Selection Show, who to watch for

[nustudent]

1 minute ago, HuskerActuary said:

No, it doesn't take crystal balls. Delaware St, Marist, and Stetson were all in the 300s on KenPom last year. They should not have been on our schedule.

 

Considering we didn't deliberately schedule one of those games....my point is kind of proven.   Yes...some teams you will always know will be low.   Personally, I would never attempt to schedule any games against MEAC or SWAC teams for this reason.   But aside from that it's still hard to control at times.

[colhusker]

Record number of teams with losing records in conference in.  Committee was a joke.

[HuskerActuary]

Just now, nustudent said:

 

Considering we didn't deliberately schedule one of those games....my point is kind of proven.   Yes...some teams you will always know will be low.   Personally, I would never attempt to schedule any games against MEAC or SWAC teams for this reason.   But aside from that it's still hard to control at times.

Yeah, my bad on Marist. That UCF loss hurt.

[Huskerone]

1 minute ago, rr52 said:

After seeing this I don't believe Nebraska was considered an at-large possibility or even on the committee board after losing to Ohio St.  Oklahoma as a 10 is utter bs.

It doesn't appear we were even close.  While I wish we would have gotten more support from the BIG network, I guess they were right, we probably needed to win two in the tourney to be considered.  What a strange year.  A lot to be proud of.  Metrics just didn't add up.

[Cazzie22]

You cannot schedule yourself out of the Tournament by playing too difficult opponents.   The win over BC should have carried more weight than it did.  What is hard to stomach is that we are probably in if we don’t give up a late 3 to KU.

[rr52]

So RPI translates to what? Davidson win knocks Notre Dame out and they had worst RPI of the 1st 4 teams out.

[Silverbacked1]

4 minutes ago, rr52 said:

After seeing this I don't believe Nebraska was considered an at-large possibility or even on the committee board after losing to Ohio St.  Oklahoma as a 10 is utter bs.

 

I read or heard somewhere that the committee had to keep them in after saying they were one of the first 16 on the first list they put out.  Don't know if that is true but...

 

Hope they just get blown out and the "Wonder Kid" goes like 2 for 35 and then everybody can see what a joke that "team" is.

[jayschool]

Should have scheduled the University of Hamburger Mary instead of DSU. 

[Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty]

Fact is we only had one win against a tournament team. Every team that made the tournament had at least a handful of them. It sucks that our opportunities against Purdue, Michigan State, and Ohio State didn't come at home, but most every at-large team has a win of that caliber on their resume. 13-5 is nice and all, but we racked up wins against average to below average teams.

 

My only gripe is that teams that have faltered down the stretch (Oklahoma, Arizona State) maybe shouldn't get in. But actually, if you look back at past tournaments, how you finish your season really doesn't have any correlation with how you do in the NCAA tournament. And to be honest, if we played Oklahoma's schedule, we might not have done any better. The Big XII isn't full of world beaters, but everyone but Iowa State is at the very least a solid team. We'd be underdogs if we played any of them on the road.

Edited March 11, 2018 by Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty

[jason2486]

7 minutes ago, colhusker said:

Record number of teams with losing records in conference in.  Committee was a joke.

Should've known with a Bluejay in charge that this would be a s*** show...

[rr52]

Barkley pretty much just called Rasmussen a dumbass without actually saying it.

[Cazzie22]

Rasmussen is the Committee Chair, he has only one vote!  

[Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty]

Just now, Cazzie22 said:

Rasmussen is the Committee Chair, he has only one vote!  

 

Exactly. It's not like the room isn't full of opinionated dudes either. They aren't just gonna bow down to him because he's the Chair. If he really was making a strong case for us, I'm sure someone would have been willing to call him out for trying to favor the in-state team.

[HuskerBB]

3 minutes ago, rr52 said:

Barkley pretty much just called Rasmussen a dumbass without actually saying it.

 

Yeah Charles was great in pointing out the OU selection idiocy.

 

[HuskerFever]

Yeah, this is not a Rasmussen thing. The way we were going to get in we're if they valued end-of-season performance, didn't listen to the media about how down the Big Ten was, and actually watched our games to see that not only we can compete but that teams like Wisconsin and Maryland aren't going to roll over and die like Ole Miss and Cal do.

[Chad A]

people still watching the show?  I stopped watching 40 minutes ago - and just keep reloading the ncaa tournament site to get the brackets.  Oh well, beats waiting the full hour to know our fate, but not good tv

[Silverbacked1]

9 minutes ago, Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty said:

Fact is we only had one win against a tournament team. Every team that made the tournament had at least a handful of them. It sucks that our opportunities against Purdue, Michigan State, and Ohio State didn't come at home, but most every at-large team has a win of that caliber on their resume. 13-5 is nice and all, but we racked up wins against average to below average teams.

 

My only gripe is that teams that have faltered down the stretch (Oklahoma, Arizona State) maybe shouldn't get in. But actually, if you look back at past tournaments, how you finish your season really doesn't have any correlation with how you do in the NCAA tournament. And to be honest, if we played Oklahoma's schedule, we might not have done any better. The Big XII isn't full of world beaters, but everyone but Iowa State is at the very least a solid team. We'd be underdogs if we played any of them on the road.

 

That may be true that our record might be the same, but we also won't feel like the puppy who thought his owner said, " You are going to the vet to be tutored!" 

[TourneyBound]

Seems like they went with whomever had the most quadrant 1 wins......  feels like that was a much bigger factor then what we had thought

[No Place Like the Vault]

26 minutes ago, Huskerone said:

Not to be rude, but thats BS, you have no idea.  Why speculate like that?  Other than to get a negative reaction?  People that speculate on who stays and who goes are getting tire some.  You talk with Cope and Palmer often?  If anything this type of thing can unite a group and both would be more likely to come back.  Geesh.  Rant over.

I'd love to have them both come back but they are getting older and maybe they want to start getting paid like Petteway and Pitchford did.  It is just speculation but that's what goes on often on message boards.

[rr52]

17 minutes ago, rr52 said:

Barkley pretty much just called Rasmussen a dumbass without actually saying it.

Sorry should've posted, "Barkley pretty much just called the selection committee dumbasses without actually saying it." 

[jdw]

42 minutes ago, colhusker said:

I can send him as much as you want.  What a crappy day.  This is the topper.  CH-III and I spent 4-1/2 hours sucking up sewer water.

Did yo save any I know where you can send it.

[jdw]

53 minutes ago, throwback said:

Going to be tough to do when we go to 20 conference games next season. Another brilliant idea.

17-3 Nebraska left out. Lunerdi they just didn't do enough.

[TomEadesSucks]

This new format is horrible. Needs to go back to the old one.

[jdw]

48 minutes ago, jayschool said:

Has he finished his first back of d***s?

Rectaly and sideways.

[cornfed24-7]

18 minutes ago, No Place Like the Vault said:

I'd love to have them both come back but they are getting older and maybe they want to start getting paid like Petteway and Pitchford did.  It is just speculation but that's what goes on often on message boards.

Where exactly did Pitchford go play?