That seems right, BYU shouldn't get rewarded for requiring special accommodations.
*** Official Selection Sunday Thread ***
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I don’t think in his wildest imagination that the non-conference schedule would be the thing holding us back from a 1 seed this season. Poor foresight I guess.
Oklahoma, St. Johns, Pittsburgh, Indiana, Ole Miss, and Memphis declined the NIT. They want to focus on the transfer portal. Bunch of cowards.
Needs to bust a foot off in Yormark's ass next time he tries sending us to DePaul.
This assumes the committee is actually consistent on this from year to year and not just catering to the ESPN\ACC narrative they've been pushing for a couple months now about NCSOS.
Committee moved the goalposts this year. Every other year, they cite net rankings but not this year. This year was non-conference strength of schedule. I know ISU will be ready but it just irks me that they pivoted in the year it would have benefited ISU if they followed NET like they do every other year.
The seeding is what it is. I am less worried about SDSU, WSU, or Drake than I am getting refs from a small conference that have never seen a team play defense like ISU and it turn into free-throw scoring for our opponent and our best guys on the bench in foul trouble. That is the real threat in Omaha for our team. Our physical play is not as common in other leagues so it matters if the officials have ever seen a team play like that.
I would go even further and say that the optics are not great of an MSU fan telling ISU, as arguably the best 2-seed (slash potential 1-seed), that it's tough luck to get put in the home-ish arena of the best 1-seed.Dude, you aren't an Iowa State fan. We worry about everything. It's mostly fine, but it's kind of ********.
It makes sense; I don't blame Jamie for this either; I think he's doing his best for ISU every day of the year. It just sucks that even when we are on the committee, we (and the conference as a whole) seem to be put in a poor position.
I’m guessing another aspect of our noncon is the worse a team is the cheaper they are to schedule. If we schedule basketball like football it’s definitely a factor and that probably plays a
Hoping for a screaming match followed by a physical confrontation at mid court between Fran and Tang.
Wasn't their non-con schedule/record what got them into the tourney TJ's first two years in addition to the Big 12 being so good?
I think it was done on purpose due to a bit of a rebuild.
You have to have done at least 25 games in the P6 plus leagues (P6, Valley, A10, MW, WCC) and have been submitted by one of the 5 consortium directors for consideration to be selected.
They don't pull guys out of the Patriot League or NEC to work the most important games of the year.
Also, from an officiating standpoint getting Wazzu and Drake in the 2nd round is great. The rule the first weekend is that the individual official has to have either seen both teams or neither and the Big 12 and the Valley are in the same consortium and there's a ton of those guys that work for Higgins out west too. You'll have a really deep pool to choose from.
Respectfully -- I don't intend to start a squabble, but MSU has been projected on Matrix in 9/10 range for like 6 weeks.
Maybe its ranking has been too lofty all along, but getting a 9 shouldn't be viewed as a shock.
it is a stupid criterion. Non-con is a subset of the total. If you have a sufficiently high SOS once your conference games are included and if you secure sufficient quad 1 wins, then who gives a flying ****? The committee is stupid if it does.
