Yeah once again, look at the OOC for the top of the A10 and tell me who any of our teams beat?adam914 wrote: ↑6 months agoWhich A-10 teams do you believe deserve to be in the NCAA Tournament but are being held out solely because of their NET ranking?RF1 wrote: ↑6 months ago
The power conferences and their allies that run the NCAA must be very pleased that their secretive NET ranking system is working exactly as they intended. It means that only one A-10 team (#21 Dayton) is at this time guaranteed an NCAA bid. Rankings in the range of 68-108 are just outside the NCAA Tournament as they desire. Would think the A-10 may have several NIT teams but that may now even be impacted by the guaranteed minimum number of bids to power conferences + BE regardless of their records.
Richmond - 1-2 in Q1. They had 2 OOC opportunities against Colorado and Florida, and didn't win either. They beat Dayton. They have 2 Q3 losses. RPI 56.
Loyola - 1-4 in Q1. They had 3 OOC opportunities against FAU basically at home, Creighton, and South Florida. They have a Q3 and Q4 loss. RPI 49.
Dayton - 3-3 Q1, no bad losses. They're in the field because of that. RPI 5.
VCU - 1-4 Q1, 2 OOC chances against Iowa St and Boise State, 1 Q3, 2 Q4 losses. RPI 72.
The only resume that looks remotely close to an at large is Dayton. Whether you use RPI or NET, no one outside of Dayton is anywhere close to the bubble.
32 AQ spots means there are 36 up for grabs. You need to be low 40s metric wise to even think you have a chance, especially if you haven't beaten anybody.
This isn't some grand conspiracy. There were opportunities that Richmond, Loyola, and VCU had and they did nothing with them. 3 to 6 Q1 games in a season gives you plenty of chances. Only Dayton took advantage.
And still, you can even get by without those Q1 opportunities if you just don't lose to shitty teams. But Richmond, Loyola, and VCU didn't take advantage of their big opportunities, and couldn't win games against bad teams like UIC, Tulsa, Norfolk State, George Washington, and Wichita State.
It really isn't hard. Just once again no one stepped up except Dayton.