And UConn.That's too bad, felt like Creighton was just hitting their stride.
Of course this happens right before they play the lucky Friars too.
Appreciate you calling a spade, a spade.And UConn.
Appreciate you calling a spade, a spade.
I'm beating a dead horse here but the "PC is lucky" argument continues to frustrate me. For comparison sake here's a list of players we've avoided due to injuries/covid:
-Adrian Baldwin
-Kyle Lofton
-Darryl Morsell
-Justin Moore
-Nate Johnson
-Posh Alexander
We've had our fair share of injuries to deal with, too. They happen. No one says we are lucky for avoiding this crop of players. Good freaking grief, Providence is 23-3 and now likely to win the BE regular season title. You are what your record says you are. They are a good team that knows how to win in crunch time. You know when that really matters? March. Them being good is great for the conference. I look forward to (hopefully) rematching with them in the BET to avenge our loss and then rooting for them to go far in the NCAA's for the conference's sake.
It's brought up constantly any time someone tries to mention we had a good win. I'm sure within the next few weeks we'll hear the Nova win doesn't look as good because Gillespie sprained his ankle or something. The reality is every team is getting "lucky" with timing of games throughout the year. It all evens out eventuallyAppreciate you calling a spade, a spade.
I'm beating a dead horse here but the "PC is lucky" argument continues to frustrate me. For comparison sake here's a list of players we've avoided due to injuries/covid:
-Adrian Baldwin
-Kyle Lofton
-Darryl Morsell
-Justin Moore
-Nate Johnson
-Posh Alexander
We've had our fair share of injuries to deal with, too. They happen. No one says we are lucky for avoiding this crop of players. Good freaking grief, Providence is 23-3 and now likely to win the BE regular season title. You are what your record says you are. They are a good team that knows how to win in crunch time. You know when that really matters? March. Them being good is great for the conference. I look forward to (hopefully) rematching with them in the BET to avenge our loss and then rooting for them to go far in the NCAA's for the conference's sake.
At this point, I’m trying to be optimistic and see it as a win-win. Either we beat Creighton, lock in the BET 3-seed, and stay hot, or they beat us, we fall to the 4, and have PC potentially in the semis for an easier road to the BE final instead of Nova.Creighton probably just needs one more win to get in the tournament, hope it is not us.
Beat Nova with Justin Moore.Appreciate you calling a spade, a spade.
I'm beating a dead horse here but the "PC is lucky" argument continues to frustrate me. For comparison sake here's a list of players we've avoided due to injuries/covid:
-Adrian Baldwin
-Kyle Lofton
-Darryl Morsell
-Justin Moore
-Nate Johnson
-Posh Alexander
We've had our fair share of injuries to deal with, too. They happen. No one says we are lucky for avoiding this crop of players. Good freaking grief, Providence is 23-3 and now likely to win the BE regular season title. You are what your record says you are. They are a good team that knows how to win in crunch time. You know when that really matters? March. Them being good is great for the conference. I look forward to (hopefully) rematching with them in the BET to avenge our loss and then rooting for them to go far in the NCAA's for the conference's sake.
Patriarca family still putting in work on Atwells Ave.Clearly Providence is sending hit men to enfeeble their opponents before playing them.
My point was not that we haven’t beat teams at full strength.Beat Nova with Justin Moore.
Beat Marquete worse with Morsell.
Beat St. John's with Posh.
Also, played games without Sanago, Martin, Whaley. Any alleged luck we have had has more than evened out.
I hope they lose in round 1 of the tournament and Cooley goes 1-6 in the tournament during his 11 year span of mediocrity in Providence.
It is not debatable whether or not they are “lucky”. There is much more too it than the injuries.
They are in Lunardi's "Last Four Byes" and are an 11 seed per Bracket Matrix. They're definitely in as of today, but that's a bubble team. If they drop the remaining games on their schedule, they'll be in trouble.Creighton isn’t on the bubble, they’re squarely in. Horrible loss for them, it’s like us losing Cole.
Clearly Providence is sending hit men to enfeeble their opponents before playing them.
It’s not that they’re having close games. It who they’re have close games against. It’s troubling. It’s going to bite them in the arse at some point.I won’t pretend to have any insight into the algorithm behind the luck metric on KenPom as my AP statistics teacher in HS couldn’t have cared less about helping us learn. With that said I’d love to know why them being 11-1 in games decided by 5 points or less makes them lucky. To me that shows poise & composure when it matters most on a consistent basis, not luck.
Poise and composure is obviously a factor, but 11-1 is unheard of and is not even close to sustainable. Based off of their efficiency ratings on both sides of the ball their expected record is much worse than the actual.I won’t pretend to have any insight into the algorithm behind the luck metric on KenPom as my AP statistics teacher in HS couldn’t have cared less about helping us learn. With that said I’d love to know why them being 11-1 in games decided by 5 points or less makes them lucky. To me that shows poise & composure when it matters most on a consistent basis, not luck.
It’s simple math and probability. It’s not rocket sciencePoise and composure is obviously a factor, but 11-1 is unheard of and is not even close to sustainable. Based off of their efficiency ratings on both sides of the ball their expected record is much worse than the actual.
A bit of recency bias here since they struggled with Depaul and Butler. Besides those two every other game decided by 5 points or less is a top 68 team on KenPom:It’s not that they’re having close games. It who they’re have close games against. It’s troubling. It’s going to bite them in the arse at some point.