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It would be interesting to use this method to examine deep runs by “Cinderella” teams past like…Pack ’83, etc.
State went 6-4 against teams that were ranked #1 sometime during the 82-83 season. Sorry, but that doesn’t sound like a Cinderella to me.
Saw this article linked at PP
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/03/theodore_senior_dazon_ingram_s.html
Found these via google
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/03/mr_basketball_contender_dazon.html
Greg Marshall’s name will likely come up again this off-season. He basically says that he won’t leave Wich St for a middle-of-the-pack Power Conference job:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/feature/25110905/marshalls-plan
Older article on his salary:
The Citadel
Out: Chuck Driesell. The son of legendary coach Lefty Driesell, Chuck struggled to establish himself at The Citadel. He had a record of 42-113 in five seasons, and only won one-quarter of his conference games in the SoCon. He never finished higher than 5th in his division in the split-league, and ended his run with an 11-19 season that saw the Bulldogs finish 7th overall in the league with the ignominious honor of having the worst defense in the entire country, according to KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency metric. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see the administration go in that direction, given that the school has been in the bottom-six teams nationally in that metric for each of the past three seasons.
Chuckie was a player for his dad when I was at State.
CBS updated their version last night
I was wrong about our seeding. I thought the committee would just divide RPI by 4 and move up or down no more than 1. We got a lot of credit for road wins and SOS.
One thing that you have to remember is that the math will start to break down after the 7th seed or so because teams will be left out with better RPI rankings than State.
I don’t know why Palm is arguing for Col St. Temple has them beat on virtually every item I listed.
Note that Temple is 9 spots above the burst line on the Dance Card and UCLA is about 10 spots below. The Dance Card’s other two misses are nothing to get worked up over…last two in (Miami, Col St) versus first two out (Dayton, Boise St). The differences among those four teams are very small
I don’t think that we learned much about the seeding process based on ND and UNC. In general, Palm has said in the past that about 75% of the teams are seeded within one spot of what you would predict based solely on RPI.
ND, RPI = 16; Seed = 3, One spot higher
UNC, RPI = 11, Seed = 4, One spot lowerUNC’s seeding supports an observation from several years ago that second place in the ACCT isn’t worth much for seeding purposes. Of course, when you are dealing with the Top 16 teams in the country, there simply isn’t much room to move up because most of those teams are going to do well in their conference tourney.
The seeding might have been more interesting if either team had lost in the semi’s. Oh well, wait ’til next year.
Shoot! I completely forgot to discuss ND’s and UNC’s seeding. I even had a title for that section and didn’t include it:
Just because you’re not paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you.
The UNC/ND ACCT final was the worst possible combination for me because of my hatred for both teams and the fact that analyzing their seeds could be confounded by their [unexpected] ACCT performance.
I’ll have to look up their stats and come back to this tomorrow.
The Dance Card wouldn’t be possible if the Committees weren’t relatively consistent. But the UCLA/Temple decisions show that there are still (irrational) people involved. I see no reason for long diatribes when you are forced to choose between nearly identical resumes. But this year’s decisions suggest that there needs to be better error-trapping techniques employed.
At work, we use an independent design review process for new projects. The bigger the project, the longer the review. With almost every game of importance being completed before Sunday, the Selection Committee has plenty of time for an independent review to highlight the head-scratchers for further reflection.
Dance Card had 3 misses this year. Look how far out Temple and UCLA are:
http://www.unf.edu/~jcoleman/dance.htm
LOL…Dance Card likes Dayton a lot more than UCLA
UCLA and Indiana, solely on name brand. The NCAA is not even pretending to have a shred of integrity anymore.
Can’t blame the NCAA…it’s all on the AD’s and commissioners on the Selection Committee.
I had Indiana in. Their resume is much better than what we witnessed from the Herbble.
Dayton = Dance Card Miss
I think the N.FLA servers must have crashed. Been trying to pull it up for a half hour.
It hasn’t opened for me on first attempt all day long.
