2020-21 College Basketball thread

I will say, last I checked, the NET and Kenpom rankings were -weird- this year, probably because of the small OOC schedules everyone played. Like URI lost seven or their last eight, and they're around 100. Kentucky has nine friggin' wins and they're 59th in NET. Duke is at 60th with 11 wins.

 

You guys are smoking crack if you think Duke won't be invited. Ratings are all that matter.

 

Yes but you can have a losing record and still be invited to the NIT this year. Duke-Kentucky first round anyone?

 

San Diego State's Brian Dutcher is #OneofUs by virtue of his dad having coached the Gophers for over a decade in the 70s and 80s. Apparently, his buyout is $6M+ ... unless the Gophers want him, at which point it's a million.

 

Toothpaste Tech is currently No. 8 in the NET. They certainly won't be receiving an at-large bid.

FUN FACT: Colgate is only one of three schools in the country that are unbeaten on the road -- Gonzaga and Winthrop are the others. They also didn't play one game outside of their four-team mini-division in conference so the road wins are two each at Army, Boston U. and Holy Cross. Army beating Buffalo non-conference is skewing the hell out of Colgate's NET.

 

That may be the wackiest Covid season fact of them all. Colgate will set a record that will never be equaled: highest rated team excluded from the field.

 

1995.

 

The only way Duke is getting in is if it wins the ACC tournament. There's no world where they go 14-12 and get a berth by getting to the final game of the tournament in what has been a seriously down year for the league. Name or no.

 

1995. Beat N.C. State. It was also the last season Duke missed the NCAA Tournament.

I was there. Did not need the reminder of the Les Robinson Invitational ...

 

Too much work for Duke to do. Winning the ACC Tournament would require five wins in five days.

I was trying to figure out if some of the borderline teams could put together 2-3 wins and merit consideration. Problem is, the ACC isn't highly regarded enough this season. Thinking Duke, NCSU and Syracuse will still likely have to win the whole thing to get in.

Another issue: In all this hand-wringing, how many of the borderline teams don't get in because some of the mid-major conference have enough teams to get in the conference tournament champion and another school who clearly did enough in the regular season to get in?

 

There aren't many of those this year. VCU and St. Bonaventure are both clearly getting in from the A-10, but that's it. Drake has an argument out of the MVC, even with the loss to Loyola. Can't see more than one getting in from CUSA -- neither Louisiana Tech nor UAB have anything at-large worthy on their resumes. The Mountain West may get three. Belmont is 26-4 but it probably SOL -- best non-con win is George Mason. WCC will get Gonzaga and BYU, but that's it.

So you're looking at five at-large bids at best from leagues outside of the power six + AAC. It's going to be a power-heavy tournament.

 

Wasn't that the year Coach K peaced out on the season in January or so to have back surgery and so the losses were assigned to Pete Gaudet or something like that?