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Rhodymob05 wrote:Can't the NCAA be like " uh no, p-5 conferences expanding thier confernece schedules will ruin college basketball"?

Why will it ruin college basketball? If anything, it might possibly help with weeding out P5 bubbles.

rjsuperfly66

The only way expanded the schedule works for the A10 is if there is a way to guarantee the top 5 or 6 teams play H/A's predominately against each other. That's how you strengthen the top of your conference (from an RPI perspective). That's the advantage in a 10 team BE -- 3 or 4 teams can have domin...

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Nah, it'll go away into the archives soon enough. Most of us (self included) are happy DH came here, lifted and dragged the program up a steep hill and don't begrudge him moving on, my only contention is the whole fake bag I bought from him. Like I said in the past, he should have just said nothing...

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Not when you are getting great shots off ball reversal and paint touches...it’s not called ‘shoot em out of the zone’ for nothing. That doesn’t mean 4 passes around perimeter and chuck a contested 25 footer for a good shooting team. Sure I would agree with that. Your OP was very simplistic in natur...

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bigappleram wrote:You know how you attack a zone defense, have a bunch of good shooters.

That's exactly what most zone oriented teams want you to do. You can still win that way, but it's a real feast or famine approach.

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The upcoming recruits today don’t remember when UCONN was a Top 10 team. Get out of here with that -- UCONN won a Championship in 2014. They also won one in 2011. Potential recruits were what, 11 and 14 years old? They don't have a memory for that? If UCONN can rediscover their magic, they can pote...

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You are assuming that 4-5 star kids who have been fawned upon for most of their lives will want to play for a taskmaster like Dan Hurley. He may be far more intense than they would want. They will have no shortage of suitors and could decide to go elsewhere. We'll find out very quickly -- This was ...

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Check out this utter madness. https://youtu.be/MYnpO03crr8 Screw Duke... bright side is they are hurting themselves by being a 1 and done factory. its why they flame out in the tournament recently. When they were fully DUKE, they were rolling out top talent that had played 4 years together. It's wh...

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The entire system has run amuck.... Not just college coaches either...the money being made by professionals in all major sports is out of control. Wish I could be a MLB pitcher with a .500 record making 10 million a year.....or a middling NFL QB making the same....and on and on.... And we pay throu...

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The talent disparity in MLB this season is mind boggling.....teams like the Marlins and Rays will be long gone by June..... In the East, once Toronto cools off which they will, it will be the RS and Yanks all season....and no one else will be close. Other divisions will be the same. Teams like the ...

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Currently, players are free to transfer with the stipulation that they sit out a year. They know the rules going in. Don't want to sit out a year, then a player shouldn't transfer or they can transfer to a Division Two school. Otherwise, go transfer and sit a year. What's the big deal about sitting...

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Based on Dan looking at Adams and Duquesne grad transfer Tarin Smith tells me he isn't impressed with the talent level there for next season. Those are his Uconn version of Biruta, Reischel and Biggie IMO, nice players but stop gaps and not high impact guys for a program that aspires to play for NC...

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I have no problem with the rule if they follow through with the premise of requiring a player to maintain a high level of academic success to qualify. Somewhere between 3.0 - 3.3 would mean players having a B or B+ average. If that is the case, so be it. So determine how bad it would be, you'd have ...

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I have yet to spend more than 10 min getting out of the lot (main lot, plains rd) at the Ryan after a game...like you say about Providence its all about knowing the back roads and parking tricks That's fair, although I seem to recall seeing a lot of similar complaints on here about the parking situ...

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Say he goes from 4 and 2, to 10 and 4..... Fatts will be better than that next season. Points wise for sure. Ok, sure. But it's about being a complete four year player. There are always going to be physical limitations and lost intangibles for a player who is 5'10, 165 lbs soaking wet, and not all ...

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. I also like the convenience of local restaurants and bars, and I find the parking situation to be more attractive. A lot of good points but the parking at the dunk fucking sucks. I have no idea how parking at URI games is worse than the mess of parking garages and traffic off 95 If you know your ...

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I agree with Rhody as some time ago I posted that only the top 20 were probably legitimate. All you have to do is take a look at MAL from the beloved Friars who was a 5* recruit who cannot make a jump shot, shot 52% on his free throws and shot 3 for 25 on 3 pointers. A 5*....... A player's career l...

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The major thing I like from this study is that Kingston ranks ahead of Providence which actually comes down to Ryan versus the Dunk. But I did't need this study to tell me that when just a visit to a URI game versus a PC game bespeaks volumes. For starters, the Ryan crowd is collegiate and family o...

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I agree with Rhody as some time ago I posted that only the top 20 were probably legitimate. All you have to do is take a look at MAL from the beloved Friars who was a 5* recruit who cannot make a jump shot, shot 52% on his free throws and shot 3 for 25 on 3 pointers. A 5*....... A player's career l...

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98.5 spent a lot of time talking about how Kawhi Leonard could like be traded for by including Brown and an assortment of 1st round draft picks. They also then spent some time talking about how it's possible (but likely improbable) that the C's could send a package featuring Al Horford to SA and the...

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2.) Despite the above, there is still an expectation of 1-2 defections. Whether its recruits or current players I am not sure, but have heard that we will not 100% retain all talent even with Cox hire. That seems strange -- You would think that if people were to defect, they would have done so alre...

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Hurley Show wrote:Undercover Friar just tweeted that it will be Cox. So is that official?

UF is basically a 100% lock when it comes to PC news/rumors, FWIW.

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rhodyrudder wrote: Can we do it for WBB?
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Challenge accepted

URI>LaSalle>St. Bonaventure>Niagara>Buffalo>Florida St>Louisville>Notre Dame

Feel free to check my math

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The game coaching part is way overrated anyway. Recruit the best possible players, tell them clearly what you want them to do in practice, prepare 3/4 smooth inbounds and halfcourt plays, plan who leaks out on the break and when. Plan for end of game situations and prep a few strategies..... ! I've...

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The women's F4 was a fantastic watch for anyone who invested the time ... Unfortunately they will see no bump from it until maybe next years F4. If you could consistently find high level women's games like the one's presented last weekend, it would be worth checking out on occasion.

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NYG, the problem is with the system, has nothing to do with the committee.Women's players have to be 4 years removed from HS to play professionally. Therefore, all college athletes are guaranteed to play for four years, unless they transfer/redshirt where they could go pro after 3 collegiate years. ...

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Hard to take women's BB seriously when all 4 no.1 seeds make the FF. Might as well hand the trophy to UConn...they play like they did against SC and it won't be close. One of the women's basketball analysts wrote an article last week about how UCONN women's basketball is no different than Duke/Kent...

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I guess the biggest area of potential difference I might have is people keep saying "URI promised this" and "URI promised that." I feel that in the last 5 or so years with this annual ritual of Hurley's "flirtation" with other programs, a big piece of that was always th...

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The conference thing seems odd here for 2 reasons - first, he himself has cited Gonzaga as a benchmark. Um, A10 is WAYYYYY better than WCC. And second, seemingly his next best choice is Uconn in the AAC, which by all metrics is marginally better than A10 if that. If you look at the AAC in it's pres...

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People who believe in the fact that the NCAA is holding back the mid-majors should be at the forefront of pushing advanced metrics for tournament selection. I believe the Middle Tennessee should have been in the tournament, but a lot of that is because they played a 4, a 6, and a bubble team on neut...

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UConn is nowhere near ready to compete for a national title and the UCONN job is lateral at best. Dan's next move (if he even makes a next move) is to a place where he can make deep runs in the ncaa every year. The UCONN brand is a shell of what it was, i'm sure Dan's dream job is not another massi...

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Middle Tenn State loses to So Miss in the CUSA Tournament. They have a RPI ranking in the low 30's but no high profile wins. Could possibly get an at large. Bracketologists are saying they are out (which P5 BS). These conferences with 8 teams. You should have to finish .500 or better in your league...

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My counterargument there is that if you're the 11th best team in your conference (maybe with a balanced schedule you're actually the 9th best), we know you're not one of the best teams in the country. You're not even one of the best teams in your league. A big part of why your RPI in that scenario ...

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Many ppl think that. I personally agree with how it works now. I hope they keep the fun in college basketball. I get antsy on the .500 in conference record thing myself. I wouldn't mind if there is an unspoken bias against teams under .500. No need to make it policy to keep them out. My problem wit...

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I'm a big fan of conference tournaments. They're very fun to watch. All of them. IDK why fans would want to cut something out to ensure the Dance seat. It gives you less to watch and enjoy. Some of the most fun performances to watch have come in a conference tournament. People always argue the adva...

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Another all-timer featuring UCONN, facing Cincinnati in the AAC semi-finals.

After Cincinnati hit a 3 to cut the score to 9-5 with 4:40 left in the 1st quarter, the score after 1 was 17-5, the score at the half was 43-5, and the score after 3 was 66-11.

Competitive basketball at its finest.

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This are the teams we need to monitor, moving to a 6/7 seed will make a difference after we win three more. ESPN had an interesting article on how 6/7 seeds fait and how an eight seed is so much harder: Nevada MW 26-6 26 Kentucky SEC 21-10 27 Penn State Big Ten 21-13 28 Virginia Tech ACC 21-10 29 S...

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and the nightmarish scenario is there is a very fine line between winning and losing at LaSalle - in which case a loss would put us at having lost 4 of our last 5 games. I was scared to death during that LaSalle game. You don't know how changing that game changes things further down the line. Losin...

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KenPom would be the first one to admit to you that his system is flawed for purely ranking teams who get in the tournament and that his formula would have to be tweaked in order to become a tournament metric. In his own words: "To my knowledge, there is no tournament in any sport that seeds on ...

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This is my problem with Kenpom - Did Hurley leave those guys in to run up the score to increase the Kenpom? AP voters look at Kenpim and as I understand it is included in the team sheets this year with other predictive metrics. Were there games earlier in the year he could have kept guys in to run ...

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The score running up argument to me always seems like something people say to justify why they dislike the metric, but while it might be a slight flaw, the reality is that all teams play on the same playing field. Also it's impossible to know the line/time of demarcation where a team just gives up....

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I prefer the RPI over KenPom because it's results based, while KenPom is predictive. The point of the committee is to pick the best teams based on results, not predictions. Also, as mentioned, there is no incentive to run up the score with RPI. KenPom is very popular in the gambling community due t...

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What if they used a point system for wins where beating the #1 team is worth 351 points, #2 is worth 350, and so on... Use the an RPI-like multiplier where you multiply that number by .75 at home, 1 neutral, and 1.25 on the road. Go with the inverse for losses to take away points; losing to the num...

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The seeding process has changed to the Q system and the NCAA has share how it will work for the most part. I am not sure all of the bracketologist have completely factored that into their process. I think the new quadrant system will turn out to be about as big a crock as the old system used to be ...

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In BM's 2/28 morning update, URI has fallen from the last 5th seed to the 2nd 6th seed. However, that does include 38 brackets that did not update from yesterday. Of the brackets with an update of 2/28, URI's average bracket seed is 7.3 of those updated 32 brackets. 5 seed - 2 6 seed - 9 7 seed - 7 ...

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Forecasting using RJ math:
0 wins - 10 seed
1 win - 8 seed
2-3 wins - 7 seed
3 wins (loss at Davidson, A10T Championship win vs. St. B) - 6 seed
4 wins (no St. B in A10T Championship) - 6 seed
4 wins (St. B in A10T Championship) - 5 seed

rjsuperfly66

Wonder if that would change if we were a 4 seed? It all depends on the seed lines ... I.E - If the 4 seeds in order go Wichita St., Clemson, West Virginia, URI, URI is getting the last available option, the saving grace potentially being other bracket conflicts eliminating teams from being in certa...

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Wonder if that would change if we were a 4 seed? It all depends on the seed lines ... I.E - If the 4 seeds in order go Wichita St., Clemson, West Virginia, URI, URI is getting the last available option, the saving grace potentially being other bracket conflicts eliminating teams from being in certa...

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How much gets funneled to other sports? If I'm a basketball player, why do I care if there's a golf team? Why should I subsidize that when I'm not getting money? How much goes to administration and coaches salaries? Again, if I'm a basketball player why shouldn't I get paid when they make extra bec...

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Until the NCAA allows players to make money of their own likeness or get a SHRED of the money they make universities and shoe companies this problem will always exist. You have a multi-billion if not TRILLION dollar industry centered around college basketball. The back end game of shoe companies pr...

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