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Again overreaction. Had we beat UCF and Tacko Fall not got hurt...thats a quad 1 win and we dont play Marist or Long BEach State. Had Wisconsin and MInnesota not been hurt/suspended and live up to preseason expectations that 4 games against Top 50 teams rather than top 150 teams. This year was bad luck as much as anything

Thats one year and it was a fluke. Worst thing we can do is overreact

You know we have 2 in the tourney, Creighton, ACC and Gavitt. Set up a home and home with ISU, K-State or Mizzou and stay away from MEAC and SWAC schools the rest of the way

This year was a fluke with how weak the middle of the Big 10 was. Thats not going to happen again. I hope we don't try to overcorrect.

Not saying it directly applies to us...but it's not uncommon to see teams with NCAA expectations get left out to not have a vested interest in the NIT

Considering the reason we missed the dance this year....I would argue that we do stand to gain something.

We had pretty favorable matchups in those games this year

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.

Again..without crystal balls...thats awefully tough to do. It didnt just have to be the conference challenge...the league struggled the rest of the non-con too. Like I said the other day...its bad luck.

Its an accident. Ohio State wasnt a preseason quad 1 team. Minnesota and Wisconsin were. Short of giving the conference a crystal ball...what do you do?

Scheduling was ok....performance hurt it more than anything

Officially, yes, but they were likely in after yesterday

Tyler Cook testing NBA waters, no agent yet

That's more of a one off though. You are going to eliminate a lot of quality teams on the other hand. Saying you have to have a winning conference record is no different than relying solely on the RPI or Quad 1 wins or etc. Things are not equal across all playing fields. Things have to be interpreted.

I get the outside view on our position. We pass the eyeball test if you compare us to an Oklahoma or Bama or St Bonaventure or TCU or K-State or Missouri. But the metrics just don't add up, at least not the metrics that seem to matter the most. The system is flawed....but it's not a Nebraska bias. There are good teams every year that are penalized and average teams that benefit. It's nothing new. It's just more relevant this year because we actually wanted to play like a big kid at times. We got deal a ridiculous run of bad luck. Our intent in playing in Orlando was to play quality competition. As it turns out, we lose one game we shouldn't have and we get stuck with a (approx.) 200 and 325 level opponents. We didn't intend on Jackson from Maryland being out for the year. Or for Reaves to miss 4 games for Penn State where they went 1-3, likely being the difference between them dancing and not. We didn't intend on MInnesota being a top 15 team and losing 2-3 starters and falling apart. We didn't intend on the Big 10 completely bombing it's non-con schedule. It sucks...but those things were out of our control. Nothing we did, but we just didn't get very many opportunities, nor did we take very good advantage of them when we did. I think we are an NCAA caliber team on the court, but understand how we might not be on paper. I hope the committee sees that. But I also understand why/how they would want to take the human element out of it and base it as much on paper as they can. We just picked a lousy year to be decent.

There’s just too much of a difference between leagues to enforce this and still get to 68 teams, while trying to get the best in

Dont think theres anything likely about it. Roby would be terrific at the 4. But losing Copeland likely means we are either playing McVeigh and Jordy 15 minutes more per game than what they played this year. Thats not a good thing. Yes a grad transfer is an option...but we havent exactly hit home runs with our grad transfer posts. Copeland's length and athleticsm is a big variable for us this year and we dont have anyone, even in his mold, that is there to fill that role

Probably. But not because we are paying. Because we've been so bad the last few years (outside of this year) while we were cheating

Think Florida State is pretty firmly in. Dont think one can make a legit case for us on them. The rest, we can

Overtime

Tied up 19 seconds left. USM ball

Cut to 1

Considering the rest of our front court depth....we can't afford to lose Cope right now. Actually think Palmer would be easier for us to replace than Copeland

No. Increase the stipend or amend the scholarship to account for cost of living but they shouldn't get paid.

Believe he could.