.

Well you know what the narrative is going to be...

The competition in the P5 is SO much better and it's a bunch of good teams all beating each other up.

The AAC teams all just suck.

There is NO way that Purdue, Minnesota and Alabama are to 50 teams. NO. WAY.

So we're all in agreement that the AAC is way better than the AAC.

Kind of mentioned this the other day, we'll probably have 2-3 20+ win teams that will not be in the tournament so that some 17 win team like Texas Tech or Wisconsin gets in... The NCAA selection comity has become the same JOKE that the the Football Playoff Comity and the NCAA are... and oh yea, The AP and Coaches polls as well... There's no integrity in College sports anymore everything is fixed like WWE!!

I can Respect the WWE because they admit that it is entertainment.

(02-28-2020 08:17 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  So we're all in agreement that the AAC is way better than the AAC.

That's what the subject headline says, doesn't it?

How they hell does a team with only 13 wins end up being in the top 48 NET? This is why I know NET is BS!

Public Service Note: The AAC and the ACC are not both the AAC, lol.

(02-28-2020 10:40 AM)sfink16 Wrote:  

(02-28-2020 08:17 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  So we're all in agreement that the AAC is way better than the AAC.

That's what the subject headline says, doesn't it?

(02-28-2020 10:43 AM)TUCandoit Wrote:  How they hell does a team with only 13 wins end up being in the top 48 NET? This is why I know NET is BS!

Cincy is several spots below Minnesota, with 5 more wins, and a tougher SOS....

hmmmm

Jed, I respect how much time you spend on analysis of this and the bubble stuff, but you have WAY too much focus on raw wins. Raw # of wins is not indicative of how strong a team is as a result of the wildly unbalanced schedules across the sport today.

(02-28-2020 05:40 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  Raw # of wins is not indicative of how strong a team is as a result of the wildly unbalanced schedules across the sport today.

That is true, I agree, but only to a limited extent.

The selection committee does take the number of wins, as well as the team's NET ranking and strength of schedule into consideration.

In last season's NCAA tournament, there were only four at-large teams that made the tournament field with less than 20 wins. All four teams had 19 wins.

It thus seems likely that top 48 NET teams with fewer than 19 wins won't make their way into the tournament without winning at least 19 games.

There are currently 4 top 48 NET teams with only 13 to 16 wins. It seems likely that at least 3 of those 4 teams won't end up with 19 wins, and that they won't be in the tournament unless they win their conference tournaments.

Thus, the #49, #50, #51, and #52 teams have quite a good chance to make the tournament field.

So where does that leave Cincy (NET: #53)?

It puts them right on the edge, along with 9 of the top 52 NET teams that have only 17 (#52 NC State) or 18 wins at present.

Thus, Cincy can control their destiny by winning more games than one or two of those other 9 teams with 17 or 18 wins do, going forward.


When you look at it that way, Cincy's chances of making the field with an at-large bid are probably quite good, if they finish with ~21 or 22 wins.

Memphis's chances aren't as good, despite having 19 wins, due to their #61 NET rank, but they might be able to boost their NET sufficiently by winning 4 or 5 more games. If they get that far, the auto bid would be within reach by winning a 6th game - the AACT championship.

Amazing how one little typo "AAC," should have been "ACC" can throw an entire thread into conniptions!

(02-29-2020 06:08 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  Amazing how one little typo "AAC," should have been "ACC" can throw an entire thread into conniptions!

I must ask, Jed. Are you a fan of the Beverly Hillbillies TV show?

I loved it back in the day, with Milburn Drysdale perhaps my favorite character.

@#$%$#@

(02-28-2020 05:24 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Well you know what the narrative is going to be...

The competition in the P5 is SO much better and it's a bunch of good teams all beating each other up.

The AAC teams all just suck.

There is NO way that Purdue, Minnesota and Alabama are to 50 teams. NO. WAY.

Been saying this for weeks. All you have to do is look at the inequity of the polls, the NET, and the natl prognosticators....... it's rigged.

(02-28-2020 02:01 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  .

Best post ever.