Oso planning to go pro
I think if we can win 1 of @K State and UCLA, and go 10-10 in BE, Marquette will be in the tournament. MAJOR ifs, but that is theoretically 18 wins with a first round BET exit, which you have as NIT.
Also, Georgetown and Butler look horrible. Not just in the NET, but their actual results don't look like high major teams. So that's 4 games you better win but don't expect a resume boost from them. Going 6-10 against the non-completely garbage teams probably won't be enough.
G-Town is 3-2 in Quad 4 wins and losses.
Ewing must be pretty abrasive if all those kids keep transferring out. Something is really wrong at Georgetown.
I once thought that it would be great to have an alumnus as our coach but after seeing what happened at St. John's and what is happening at Georgetown (and possibly Butler as well) I am glad that we do not have an alumnus as coach. The divorce is especially messy unless the coach is the one to make the decision to leave without obvious prodding from the school.
Marquette’s Kenpom rating moved from 78 to 77
You mean from 78 to now 71. Illinois with a good win against Iowa moved them from 48 to 30 and they dragged us up a bit with them. I'd expect them to continue to do that a bit as the season rolls on.
Kenpom 77. You talking NET?
To be fair I think hiring your superstar alumnus is different than an alum who's proven themselves. Wardle has proven to be at least fairly capable (not at a huge level or deserving of a huge level) so that'd be different than us hiring Wade like SJU and GTown did. Butler f'd up, I mean how did they think hiring a guy who's only year was 11-24 in the horizon was going to work out?
You've got experience, 82. You could be next. You may be too old, though.
I really don't think we'll have the metrics without at least 19 wins. It would likely leave us with a NET in the 60s. So far, only two sub-60 NET teams have earned at-large bids. #63 Arizona State with 22 wins and #73 St John's with 21 wins, both in 2019. They also both had multiple wins over teams on the 5 or better seed lines. Now maybe if you include wins over Nova and UConn in those 10, but while our NET will improve by exceeding our projected win total, I don't think 18 will be enough.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Fair enough. I think it would be tough to leave a team out with a .500 BE record, no bad non-con losses, and non-con wins over Illinois, West Virginia, Ole Miss and K State/UCLA. But I'd certainly feel better at 11-9, or winning a couple games in NYC.That said, 10-10 is going to be a very tall ask, so this hypothetical is probably more fantasy than anything else.
I hope 10-10 is not a fantasy. But if we do collapse it will be similar to the DePaul season a couple years ago when they had a great nonconference season and then imploded in conference. That would leave a bad taste in all our mouths and I believe lead to transfers out of the program and a possible Georgetown death spiral.I don’t think that will happen. Too much talent on this team even though it is young. And if Shaka is as competent a coach as we all hope he can extract enough wins out of this team to get us to 10-10 or 9-11 at worst. Let’s hope so anyway.
But where is the talent, really? Morsell was an Honorable Mention Big Ten player twice. Has anybody else on our roster made any kind of All Conference team in their careers? Are the kids who are in their first season of college basketball 5 stars who will make it this year?
Hey ... I'm nearly 2 years younger than Calipari!But the Shaka-cons would hate my defense, as it is similar to his ... in set-up, anyway. Not very many 6-5, long-armed middle-school kids.
Win enough games and beat good teams and it works itself out. Lose too many games and it works itself out.
That said, 10-10 is going to be a very tall ask, so this hypothetical is probably more fantasy than anything else.