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As far as matchups go, there’s very little difference between being the 2 and 3 seed in the tournament. We’d rather a 3 in the East vs. 2 in the West.
There's usually a drop down from the 14-seed to the 15-seed. Honestly, though, if you're a 2 or 3 seed it shouldn't matter. But still, here are Palm's projected 14 and 15 seeds followed by their KenPom. Furman vs. Asheville is the difference between St. John's and DePaul.

14-Furman (88)
14-Hofstra (91)
14-UC-Irvine (100)
15-Colgate (113)
15-Vermont (118)
15-Eastern Washington (121)
14-Kennesaw St (130)
15-UNC-Asheville (149)
 
There's usually a drop down from the 14-seed to the 15-seed. Honestly, though, if you're a 2 or 3 seed it shouldn't matter. But still, here are Palm's projected 14 and 15 seeds followed by their KenPom. Furman vs. Asheville is the difference between St. John's and DePaul.

14-Furman (88)
14-Hofstra (91)
14-UC-Irvine (100)
15-Colgate (113)
15-Vermont (118)
15-Eastern Washington (121)
14-Kennesaw St (130)
15-UNC-Asheville (149)
Colgate is rated low, but they can make some noise.
 
Eye test, advanced metrics, and resume metrics hopefully will average out to a fair place for us. If we can beat Marquette in the second game hopefully will make it very hard to keep us off the 3 line
I think after last night we are right on edge of 3 line or strongest 4. We beat providence we are a 3. We beat Marquette, you gotta figure we become strongest 3. We win big east we are definitely a 2 seed. I mean , we were a projected 4 seed last Monday and rolled 2 more teams this week. We win Thursday we still stay a 4? No way.
 
I think we're a 2 if we win the BET, a 3 or 4 otherwise. We can't have more than one loss from here and I don't think we can slip below the 4 line.

The brackets / NCAA release are somewhat outdated here. Not long ago we had 7 losses and a lot of our competitors for high seeds had 4 or 5 losses. Now a lot of those competitors have lost their way down to us.

Top teams with fewer losses than us: Houston, Alabama, Purdue, UCLA, Kansas, Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, Arizona, Marquette, Virginia, Miami. That's 11 teams and if we are put behind all of them, we're #12 and the last 3 seed. Teams with equal or more losses: Tennessee, Texas, Creighton, Baylor, Xavier, Kansas State, Kentucky. Texas A&M, Indiana. I think we're ahead of all of them right now, and even with a loss I don't think 4 can jump us.
 
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Tennessee has wins against:

H 2-Alabama
N 7-Kansas
H 10-Texas

And a number of other wins against Top 30ish teams. And no bad losses.

At this point, given the injury and the recent losses, I think we can hop them.

Gonzaga similarly has wins against Alabama, Xavier, Kentucky, St. Mary's. And no bad losses.

If we keep winning, we'll jump both. But that just gets us to the 3-line. 2-line will be much harder.

When we were 14-0 and @shizzle787 was lamenting our OOC, he was mocked. Here we are, though. If Florida, Oklahoma State, and Oregon were what we hoped they'd be (teams ranked in the Top 30ish with real tournament aspirations), we'd be well beyond these two teams. As we would be if we didn't lose the SHU-SJU duo. Oh well.
I’d be content with a 3 seed, which I think is fair. jumping a team like Tennessee which is struggling and has injuries is something the commitee hopefully does. If they just used sos and sor there would be no point in having a committee and they could just use the computers to decide the field.
 
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I think after last night we are right on edge of 3 line or strongest 4. We beat providence we are a 3. We beat Marquette, you gotta figure we become strongest 3. We win big east we are definitely a 2 seed. I mean , we were a projected 4 seed last Monday and rolled 2 more teams this week. We win Thursday we still stay a 4? No way.
If we beat Marquette that should clearly erase any doubt about our seed. I really think getting to that 3 line is huge!
 
Read that last year all teams were seeded within 1 of the average between KPI and SOR. Apparently it tracks pretty well going back further than that too.

Right now that has us as the top #4 seed.


Except the average here is 10, which would be a middle 3 seed.

When you say within 1, do you mean 9 or 11, or do you mean 1 seed line?
 
FWIW, Jerry Palm, who is pretty decent, moved us up to a three, albeit in the South.
For those wondering, here is the bracket: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/

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Well, the metrics are only part. And all the teams projected ahead of us have more, better wins.

It would have been great if Florida, Oregon, and Oklahoma State were closer to being Florida, Oregon, and Oklahoma State rather than just fringe (at best) bubble teams. If those were even on the Iowa State level, we're just naturally up a seed-line.
Right? Those games looked a lot better when we scheduled them and when we played them then they do when the committee gets to looking at them.
 
Again goes back to scheduling. If the Big East were the #1 league, scheduling like we did OOC this year would have been fine. However, the BE is a distant #3. You need to beef up the OOC schedule more than Big 12 or Big 10 teams to even the overall SOS.
The Big XII was incredible in the OOC, which means that when they beat each other up in conference it "launders" everyone's resume and they end up with 4-5 teams on the top 3 seed lines. Whether they deserve it remains to be seen.
 
Not our own metrics, but goodness, take a look at Providence.

They're all the way down to 51 in NET, and now falling out of the rankings takes away a significant talking point with the Committee (it's stupid, but they're clearly swayed by the AP poll and would have a hard time leaving out a ranked team).

If we beat them on Thursday, they may actually be sweating it out next Sunday.
 
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Except the average here is 10, which would be a middle 3 seed.

When you say within 1, do you mean 9 or 11, or do you mean 1 seed line?
Our KPI is 18 our SOR is 12. Average is 15.

That ranks for 13th overall, or the top 4 seed. Not sure what you’re looking at?

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I mean 1 seed line
 
Our KPI is 18 our SOR is 12. Average is 15.

That ranks for 13th overall, or the top 4 seed. Not sure what you’re looking at?

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I mean 1 seed line

Ok I think you read it wrong.

I read the seeds are average of your resume and your metrics

Metric average is 5, resume average 15, result is average of 10. That's why they laid both together side by side
 
If Marquette ends up as the 2 seed in East Region then I agree with Palm that UConn won't get placed as the 3 seed in the East with them, UConn will need to be a 3 seed in another region.

Lunardi still has us as 4 seed in the East. The 3 seed in a region besides the East is preferable to a 4 seed at MSG....I think :)
 
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Our KPI is 18 our SOR is 12. Average is 15.

That ranks for 13th overall, or the top 4 seed. Not sure what you’re looking at?

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I mean 1 seed line

I am so impressed with ya'll who can follow all these different metrics and seeding simulations etc.

My basketball IQ goes about as deep as "making shots is good." I haven't even heard about half of these metrics.
 
Not our own metrics, but goodness, take a look at Providence.

They're all the way down to 51 in NET, and now falling out of the rankings takes away a significant talking point with the Committee (it's stupid, but they're clearly swayed by the AP poll and would have a hard time leaving out a ranked team).

If we beat them on Thursday, they may actually be sweating it out next Sunday.
Wow, would never thought of Providence being on the bubble, but with those numbers you are right.

Already heard Hurley is playing back Cooleys comments about our "fans getting it" to the players.
 
Ok I think you read it wrong.

I read the seeds are average of your resume and your metrics

Metric average is 5, resume average 15, result is average of 10. That's why they laid both together side by side
Didn’t read it wrong:

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I haven’t read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been said, but I look at Kenpom pretty often, and before this games our defensive rating was something like 21st in the country, and after yesterday’s game we moved up to 12th(!!!). That seems like an ENORMOUS movement for just 1 game, no?
 
I haven’t read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been said, but I look at Kenpom pretty often, and before this games our defensive rating was something like 21st in the country, and after yesterday’s game we moved up to 12th(!!!). That seems like an ENORMOUS movement for just 1 game, no?
The AdjD didn't go up that much, but it was a cluster of teams in a similar value, so we went up a bunch of ranks.

There are 13 teams between 93.9 and 94.9 for adjD. We're tied at 94.1 right now, but got the highest rank among the teams tied.
 
The AdjD didn't go up that much, but it was a cluster of teams in a similar value, so we went up a bunch of ranks.

There are 13 teams between 93.9 and 94.9 for adjD. We're tied at 94.1 right now, but got the highest rank among the teams tied.
Ah I see. Yeah I didn’t do much research as to how it did that and the teams ranked similarly, that increase in rank just caught my eye. 10th ranked offense and 12th ranked defense, pretty cool!
 
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Didn’t read it wrong:

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Wait, for the committee the conference tournament is a non-factor? Or a non-factor in these metrics?
Yep 2 important things here:
1) Conference tourneys are less important than we think, ESPECIALLY games on Saturday/Sunday. Every committee is different, but last year really didn't care about them.

Marquette on Friday would hopefully be early enough to still be fully factored in, but the committee begins its work on Wednesday(!)

2) I know we love the predictive metrics because we look awesome there (and they're better for gambling), but the committee has shown over and over that the resume metrics are more telling. Unfortunately, KPI hates us a bit and we're #18 in that, #12 in SOR. #13 in WAB. Ranking of the average puts us in the 11-13 range. On border of 3/4 like most bracketologists have us.
 
Didn’t read it wrong:

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You made the statement that the committee bases the seeds by an average of kpi and SOR.

I said that isn't true, it is an average of that average ( called resume) and metrics. That's why on the team sheet, it lists the resume average and the metric average side by side.

You keep showing screenshots cutting off the metric average, I guess to bolster your argument you want to make. As if we can't see the team sheet ourselves.

Read this and get back to me.


 
I’m starting to not care. Beat PC and then we really should be a 3. I know the BET doesn’t matter much, but a win vs Marquette would seem to be pretty significant.

At some point the approach that looks at strong conferences and basically treats every game as a positive, win or lose, becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Playing all those tough games helps your resume (like Tennessee with 9 losses) but somehow not playing tough games (Houston) doesn’t seem to hurt them. In UConn‘s case, the closeness of the losses and the margin of victories should matter. It tells you something.
 
I’m starting to not care. Beat PC and then we really should be a 3. I know the BET doesn’t matter much, but a win vs Marquette would seem to be pretty significant.

At some point the approach that looks at strong conferences and basically treats every game as a positive, win or lose, becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Playing all those tough games helps your resume (like Tennessee with 9 losses) but somehow not playing tough games (Houston) doesn’t seem to hurt them. In UConn‘s case, the closeness of the losses and the margin of victories should matter. It tells you something.
Marquette game could be more important because they are also in the 3 line mix. If we beat them, especially if the margin is significant, not only are we adding a Q1A win, but also potentially jumping them (won 2/3 against them). Basically, I think we beat them we get a 3 seed, if we lose to Providence or them, I think we get a 4. I'm still team "probably can't get a 2 without a lot of help."

The conference thing is overblown. Plenty of B12 schools, for example, were in position to make the tournament before conference season and now are not. Oklahoma, OK st, Texas Tech were all top 35 in KenPom before conference season, now they're not making the tournament. It wasn't self-fulfilling for them.
 
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You made the statement that the committee bases the seeds by an average of kpi and SOR.

I said that isn't true, it is an average of that average ( called resume) and metrics. That's why on the team sheet, it lists the resume average and the metric average side by side.

You keep showing screenshots cutting off the metric average, I guess to bolster your argument you want to make. As if we can't see the team sheet ourselves.

Read this and get back to me.


Never said the base it solely off that. I said last year every team was within 1 seed line of the average of KPI and SOR (which is a fact). This isn’t even an argument? I read it on twitter and was passing it along. You’re arguing with yourself.
 
Didn't see your Twitter post you say you read, my guess is it was closer to what I have been saying, because what I showed you was completely more accurate while claiming the same result.

So I don't know how just figuring out the resume portion would have yielded the same results, it would be impossible. That was my point which you were indeed arguing in a passive aggressive way
 
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