RaceToTheTop

@Uspshoosier how much weight is given to quad 1A wins? also, your thoughts on whether UCSD will get an at large if they don’t win the big west tourney? They look like such a tweener to me….i could see them getting one of the play in bids but could actually then lose that spot to another bid stealer. I’d see them as last four in but more at the bottom of that list.

Is that net non-con? Pom tells a different story. Oklahoma 321, IU 133. RPI says it’s Oklahoma 304, IU 29. I know I’ve said it so much, but I hate NET. How can these ratings differ so much? I trust the POM sos values myself but are those even on the team sheets? How can Oklahoma’s non con sos be 321 in pom and 161 in NET? I understand small differences but that literally makes no sense — particularly when NET has over half of Oklahoma’s non con games in Q4.

It's not your job to make shots.

Sorry, but I was traveling and am just catching up so the joke is coming late. Chris said he was golfing like Woodson....which meant his shots were three in bounds, two out of bounds.

With Oklahoma's non-conference schedule and number of quad 4 games, I would argue that IU should be ahead of them. To my completely inexperienced eye, this year there seems to be more seperation of who would currently be in compared to who would not be. The last two in seem to be Xavier and Ohio State. The three in just ahead of them -- in some order -- are Indiana, Oklahoma San Diego State. Boise State, North Carolina, and Texas on the first four out list. The bracket matrix seems to reflect this....in 97 brackets: Oklahoma is in the tourney in every bracket; IU and San Diego State are in all but 1. Xavier makes it in 89 of the 97, Ohio State in 79 of the 97. Of the teams on the outside, UNC is only in 10 of them, Boise State 8, and Texas 2. Of the three teams just outside.......UNC's draw was not great in the ACC tournament because they desperately need Q1 wins (they are 1-11). They would have to win two games before get a Q1 and then it would likely have to beat Duke. Boise State and San Diego State play each other in the MWC so it's not possible that they both win. Texas is in the play in games in the SEC tournament and opens against Vanderbilt. If they win, they play Texas A&M. My gut says a win over Vanderbilt probably isn't enough, because if they beat Vandy and lose to Texas A&M, their record would only be 18-15. So I think they would need two wins. Just my guy, but bid stealers aren't likely to come from the bottle group -- I guess potentially Boise State beats San Diego State and they both get in but at the point I think Boise State is just sneaking in and replacing Xavier or Ohio State but would still be below IU. Seems the most likely route of bid stealers are going to come from conference champions but there really aren't that many likely ones short of a Georgetwon like winning the Big East tournament ones. If Memphis doesn't win the American tournament, they someone steals a bid. If, say Colorado State wins the MWC they could steal a bid for the MWC but that could be at the expense of another MWC team. I'm not sure VCU would be in the tournament if they lose the A-10 tournament. Drake would have likely been in even with a loss of the MVC tournament but they held court.

He took some of them, but that kind of drop off is more than just players.

Worth mentioning for those worried about McCollum's coaching: This year sans McCollum his old D2 school went 6-22.

As someone on a lot of mental health medications, just have to say that y'all are crazy. Enjoy the ride.

I doubt Schertz would have been able to keep the band together at ISU. Lots of teams were already in on the better players.

According to KathywithaC, group think diesn’t exist.

Winthrop dropped to a Q4 win for IU. Rutgers is now at net 76 — if they could finish at 75, they would move to Q2 win.

Cignetti turned the basketball job down.

In my defense.....I wasn't on this board when Miller got hired. Also I think despite my childish behavior with some posters, I've never had any kind of hullabaloo with you.

Amaizeing pun.

Well, if I can't avoid gifs, might as well join.

You might want to add that Stirtz had 11 assists and 5 rebounds in the Vanderbilt game -- which they won 81-70.

Didn't Kentucky go from offering huge money to Drew to Pope as the next option?

I do have to say I don't know how much credit he should be getting for that. Trayce Jackson Davis certainly improved under Woodson but finding a guy that fits that bill -- no outside game at all -- that fits into the NBA is like striking gold that likely isn't going to be struck again. It's not like we should be seeing Ballo or Reneau at the next level. JHS seemingly got way over drafted and is a mid range shooter that probably should have never been drafted where he was. In the end, there will have only been one successfully NBA player come from IU under Woodson.

I have yet to understand how the complete narrative of McCollum is determined by a first round matchup where his team is obviously less talented than his opponent.

@Uspshoosierdoes the fact that IU played only three Q4 games have any pull? FWIW, only 5 teams played 3 or fewer Q4 games.

Last time in Indy is was Kilroy’s.

The context of where he did that.

I talked about that in a post above. It was a joke but also highlights that Chris Beard is a high ceiling guy but also a risk.