Big East OOC thread '25/'26

[UConnTrumbull]

The Michigan team has all the looks of a NC contender. They are big, and skilled. They are top tier based on what I'm seeing here. May is a great coach too.

Between UMich and Purdue the Big 10 could have two 1 seeds this year.

 

[auror]

This is not a good use of numbers, yikes. The vast majority of top 30 teams will have good offenses. If teams only played good offenses their defenses numbers would be .

And he's comparing raw D ppp vs. adj defensive efficiency. Mississippi Valley St is the only team that gave up 1.23 ADJUSTED efficiency. A lot more teams gave up raw 1.23 ppp. And if teams only played top 30 teams, I imagine a large percent would give up 1.23 raw ppp.

Using Torvik, St. John's adjusted def efficiency against those teams is 1.05. About 200 teams had worse numbers than that last season against full schedules. (Edit this might only include 2 of the games, I think the regular Torvik stats are updated but not the sorting stats).

 

[gsmooth]

Just curious. Why should anyone here feel any pain about Texas continuing to underperform?
No P4 gets any sympathy. We should all pull for Chaminade!

I didn't say anything about feeling pain for Texas. I was simply stating how much their first round loss hurts when they have to play Chaminade next.

 

[AllHusky]

Sometimes rosters just fit and sometimes they don't. Look at Kansas the past couple of years. All those expectations and veterans and they never really looked good. No hype this year other than Peterson who has been out and this group looks like a much better group.