Feeding on the bottom feeders

[Gamecockfan77]

The great thing about college basketball is that playing games against great teams is an almost no lose scenario.

You can only get credit for it. No demerits.

That's what I don't understand schools that don't look to push themselves. The act of playing the games is helpful to recruiting.

South Carolina has a bunch of good genes this year and play 7 of the first 10 away from home. Awfully challenging for a young team, but when it is done, it should look like a downhill finish.

 

[DEpup]

That's interesting. By using the arbitrary cutoff of 123, you conveniently make it so that UConn only has two instead of three. It sticks out to me that Dayton is only ahead of #123 Youngstown State by .002 RPI points, and it conveniently makes your case!

#122 Dayton
#154 Oklahoma
#210 Vanderbilt

It will be interesting to see if UConn does better in the SOS this season, as last year they played #210 Vanderbilt, #183 St. Louis, #237 Ole Miss, #154. Oklahoma which combined with the American resulted in the #20 strongest schedule in the nation. In contrast, Stanford was #4, Iowa was #5 despite being in the BIG, Oregon St. was ranked #40 with all their cupcakes. I don't see the SOS hurting Oregon State until they get bumped a seed line in the tourney due to their RPI or Schedule. Mississippi State eked them out for #39. Georgetown, Marquette, and Kansas State all supposedly had tougher overall schedules than the mighty Huskies out of Storrs strictly according to the numbers despite UConn's willingness to play the top teams. Playing in the Big East should restore some normalcy to these numbers for the Huskies.

I think we may just have to bake in the homecoming games and not fret about them... Vanderbilt and St. Louis for instance are on the schedule for a reason. In addition, VA is on the schedule for Walker next year. They are what they are and I bet Geno just has to take what he can get for these. I'd hate to see us stop doing the homecoming games.

 

[JonathanXIV]

I think we may just have to bake in the homecoming games and not fret about them... Vanderbilt and St. Louis for instance are on the schedule for a reason. In addition, VA is on the schedule for Walker next year. They are what they are and I bet Geno just has to take what he can get for these. I'd hate to see us stop doing the homecoming games.

And homecoming games aren't always in our control. Remember when we tried to play Syracuse for Stewie's homecoming game and they refused our request. We ended up playing at Cornell. But Karma can be sweet, as we played and beat up Syracuse in the Final Four that year.