Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 4944729, member: 7492"] Here is your initial claim: In your claim, in 2021-22 Toledo won the MAC regular season with 19-1 Conference record (29-6) but lost the conference Tournament to Buffalo. Toledo had the best NET of the MAC teams at #69. Their SoS was #136 and their only win over sub 100 ranked team was Buffalo at #45. In other words, their resume was TERRIBLE and they did not deserve an at-large bid. Go look at who they beat and tell me why they deserved a bid over? In the 2022 Tournament only Arkansas came in with a losing conference record at 7-9 (18-14 overall) and had the #10 SoS, and #34 NET and 8 wins over teams with sub-100 NET including #21 LSU. This resume is vastly superior to Toledo. In my close examination of these bids since 2016 when I joined the BY, there have been very few on the bubble calls that could have gone either way but with the change to NET vs. RPI, I think the strength of teams is clearer and your argument has no credence. I state my case again using facts that the committee is trying to get the best 36 teams into the tournament after the 32 automatic qualifiers. If you play in weak conference, win your regular season title and win your Conference Tournament otherwise play a tougher OOC and win games against these teams to show you deserve a bid. Your view is "hey let team who beat up the weaklings into the tournament even though they lost the conference automatic bid because they beat up the weaklings during the season". This makes no sense for the committee. They have already been inclusive by letting all 32 conferences get a bid even though by talent, 22 probably don't deserve it. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach