Sgt Lincoln Osiris

Man, seems like a blast from the past. Unfortunately he was on a team that is in the conversation for worst D-1 bball team this season (NET 359/362, lost in the first round of their conference tourney by ~60 points).

Agree with everything that’s been said. Back to back years winning the regular season title is impressive, and hadn’t been done outright in like 17 years. He didn’t win the award last year, so it kind of feels like they threw Painter a bone for the sustained success.

I also have to imagine the gaming of the system is going to decrease the effectiveness of the predictive model used by KenPom, Torvik, etc.

Kind of. 2018-2019 Virginia (National Champs) were the #2 most efficient offense according to KenPom, while being 210th in points per game. They were 353/353 in tempo that year and had 6 future NBA players. They were an elite offense, but you wouldn't know that looking just at their scores. They were going to keep the game to 60 possessions, work for great shots, and score on a lot more of them than their opponent. A high tempo team that is equally efficient with their possessions would beat teams by a larger amount. The downside of using efficiency metrics is that they look at every possession, and I think everyone here seems to be in agreement there are unintended consequences. It seems like there could be a way to not count any possession when a team was up or down by some amount after a certain point in the game, but who is to say what those are?

Penn State jumped all the way to 71 RPI with their win tonight. Correct me if I’m wrong but that gives us another tier 1 loss with them in the top 75, right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was about to post the same thing. I'm almost positive that it is.

I'm actually more confident about Tuesday with today's results. 3-0 Nebraska might have overlooked the next opponent. No excuses now. We might lose our top 25 ranking for now but I've lost no confidence for this year Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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This article mentions that his father played for Molinari at Bradley after he left UNL. http://www.fanbase.com/Ben-Coupet/career

One thing I found interesting in that article is how Terran mentioned that he was comfortable shooting the Adidas ball. Does anyone know if there is a universally used ball in college basketball, or is it based on the home team? I'm sure we practice with Adidas basketballs, but do we use Nike when we play MSU? Just curious how this might affect some shooters.

More appropriate comparisons: Kansas -- Wichita State Illinois -- Bradley Stanford -- Saint Mary's Tennessee -- Belmont Texas A&M -- UTEP and so on. I mean, it's okay to hate on Creighton...but the "rivalry" is pretty superficial if you ask me. The schools you mentioned, cwg, are all mostly peer institutions, except Georgia and Georgia State (you sure you didn't mean Georgia Tech?), and most of them are also all in the same conference. The only thing NU and Creighton have in common are that they are in the same state and they both have the Huskers as their football team. These don't really work either. These are schools where the power conference school has had staggeringly more success than the mid major. That's not the case here. Creighton has had much more success than NU and has for a while now. I'm not sure there is a comp. Washington and Gonzaga? I don't know if they play regularly, though. Virginia and VCU? I don't know that they play often either. Despite their conferences not being peers, NU and CU are. And now that they're in conferences that are a little closer to each other, the comps on the first list could be closer to the comps on the second over the next few years. Wisconsin and Marquette would be a very good comparison, since it is the same two conferences we are talking about. They definitely have a strong rivalry, although I'm not sure whether the Marquette fans support Wisconsin football

I think we will see a lot more of Tai driving into the lane like we saw in spurts last year. Would be huge to have a third threat to take guys off the dribble. With Walt and hopefully another shooter outside, we could be extremely tough to defend

This is how I feel as well. Top 4 would be great, but I think it's very possible to finish 6th and have a higher NCAA Tournament seed than last year, which in my opinion would still be very successful.