Selection Sunday thread

[hockeybeat]

Uhh...Hofstra had a legitimate gripe last year. Beating George Mason twice in 11 days.

OK no more. I promise.

Who did Hofstra play and/or beat out of conference last year?

url]http://www.hofstra.edu/Athletics/Mbasketball/ath_mbb_schedule.cfm?syr=2005[/url]

 

[BYH]

Uhh...Hofstra had a legitimate gripe last year. Beating George Mason twice in 11 days.

OK no more. I promise.

Who did Hofstra play and/or beat out of conference last year?

Does it matter? Drexel beat everyone on the road and didn't get in this year.

Hofstra beat George Mason twice in 11 days. That would have gotten them into the tournament if not for Mason's AD being on the committee. He can rot in heck.

OK no more. Again.

 

[spnited]

Uhh...Hofstra had a legitimate gripe last year. Beating George Mason twice in 11 days.

OK no more. I promise.

Who did Hofstra play and/or beat out of conference last year?

Does it matter? Drexel beat everyone on the road and didn't get in this year.

Hofstra beat George Mason twice in 11 days. That would have gotten them into the tournament if not for Mason's AD being on the committee. He can rot in heck.

OK no more. Again.

Hey, dickhead...it happened a forking year ago. Get over it. Hofstra=loosers, just like BYH=dickhead looser!

As for Drexel, what do all those road wins mean when they finish 4th in the conference and go 1-5 against the top 3 teams. CAA LOOSERS!

 

[Mystery_Meat]

THE CAA GOT THREE BIDS!!!!!!!!!11

(in the women's bracket. ODU 7, JMU 9, Delaware 12. what a wild world).

 

[Lester Bangs]

If you say so ...

RPI is as valid this year as any. It is and it isn't, but when you start measuring teams, it helps. Nevada played nobody ... but still played a tougher sked than Akron. Nevada lost its weak conference ... and Akron lost its weaker conference.

If you'd rather ignore the facts, that's cool ... just don't act like Akron got screwed. If they got screwed, it was by the MAC time keepers and themselves for, you know, doing things like losing to Arkansas-Little Rock and not winning their conference tourney.

Just saw this little nugget:
Dec. 22, Nevada beat Akron 73-71 at Akron. The Zips had a shot to tie at the end but missed it.

And Nevada didn't win their conference tournament either.
But I guess they're in because they are going to have a first- or second-team All-American, plus the fact that they were tabbed as one of the non-majors to watch early on so they've been ranked all season.

No, they're in because they had fewer mis-steps while playing a tougher schedule. They did beat Oregon State and Cal, neither of whom are world beaters, but both play in a major conferences. RPI isn't like the BCS. You do get to start from zero. The only advantage for Nevada over Akron is the natural SOS advantage.

How many Big Six teams did Akron play? None. Who was their best OOC opponent? Nevada, who gave the Zips a chance to win on their home floor, and you already said how that one came out.

 

[ned racine]

enough of the love for drexel..they lost to rider,william and mary,plus were 1-5 against top 3 in CAA...I thought Syracuse got jobbed,but please Mr.Whiner(Boheim),maybe one year you will play a couple of non conference roadies to boost the RIP.....as a big ten fan i think MSU and Purdue deserved to be in,but the conference was weak........

 

[Freelance Hack]

Having been away from the board for near;ly 2 days, I have come to the following conclusion:

There is no team in the Country who got forked worse than Syracuse.

The last 4 in, based on seeding of at-large teams, were Stanford, ODU, Illinois and Arkansas. The 'Cuse is better than any of those teams.

How does a team with a 65 RPI, 18 wins, 5th in the Pac-10 get in ahead of a team that was 5th in the Big East, RPI 50, 23 forking wins?

How does a team that was 7-9 in the SE-forking-C ... couldn't even win a title in a divison in which no team played better than .500... get in a head of team that went 10-6 in the Big East, won 6 of its last 8 and blasted No. 2-seed G'town just two weeks ago?

Just forking unbelievable!

Spnited,

The Cuse deserved a bid. Especially over weak-ass Arkansas, whose 7-9 conference record is made even worse considering 10 of its games were against SEC West foes. But as I said a few days ago, the SEC West would get a team in. And apparently five straight victories (including two each over Vandy and Miss State) were enough for the consortium of clowns in Indy.

In the end, the NIT may be a blessing in disguise for the Orange. They would have been one-and-done in the NCAA, but they could make a nice little run in the NIT, which could be a springboard for next season.

 

[spnited]

The "springboard for next season" theory doesn't work for a team with an all-senior starting frontcourt.

 

[linotype]

Seven of their 10 Big East wins were against the bottom eight in a 16-team conference. They have no nonconference wins of consequence.

Then, please, 'splain to me Virginia -- which played the ACC's unbalanced schedule right into a No. 4 seed? After losing at home to Stanford, the only at-large team with a worse RPI than the Hoos?

UVa played the three lowest-seeded teams in the ACC twice apiece (N.C. State, Wake Forest and Miami). The Hoos only had to play the top tier teams (UNC, Duke, BC) once and also had losses to Appy St. and Utah.

How UVa got a No. 4 seed while a team with a similar RPI profile (Syracuse) got left out defies logic.

 

[Oz]

How UVa got a No. 4 seed while a team with a similar RPI profile (Syracuse) got left out defies logic.

Except when you consider the ACC -- like the SEC (you're welcome, Arkansas) -- had a rep on the selection committee while the Big East did not.

 

[Ellis Redding]

How UVa got a No. 4 seed while a team with a similar RPI profile (Syracuse) got left out defies logic.

Except when you consider the ACC -- like the SEC (you're welcome, Arkansas) -- had a rep on the selection committee while the Big East did not.

 

[Ellis Redding]

That's weird. I typed a reply. What I said was that the ACC has no business having a better reputation. They each have produced three NCAA champions since 1997.