luke wrote: ↑5 months ago
You definitely have a valid point Billyboy . And recently the NCAA has discounted losses by the P5 teams when a well known star missed some games due to injury or illness . In URI's case both Fuchs and Green missed games that maybe wouldn't have resulted in losses had they been available . The NCAA
reasoned that since the injured players had returned and would be available therefore they were a different team now and should be accepted . Under
that logic URI is clearly not the same team now as they were when the bad losses occurred . Of course there has to be somebody there to plead their case
because most of the selectors probably would otherwise have no idea about URI and its players.
Yeah and if we win 19-20 games in a row and make that kind of noise, I would bet we would get in just based on that. Bubble teams get that kind of deference.
But we lost 5 straight including 2 Q4s to awful teams, and will in that scenario be like 2-4 in Q1 games.
The world isn’t out to get us. The conference might be with the way they’ve always shafted us on awards, but the world is not. Very rarely have we ever done enough and won the right games to deserve a bid.
But if we go like 14-4 and don’t win the A10T, a 19-11 team with zero Q1 wins and several Q3/Q4 losses doesn’t deserve it.
But again, there’s no reason for at large talk. We’re not an at large team. Get top 4 in the A10 and see how it shakes out in Brooklyn.
And the idea that the hottest teams for a couple games get in? That’s the whole point of the tourney. Total madness. It’s why 16’s can beat 1s. Anything can happen. Best sporting event in the world.