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Odu is 22-6 which is a very solid win loss record on the year. It doesn't take a statistician or bracketologist to tell you that most of those wins came against mediocre to bad competition.

But to really understand just how deceiving those numbers are, let's just do a quick comparison using the "new standards".

Top 50 wins are now being called quad 1 wins, top 100 are quad 2, etc.

Let's just compare ourselves to, oh, I don't know, creighton, another one time mid major who's parlayed success into much much more.

Creighton is 20-9, which, as our odu education tells us, is not as good as 22-6. Until you exam it a little deeper.

Creighton is 3-7 against quad 1 teams and 5-2 against quad 2 for a respectable 8-7 against the top 100.

Odu, meanwhile, is 0-5 against the top 100 with vcu being a outside the top 100 loss. Creighton has none of those.



Odu's rpi is in the 70's and sos is over 200 (and will drop significantly after the two home games next week win or lose).

Creighton's rpi and sos are both in the 30's which is why they will be an at large and we will not.

But here's the bigger point. Win totals, while not totally meaningless, only tell a small fraction of the story. This year's team has a high win total but has done NOTHING of note on the court with our best win being Marshall.

I'm sorry, but this just isn't good enough and cannot be used as justification to extend jones. If wood selig sites overall record as a justification, it's just further proof we need to clean house in our athletic department because he is unable to understand how thoroughly underwhelming a job jeff has done in 5 years. Either he's being dishonest and justifying it or he's incompetent and unable to understand but either way, we cannot continue to accept such mediocrity, such underwhelming performances in big games and such a continued comedy of total lack of adjustments when things are not working in big games.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBERS TELL THE REAL STORY.