(12-18-2017 04:04 PM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear george14,
Name the teams that are 4-7 that would as you put it; "Eat our Lunch". Yeah, records are ridiculous. Too bad that that is what counts in the end.

No, that is not what counts in the end lol. Hence why you see plenty of teams with losing records win their conference tourney. This is not football dude. The MAC regular season is essentially meaningless because we are a 1 bid league. Sure, you want a high seed and a bye, but a crappy team can get hot and win the tourney. Guess what, the 25-7 team is getting left out.

Wisconsin is 5-7 (4 of their losses to top 25 teams).
Vanderbilt is 3-7 (their SOS is #16).
Illinois State is 5-6 (their SOS is #9).

Like another poster said before, you could theoretically be a very good team with a bad record if every team you lose to is ranked highly. Yes, I see your point that you need to beat good teams to be a good team. Much like how we heard from you that EMU was a good team this year when they were 5-7. Every loss was close. In football, your record means more considering there are 12 games and 130 teams. In basketball there are 350 teams and it's hard to tell who is good and who is not. Look at Stephen F. Austin, they dominated their conference for years because they play in a garbage one. They would go 30-2 each year and not be ranked in the top 25, why? Because their SOS.