The assessment was that this team had just getting to the tournament as its goal, not contending for a #1. It's not TJ and the team's fault they turned out to be better than anyone believed they would.
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Hoping for a meteor to strike CHA.Me trying decide who I want to win.
That, or the game is called when Fran and Tang die locked in battle with Fran throttling Tang and Tang dancing and clapping in Fran's face.
Our noncon sos in his first year was better, but still only 116. We still played 8 Q4 games (1 less, the main difference being our Big East opponent was Creighton instead of Depaul) , and 5 teams below net 300 (same as this year)
Conspiracy theory time.
#1. It sure seems that ISU got an unfair seed. Should Pollard offer a comment since he was on the committee? Does he agree that noncon was too weak? Didn't he set the schedule? Does he think ISU got a fair seed?
#2. My list of pitfalls: bad shooting & bad calls. Gotta think all games will be called fairly. However, I still remember MSU in 2000 and the NC that should have been. Don't forget your nutcups.
#1. It sure seems that ISU got an unfair seed. Should Pollard offer a comment since he was on the committee? Does he agree that noncon was too weak? Didn't he set the schedule? Does he think ISU got a fair seed?
#2. My list of pitfalls: bad shooting & bad calls. Gotta think all games will be called fairly. However, I still remember MSU in 2000 and the NC that should have been. Don't forget your nutcups.
We are the Committee you are the pleabs. You will take what we give you. We will use whatever metric to suit what we want to do and you'll consume it like good little doggies. Get it?
If we want to use OOC strength to justify a seed we will. If we want to justify conference tournament performance we will. You don't have any recourse or power to change it. Be glad we acknowledge you at all with the dog and pony bracket show.
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This isn't entirely true, Green Bay finished 13-7, Grambling made the NCAA tourney, Eastern Illinois and New Hampshire were close to .500 in their leagues. The only teams that were awful were Lindenwood, Idaho Stare, Prairie View, and Florida A&M. I'm sure if you went through everyone else's schedules they would have 3 or 4 similar games.
The SOS in non-conference is just an excuse. So we played 4 terrible teams out of 35 total games.
It seemed like they really used the NET tool the first year or two but now it’s just another goal post the committee can move. There are several great metric tools at their disposal and a bunch of old men go with the non con schedule.
If Iowa beats a Big XII team. well never hear the end of it...÷ trying decide who I want to win.
Gary Parrish going off on the committee “your scheduling strategy is more important than your accomplishments?”. Says Iowa State clearly has the 4th best resume.
Honestly. guessing we were one tenth of a second from being a 1 seed.
It’s such a wild card scheduling Q3 and Q4 teams though. In other words you don’t know which quadrant those games actually end up falling in.
All this talk of BYU and Drake means it's likely at least one of Washington State or Duquesne will win their 1st round games. Dont sleep on Morehead State either, it's likely a 3 seed is going down early, might as well be Illinois.
It's the NCAA's goal to **** with us, whenever they get a chance.
We are basically the last 2 seed, they just can't get enough of ******* us over, suck the **** of the blue bloods, that is their mantra.
KenPom rated our non-conference SOS at 351 out of 362 teams.
They're pissed cause the blue bloods are getting phased out
It’s the entire point behind the mysterious process in both football and basketball. Game the process privately and then give really vague non-answers when questioned about it.
Shouldn’t matter if you give any value at all to overall strength of schedule or strength of record.
One thing I have learned over the years is never underestimate Izzo in March.
