I think Pitt would.
Tonight's game has nothing to do with Pitt/UVA. I can promise you Pitt's bigs aren't going to shoot 14-20 against UVA. Pitt is also not going to hold UVA to 25% shooting.
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Tonight's game has nothing to do with Pitt/UVA. I can promise you Pitt's bigs aren't going to shoot 14-20 against UVA. Pitt is also not going to hold UVA to 25% shooting.
The guy who lists 47 different OTR2D2’s after every game suddenly doesn’t believe in analytics. It’s amazing
You know what?
Since you are so scared to post your 2025 recruiting targets and portal targets for Pitt, Ill make it simple for you.
List your Elite 8. Because I know you filled out a bracket and we all know you love to gamble or so you claim.
So you and Mr. Virginia can share your tournament picks. Lets see how you do before the games are played.
I’m not 13. I don’t fill out a bracket. I bet hundreds of dollars on the games I like and sometimes thousands. I don’t give AF about a bracket.
Ok. So who are you gambling on the first round?
Common now, you just admitted you gamble. Who are you picking to cover.
I’ll tell you who tomorrow. I’ll tell you who Thursday. You don’t plan on picks days in advance. Lines move. Injuries come up (McCullar). Pretty simple.
If I did fill out a bracket it’s pretty simple. It’s a very chalky type of year and UConn, UNC, Creighton and Kentucky would be my picks with Carolina beating Creighton
Am I Mr. Virginia? Virginia isn't even my favorite team. I just starting following the Hoos since I moved to UVA in 2014 and my kids fell in love with UVA hoops. I grew up liking Kentucky. But I like everybody tba. I'm like a chameleon - My favorite team of all time is the 1994 Arkansas Razorbacks
I don't fill out a bracket.
As far as I'm concerned, the tournament doesn't actually start until the round of 16. The first weekend just weeds out the chokers and the teams aren't championship worthy.
If I had to pick a champion, I'd pick UConn. But I'm pulling for Auburn and Kentucky. I like Bruce Pearl, and Auburn got absolutely screwed in the Final Four game against Virginia.
I think all of us believe or 99% that Pitt is better than UVA. But ya know it’s ok to enjoy the tournament, especially the real first 2 days coming up without saying every time a team loses Pitt is better than them. Yes Pitt is better than XYZ but Pitt was on the bubble like many teams who could make the same argument they are better than teams XYZ as well.
Kim English of Providence said it well. He stated his case why he felt his team should/could have been in the tournament. Then he manned up and said this:
"It was a disappointing night, but again, it's what you earn," English said of the weekend's upsets. "If you don't take care of the games you're supposed to take care of - Kansas State, at St. John's, at Butler
if you don't take care of those games, you put yourself in position to put your fate in someone else's hands. It's not where you want to be. It's not where we are going to be as a program."
By having a horrible loss to Missouri at home and starting 0-5 in the ACC Pitt put its fate in the hands of others. Credit to JC and Pitt for overcoming an 0-5 ACC start but at the end of the day don’t put yourself in that position to where you have to depend on others.
You literally could not have been more off. Wow.
Probably part of the problem is that UVA was ranked a couple times during the season (including during that challenging non-con schedule of theirs), so the committee ADs that don't have time to watch basketball thought UVA was a top 25 or cusp of top 25 team all year just because they were ranked. Meanwhile we played a weak non-con schedule which doesn't help us get into the top 25, and then we had the horrible ACC start which also prevented us from ever becoming ranked. It was too deep of a hole unfortunately.
It's obvious that the committee isn't valuing who is good at the end of the year. Or else we would have been in.
Right there, that should be the #1 selection criteria the committee uses before anything else. Did the team improve as the season progressed? How much improvement did they make going into the end of the season? What is the trend? Everything else is secondary, including their nerdy metrics stuff.
I guarantee that if Pitt were in the tournament, teams wouldn't want to play them. Pitt would beat most teams in the NCAAT except for maybe some....SOME...of the teams in the top 2 seed lines. And I'd bet that Pitt would handle some of them as well. At the end of the year, Pitt was a top 30 team, top 25 if you just look at how improved we were going into the ACCT.
Good post. I’d add that I think losing to cuse twice was probably as or more damaging than the loss to missou. But I suppose that’s what happens with a young team and a team where the key players had not played together
Given their performance against UNC I think Pitt could have made a nice run. But I also see the point that Pitt’s finish was in part because of how weak the conference was To insiders point they really didn’t beat anyone good. IMO. The best team they beat was wake had they pulled out the game against Clemson we may be watching them
"oh, golly gee, I was wrong"..... go ahead give it a try for once in your life.
That 15-point loss stat is interesting given how good UVA has always been defensively. Even this year; they are top 3 in the country in scoring defense. UVA losing by 15 to anyone is equivalent to like a 25-plus point loss to most teams.
Just goes to show how god awful, historically bad their offense is this year. I mean, they’ve got Beekman and absolutely nothing else.
If they’re using the right metrics and data, they could easily determine who’s playing their best down the stretch on metrics alone even without watching 200 teams play every game, which they won’t be doing, and which nobody on the committee ever did.
The last 10 games used to be used in seeding NCAA Tournament teams many years ago.
And Beekman is extremely overrated. Cory Alexander when on a tirade about how he didnt make 1st Team saying it was the worst decision he's ever seen in the ACC. Huh? Over who? I wouldn't put him on 1st team. Maybe not 2nd team.
No he isn't. He's won ACC defensive player of the year in back to back years. I'd hate to see what this year's UVA team would have looked like them without Beekman.
Cory Alexander is a homer.
I know, who was hot and peaking was always a factor, and I agree with you that it should still be. But you have to admit, there was a lot of subjectivity to that, and the committee members weren't watching games until conference tournament time, they were probably just following the hot/cold and injury trends down the regular season stretch as they were being reported by outlets like ESPN.
Honestly IMO Pitt should have been in before Clemson as well IMO, based on the last month of the season.
I see them as one and done based on the way they sputtered down the stretch, and UNM is coming in on a heater.
I see UNC and Duke as legit FF teams. The rest of the ACC field is pretty close to trash.
Your constant slobbering all over Virginia's jock and bashing Pitt is getting real old.
Where have I said UVA is any good?
I think I've been pretty consistent in saying bubble teams aren't very good
Yea. That was overkill. Beating Boise & TCU was enough to clinch. November basketball is everything
As I was reading though the thread I was hoping someone would point that out. We wouldn't even have been favored, let alone a six point favorite.
Unlike many on here I think SMF brings up some good points from time to time, but not so much with his gambling related takes. They are almost universally factually incorrect in some way.
