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Sorry but that’s tough guy nonsense. It obviously needed to happen. If the team didn’t need a reminder they wouldn’t have blown a 25 point second half lead against a garbage squad. They did. It sucked. Inexcusable. Life serves everyone **** sandwiches. History books are full of lumps and...

I don’t think anybody is ok with it. And while it shouldn’t need to happen, it obviously did need to happen because this team obviously needed a(nother) reminder that games are 40 minutes long. Maddening, maybe… but also that’s just the reality of the situation. The fortunate thing is that in...

Yeah the problem with the efficiency metric rankings is that there’s no appreciable difference between winning and losing if you play a top ranked team tight. It’s why Creighton was (and still is) ranked so highly despite losing so many games and why West Virginia is ranked NINE spots ahead of...

Preach. People were so enamored by these new fancy metrics they fell over themselves to adopt them without really understanding the deficiencies. Really shame on the NCAA for throwing out the RPI for this garbage.

It’s not actually our losses that are tanking our NET ranking. Of course they’re not helping, but it’s the wins against mediocre teams where we gave up a lot of points. Neither net nor kenpom allows a ranking to be overly influenced by one or two games. Kenpom does weight early season games for...

I believe the single best ranking system is the ESPN Resume ranking (here: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bpi/_/view/resume). We have dropped to 26th, and I think that is a very fair reflection of where and who we are as a team right now. I think we’re lucky to have stayed...

It does though. It really does. Rankings matter for recruiting, national exposure, fan support, and building a deeper resume for tournament selection and seeding. We’re in a fine spot now, but we have to keep winning because the margin is way thinner for us than the teams who got ranked early.

I can just picture you vigorously defending the final BCS computer rankings in 2000. You’re not smart, and you’re not savvy… no matter how hard you try. But at least you agree that kenpom has no business being used by pollsters or the selection committee - despite it being used by both...

Seriously… are you trying to date Ken Pomeroy? Nowhere in the English language does “luck” mean “model error”. And kenpom does not define “luck” as model error in his own definitions and explanations. Kenpom says what he means and means what he says, despite his boyfriend trying to defuse the...

The infuriating thing about “luck” in the kenpom system is that kenpom says a team is lucky if it beats a team that is ranked higher according to kenpom but does not actually factor outcomes into the ranking system. So we are “lucky” because we keep beating teams that are ranked higher according...

What are you babbling about? The ESPN BPI strength of record is a rating system that looks at wins, losses, and SOS. I know reading is tough for you but I have mentioned that ranking system several times before. We are currently ranked 8th by SOR...

Virginia beats Baylor on a neutral court and has the same record as Baylor (and Virginia’s losses are both better than Baylor’s loss to Marquette). Baylor ranked higher than Virginia. Miami beats Virginia AND has a better record than Virginia. Virginia ranked higher. Pollsters are...