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Title: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: CoachKJ on February 28, 2007, 06:41:17 PM

2 games vs:
Pitt (12-3)
L'ville (11-4)
Providence (7-7)

No games vs:
Cincinnati (1-13)
St. John's (6-9)

Obviously not a favorable schedule for purposes of winning the conference, but probably helps the RPI. What is more important, a better conference record or a higher SOS?

Title: Re: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: SoCalwarrior on February 28, 2007, 07:08:29 PM

Louisville got to play Cinci, St. Johns and USF twice. They have two more conference wins than us, but as far as I can tell, most pundits think higher of MU. I think as long as you can get to 9 or 10 BE wins, SOS is more important come the dance.

Title: Re: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: MarquetteVol on February 28, 2007, 08:49:16 PM

Quote from: SoCalwarrior on February 28, 2007, 07:08:29 PM
Louisville got to play Cinci, St. Johns and USF twice. They have two more conference wins than us, but as far as I can tell, most pundits think higher of MU. I think as long as you can get to 9 or 10 BE wins, SOS is more important come the dance.

Louisville played us twice, so I think they must not have played one of those teams twice.

Title: Re: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: MUFan07 on February 28, 2007, 09:16:44 PM

Quote from: CoachKJ on February 28, 2007, 06:41:17 PM
2 games vs:
Pitt (12-3)
L'ville (11-4)
Providence (7-7)

No games vs:
Cincinnati (1-13)
St. John's (6-9)

Obviously not a favorable schedule for purposes of winning the conference, but probably helps the RPI. What is more important, a better conference record or a higher SOS?

And our only games with Georgetwon and ND were on the road. I don't think anyone had a harder Big East schedule.

Title: Re: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: SoCalwarrior on February 28, 2007, 09:19:52 PM

Quote from: MarquetteVol on February 28, 2007, 08:49:16 PM
Quote from: SoCalwarrior on February 28, 2007, 07:08:29 PM
Louisville got to play Cinci, St. Johns and USF twice. They have two more conference wins than us, but as far as I can tell, most pundits think higher of MU. I think as long as you can get to 9 or 10 BE wins, SOS is more important come the dance.

Louisville played us twice, so I think they must not have played one of those teams twice.

Sorry I meant USF twice. The other two were once.

Title: Re: MU Schedule within the BE--> Tough
Post by: rocky_warrior on February 28, 2007, 09:22:56 PM

According to the Big East Basketball report's conference RPI and SOS calculation, MU is #2 in SOS behind Villanova. The teams above us in BE standings?
Pitt - #5
G'Town - #12
Louisville - #8
ND - #13
'Cuse - #14

Even with conference SOS factored in, we're still #4 in conference RPI behind Georgetown, Pitt, and UL.

http://bigeastbasketball.blogspot.com/2007/02/big-east-conference-rpi-ratings-sos.html

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