Political consideration: there will not be two teams from one conference in the top 4 at the end of THIS year. If Scar beats UGA, they will (probably) be in. Somebody will jump A&M. NC state if they win. If not, it will be Baylor or Maryland if they win out ( still a tournament for both of them to play)
SEC has shown itself to be strongest conference this year, so two #1s not unreasonable.
NET is a flawed tool, but if they just ignore it anyway then who cares?
No tool is perfect (Massey/RPI) but I dont see any reason why DePaul deserves to be in the tournament over some other bubble teams.NET is a flawed tool, but if they just ignore it anyway then who cares?
Yeah, agreed.
The thing that likely hurts Ole Miss is 4-11 against Quad 1 & 2.
I guess that makes sense if they're focusing on quad wins, but I just find it flawed how spread out the quadrants are, especially for road wins during a season held without fans. There's no way someone can convince me that beating Villanova on the road should be equated to beating Arkansas. Just look at how UCONN performed vs both teams for any indication.
Hopefully this is just a Charlie mistake. Obviously he isn't the committee.NET is a flawed tool, but if they just ignore it anyway then who cares?
I think this year is probably the strongest the SEC has been since UT and LSU were top rated.
This is where it is incredibly flawed for the women's side. If committee sticks to this long term, it will incentivize teams to schedule crap road games and avoid top competition since a win vs. a top 5 team is formulaically viewed the same as a road win vs. a non tournament team. Casting up to 75 teams in Q1 and 105 in Q2 is insane to me considering how much variation there is among team quality in those quadrants. Context is extremely important.
We will not know how strong any conference is until they face of in the NCAA tourn. No one has played enough out of conference games this season to get any sort of real measure. Basically all teams games have been against other conference teams. So teams were mostly judged based on untested preseason rankings. If the SEC second tier teams did wel against the top tier it could mean two things. The second teir is better than expected or the top tiers not as good as they were promoted as. In the case of the SEC they are assuming it is the former, but it could just as well be the latter.
Question about automatic qualifiers. Are the AQ’ the regular season champs or the conference tournament champs or does it vary according to the conference?
At least for the ACC, it is the tournament champion who is deemed the automatic qualifier.
Brief research tells me the same is true for all conferences. Thus, SCar is the AQ for the SEC and A&M is an at large
Id give him benefit of the doubt...he's working hard to constantly update the bracket daily and assess a bevy of games and resumes. It probably isn't his full time job and it's doubtful he has anyone helping him to audit his brackets. It sure seems like a thankless job based on how fans react to it, but at the end of the day it's far better to have someone provide some insight and understanding of how the committee works compared to not having any content at all.
Agreed, by far the most dangerous potential 8/9 seed among the teams I'm seeing anywhere in that vicinity. Many had OSU in their top 15 in the preseason rankings, and they finally started playing like it in the past few weeks.
I don't believe the committee will have two SEC teams as #1 Seeds. I believe NC State will replace TxA&M as a one seed.
I hope we get in the dance, however I must admit if I were on the selection committee MSST would not be my choice. I think there are a number of teams that deserve a bid more than us. I dread the coming transfers and I do not see anyone impactful player choosing transfer to MSST. I think MSST needs a more involved coach than NMP but do not think MSST is willing pay the money to attract a proven coach so just hope we can at least get a coach who motivates the players.
Would be a pretty disastrous year to go from top 10 to not making the tournament.
Glad to see that this was the end result. Now it would be good if those who plan to transfer would declare their intentions over the next few days so the number of available slots will be known and the rebuilding process can begin.
Hard for me to believe a MSST fan is glad we did not get an invite to the dance and thinks it is good for transfers to occur. MSUrealist is an unusual fan, I hope he is one of a kind.
You think the players quit on the team, I think the coach quit on the players. NMP is just not the coach we need, go watch the Ole Miss Tenn SEC tournament game, both those coaches were involved but the Ole Miss coach provided the emotion the players needed to give it all they had. NMP never provided that type motivation during any game that I saw.
