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(02-24-2014 08:57 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Let's bring us back full circle...

I know folks are upset about our WTF streak in the first part of February, but truthfully, the OOC schedule had us dead to rights concerning an at-large.

Exhibit A:

If we hadn't lost to ECU, F_U, or Tulane, we'd currently be on a 9-game winning streak, tied for 2nd in CUSA at 10-3, and our tournament resume would look like this:

D1 record: 19-6
RPI: 69
SOS: 165

Top 50: 3-1
Top 100: 3-4
WTF losses: 2 (Temple, North Texas)

An at-large would've been in play, but we would be nowhere near the positioning we had, even in 2011 when we were a First Four team.

Even finishing on a 12-game winning streak would only yield an RPI of 57 going into El Paso. Next year's schedule should be much more conducive to building a better tournament resume, but we gotta win the big ones and avoid the WTFs.

Yep. Our SOS was an issue this year. Even with just a couple of losses our RPI would top out in the high teens. Our resume would be even more bizarre at this point if we had held on against UNM as well. I doubt many teams have gone 4-0 vs the top 50 and 0-4 vs 51-100.

(02-25-2014 08:54 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 08:57 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Let's bring us back full circle...

I know folks are upset about our WTF streak in the first part of February, but truthfully, the OOC schedule had us dead to rights concerning an at-large.

Exhibit A:

If we hadn't lost to ECU, F_U, or Tulane, we'd currently be on a 9-game winning streak, tied for 2nd in CUSA at 10-3, and our tournament resume would look like this:

D1 record: 19-6
RPI: 69
SOS: 165

Top 50: 3-1
Top 100: 3-4
WTF losses: 2 (Temple, North Texas)

An at-large would've been in play, but we would be nowhere near the positioning we had, even in 2011 when we were a First Four team.

Even finishing on a 12-game winning streak would only yield an RPI of 57 going into El Paso. Next year's schedule should be much more conducive to building a better tournament resume, but we gotta win the big ones and avoid the WTFs.

Yep. Our SOS was an issue this year. Even with just a couple of losses our RPI would top out in the high teens. Our resume would be even more bizarre at this point if we had held on against UNM as well. I doubt many teams have gone 4-0 vs the top 50 and 0-4 vs 51-100.

Had we beaten New Mexico, the number of top50 games we have played would be the same but you can't say we would be 4-0. If we had beaten New Mexico, we would have played 14 UMAss instead of Nebraska. Who knows if we would have won that game.

No way would we have beaten UMass. I was at the tournament and they were head and shoulders above any other team there--- Literally,, those guys were TALL and good ).

(02-25-2014 09:07 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(02-25-2014 08:54 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 08:57 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Let's bring us back full circle...

I know folks are upset about our WTF streak in the first part of February, but truthfully, the OOC schedule had us dead to rights concerning an at-large.

Exhibit A:

If we hadn't lost to ECU, F_U, or Tulane, we'd currently be on a 9-game winning streak, tied for 2nd in CUSA at 10-3, and our tournament resume would look like this:

D1 record: 19-6
RPI: 69
SOS: 165

Top 50: 3-1
Top 100: 3-4
WTF losses: 2 (Temple, North Texas)

An at-large would've been in play, but we would be nowhere near the positioning we had, even in 2011 when we were a First Four team.

Even finishing on a 12-game winning streak would only yield an RPI of 57 going into El Paso. Next year's schedule should be much more conducive to building a better tournament resume, but we gotta win the big ones and avoid the WTFs.

Yep. Our SOS was an issue this year. Even with just a couple of losses our RPI would top out in the high teens. Our resume would be even more bizarre at this point if we had held on against UNM as well. I doubt many teams have gone 4-0 vs the top 50 and 0-4 vs 51-100.

Had we beaten New Mexico, the number of top50 games we have played would be the same but you can't say we would be 4-0. If we had beaten New Mexico, we would have played 14 UMAss instead of Nebraska. Who knows if we would have won that game.

Yeah, that's true. That also would have helped our SOS a little bit I guess.

(02-25-2014 08:54 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I doubt many teams have gone 4-0 vs the top 50 and 0-4 vs 51-100.

Sounds about like UNC... surely there is no connection to these teams' ability to get up for lesser opponents.