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(04-27-2018 10:29 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(04-27-2018 10:27 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(04-27-2018 10:14 AM)757ODU Wrote:  

(04-27-2018 09:32 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  People will find excuses no matter what lol.

We had 2 bad loss on the season....

Other losses (all but 1 very competitive):

47 (3x)
45
86

We finished top 75 in KenPom for a reason (which actually takes into account how you play; close losses, big wins, etc.)

Would love for us to consistently be top 75, but it hasn't happened in my lifetime. We have had very few seasons being one of the top 75 teams in the country.

I love Kenpom, and I look at it religiously, but there is really no measure for how a system matches up with opponents. We dominated certain opponents because of their style vs. ours. It was beautiful to watch us play against teams that played no defense. We absolutely throttled those teams. Those numbers help raise our Kenpom numbers. I tracked it throughout the year.

Edit: If I am not correct about this, then explain to me why we lose to the same systems year in and year out. To me, that is an example of a coach who cannot make any adjustments. The playing style and the zone was great to see this year, but nothing changed as far as the results. Players developed and got better, but the OOC schedule was horrendous (due to other teams being worse than we thought they would be...can't put that on Jones) and we continue to lose games against the same systems.

KenPom takes into account strength of opposing defense.

Who needs a tournament? Probably should just do basketball BCS style since KenPom has the definitive measure for how teams stack up.

Tournaments exist to make money. The samples aren't large enough to tell you who the best teams are...thats what the regular season does.