Would the "UConn doesn't play a tough schedule" crowd please hush up...

[Henry]

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The final coaches poll is out and UConn is obviously #1. Here are some thoughts:

1. UConn played 13 games against the top 25 teams.
2. UConn played the #2, #3 and #4 teams a total of four times. (ND twice)
3. UConn won those four games by a combined 76 points. That's an average of 19 pts/game.
4. Dayton finished #17 and USF was #24.
5. UConn's only loss, in overtime, was to #14, Stanford.
6. Notre Dame (#2), South Carolina (#3) and Maryland (#4) had a combined 9 losses.
7. Baylor (#5), Tennessee (#6) and Florida State (#7) had 15 combined losses.

UConn schedules anyone and everyone they can fit in, given the conference schedule they MUST play.
It would not have mattered if UConn had played every one of the other 24 teams in the poll. The results would have been the same. UConn #1....!!

Go Huskies..!!

Oh, I see. The other teams never win because they are either too tired or beat up from playing such tough schedules. That must be it. Yeah, right.

 

[cohenzone]

OC, IC, it's all the same. UConn can't play a tough schedule no matter what because they are beating up on everyone. UConn next year will play in the UConn Is In A League of Its Own Conference, (commonly called the UIIALOIOC for short) and play 30 intrasquad games, each sure to be a barnburner. There will then be a conference tournament to determine which UConn squad get the automatic bid the for the national UConn Intrasquad Championship. It has signed the largest TV contract in sports history for all games, including post season, in order to support the outcry for UConn to play a more demanding schedule and even lose a few. With one UConn team guaranteed to lose every game, Geno Auriemma will be shown for the lousy game coach that everyone suspects he is when sufficiently challenged.

 

[UcMiami]

Knightbridge - valid response. The thing is that the Mediocre rank covers quite a range of quality as well so the better teams there are much closer to the 'top end' and the worse, just a few wins above bad.

I also think that because of the use of SOS and RPI which most everyone would agree gives some advantage to the P5, the NCAA tournament ends up perpetuating this over-rating of the strength of the middle of P5 conferences by consistently over-ranking the P5 mediocre teams and under-ranking the mid-major teams. It doesn't effect the final four, but it does probably have a serious effect on second weekend and definitely on the second round. The obvious example from this year - Princeton and GB. If Princeton had gotten what really everyone else felt should have been a 6 seed or better, their second round game would not have been against a #1 seed, but against a 3 or 4 seed with a much better chance to pull an 'upset'. And if GB had gotten an eight seed or even remained as a nine seed, but not against a mid-major that had been grossly under-seeded they too would have had a much better chance of winning their first round game.

The opposite would happen as well - drop those mediocre P5 teams down one or two seed lines, and their first round games are suddenly much tougher, and the conference record maybe goes from 8-0 to 6-2 or from 5-2 to 4-3 or 3-4, and perceptions maybe change further.

 

[meyers7]

Setting the record straight: The UConn women do not have their own wing at the White House.

Although I do believe they have their own bench at the White House basketball court.

 

[meyers7]

I don't mind disagreement and I really enjoy argument but I don't like to be told to "shut up."Posts like the OPs "please shut up" don't belong here. They certainly don't encourage a civil discussion. They are a lot like the OP's "nobody gives a crap about what you have to say" post of a while back.

I've asked the Mods to change the headline to "hush up" from "shut up." I doubt that will fix your attitude toward me or my posts.

Dammmmnnnnnnnn, I was gonna reprimand you for not using STFU.

I quit the board for a while because of posts like this - and I'm outta' here for good this time.

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Question, how do you deal the Civil War atrocities if you are that sensitive?