Now that the season is "PROBABLY" over since we can't accept CBI/CIT bids

[PhoggyBottom]

The NCAA regards it as a road game. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-rpi

Takes a lot of arrogance to think you know more about a team than the team’s actual fans

Looks like you are right.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

The NCAA regards it as a road game. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-rpi

Takes a lot of arrogance to think you know more about a team than the team’s actual fans

Can I get a double like for this. Go away ICansaser.

 

[Tu Geo]

All I know is that Bradley dominated that Kansas team in the second half of the NCAA Tourney led by 10 almost all the way. But of course according to Phoggy it was just a fluke. No team from the Mo Valley can compete with mighty Kansas.

Oh whoops forgot about Wichita State LOL.

By the way the American Conf. reputation helped Wichita State's seeding.

Last year #10 seed. (an embarrassment by the committee) 31-5 team with two great Seniors matched up with Kentucky in the second round absolutely ridiculous.

This year #4 seed. ( and I don't think this team is as good as last years team).

But I'll acknowledge the preferential treatment by the committee because of the conference name.

There are built in biases.

This is where I differ from Phoggy, he never will.

GO TU!!!!

 

[drboobay]

Funny you say that, when I was a student, the year of the CBI run, there was a group of 3-4 tweakers that would stand in front of the student section. They reeked of cigarettes and pot but could barely function. THEY WOULD HECKLE THE SHIT OUT of the opposing team, even though it rarely made any sense. The big guy in their group would threaten to kick in ballers asses, and I never got the sense he was joking.

But yes Wojcik’s style is a major bore fest.

We called them “mad dog’s kids”

I saw ole Mad Dog this week at the dry clean store.

 

[cmullinsTU]

I saw ole Mad Dog this week at the dry clean store.

Selling roses at the dry cleaner these days?!

 

[PhoggyBottom]

All I know is that Bradley dominated that Kansas team in the second half of the NCAA Tourney led by 10 almost all the way. But of course according to Phoggy it was just a fluke. No team from the Mo Valley can compete with mighty Kansas.

Oh whoops forgot about Wichita State LOL.

By the way the American Conf. reputation helped Wichita State's seeding.

Last year #10 seed. (an embarrassment by the committee) 31-5 team with two great Seniors matched up with Kentucky in the second round absolutely ridiculous.

This year #4 seed. ( and I don't think this team is as good as last years team).

But I'll acknowledge the preferential treatment by the committee because of the conference name.

There are built in biases.

This is where I differ from Phoggy, he never will.

GO TU!!!!

Of course there are built in advantages for bigger name conferences. There are advantages in resources. There are advantages in recruiting. There are advantages in scheduling. Its not the committee's job to even the playing field. Their job is to pick the best teams and seed them appropriately. There is almost certainly a bias toward picking the big conference team that has played a bunch of games against good teams and won some of them over picking a smaller conference team that has only played (and maybe lost) 2 or 3 tournament teams over the entire year. At least the committee knows what it is getting with the big conference team. Truthfully, I am all for giving the benefit of the doubt to someone like Middle Tennessee State this year over someone like OU or Arizona St. That doesn't mean I don't understand why the committee does it and it doesn't mean that there isn't justification for why they do it.

The difference in our thinking is really that you think a random upset by a smaller conference team means anything other than a team won a particular game. There are plenty of examples of very good smaller conference teams losing to mediocre big conference teams in the tournament too. It doesn't mean the smaller conference team wasn't better or was overseeded. It means there was an upset. It happens.

 

[TU1NNJ]

Regular season conference record below 500 should eliminate a team from the NCAA tournament unless they win their conference tournament. Teams have 2 chances to get in - finish above 500 in regular season conference games or win your conference tournament.

 

[Weatherdemon]

Regular season conference record below 500 should eliminate a team from the NCAA tournament unless they win their conference tournament. Teams have 2 chances to get in - finish above 500 in regular season conference games or win your conference tournament.

This...

 

[aTUfan]

Loved the end of the Miami Loyola game.
This is what march madness is all about!!!!

 

[TU_BLA]

LOL....... do you understand the RPI formula?

Two more wins and Tulsa's RPI goes from mid 80's to mid 30's.

Easily in the NIT and possible at large.

GO TU!!!

I don't think you understand how the selection committee works. Buffalo (#24 RPI - 13 seed) does not get in without automatic bid; Middle Tennessee (#33 RPI) did not get in; USC (#34) did not get in; S. Dakota St. (#35 - 12 seed) does not get in without automatic bid; N. Mexico St. (#36 - 12 seed) does not get in without automatic bid; St. Mary's (#38) did not get in; Louisville (#39) did not get in.

Two extra wins against mediocre teams was not going to do it. They needed to beat someone of consequence. TU finished 0-5 v. Quadrant 1 and 3-9 v. Q1/Q2. Like I said, 2 or 3 wins may have done it if they had beat WSU or Cincy (or maybe Houston). Otherwise, it wasn't going to matter.

Louisville probably shouldn’t be playing basketball for 2-3 years after the crap they’ve pulled