THIS IS A TOURNAMENT TEAM!
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How is that measured? By recruiting stars? Explain how you measure roster quality.
Michigan St. gets bonus points because he’s a MSU fan.
That must also explain why Pomeroy has them ranked 57 spots better than mighty NCSU as well. Because he’s a Spartans fan.
I think for Pitt it is as simple as beat WF on Thursday. If it's not WF we need to beat UNC on Friday.
The same NC St team that only lost to NC by 9 @ NC. Please stop with this crap. Pitt is one of the hottest teams in the NCAA with a great road record. The NCAA tournament has always been a flawed system. This should come to no one as a surprise. They want to take most of the big fan bases that are the only game in town. $$$$$ Teams, H2P
This doesn't make any sense. Those teams used to play games like that every year. The change happened 15 or 20 years ago when teams stopped playing them.
And the selection committee has literally absolutely nothing at all to do with who or how schools schedule games. The notion that Pitt can't play a non-conference game in February because the selection committee prevents them from doing so is laughable.
Nobody is saying anybody is preventing them. It goes back way more than 20 years. More like 30-35.
15? years ago they announced and then NET more recently confirmed the committee has no recency bias. You could lose 10 in a row and get in if you won your first 20. I don't like it, and it's clearly incongruous with college football, but that's the line.
How is that determined, explain in detail player by player, how Michigan State's players are better than Pitt's USE FACTS.
Pitt has two NbA players on this roster. https://syndication.bleacherreport....ound-predictions-and-pro-comparisons.amp.html
Pitt is in. NBA will make sure of it so scouts can get looks at Bub vs Hinson.
Pitt is in. NBA will make sure of it so scouts can get looks at Bub vs Hinson.
Having the 344th non-conference SOS is pretty indefensible when it comes to Pitt’s resume. That’s the one metric that we have heard committee chairs mention year after year when asked about why certain teams got in. Here’s hoping they focus on current form, road wins and some of the efficiency stats.
Does it make any sense at all that EARNING a double bye and finishing 4th in a power conference standings, is a negative because you need more "Quad wins"? I mean back in the normal times, EARNING a double bye in a major college league tournament would have been looked at as a positive and earned a team extra credit.
I think Jaland is closer to being NBA than Hinson. But if you count Hinson, then there are 3 NBA players.
Isn’t that already taken into account in the NET formula? Should a team be penalized twice for this? How about overall SOS which is about the same as UVA?
NBA also likes G D-G because of his height and ability to shoot the 3-ball. Per a scout I know personally.
From 35 to 14 years ago, meaning ending in 2010 when we played Robert Morris in February, we played six January non-conference games and six February non-conference games. So 12 times in 21 years. In the last 14 seasons we have not played any of them.
So more like 14 years ago, not 30-35.
Lack of Non-Conference games after January 1 is a function of having too many Conference games--20 is too many.
And the Mountain West is projected to get six bids. Except for San Diego State, since 2019 the conference is 0-11 in the tournament.
I said MSU's players--the overall roster--are better than NCSU's players. I said that MSU is a better team than NCSU. And I said Tom Izzo is a better coach than Kevin Keatts. Pitt never entered that discussion at any time.
Ken Pom's analytics should provide you or anyone else with enough FACTS and data to support that conclusion.
Usually when Team A is analytically better than Team B by 57 spots or so, that will tend to support the conclusion that Team A has better players.
I went and looked at the Ken Pom rankings, there's a lot of inconsistency there, a disconnect that doesn't necessarily make me believe that you are a better team or have better talent just because you're ranked higher there.
SDST is their only team with a top 30 schedule this year. I think they remain legit.
But for example two years ago, not only did the MWC get four teams in the tournament, but all four of them lost their first round match up to a lower seed.
It is a remarkably overrated conference with a worse overall record than the ACC and a weaker SoS. How they'd get six teams when the ACC may be lucky to get four makes no sense.
