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No idea if the Bonnie's are a better team (my guess is that they are) but if you look at the teams they played and won, and the teams we played and won it isn't worth the RPI difference of 34 to 115. Really shows the weakness of the RPI.
It most definitely matters, whether you want to believe it or not. MU would actually still have margin for error! The whole buy game schedule was beyond pathetic. Beyond that, this is something you and I have already discussed plenty, so I will leave it at that.
I think for the most part, almost all the rating systems are useless.You take a team like St. Bonaventure and put them in the Big East, and they turn into a Depaul.Put a team like Wisconsin in the Big East, and they would have a losing conference record and not even being considered for the NCAAs.All the systems are too easily exploited.
Why would Wisconsin have a losing record in the Big East?
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Have you even watched St Bona play?Does St Bona beat WI on the road? noDoes St Bona sweep Providence? noDoes St Bona beat Butler? I highly doubt itDoes St Bona beat LSU and ASU to win the same tournament? no They lost to Hofstra, Sienna, Duquesne, and others.You said they were a fringe team before yesterday's Dayton win.Beating St Joe's and a bunch of crappy teams doesn't make you a fringe NCAA team.
And further evidence why Broeker should feel like an asshat and be truly embarrassed of himself.It's a dead horse, but there is just no excuse for this horecrap schedule. I havent watched St. Bonnie, I am sure they're a decent squad, but I bet MU would beat them 8/10 times.
Well, they are 0-2 against Big East teams (one neutral site, one home loss) that are currently a combined 13-16 in the Big East.Seems hard to make any argument other than them having a losing record in the Big East.
Weren't those games played a long time ago? More than two months ago under Tara's Coach.
Doesn't mean a damn thing. The Big Ten was terrible out of conference, but as a whole is better positioned to manipulate the RPI. They beat each other up and maintain RPIs. Teams like Michigan, UW, Ohio State and Indiana have OOC resumes that would never get them in the NCAA, all their quality wins are in conference. That is a red flag, it says the conference as a whole is grossly overrated.
I don't know how they are grossly overrated, they're (the Big Ten) ranked 5th. That doesn't sound like a gross over rating to me. Big East is ranked 4th. Can't honestly argue against either one. Wisconsin and Indiana are two teams that struggled out of the gate, but both have improved greatly. IU has another major injury from last night, but we'll see how long that he is out. Wisconsin, Nigel Hayes finally started to play like Nigel Hayes. The performances of those two teams certainly didn't help the Big Ten, nor did Michigan State with Valentine out...he's back. All teams and conferences have similar stories, of course.
St. Bonaventure was a fringe tournament team even before yesterday's win. (Bracket Matrix had them in the "Next Four Out.")
Nigel Hayes finally started to play like Nigel Hayes.
Now that Sandy isn't defending him - ha!
Sandy really is a tale of two halves of the season isn't he. At times in the beginning of the year he looked like a future star, a shutdown defender with a deadly outside shot. Let's just say later. He looked like the opposite.
I don't care what their RPI is, or any other statistical stuff says, St Bona has done nothing to warrant their inclusion in the NCAA tournament. Beating one ranked team the entire year just doesn't cut it.I've seen them play several games this year, and MU would beat them 7 out of 10 times.
Still defending well though. Struggling on offense.