Bracketology 2024
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Also, we have 8 Quad 1 wins. Only 4 teams in the country have more than us - Houston, Purdue, UCONN, and Baylor. That’s it. That will carry a lot of weight.
I think 1-2 wins locks us as a 2 and if we are 1 and done, we likely are a high 3.
There were other losses this week that basically wash out our loss yesterday. Seed wise I don’t think anything has been impacted.
Not great, no. But that isn't what you said, is it? Yes or no?
I said they weren't point guards. There is a lot of green between excelling at driving to the hoop against P6 teams and "struggling to dribble without looking at the ball".
You can make your point without hyperbole that simply slams former players.
I do not disagree with the point you’re making at all. I would just add that “should” and “will” are two different things. To the post you responded to, it does appear the bracketologists are looking for a reason to drop us and we just handed it to them. If we have KU, Baylor, Duke, Arizona, etc on our jersey this does not happen.
I saw them dribble and look at the ball while dribbling. Players with that kind of limitation aren't going to be reliable at driving to the hoop, and they weren't.
They were great for ISU in other ways that were big parts of ISU's success.
How is that hyperbole?
Meh this isn’t some big conspiracy theory.
Yet they've won 4 of last 5. Put that in your big bag of metrics. IDGAF if we don't do it the way the basketball purist expect it to be done.
Any college sport with a subjective ranking system has a long history of propping up certain teams over others. Call it what you want but it always happens.
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This is the first year I've followed more than just the big names for bracketology and while I think their are definitely better ones out there than lunardi or Palm and I really like bracketology matrix I think it's getting way out of hand. I'm starting to see way to many of the smaller guys chastising media guys for not being bracketologists like they have a degree in it or something, the media guys aren't claiming to be bracketologists they are just giving opinions my God relax lol. And I will throw in the main thing ive consistently seen from the smaller guys compared to lunardi and Palm is it seems they react a lot more to losses.
Expanding on your point, there are only 58 ranked road wins across all teams this year. Only one team has 3.
Wow thank you for providing that. Even worse than I thought.
And my favorite, “If the NCAA Tournament was played at Hilton, the Cyclones would be national title contenders. But it isn’t. And the Cyclones aren’t good on the road.”
Well last I checked the tournament isn’t on the road either. It’s not like the teams you play get to play at home.
The problem is the perception that whenever a team loses they MUST move down and whenever a team gets a big win they MUST move up. The point is the overall resume. A team could have an awesome resume and be undefeated into February and then lose 3 tough games in a row. Ignore that they just lost and look at their current resume against other teams. Despite the recent losses they might still have the best resume and still desrve to be rated #1.
This is also a problem with poll voters. They rarely just look at the resume and start each week with a blank ballot. They concentrate on "moving" teams based on their performance the past week rather than reranking based on total resume. That is why a loss at the end of the football season is unrecoverable when a loss at the beginning of the season often hardly matters. It is also why if you aren't ranked preseason you have little to no chance of being accurately ranked for most or all of the season even if you are tearing it up.
It is just lazy.
When I read that blurb I was shocked. I was like, “is that the best road record in the league?”.
ISU has had no issues dominating against sub 125 net ranking teams this season. The first round game will likely be against a sub 125 net ranking team. I have no concerns about the opening round. ISU will likely create a ton of live ball turnovers leading to easy baskets, just like much of their non conference season.
If you want to debate if ISU will make it to the second weekend, that’s a topic I think may have validity. But if ISU plays in Omaha, it’ll likely feel like a home game. I like their chances to go to the S16
Literally, the only scenario that would surprise me is if we win the national championship. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got the final four and I wouldn’t be surprised if we lost in the first round.
**** you ******* go play them one on one and find out. Lol.
Nobody wants that.
NOBODY.
