KenPom has them at 340 but their only loss is by one to Tenn Tech who lost at Georgia by 5 and Georgia just won at Ga Tech and is 65 (Ga Tech is 100). Seems like they are underrated by the computers.
How good is VMI?
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Tennessee Tech also lost by 25 to Texas-Rio Grande Valley. Moral of the story, if we lose to VMI, pack up shop.
Throwing out a guess here:
Very, very bad. VMI is historically one of the worst low majors. I think this is the 1st game of that Southern West Virginia Hotel Ballroom tournament that we are in so didn't schedule this game. Otherwise, this is not a team you want to schedule. You want to try to avoid MEAC, NEC, and other bad low majors like VMI.
Not worried at all about losing but having to beat them by 36 to maintain the kenpom ranking
VMI's two games this weekend were also at the Ballroom, so this was almost certainly an assigned game rather than one we scheduled on our own.
Wait, are you not impressed by VMI's big 46 point win over Christendom? I mean all of Christendom would be huge, and yet they were no match for the Keydets of VMI.
Yeah, each of the four teams in our portion of the Greenbrier also got a game against one of the four teams in this weekend’s portion of the Greenbrier, and VMI is ours.
It’s not great on the schedule and VMI is really bad, but at the same time as long as it’s noncompetitive I don’t think it really matters if we win by 25 or 35. Sure, beating the spread is better for the metrics, but I’m not really sure if that’s something that the #18 kenpom team really needs to worry a ton about on a game to game basis.
Well the good thing about metrics like the NET replacing the RPI is that with the RPI no matter how badly we would have beaten VMI our RPI was going to go down. With something like the NET, play better and you rating will improve. Play worse and it will go down. It's all in your hands, not in the hands of who happens to be on your schedule.
Pitt favored by 32.5 over VMI this morning per ESPN. KenPom (Pitt # 19) ratings suggest it could be 37.5. Torvik (Pitt #32) suggests 38.5 and predicts a 94-56 Pitt win.
Pitt's BPI rating this AM is #27.
It would be nice if the bench could get minutes tonight. Would like to see Cummings and Delalic see increased time and Kante, J D-G more than "garbage minutes" and see the rest at least get garbage minutes.
For that to happen Pitt might need to have a 50 point lead mid-way through the 2nd half, I suppose, given the way the ratings systems are used now to consider the size of blowout win margins.
Pitt's BPI rating this AM is #27.
It would be nice if the bench could get minutes tonight. Would like to see Cummings and Delalic see increased time and Kante, J D-G more than "garbage minutes" and see the rest at least get garbage minutes.
For that to happen Pitt might need to have a 50 point lead mid-way through the 2nd half, I suppose, given the way the ratings systems are used now to consider the size of blowout win margins.
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The tour of the once secret bunker under the Greenbrier is fascinating. I highly recommend it to anyone going to the tournament there.
You got your wish! 34 minutes combined from Beebah and Delalic; and JDG played at least 8 minutes; maybe more
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