I think a lot of folks are looking at our program history when making that pick. They’ve slept on us in the past so they’re trying to overcorrect.
They played Gonzaga, Duke, Florida, WVU, Cincy, and Indiana. 5/11 opponents were P6 + Cincy (high-major) + 5 cupcakes. 5/11 of our opponents were P6 with six cupackes (including the worst team in D1-LIU).
Exactly. Hawkins was gloved twice against Marquette because Proper is 6'8", lighthing quick, so Hawkins can't shoot over him and struggles on drives. In the game in Hartford, Prosper got into early foul trouble, and Hawkins lit them up against the same D (running guys at Hawkins). You need a taller kid to play him who is willing to play D hard all game. I don't think Iona has anyone like that. Their pressure may get to us, but if we break it, we should get easy transition baskets. Hurley has all week to work on press break. He does that and has they ready, we should be fine.
Yup. We've got no business calling anyone trash until we start stringing together a few tourney wins ourselves. There are plenty of folks online hopping on the Iona bandwagon for their "big" upset considering our recent underperformance in the Dance. And the "trash" in question happens to have a W vs Gonzaga.
But again, they lost! Their wins are WV and Cincy. Does not compare to Alabama and Iowa St
As someone in that camp, I hope he proves us wrong.
We played six cupcakes-not five. Xavier was two games better than us in conference play and swept us. They get the nod. If Xavier plays our OOC schedule they go no worse than 9-2. Combine that with their BE results and they have a better SOR (24-7).
This is why I said DON'T play a strong OOC. It's irrelevant to the committee. All that counts is conference season. If you beat the #1 team in the nation, who cares?????!! Same as beating Cincy!
If this was true Rutgers would have made it. Their OOC SOS was like #320
Our OOC SOS was 143. Xavier’s was 46. They played a more difficult schedule, swept us, and were a half-game back (25-9 vs. 25-8) due to playing and losing in the BET final. They had a better year.
I hope he doesn't get too pumped and try to do too much offensively. And by "offensively" I mean jacking threes. I'm all for him driving and dunking, but please leave the threes for Karaban and Hawkins and maybe Alleyne. Even if he makes a three, still not a good shot from him. I don't want Sanogo shooting threes either.
eh. We can just follow the gameplan of Santa Clara, SMU and New Mexico instead
