farmerjerome said:
Bubbler said:
Arkansas in is flat-out ridiculous, so is Drexel being out.
All the national pundits are peeing their collective pants over Sycacuse not making with a 10-6 Big East record, blah, blah, blah. Here's Syracuse's Big East wins (including its one Big East tourney victory over UConn) with NCAA tourney teams bolded.
Wins: at Marquette, at Rutgers, Villanova, Cincinnati, DePaul, St. John's, at South Florida, Connecticut, at Providence, Georgetown, Connecticut.
Not impressive, not one little bit, especially when the only nonconference win worth half a shred of a darn is Holy Cross.
That unbalanced Big East schedule is a bench isn't it?
The committee got that omission right. Sorry farmerjerome, et al.
Yeah, wins at Marquette and against Georgetown and 10 wins in one of the toughest conferences in the country isn't anything. You're right, Syracuse sucked.
Look at Duke. Lost to Marquette, beat Georgetown. Two wins against Boston college to not cancel out two loss to NC.
I believe that the Blue Devils had 10 losses, virtually identical to the Orange. And they're a six seed.
At least Syracuse made it past the first round of its tournament.
FJ, you're my gal and all, but you're going pure fanboy route here.
You're pointing out a paucity of good: wins over Marquette, Georgetown, Villanova versus ignoring a whole lot of mediocre, i.e., all of Syracuse's other Big East wins and its non-descript nonconference schedule. I know you're a Syracuse fan, but if you separate yourself from that, I think you can see my point.
It's a similar argument Valley fans in my neck of the woods made about Missouri State. They beat Wisconsin! They beat Wisconsin! Ignoring the fact that they lost in every other game of consequence they played.
The Big East was the sixth-best conference in the RPI (realtimerpi has them there). Why? Because it's too big for its own good. Just because a team goes 10-6 doesn't mean it's a legit 10-6. The bottom six of the Big East -- all of the teams below 100 in the RPI -- are absolute ship. Seven of Sycacuse's 10 wins were against the bottom eight of the league in a 16-team conference. That's nothing to write home about.
Syracuse is a function of a friendly schedule creating an overinflated resume. The truth of the matter is that the committee called them (or more accurately, the Big East itself) on it and Syracuse was justifiably left out.
That Big East unbalanced schedule screws up everything when it comes to fairly ashessing teams. So blame that, not me or the committee.
The numbers don't add up to Sycacuse getting screwed. Of course Digger Phelps, et al, will think they did because Jim Boeheim was at their roast or something.
