College Bball Thread

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Marquette/Wisconsin going OT.  Wisky led by 16 in the second half.

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Anyone know why Ohio State only plays one big ten game in December?  Thought everyone played two.

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5 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Anyone know why Ohio State only plays one big ten game in December?  Thought everyone played two.

Commissioner Gene Smith didnt want anything to get in the way of their red carpet to the CFP. Oops.

MIchigan isn't either but their excuse is they went to London to jam with the Stones Teflon John.

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That Xavier win about to look less impressive. Getting crushed at home by W. Virginia

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13 minutes ago, HoosierTrav said:

That Xavier win about to look less impressive. Getting crushed at home by W. Virginia

West Virginia only up 4 with 17 minutes left.  Probably a little early to assume a Xavier loss.

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33 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

West Virginia only up 4 with 17 minutes left.  Probably a little early to assume a Xavier loss.

Really a pretty good game going.  West Virginia up 68-65 with 7 minutes left.

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Becoming a foul-fest in Xavier.  Xavier now up 70-68, West Virginia going to the line.  5:41 left.

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47 minutes ago, HoosierTrav said:

That Xavier win about to look less impressive. Getting crushed at home by W. Virginia

They’re going to be a high seed tourney team. Probably make it in. UNC should be a little better than that but they haven’t played like it. Rutgers will be a bubble team. That’s about the extent of the data points we have so far.  
 

Wins versus McWeenie St are worthless for everything except $$$. 

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4 minute tv timeout, Xavier up 73-72 and going to the line.

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4 minutes ago, str8baller said:

They’re going to be a high seed tourney team. Probably make it in. UNC should be a little better than that but they haven’t played like it. Rutgers will be a bubble team. That’s about the extent of the data points we have so far.  
 

Wins versus McWeenie St are worthless for everything except $$$. 

at Xavier, UNC, and at Rutgers will all be quad one games.  In total, IU will likely have about 20 quad one games.  That's a **** ton.

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Xavier now up 77-72, 3:40 left

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1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

at Xavier, UNC, and at Rutgers will all be quad one games.  In total, IU will likely have about 20 quad one games.  That's a **** ton.

How many do you think Purdue will have?

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4 minutes ago, str8baller said:

How many do you think Purdue will have?

Around 20, but could be less than IU.  Their Big Ten conference schedule that IU has is tougher, and while Purdue has a tough non-conference they have some borderish Q1/Q2 games.

In non-conference, IU 's non-conference quad 1 games should be Xavier, UNC, Arizona, and Kansas.  Gonzaga and Duke are lock for quad 1's for Purdue.  Marquette could be, but might end up as a quad 2 if they aren't top 50 NET since that was at Purdue.  Florida State is currently 1-9 so you can write that one off.  West Virginia I would say should lean toward being a quad one but they really struggled once they got into Big 12 conference play.  Davidson I would doubt will be a quad 1 as they've struggled so their metrics aren't going to be very normal for them.

So non-conference, I would lean to saying IU has 4 and Purdue will end up with 3 or 4.

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Xavier ends up winning by 10 over West Virginia 84-74.  Very impressive offensive second half for the Musketeers.

Near fight after the game and players had to be separated.

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23 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

at Xavier, UNC, and at Rutgers will all be quad one games.  In total, IU will likely have about 20 quad one games.  That's a **** ton.

I'd wait and see on that UNC game. Q1 at home is top 30 right? UNC has lost to any team with a pulse in the noncon but do have opportunities against O$U and Michigan coming up. They proven they can get on a run but they'll actually need to win games to stay in the top 30.

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13 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

I'd wait and see on that UNC game. Q1 at home is top 30 right? UNC has lost to any team with a pulse in the noncon but do have opportunities against O$U and Michigan coming up. They proven they can get on a run but they'll actually need to win games to stay in the top 30.

Yeah, my bad.  For some reason I thought it was top 50.

Going to take a look at what KenPom rankings would currently say in terms of quad games for IU and Purdue.  The Pom rankings wouldn't be what the NET are, but NET is pretty useless at this point of the year which is why they don't publish it yet.

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Check:  using Pom ratings, IU would have:

18 quad 1 games, 4 quad 2 games, 2 quad 3 games, and 6 quad 4 games.

Purdue would have:

17 quad 1 games, 4 quad 2 games, 6 quad 3 games, and 4 quad 4 games.

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17 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Yeah, my bad.  For some reason I thought it was top 50.

Going to take a look at what KenPom rankings would currently say in terms of quad games for IU and Purdue.  The Pom rankings wouldn't be what the NET are, but NET is pretty useless at this point of the year which is why they don't publish it yet.

It’s comes out Monday 

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5 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Check:  using Pom ratings, IU would have:

18 quad 1 games, 4 quad 2 games, 2 quad 3 games, and 6 quad 4 games.

Purdue would have:

17 quad 1 games, 4 quad 2 games, 6 quad 3 games, and 4 quad 4 games.

I think you're missing a game for IU somewhere? And ouch, 6 quad 4 games.

UNC could be a Q1 game but they'll need to do something. They haven't looked good.

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4 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

I think you're missing a game for IU somewhere? And ouch, 6 quad 4 games.

UNC could be a Q1 game but they'll need to do something. They haven't looked good.

6 Q4 actually isn’t that bad.  I would say that’s about average for most teams in the top 10 in NET.   Only a few teams like Kansas and Nova had less most others had 6 or more