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The ACC season seems like it’s flown by and we’ve already reached the half-way point. So this entry will be longer than normal….
[See the full post at: ACC Basketball – Midseason Report]Timely article from N&O
Here’s what respected NCAA bracket projector Jerry Palm of CBS Sports wrote about Kansas State this week while excluding the Wildcats from his bracket:
“The Wildcats have one of the 20 worst non-conference schedules in Division I. Teams get left out almost every season primarily because of a putrid non-conference slate. On top of that, KSU lost one of those games, at home to Tulsa, which is its only bad loss. Kansas State is going to have to do more than have a couple of home wins over competitive teams to make up for that. A lot more.”
Remember, Kansas State has a better overall record, better RPI and a better record against the top two quadrants and a worse non-conference schedule than N.C. State.
Thanks again VaWolf. I look forward every week for your write up and you don’t disappoint.
I think you are right about the need to take into account the out of conference schedule being weak. It is concerning, maybe needed for the coach to get his system in place, but now there is pressure on the Pack to win. I am ok with that. I want the Pack to win too. I understand the quadrants but I hope the committee also notices the high number of quality wins. To me beating the number 2 team in the country twice is more than just a quadrant one win. But what do I know?
I will project into the future a little. What might be a reasonable number of wins in the last half of the conference schedule given that the first half was harder and one more home game in the 2nd half than in the 1st half. I think going 6-3 is not unreasonable. Yeah well what about NC State $#%@ (stuff). I would say that some of that has already happened and we are still 5-4 through the toughest part of the ACC schedule.
Are we there yet. Of course not. I feel the need to say it because of the past and sure Murphy and his law are still around sometimes in the form of zebra’s but I am cautiously optimistic based on performance.
Of course the ACC tourney is still there too.
Of course the ACC tourney is still there too.
With the staggered start, it’s hard to blatantly put out a number of ACCT wins needed to clear the Bubble. I look at it like this:
Tuesday wins are virtually worthless.
Wed wins might be noteworthy, but most aren’t. (The 8-9 game winner probably beat another Bubble Team.)
Thurs wins will always be valuable.I prefer to wait until Sunday before the ACCT starts to project number of tourney wins required for the Bubble teams.
Awesome write-up as always!
Will be interesting to see how much the NCAA’s new “quadrant system” will affect the usual RPI assumptions.
yes, boys, winning cures everything. I would feel comfortable if we went 6-3. That would also help knock some of the folks we beat down lower on the bubble. 5-4 I give us maybe a 40-60 chance of getting in. Yes, we have wins over 3 top 10 teams and 4 wins in quadrant 1, but that fun-filled quadrant 4 schedule of 7 games still drags us down.
Still, I defy anybody to go back preseason and criticize Keatts for the scheduling, because without seeing it on the basketball court, we didn’t know then what we know now.
I’m 100 percent on the Keatts’ bandwagon. But take that with a grain of salt – I was on the HWSNBN’d bandwagon, was excited when Lowe had a couple early wins, and thought Gott might eventually come to his senses about defense. So maybe we should wait and see.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Zedong
OK… We have games with Notre Dame, VaTech, UN*, ‘Cuse, Wake, BC, FSU, GaTech, ‘DaVille left to play in February…
I’m thinking Notre Dame, ‘Cuse, Wake, BC && GaTech are ‘should win’ games…
and VaTech, UN*, FSU, && ‘DaVille are ‘too close to call’…Of the toss-ups… ALL are at home, except VaTech..
Conservatively speaking…IF we can figure out how to win 5… we’re definitely in the bubble…
6 puts us real close… Plus 1 win in the Tournament and we’re good…On the other hand… it’s entirely possible, which is not the same as likely, we could run the table…
Just being able to think that says volumes…As, if not more, important than RPI type numbers is the “IC FACTOR”… 20-21 wins by Keatts and the Wolfpack plus ICE CREAM and we’re ALL dancing….
America still loves it’s ICE CREAM and so do the NCAA TV guys…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Bill I agree with your assessment except for playing Wake in Winston. Thats a 50/50 game easily. Maybe BC too i havent seen them enough to speak how good they are, just know they are around us in RPI talk etc.
OK… We have games with Notre Dame, VaTech, UN*, ‘Cuse, Wake, BC, FSU, GaTech, ‘DaVille left to play in February…
’97, et al…
We play ’em in the above order…
And we might want to consider the “MO” factor too…We’ve won 3 out 4 since playing the ‘hoos in C’ville…
After ND that should be 4 out 5…And I said on the UN* Game Thread yesterday… “Pick two out of the next three and be happy…”
‘Cuse shouldn’t be any trouble although that game is up in the frozen North…Not too hard to see how we could be 7 or maybe 8 out of 9 since C’ville when we roll into Joel Feb 17th…
My point here is “The more games we win, the easier it should be FOR THIS TEAM to win the next game…”
The “MO” Factor…And the more “MO”, the “MO ICE CREAM” !!!
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Cuse shouldn’t be any trouble although that game is up in the frozen North…
After watching State play against Pitt’s zone, I’m not looking forward to playing SYR.
Based on ESPN’s current RPI, remaining games by Quadrant:
Q1
@ VT
UNC
@Syracuse
FSU
ULQ2
ND
@Wake
BC
@GTAlthough ND and @GT could end up being Q3 by the end of the season as they are right on the cusp at the moment.
We have a long way to go to get in the dance but at least it’s a distance that can be covered by car rather than by plane.
VA Wolf – I don’t think 4 wins in our next 10 will get us in.
I do think 5 will likely get us in, but as you pointed out, that’s not a sure thing.
Theoretically, if we win 5 of our next 9 that would either mean sweeping our opponents at home or a one or two road wins and a home loss.
I would think that would push our kenpom and RPI into the Top 50 zone.
As you know, in Gott’s 3rd year, we went 9-9 in conference and won 2 in the ACC tournament to get our bid. The biggest difference between this team and a lot of Gott’s teams is that we already have some big wins (hoping they stay big.)
I like realtimerpi better than ESPN. Here are the current ACC RPI rankings from that site, updated as of 9 pm PST tonight (so about 40 minutes ago):
1 UVA
4 Duke
6 Clemson
11 UNC
17 Miami
20 Louisville
32 Syracuse
33 FSU
65 State
72 BC
73 VT
76 ND
125 Wake
142 GT
180 PittBy those ratings, these are the remaining games for State by quadrant:
1 – UNC, Louisville, @Syracuse, @VT
2 – FSU, BC, @Wake
3 – ND, @GTState’s current record by quadrant:
1 – 4-4
2 – 0-1
3 – 4-2
4 – 7-0So let’s say State wins 5 more games. Worst case is they win all 5 quad 2-3 games and lose all quad 1 games, meaning they would finish the regular season like this:
1 – 4-8
2 – 3-1
3 – 6-2
4 – 7-0I doubt that is enough to get in without ACC tournament success, and their first ACCT game would be a quad 2 or 3 game, so not sure 1 win would be enough. If they won the first game, the second game would be a quad 1 game, so winning 2 ACCT games would be enough. But that is a tough path.
So I’m thinking 6 more regular season wins might actually be required, since that guarantees at least 1 more quad 1 win and also guarantees at least 1 more road win.
7 more wins in any combination should make it a lock.
By the way, when I posted in another thread yesterday, UNC-G RPI at realtimerpi was 85. Then they lost yesterday at #299 Chattanooga, and their RPI dropped to 109. I doubt they could drop all the way to a quad 4 loss, but it is within the realm of possibility if they drop a couple more like that.
The committee is looking at the quadrant system for Rpi, but you got to think that their are “barely” quadrant one/two wins and there are top tier quadrant 1 wins. This is why I don’t find the Kansas State argument really relevant for State. Kstate has 1 win versus a team currently ranked- Oklahoma. And they only beat 2 teams that were ranked when they beat them-Tcu and Oklahoma. State has 2 wins versus still top 10 teams and 4 wins versus teams still in top 25. We will see what happens rest of season but if we finish 10-8 then there’s a great chance we are dancing just based on teams we have to beat to get 5 more conference wins.
I like realtimerpi better than ESPN.
I used to read Palm (now at cbssports.com) when he ran his own RPI site. Assuming that he puts in as much work now as he did then, I trust his numbers. For an example, he talked about asking the NCAA questions when his numbers differed with their’s and making adjustments when necessary…and on occasion the NCAA adjusted theirs. I say all of that to say that CBS seems to agree with realtimerpi pretty closely which gives me confidence in both of their numbers.
I use espn because they give me the RPI summary table for the entire conference. I used to create that table by copying the values from CBS which took a lot of time. I plan on using the numbers from CBS when I attempt a more detailed discussion on the ACC bubble teams….not so much for the RPI ranking of the team in question, but rather for the ranking of their wins.
If life will get off of me a little, I hope to do an entry on the new quadrant layout from the NCAA. If anyone hasn’t heard about it, Top 25, Top 50, Top 100 wins, etc are being replaced by quadrants. The standard for a given quadrant win is less for neutral and away games, thus giving more value to road/neutral wins.
Quadrant 1: Home 1-30; Neutral 1-50; Away 1-75
Quadrant 2: Home 31-75; Neutral 51-100; Away 76-135
Quadrant 3: Home 76-160; Neutral 101-200; Away 136-240
Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus; Neutral 201-plus; Away 241-plus.As far as I can tell, anyone writing articles about the NCAA is going to use the quadrants for the selection process is just guessing. One of the things to look for this year is a selection that you wouldn’t have made under the old system.
The professors behind The Dance Card haven’t written anything so far this year. I’m interested to see what they are going to do with what is claimed to be a new selection process.
Kstate has 1 win versus a team currently ranked- Oklahoma. And they only beat 2 teams that were ranked when they beat them-Tcu and Oklahoma.
AP rankings have no effect on the selection process and neither does a “old” rank (AP or RPI) that an opponent had when the game was played. The Selection Committee is only going to look at the current info when the selection process starts. So if Clemson tanks because of recent injuries…or if ND continues to tank, their final ranking is what the committee will use.
I think it is a bit too early to say how many wins that NC State needs to get in. The value of each win changes each week based on what our opponents do, so I think those trying to say an absolute number of wins will get us in may be sorely disappointed. It’s a point in time view and it will be until Selection Sunday, much as VaWolf sets it out.
Circle the Syracuse game. Our zone offense has been ugly, and they’re typically quite tough at home. FSU could be very tough as well given their size. UNC will be out for revenge. Long story short, there is a lot of work left to be done.
I’ll take that challenge, Rye. If we win 6 of 10 I bet we’re in, regardless of ACC Tourney results. (Although I could see a scenario where an ACC team falls into Quad 4, wins on Tuesday and then beats us. That might put a crimp into my thoughts.) Five is on the fence.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Zedong
Circle the Syracuse game. Our zone offense has been ugly, and they’re typically quite tough at home. FSU could be very tough as well given their size. UNC will be out for revenge. Long story short, there is a lot of work left to be done.
We all know the bottom line here is…
“There are NO easy games on the reminder of our schedule.”
That said, I’m optimistic…
GO PACK!
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