Not that is matters, but Jay Bilas was just on ESPN live talking

[pittguy81]

up Pitt, saying they are definitely a Tournament team and playing the best of all bubble teams. Likes Bub and Lowe...and of course Blake Hinson.

I liked when he said, "...sometimes you have to look beyond the paper and numbers..."

 

[SteelBowl70]

Bilas knows more about basketball than all those committee members combined but as he says, he doesn’t get a vote. He also says that what matters is your overall SOS, without the focus on only 1/3 of it.

 

[Cmart2004]

I saw that as well. He said Pitt is better than all the bubble teams that will get in.

 

[BurghGuy68]

I captured it on video...

 

[Vader_Storm]

I captured it on video...

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Thanks for posting this.

And thank goodness someone has the balls to bring up the actual eye test because it matters whether we get in or not.



Im actually getting sick and tired of these bracketology nerds that never played basketball in their life try to put a bracket together based on computer metrics.

 

[BurghGuy68]

It stinks they eliminated the "last 10 games" criteria....why did they do that anyway? A hot team trending up should matter more than a team who started off good and stinks now (looking at you Clemson who is a "lock")

 

[mike412]

I think there are too many bracket busters this year: North Carolina State winning is the straw that broke the Panthers’ back. It gives them 4 ACC teams without Pitt.

 

[Vader_Storm]

It stinks they eliminated the "last 10 games" criteria....why did they do that anyway? A hot team trending up should matter more than a team who started off good and stinks now (looking at you Clemson who is a "lock")

They should bring it back, they need to bring it back, and I think they will bring it back at some point in the future.





This is what I think of with regards to Joe Lunardi sitting by his computer thinking he is some basketball expert, nothing but a computer nerd that never played sports or worked out in his life. And someone needs to pull the plug on him.

 

[BballinsiderfromPitt]

Shocked Jay Bilas thinks this.. lol.
It doesn’t matter, the bubble burst with NC State

 

[Pitt666]

Shocked Jay Bilas thinks this.. lol.
It doesn’t matter, the bubble burst with NC State

He is just supporting his duke bud capel. But anything can still happen. They are in one bracket that is higher rated than lunardi.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

It stinks they eliminated the "last 10 games" criteria....why did they do that anyway? A hot team trending up should matter more than a team who started off good and stinks now (looking at you Clemson who is a "lock")

They did it for one simple reason. And it's the same reason that they emphasize non-conference schedule. Because if you look at last ten games and you emphasize conference schedule only, it works to the benefit of the P6 schools and the detriment of everyone else. And there are more, a lot more, of the everyone elses than there are P6s.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

As an exercise--If you use KenPom's top 68; account for all the autobid teams in the top 68, replace the remaining 19 worst open slots with the 19 autobid teams outside the KenPom top 68; then every team KenPom ranked 43 or better would be in the field of 68 if only the rankings are considered. Using NET rankings would produce a similar result.

Since Pitt is 40/41 in both KenPom and NET, Pitt could be squeaking in unkess more subject metrics are used by the committee to keep Pitt out.

This assessment remains unchanged relative to Pitt even though there are 20 autobid teams (vs 19) that are ranked worse than number 68.

 

[maxxwell]

It stinks they eliminated the "last 10 games" criteria....why did they do that anyway? A hot team trending up should matter more than a team who started off good and stinks now (looking at you Clemson who is a "lock")

This reply could fit a number of threads today. In discussing that the other day when interviewed by Joe Starkey, Jerry Palm said it's not indicative of Tournament success. I imagine the NCAA had statistics backing that up. However, as brought up in a different thread, the game's changed with the free transfer rule and NIL. Teams are turning over at greater rates than previously. It'd be interesting to see if that premise still holds now.

 

[Vader_Storm]

They did it for one simple reason. And it's the same reason that they emphasize non-conference schedule. Because if you look at last ten games and you emphasize conference schedule only, it works to the benefit of the P6 schools and the detriment of everyone else. And there are more, a lot more, of the everyone elses than there are P6s.

Thats ridiculous.

If a midmajor plays 10 games in a row and wins all 10, they should get credit for it.


St. Mary's is 23-2 in their last 25 games with a league championship. They should get rewarded heavily for that and their early non conference schedule losses should be ignored.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Thats ridiculous.

If a midmajor plays 10 games in a row and wins all 10, they should get credit for it.


St. Mary's is 23-2 in their last 25 games with a league championship. They should get rewarded heavily for that and their early non conference schedule losses should be ignored.

You might think that, but the NCAA, which is nothing different than saying the schools, clearly doesn't.