In an interview today, Lee Fowler gave the following quote: Anything can happen after you get in [the NCAA tournament]. If you get lightning in a bottle you can go a long way in this tournament and have a chance to win it so we are very excited to have the opportunity While this is […]
ACC Seeds
I really enjoy seeing people run down the importance of the RPI in selecting and seeding the NCAA teams. Today’s selections were pretty much in-line with what we’ve looked at before. Two quick notes about two teams that the CBS idiots were squeaking about: Gonzaga – RPI #10—–3 seed exactly as expected Tenn – RPI […]
Back on the Bubble
Well, State has finally dropped their RPI enough that we are definitely back on the Bubble. What I mean by that is that State’s RPI is low enough (#48, one spot BEHIND Maryland) that the Selection Committee will have to balance the strengths and weaknesses of State versus the other Bubble teams when selecting the […]
Compiled Rankings
Well, this will be the next-to-last update on the combined rankings from Massey’s site. After the seedings come out, I hope to do one more and finally conclude whether there is any value in piling everyone’s guesses, votes, and calculations together…and then drawing conclusions from the biggest piles. As usual, here is the frequency graph […]
Conference SOS
As soon as ACC decided to go to an unbalanced basketball schedule, it was obvious that some teams would get “harder�? schedules and some would get “easier�? ones. So now the time has come to try and figure out which is which. I decided to compile the ACC wins by each team’s opponents and use […]
RPI Update
This idea of graphing State’s RPI ranking through the season doesn’t seem like such a hot idea today. As of Saturday morning, State’s RPI rank had climbed to #29 thanks to several higher ranked teams losing. After another pitiful performance, State’s RPI fell to #39…its lowest ranking since Jan 4. SEASON SUMMARY 21-8 (10-6) […]
The Mess in the Middle
Somewhere in the middle of the conference, a #5 seed will be found for the ACC Tournament…even though at times it hasn’t looked like anyone wanted it. Here are the five through the nine seeds, even if we don’t know which team will end up where: W/L RPI Florida St. 8-7 54 Maryland 7-8 […]
When 0.500 Isn’t Good Enough
Well the title might be a little more wide open than I originally planned, but let’s keep this on target. A subject that frequently comes up this time of year is what type of conference record is necessary to get an at-large bid to the NCAAT. Here is a little blurb from the Hoo’ville paper […]
Compiled Rankings
We’ve looked at Massey’s Compiled Rankings over the last several weeks as a different way to come up with projected seeding for the NCAA tourney. The underlying assumption is that the consensus of the various polls and computer formulas will come close to the actual seedings doled out by the NCAA Selection Committee. I have […]
Bubble Update
Here is the RPI Top-55 after Sunday’s games were included with the Dance Card providing some further insight on the Bubble Teams (#36 – #55). Here are several things that stood out to me: – Maryland has finally fallen off of the bubble. – The Dance Card is now projecting six MVC teams into the […]
