From the Post Gazette today: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...etologists-march-madness/stories/202403130097
"You usually don’t see those last four spots go to a team with such an extreme non-conference strength of schedule. They’re either cleanly in, or cleanly out."
Isn't this year almost guaranteed to have an outlier considering the resumes of Michigan St, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana State, Cincinnati, St Johns, Villanova, Oklahoma, Pitt, WF, Texas A&M, and Virginia?
They can't all make it, and most of them have a "never seen that stat out before" no?
So what makes NET OOC the #1 deciding factor according to most bracketologists? Above metrics, recent form, A&N record, Q1+Q2 Record, Q1A wins etc.
So much so that if they are not "Clearly in" they are out?
I understand "it never happened before" (but NET is fairly new), and the committee wants to ensure that OOC games matter, just seems weird to me that it would be so consequential that they have no chance at Dayton because of that alone.
Even if does matter that much, then wouldn't they dig in more and see that Missouri was 82 at Kenpom and West Virginia 106 when these games happened. Both were tournament teams last year, it's not Pitt's fault they completely fell apart the rest of the season.
That alone disqualifies them? Wouldn't that mean that all the other games don't matter then?
"You usually don’t see those last four spots go to a team with such an extreme non-conference strength of schedule. They’re either cleanly in, or cleanly out."
Isn't this year almost guaranteed to have an outlier considering the resumes of Michigan St, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana State, Cincinnati, St Johns, Villanova, Oklahoma, Pitt, WF, Texas A&M, and Virginia?
They can't all make it, and most of them have a "never seen that stat out before" no?
So what makes NET OOC the #1 deciding factor according to most bracketologists? Above metrics, recent form, A&N record, Q1+Q2 Record, Q1A wins etc.
So much so that if they are not "Clearly in" they are out?
I understand "it never happened before" (but NET is fairly new), and the committee wants to ensure that OOC games matter, just seems weird to me that it would be so consequential that they have no chance at Dayton because of that alone.
Even if does matter that much, then wouldn't they dig in more and see that Missouri was 82 at Kenpom and West Virginia 106 when these games happened. Both were tournament teams last year, it's not Pitt's fault they completely fell apart the rest of the season.
That alone disqualifies them? Wouldn't that mean that all the other games don't matter then?
