Noticed this about our road schedule

[Sean Miller Fan]

We play, arguably, 8 of the best 9 teams, on the road. We only dont go to Clemson. These are tough games.

Duke
Lou
SMU
UNC
NC St
Wake
FSU
ND
Syr

Only the VT road game was against a lower-tier teams.

No road games vs Cal, Stan, BC, GT, Miami, UVa.

Ideally, I think you'd prefer to get a few more easy road games in exchange for getting teams like Wake, SMU, NC St, etc at home.

 

[Dointhatrag]

I think we lucked out not having to go to California in the middle of conference play. As long as we beat the perceived “lower” teams this will help our net playing all the tougher ones on the road. For example we probably would have lost by the same amount against Duke at home but saved ourselves about 5 net ranking by playing it on the road

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I think we lucked out not having to go to California in the middle of conference play. As long as we beat the perceived “lower” teams this will help our net playing all the tougher ones on the road. For example we probably would have lost by the same amount against Duke at home but saved ourselves about 5 net ranking by playing it on the road

Maybe. But for a league which isnt very good, we happen to play only the best teams on the road. Would rather play BC or GT on the road and get Wake and SMU at home. I would predict 4-0 there. Instead, at Wake and at SMU are probable losses.

 

[SteelBowl70]

Good observation. The remaining 8 road games provide 4 Q1 and 3 Q2 opportunities (and a Q3 at Cuse) while the next 3 home games are Q2 with the last 5 being Q3/4. The last 2 years Pitt had 16 (7-9) and 18 (9-9) Q1/2 games before selection Sunday, while this year has 6 to date (3-3) with 10 potentially remaining so we need as many as we can get and this road schedule helps with that. The next 9 games have 7 Q1/2 while the last 7 provide only 3.

A strength of the last 2 years was our road record and so far, outside of OSU, we have played poorly on the road having major issues scoring (64, 57 and 47 points). That needs to change starting with FSU.

 

[Pitt666]

We play, arguably, 8 of the best 9 teams, on the road. We only dont go to Clemson. These are tough games.

Duke
Lou
SMU
UNC
NC St
Wake
FSU
ND
Syr

Only the VT road game was against a lower-tier teams.

No road games vs Cal, Stan, BC, GT, Miami, UVa.

Ideally, I think you'd prefer to get a few more easy road games in exchange for getting teams like Wake, SMU, NC St, etc at home.

Its like Miami and Virginia are intentionally tanking to be lower tier road games for us....

 

[Gep Dawg]

It's amazing how this all can change game by game. It's really maddening and shouldn't be as important as it is come selection time. Especially since Pitt (or any team) can't control what other teams do before or after they play them. They need to go to the soccer model system of awarding spots in the tournament by conference standing based on determing how many spots each conference gets by how well its done on a 3-4 year rolling average in the tournament.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

It's amazing how this all can change game by game. It's really maddening and shouldn't be as important as it is come selection time. Especially since Pitt (or any team) can't control what other teams do before or after they play them. They need to go to the soccer model system of awarding spots in the tournament by conference standing based on determing how many spots each conference gets by how well its done on a 3-4 year rolling average in the tournament.

How well a conference did in the tournament in the past should have absolutely nothing at all to do with how many teams from that conference get in to the tournament this season. Because if you do it that way you end up with a situation where the ACC is down for several years so they only get four or five teams in the tournament, and in that year the ACC really picks it up and "deserves" nine or ten team in.

"Hey, sorry Clemson, you should clearly be in the tournament this year, but Georgia Tech sucked four years ago and Boston College sucked three years ago, so you are out."

One thing to keep in mind is that although after every game we fans tend to make it out as if that game is the biggest deal in the history of basketball, in real life it doesn't actually work that way. In the grand scheme of things one result really isn't that important. Certainly not as important as some folks make it out to be.