Up to 52 in the NET this morning.
Akron at 49. Bowling Green at 106.
Keep winning, gentlemen. Tuesday is a great night to go 1-0 (and also 18-0).
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Buffalo with a quad three and quad four loss is just killer for the rest of the top of the conference.
Gosh darn it Bortz.
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Ohio state at 37 is best in Ohio. Akron and Miami are 2 and 3 in the state
iâd give both Miami and Akron a very good shot to beat OSU on neutral floor.
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For the first time this year, weâve passed Akron in NET (MU 44 vs UA 54) and also in a respectable analytics ranking, EvanMiya.
We even got the Cinderella watch slipper in Miya.
KenPom still hates us which we knew would be an issue due to our SOS, up to 88 (Akron 62).
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Significant movement today. Up to 44 in NET and 88 in Kenpom. Guess it pays to blow out your weak competition.
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Itâs what the P4 programs do. Load up on quad 3/4 games, sprinkle one or two ok games, inflate your NET going into conference play, then hammer each other. Itâs a system to game if you can afford to the buy the wins.
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Down to 51 in the NET due to going to OT at home with a âbadâ team.
Really sucks UB and Kent couldnât avoid bad losses and keep a respectable NET. You really need 4-5 teams to raise all the boats like what the power conference do where you can actually play some close games without punishment. They both are better than their 150ish ranks. Should probably be closer to 100-135 but they both dropped some real head scratchers.
Still feel like if we can get to Cleveland with 0 or 1 losses, our NET will be in range to put us in position, but we are going to have to actually hammer some teams like NIU, UMass, WMU, and OU whoâs NETs are in a bad place, especially in Oxford.
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We need to be rooting for Kent and Buffalo (and Akron but they should be fine) in every game that they donât play us.
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What year was it when we had a great season but lost last regular season game to lowly Marshall, and did not get an NCAA bid? I think we had an RPI in the 30âs that year but were stilled stiffed by the selection committee.
04-05, my freshman year. Still vividly remember sitting dumbstruck in yanksalexâs dorm watching that game end.
If we won that game or didnât lose in the MAC semis, we would have been dancing.
Last team out per the selection committee chair who was the iowa ad
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And Iowa just happened to sneak in to the tournament. Fuck Bob Bowlsby.
I remember sitting at home on spring break watching selection show and they put up a shot of the team waiting to see if they get picked as they do for bubble teams. My mom says âsurely if they showed Miami on TV they are going to get picked.â She was just as furious as I was when Miami was in fact not selectedâŚ
I still can hear the late Greg Gumbelâs voice announcing the last team as..
âThe 11th-seeded MiâŚners of UTEP.â
Nothing but respect for Mr. Gumbel, RIP. But damn that was a crushing way to hear it announced when youâre hoping to hear âMiami.â Iâm sure in real time it wasnât stretched out. But every second of that selection show seemed to move in slow-motion.
What I remember most vividly about that was how the power conferences were getting their 6th place type teams with lousy W-L records into the NCAA tourney fields based on RPIâŚ.but as soon as a mid major like Miami had a solid RPI, it suddenly wasnât important anymore.
Was that also the year that the ncaa notified everyone on the final weekend of the year that we were all calculating the rpi incorrectly because we thought the road adjustment would impact all levels but it only was adjusted the first level (which of course reduced all the mid major rpis and improved the power conference rpis)