy has this team playing really hard
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Old 11-19-2017, 10:35 PM   #130
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Big game for temple tonight they play Clemson who’s is #44 in kenpom, would be big if they could pick up another solid win this year.
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.
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