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RE: College Basketball Top 25 Rankings 02/12/18 - UC #5 AP , #5 Coaches
(02-14-2018 12:09 PM)Cataclysmo Wrote: X has gotten lucky, sure, but if we were in the same position, everyone on this board would be heralding our guys for their ability to close out games.
At some level that's true. I'd also be talking about how we're playing with fire and we need to put away some of these lesser teams. Both things can be true.
X has done a great job closing out these games when they had to (they have some specific strengths that help them in that way: FT shooting, Mack's ability to create looks late with his sets, and Blueitt), but that hasn't come without a lot of luck. Look at great teams over the years, they don't have records like this in close games. What X is doing is the kind of thing that will eventually revert to the mean if they keep putting themselves in that position. The mean for them might be better than many/most teams, but it isn't 10-0 in games decided by 7 or less.
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2018 12:17 PM by bearcatmark.)
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