The Polish Rifle

That was I, It was that 2014 Ohio St game to the last detail. Most momentum the program had in years to the Hindenburg in matter of minutes.

I always wanted to relive the 2014 Ohio St B1G tournament game. Coming off no sit sunday, All the momentum in the world, up 17 ----- Then BOOM, hit by a bus.

Wide open look after wide open look.

Knew it was coming. That 1st half shooting wasn't gonna stick around. We have to keep on the gas.

Welcome back pregame nerves...this is a weird feeling.

Jim Foster has an amazing resume. 4 NCAA tournaments in 5 seasons at Army. Very odd start to his tenure at NW.

What's crazy to me, is that psychopath in Iowa City has managed to pull off 8-12 B1G wins pretty much every year. Can we please have that in Lincoln...

Win % wise his (or her) point still stands. Edit: I see win% was mentioned in the original post

No Tranquility Tuesday

All the NIT bracketology I’ve seen is heavily weighing Ken Pom and NET. They got burned last year due to the NIT committee focusing on those metrics. For example a lot of them had Washington St out last year, Washington St ended up not only making the field but hosting a game because they were a NET/Ken Pom darling. They were outside the top 100 on all result based metrics.

Feels like KT is on his farewell tour. Walking on senior night, parents flying halfway across the world to watch him play.

8 spot jump for Ohio St in the NET.

20-0 in the B1G, but only beat Minnesota by 26....8 seed.

Yale is 30 spots ahead of us at 17-7 and 0 power 5 wins.

Last year the NIT heavily used NET for selection. I was reading a Washington St article about last year's NIT selection and it appears that NET was the single most important metric for NIT selections. "Hopefully you quickly noticed the same thing I did: That the NIT committee basically looked at the NET rankings and selected teams rated highly by that metric. Then they went one step further and also used it to seed the teams (with a couple of obvious regional adjustments), which is how the Cougs ended up with a 4 seed: They were among the top half of the field in NET." I can see us being this year's South Carolina. South Carolina had a better record, and finished higher than MSU and Vandy - even went 2-0 against Vandy, yet Vandy and MSU went to the NIT strictly due to having a better NET.

The difference between results metrics and predictive metrics can be pretty crazy in some cases. The biggest outliers are: predictive loves Ohio St, Yales - result based hates them. Result based loves Nebraska and Vandy - predictive hates them. Coach Stackhouse ranted about it yesterday. Said it seems stupid that he can’t put kids that worked their butts off in practice all week in games late because it could hurt his teams NET ranking. Vandy is 5th in the SEC but their are 9 SEC teams ahead of them in the NET.

The way I understand it, scoring margin is not a factor. It’s offense and defense efficiency that’s killing us (so I guess in a way those blowout losses are hurting us). Computers see a good team in Ohio St, and a much more flawed team in Nebraska….to me that indicates their formula is broken.

Such a flawed/stupid metric.

Fellas it’s gotta be said….Sam Hoiberg is DOG!

How much do we have to win by for this to be a NET positive?

Yeah I didn't think about the Pac12 unrest. But if they add SDSU, it will continue to be a multi bid basketball league. Tim also wouldn't have to move, great recruiting area, and I wouldn't want to live in that area making my salary but it would be a great place to live making 2 Mil a year.

Pac-12 job that can triple his salary? Miles has had a real nice season, but it's not like blue bloods will be knocking down his door.

Our best win currently playing like cat piss. Nice job bluejays, ya scrubs.

I guess the key to getting to 17 wins (3 more wins) is 2 of them can’t be Minnesota.