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Chuck Taylor

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  1. Compare NU and MSU resumes: https://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology/team-comparison/NEB/MISSST We're 1-6 against sub-50 RPI, 3-3 against 50-100. MSU is 4-8 and 4-1. I suspect it would be similar if you compared KenPom. When you're judged by wins against good teams. we just don't stack up well.
  2. The BIG schedule screwed us, not the noncon. We had opportunities in noncon and didn't produce. Our conference schedule was crap, and again, we didn't take advantage of opportunities that were there. There's no need to nitpick the metrics, just look at the wins: ONE against a tournament team, FOUR against sub-100 RPIs. I don't get why everyone makes this so hard with conspirators around every corner.
  3. Man, and just 7-7 against teams with winning records. Every time I start getting my hopes up again, something like that comes up. Better mix up a new batch of Kool-Aid and not go online the rest of the day!
  4. Got a lot of playing time this year. They only have one guy signed so far for next year, although it's a 5-star combo guy. Running away from competition maybe?
  5. Every time somebody points out another team who shouldn't be in the NCAA, I go here and compare their resume to ours: https://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology/team-comparison/NEB/BAMA It's a short-hand version of what the committee is looking at. Alabama is 6-8 vs. top 50, while we're 1-6. They're 5-3 vs. 51-100, while we're 3-3. The committee doesn't look at conference standings, it looks at your record in tough games. I don't know if Alabama gets in or not, but this measure is what has them on the bubble. Our slim chances rest on having done the best we could against a mediocre schedule that we had no control over. Moos and Delany have nothing to do with it. Our best hopes are Rasmussen because he's seen us and Jim Phillips of Northwestern, who can explain how Delany screwed the conference with early games and a compressed schedule by forcing the BIG tourney into New York.
  6. A 2 seed in the NIT in the only NIT bracket I know of: https://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/
  7. Tough decision on whether to have a Selection Sunday party. Do you have to plan one, if you're saying you deserve to be in? As for the next week+, I might torture myself watching midmajor tournaments and root for the favorites. The one way to be certain we don't make it is by having teams like Nevada, St. Mary's and MIddle Tennessee get at-large bids because some schmoe won their conference tournament.
  8. It's not just the quads and RPI, we're not strong by any measure that the committee uses. We're 56 in KenPom, 55 in Sagarin, 63 in TeamRankings. These aren't RPI, they're analytics. So the only things that favor us are eye test and conference record. We needed to win today BAAAAAAAD.
  9. Committee goes to a lot of games. Where better to go today than the BIG tournament. He's there for seeding purposes on other teams, not just to see us.
  10. I'm pretty sure Jack Payne did basketball for KFAB in the '60s. I can't remember my address, but the important stuff, yeah.
  11. I'm not going to follow the other bubble teams, just worn out. We finished with just 4 wins against under-100 RPI teams. We did all we could, but just needed the win today.
  12. Unfortunately, doesn't look like it will impact us. This closes the case on the strippers. Doesn't add new penalties, as near as I can tell.
  13. Similarly, how am I so mediocre when I'm obviously so brilliant?
  14. The Eff FG% leader is Roby at 61.9%, Copeland at 54.5, JPJ and Evan are at 50.7.
  15. This board has its share of stale jokes, head-scratching takes and incompetent trolls, but god love it, it has an uplifting tone of optimism. A (pick a number)-game winning streak is always just around the corner here. HOL is another world.
  16. NU 74 Ill 52 I meant to type 62, but I'm gonna leave it this way since it looks better.
  17. There are really 4 kinds of bracketologists (not a joke): 1. The ones predicting who will get in. 2. The ones stating who's in based on where things stand now. 3. The ones providing click bait for media sites. 4. The ones who don't know what the #^%&$# they're doing. I think we're getting the most love from the prediction bracketologists and the least from the ones who say where things stand now. I don't care what 3 and 4 think.
  18. Lunardi headline today: Bracketology: Losses don't impact No. 1 Losses don't matter, so we don't have to win out after all!
  19. Hey, everybody stay away from bracketology this morning and just enjoy the 20 wins. Stop and smell the roses, don't wake up and smell the coffee!
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