Bracketology 2019-2020

[Dr. Blackheart]

Honestly? I think people are still shell shocked from last year's collapse. Myself included.

Or maybe it is the three Big East OTs, just halfway through. And frankly, we won the OT game we should have lost, and lost the two we should have one.

Scoop needs to offer a supplemental mental health insurance plan as part of its membership benefits. Step it up.

[tower912]

Welcome to life in a tough conference.   Too much for you?   Watch curling.   

[Galway Eagle]

Or maybe it is the three Big East OTs, just halfway through. And frankly, we won the OT game we should have lost, and lost the two we should have one.

Scoop needs to offer a supplemental mental health insurance plan as part of its membership benefits. Step it up.

How do you figure we should've lost the X game?

[Dr. Blackheart]

How do you figure we should've lost the X game?

My statement is based on Pomeroy odds of winning. With under 3 minutes to go in regulation, X had a 80% chance of winning.  For our two losses, we had a very high probability of winning late.

[Galway Eagle]

My statement is based on Pomeroy odds of winning. With under 3 minutes to go in regulation, X had a 80% chance of winning.  For our two losses, we had a very high probability of winning late.

Gotcha. Thanks for elaborating

[Dr. Blackheart]

Welcome to life in a tough conference.   Too much for you?   Watch curling.

I guess. Of the four OT's in the Big East conference games so far, MU owns three (75%) of them. The other was DePaul vs. Nova.

[UWW2MU]

Welcome to life in a tough conference.   Too much for you?   Watch curling.

Or be the lone good team in a mid major.   Some people just can't handle being a fan of a BE team.   

[bilsu]

A lot of posters here complain about Wojo being out coached on the bench during games. Whether true or not the question becomes does head coaching experience matter? Using this years Lindy's Sports Magazine I looked up the head coaching experience of all 75 power 6 teams. The magazine lists each coaches years of being head coach. There are two coaches (Michigan and Vandy) who have no coaching experience in terms of being a head coach for a division 1 school. In November it looked like Michigan might be the best team in the country. Michigan is now 12-8 and I would argue Michigan is being taken to the woodshed by more experience coaches. We just beat Xavier in overtime. Xavier head coach has 1 year of head coaching experience, while Wojo has 5 years of coaching experience. We lost to Providence in overtime and their head coach has 13 years of head coaching experience. On the flip side we lost to Butler in overtime and their head coach has 3 years of experience. However, they were the better team playing on their home court.
Big East head coaching experience:
Villanova 25
Creighton 18
St. John's 17
Providence 13
DePaul 13
Seton Hall 12
Marquette 5
Butler 3
Georgetown 2
Xavier 1

Power 6
40+ 2
30 to 39  8
20 to 29  10
11 to 19  22
10      5
9       1
8       5
7      3
6     4
5     3 including Wojo
4     4
3     3 Including Butler
2    2 including Georgetown
1    1 Xavier
0    2
Of the 75 power 6 schools only 12 coaches have less experience than Wojo and two of these are in the Big East.

While I do think head coaching experience matters to some degree, I believe it still comes down to players either making plays or not making plays.

[PGsHeroes32]

Palm has USC ahead of us????


LOL

[Dr. Blackheart]

Palm has USC ahead of us????


LOL

Cheeks is having lunch with him in Miami so I am sure that will get reversed.

[Pakuni]

Cheeks is having lunch with him in Miami so I am sure that will get reversed.

Impressed Cheeks can squeeze that in between his tee time with the Mannings and happy hour drinks with Tom Condon.

[willie warrior]

Impressed Cheeks can squeeze that in between his tee time with the Mannings and happy hour drinks with Tom Condon.

Dont forget dinners with the Harbaugh clan and Crean.

[GoldenDieners32]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28577356/ncaa-tournament-bubble-watch-first-look-wildest-bubble-years#BigEast

[BM1090]

6 seed at NBC/bracketville

https://bracketville.wordpress.com/

[muguru]

Even though I want a higher seed this year, PLEASE give MU a favorable draw. That's all I ask. Give them an opponent in the first round that doesn't really have a long defender to put on Markus, and one that doesn't defend the perimeter real well.

[BM1090]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/

6 seed at CBS

[MU82]

Even though I want a higher seed this year, PLEASE give MU a favorable draw. That's all I ask. Give them an opponent in the first round that doesn't really have a long defender to put on Markus, and one that doesn't defend the perimeter real well.

Agree that would be nice.

It also would be nice if Sacar, BB, Koby and others step up, and if Wojo coaches a good game.

[Cheeks]

Impressed Cheeks can squeeze that in between his tee time with the Mannings and happy hour drinks with Tom Condon.

Ahh...you all flatter me.  Man I live in your heads a lot...hilarious.

Haven't played golf in three or four years due to shoulder injury...going under the knife.  Peyton plays at Augusta...that would be a blast to play a round there some day.

[Cheeks]

Even though I want a higher seed this year, PLEASE give MU a favorable draw. That's all I ask. Give them an opponent in the first round that doesn't really have a long defender to put on Markus, and one that doesn't defend the perimeter real well.

You mean matchups matter in the tournament...it isn't just the seed and the coach that determines advancement?  Well damn, almost like crap shoot.

[dannyb334]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/

6 seed at CBS

This would be a travesty of a draw. I'd be OK with a 6 seed, but (even though neither has been as good as expected) I would hate to see Memphis or Florida in the first round.

Then to have to play Maryland again... Revenge would be sweet, but the November game against them was painful enough to watch.

[GoldenDieners32]

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Ahh...you all flatter me.  Man I live in your heads a lot...hilarious.

Haven't played golf in three or four years due to shoulder injury...going under the knife.  Peyton plays at Augusta...that would be a blast to play a round there some day.

Shoulder injury for yanking of so many celebs

[Loose Cannon]

Even though I want a higher seed this year, PLEASE give MU a favorable draw. That's all I ask. Give them an opponent in the first round that doesn't really have a long defender to put on Markus, and one that doesn't defend the perimeter real well.

And doesn't make" NBA Rookie of the year" the following year.

[PGsHeroes32]

Not that it matters

But lunardi dropped us

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Not that it matters

But lunardi dropped us

Probably by like 1-3 spots on the S curve. As you said, meaningless.