royalfan

Survive and advance. Have to have some pride on defense and keep our man in front of them. Cannot allow such easy 3 point shots as a result of having to help so much. Don't mind sprinkling in some zone, but cannot play that alumni tournament zone that we used the whole game against them last time. Was awful coaching to stay in it after they had solved it. We have no margin for error for bad coaching moves. They need to get it right Thursday night to put us in a decent position. I believe that the momentum created with a big win Thursday would put us in a pretty damn good spot against a struggling Maryland team. Not sure what we would have left after that potential win, but the path up to that point is very doable. We need to take advantage of the draw. And it starts with Miles coaching a great game. He has it in him.

This season is not over gentlemen(and ladies). Someone has to beat us or we win the national championship. And this deal starts tomorrow. Potential for 11 games(12 if they put us in the first four). It is obviously not likely to make a run, but come on. Not enough discussion about the tournament. We are not terribly outmanned by anyone in the league. We have to shoot the ball well and we need to ride or die with White and Shields taking a lot of shots IMO. Lets get through this tricky first game, hopefull with Miles using the bench a lot. We have better players than Wisconsin in the next game. Then a struggling Maryland team. Hopefully an upset of Michigan St. prior but we have beaten them. Then hopefully we catch a cold shooting team having played the prior two days. Not easy, but that is what we have in front of us. No reason whatsoever to give up before we even start.

Very deep next year. If we make the proper strides in the offseason we have the makings of a decent club next year. Tai is going to be very good next year either in or out of the starting lineup.

If we start playing better defense with his defensive "expertise" while winning games during this turnaround, I will join you.

It is Miles fault if he brought in Molinari to be the main strategic go to guy. It hasn't worked that well. That is on Miles. He made the hire. But it also doesn't mean that Molinari is doing a great job either. He isn't.

As long as the announcing is talented enough to overcome not being there, I am okay with it. I just want a well announced broadcast. Doesn't really matter to me very much where the announcers are located when accomplishing that.

I am with you on Molinari. He doesn't bring much of anything to the table from what I can gather.

There are at least two kinds of disappointment. 1. Expecting going in to play a lot better than we have. (Last year is a great example of this type) 2. Expecting to win more games based on how we have played (This year is a good example of this type).

Gut tells me bad ass TE prospect. Gut tells me a very low D1 basketball player. A guy that could help our hoops program in a pinch 2nd half of season as walk on if he opted to play both, which is probably unlikely. Doubt he will be big 10 type hoops recruit.

I haven't watched them this year but the OSU team in Lincoln today was poor at best.They aren't overly gifted offensively, but they are well coached and have one of the best defensive teams in the nation. When you have that, you are certainly not a poor team. I wasn't talking big picture but this one night. OSU seemed disinterested and unmotivated. Offensively they shot poorly, were disjointed most of the night and had way too many turnovers, many unforced. Defensively you don't get to be one of the nations best defensive teams and give up that many offensive rebounds. They gave up many straight drives to the hoop and lack of effort was part of the reason they had players foul out. The floor slapping incident sums up their defensive effort perfectly. They might be a pretty good team and they might be one of the nations best defensive teams this season, but yesterday they were poor at best. If you think they played poor defense and unmotivated defense, we will just have to agree to disagree. I saw them give a lot of effort on defense. A lot of our rebounds were due to outworking them for sure though. We played with as much effort as we are probably capable of and it gave us a shot to win the game even with the poor shooting. But lets face it, we were having to take a lot of very difficult shots and then it seemed to get in our head when we would get an open one. I don't want to make them out to be some kind of juggernaut. They aren't. But they aren't a very poor team either. It sucks that we played them at the worst possible time. 1. End of the season when they have become a good team. 2. Without Shields. If we play them earlier in the year, we beat them without Shields. If we play them now with Shields we win too. Extremely frustrating.

I haven't watched them this year but the OSU team in Lincoln today was poor at best. They aren't overly gifted offensively, but they are well coached and have one of the best defensive teams in the nation. When you have that, you are certainly not a poor team.

1. No chance the tickets stay that expensive, so be patient if working stub hub. You will be able to get more reasonably the day of the game most likely. 2. I might be able to you help you but won't know until probably Friday. Just be face type price if you got some of mine, but cannot commit to that at this point. Let me know if still short come Friday.

You're taking the max possible of B1G teams making the tournament and the min possible of Big East teams between two conferences with non-equal amount of members as an argument? ATM Bracketmatrix.com has in 7 of 14 B1G teams (50%) 5 of 10 Big East teams (50%) I do think that the B1G is tougher than the Big East. However, it's still a power conference that is in the league of ACC, B1G, B12, SEC, etc. No, it is not a power conference along the lines of those leagues. Power conferences have great athletic programs. They generally have way more teams than the new watered down Big East. They are somewhere a notch below. How far below is debatable. But it is not even close to as good a conference as the ACC Big 10 Big 12 etc. Right now it is better than the SEC in basketball but it is cyclical and they typically aren't as good at the top anyway. This conference plays in no mans land on FS1 that is struggling mightily. Nothing screams power about it at all IMO.

I think we hear about "eye tests" being allowed to be weighed into the mix. If someones "eye test" judges a conference in its entirety to be worse than it is being given credit for in the numbers, it could possibly lead to conference reputation being a factor IMO. But I think Dimes is generally correct.

The problem with rating conferences in general is that there is no generally accepted method of doing so. Do you you average ranking? Median ranking? A combo? Throw out best and worst? Put less weight on the worst? Then with different sizes of conference, it makes rating them even harder, as some leagues that are larger or smaller can be impacted more by the method used. I don't know what method RPI uses. Sagarin has Big 10 ahead of Big east. The method they use gave me a headache. It is a complex method it seemed. Is that better? I don't know. But I would generally agree that the conference RPI is going to be a less accurate set of rankings than most sets, so long as the method used to do the ranking is the same. Why? Because the RPI is a less accurate ranking to begin with. At the end of the day, you have to use sense to rate them. And you have to use similar set of power rankings Vegas uses. That is the most accurate.

Baseball, you are certainly trying to prove me wrong. You are going to great lengths for some reason. And you still haven't and never will. They have the information. That article is comical. The link to the ESPN nitty gritty team link that they claim does not have conference record on it, has conference record on it. Obviously, the selection folks have access to conference records and they obviously have access to RPI. It is also obvious that neither one is very important at all in determining the field. But to blanket claim it is never used is kind of silly. There are times when it makes a lot of sense to use conference record in comparing two teams from the same conference, especially in leagues where there is a balanced schedule. Do you have any thoughts on Big 10 tourney bracket? I have shared some before this idiotic argument of acting like the selection committee do not have conference records available to them.

The article is linked....I don't believe he mentioned what is on their nitty gritty report. He indicated that conference record does not come up in the discussion. But, most cases...if you have a solid record in a power conference you likely have some good wins and a good resume. Obviously they have access to conference records...I'm sure Bruce has a computer or phone to access the records if it's not on his nitty gritty report. They may have access in their meetings, but it does not sound like conference record is part of the criteria in picking teams. You quoted my response to Pimp though did you not? Where I said he was wrong about them "literally not having that information in their packets". It seemed like you were making an ill fated attempt to prove me wrong on something. It didn't work, They do have that information available. Just like they have the RPI available and that isn't very important either.

LOL. Did he say that the information is not staring him right in the face on the nitty gritty report? Obviously, they have access to conference records. Nowhere, did anyone say it is a primary tool for selection.

Personally prefer anyone but Iowa on the 1 line.

looking increasingly likely iowa will be 1 seed. Tough potential match up for us if we made 2nd round. Ohio St. about the best we can hope for in the first round it would seem.(assuming we are in the 8-9 game)

Agree with Dean here. And while it might be a little disrespectful since not often done, I think the quality of announcing coul go up by having studio broadcasting. Lets say for example Dean and 49'r do a hell of a job broadcasting games. Lets say ESPN can spend money flying them and putting them up for one game somewhere. Lets say as an alternative they can be in Bristol and do a game at noon, another at 3, another at 6 and a late night affair at 9 or 10. It saves them a lot of money. It potentially makes Dean and 49'r a lot of money. It makes the level of broadcasting better. Everyone wins. There is not one good reason why games cannot be announced extremely well from off sight IMO.

Hammond was playing great in the Wisconsin game and we built a nice lead. It pissed me off when he got taken out and immediately Wisconsin surged ahead and took control. Would have rather Miles let him go until the hot streak started to end, which quite possibly would have been very soon. Absolutely no reason he should have came though at that time.

We need to explore ways to get White about 14 or 15 reasonably clean three point attempts a game. It is easily our best shot we can get, other than an uncontested layup or dunk. As close we can come to that number, the better off we will be, especially while Shields is out.

The committee doesn't look at conference record. As in it is literally not on their information packets.Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk I think you take things you hear as being gospel a little too much regarding the selection process. And in this case, I believe you are flat out wrong. Every nitty gritty report replication that I have ever seen, which is a report that the selection folks have at their disposal, does include conference record. Since they are only replications, and not the actual report, it is possible that every place that replicates the report has always been wrong though. But it is very naive to suggest they committee has no idea what teams conference records are. If nothing else, it is a quick indication of how a team played the 2nd half of the season.

I have started to think about this as well. Given that it is so likely that we will be in that 8-9 contest, I am starting to shape rooting interest in other games to shape the best path. I agree that it seems like Ohio St. would be the best of the options for us to play against. I am talking reasonable options here, not mathematically possible options. I believe that Wisconsin or Michigan would be secondary target wishes. No matter how you slice it, we are not likely to be favorites in this ball game. But we will not be significant dogs against most of the clubs either. Michigan St would be a horrific draw. Purdue would be bad as well. Close to fanbase. Bad matchup problems for us. Given that we are likely to need to win the tournament to go to the NCAA tournament, I am equally concerned about who the one seed is. I realize that some may not agree, based on some recent game outcomes, but I believe that we would want Indiana to be the one seed. I think Iowa is the best team in the conference and we have some tough matchups in that game as well. Indiana will have large crowd, but I think it is still better than playing Iowa. Maryland is somewhere in between IMO. As for the 4-5 clubs, I would love them to be Wisconsin and Michigan. Neither team if that much better than we are. A path of Ohio St, Indiana, Michigan(or Wisconsin) followed by whoever comes from other side does not seem completely overwhelming to me.