College Bball Thread

[HoosierFan1994]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

By far game of the year so far.  Won’t by too many games moving forward this good.    What a game.   Maui always delivers and college basketball delivers night in and night out.   Creighton with a heck of a win.   Arkansas is a problem and they are going to be a bigger problem when Smith Jr starts playing.   

Yes. Yes it does. I'm all football still but it's hard not to watch College Basketball in November. Factor in great basketball and IU having a good team. Sorry Dickie V..college hoops is just fine starting in November. 

[RaceToTheTop]

@Uspshoosier looking for a good Tuesday night game to watch.  Don't work tomorrow and time isn't a factor.  Have DirectV.  Any thoughts?  Currently watching the end of Liberty/Northwestern.

[HoosierFan1994]

1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

@Uspshoosier looking for a good Tuesday night game to watch.  Don't work tomorrow and time isn't a factor.  Have DirectV.  Any thoughts?  Currently watching the end of Liberty/Northwestern.

Arizona-San Diego State about to start on ESPN. Curious to see how Arizona looks. 

[rcbowla]

Are people ganging up on him calling him simply negative?

Yes in fact

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[Uspshoosier]

53 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

@Uspshoosier looking for a good Tuesday night game to watch.  Don't work tomorrow and time isn't a factor.  Have DirectV.  Any thoughts?  Currently watching the end of Liberty/Northwestern.

San Diego st/Zona is about all there is late tonight.  Cuse/st John’s is in the second half.     You got basketball all day tomorrow as well.  Kansas/Nc State plays at noon 

[RaceToTheTop]

I ran a spreadsheet last year that measured how a team's number of wins compared to the number of wins that the 50th best team would expect to get based on their schedule.  It was meant to determine what teams deserved to be in the NCAA tournament.  While it was far off on where teams ended up actually were seeded, if a team ended up as a +1 (one more win than would be expected from the 50th best team based on a team's schedule), it was pretty much a lock that team made the tournament (as an FYI, the expectations are based on Ken Pom's ratings of their opponents).

I ran IU's schedule -- based on their 31 game regular season, a team that was 50th best should:

go approximately 13-5 in IU's home games (12.8 wins, 5.2 losses)

go approximately 4-8 on the road (3.9 wins, 8.1 losses)

lose their neutral court game to Arizona (0.3 wins, 0.7 losses)

Overall record for the 50th best team having IU's schedule:  17-14 (17.0-14.0).  So to be assured of an NCAA at large berth and be a +1 team, IU would need to be 18-13.

Comparison to last year:  the 50th best team having IU's shedule would have been projected to need to go 18.6-11.4 in the regular season (they actually were 18-12).  19-11 would have had them at +0.4, so to get to the magic +1 they would have needed to be 20-10.  I had them at a -0.6 entering the BTT;  after the BTT I had them as a +0.4 which projected as a might be in tournament team but not a lock.

Long winded here, but basic point I'm trying to make is that the tougher schedule basically is a full two games difference from last year.  IF IU were to play to the projections that KenPom and Torvik had, they be at about a +6 after the regular season (with a 23-8 record).  This would project out to about the 10th best total and a 2/3 seed.

 

[RaceToTheTop]

San Diego State just looks way out of sorts against Arizona.  

[Uspshoosier]

St. John’s up 4 with 3:20 to go 

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

St. John’s up 4 with 3:20 to go 

Tie game 1:24 to go.  St John’s ball 

[ebridges24]

8 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

San Diego State just looks way out of sorts against Arizona.  

Arizona making them look out of sorts. Arizona is going to be a problem.

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Tie game 1:24 to go.  St John’s ball 

Tie game 11 sec.  Cuse ball 

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Tie game 11 sec.  Cuse ball 

OT

[Uspshoosier]

San Diego St cuts it to 4 at the half.   Nice run to end the half 

[Uspshoosier]

14 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

OT

St. John’s is going to win it.   St. John’s is always a trip to watch.    They took the lead by 7 with 30 sec to go and they get a steal and the dude instead of dribbling it out or getting fouled just jacks a 3 up lol.  Anderson lost it 

[lillurk]

2 hours ago, rcs29 said:

So I decided to check in on Rhode Island's board. Third post I read is this. Kind of want to let them know.....

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Man. Familiar. Not to oversimplify, but shooting is basically the most important skill a player can have, and Archie either didn’t know that, couldn’t develop it, or both.

The offense was never a thing of beauty, and the defense never reached the heights he (or others) surely wanted. But the teams were always close enough that if they’d just shot pretty well he’d have won a bunch more games.

Alas. IU’s in a better place.

[HoosierTrav]

Arizona is going to be a handful for us. Much better than their ranking, imo.

[JSHoosier]

3 hours ago, rcs29 said:

So I decided to check in on Rhode Island's board. Third post I read is this. Kind of want to let them know.....

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Wait until they realize it won't get better.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

1 hour ago, HoosierTrav said:

Arizona is going to be a handful for us. Much better than their ranking, imo.

Their front court is massive as well. They start 6-11 and 7-0 and bring in another 7-0... Normally not a good matchup for TJD. Other dudes will really have to step up. 

[HoosierHoopster]

7 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Their front court is massive as well. They start 6-11 and 7-0 and bring in another 7-0... Normally not a good matchup for TJD. Other dudes will really have to step up. 

A game I'd like to see a lot of Ren and JG. We'll see.

[Stuhoo]

7 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Their front court is massive as well. They start 6-11 and 7-0 and bring in another 7-0... Normally not a good matchup for TJD. Other dudes will really have to step up. 

Soooo nice not to have to bring Durr into the game.