I’m watching this Purdue/OSU game and I’m thinking the same. Edey is a hoss (and a bit of a baby when he gets stripped) and they’re good but I think we handle them.
Purdue’s shooters will struggle to get open and Edey won’t dominate us even if Clingan gets in foul trouble.
And what’s wild is Ohio State fired their coach earlier this week so interim head coach Jake Deibler’s first career win is defeating the #2 ranked team in the country.
By this logic Xavier should be ranked too. They both beat St John’s and Cincy and lost to Houston. I’d argue Xavier’s wins against seton hall, butler and st Mary’s are better than Dayton’s wins agains Lsu and Smu
That's half a story though, there's more than just finding teams who have the best wins. Xavier is 14-13, Dayton is 21-4. Do you really think Xavier should be ranked instead of Dayton?
My point is that Dayton shouldn’t be ranked. They beat a few bad major conf teams early but basically no one good. Who did they beat of merit? How do u think they would do if they played Xavier’s schedule? Still be 21-4?? My point was to show against common opponents they weren’t any better but play an easy schedule
I think they'd have a better record than Xavier because they're a much better team. And just because you don't recognize the teams on their schedule doesn't mean it's easy. They're 21-4 in the 8th best conference in the country. They played a really strong OOC schedule with only 2 teams outside the KenPom top 200. Their OOC schedule was 35th in the country and overall is 86th. UConn is at 72nd overall for reference
What is the Richmond saga?
On the SH board they rumored he missed those games for NIL reasons.
