Wasn't Palm trying to leave us out of the tournament 2012 season? And we ended up a 6 seed making it to the Sweet 16.
Curious for those who may know: As I'm watching NC State/Virginia, how much (or little) would an NC State win affect UC's RPI? Does beating a team that beats a top 5 team have much bearing on UC's RPI? What about if UC has lost to the team (ex. if Ole Miss had beaten UK last night)?
Every year I catch myself rooting for teams that UC previously beat. Just curious how much it really matters.
Wasn't Palm trying to leave us out of the tournament 2012 season? And we ended up a 6 seed making it to the Sweet 16.
Lol that's rather comical if he did. I believe we beat like 8 ranked teams that year, most in all of college hoops.
Rpiforecast breaks it all down if you want to see the impact of each team on UC's RPI. In seeing what comprises the rank be prepared to be reminded how stupid of a metric it is, but sadly it matters to the committee.Curious for those who may know: As I'm watching NC State/Virginia, how much (or little) would an NC State win affect UC's RPI? Does beating a team that beats a top 5 team have much bearing on UC's RPI? What about if UC has lost to the team (ex. if Ole Miss had beaten UK last night)?
Every year I catch myself rooting for teams that UC previously beat. Just curious how much it really matters.
Looking at RPI forecast and right now Cincinnati has a pretty solid resume.
Top 50 RPI wins: SMU (22), @NC State (30), San Diego State (35)
Top 100 RPI wins: Stony Brook (64), NC Central (85) and St Francis PA is at 102
As long as Cincinnati avoids bad losses and wins over UConn, Temple and/or Xavier at home, we are in.
Our schedule sets up pretty nicely. We only get USF and ECU once each this year, so that helps the SOS. Counting Houston and UCF, we have 6 games against really bad teams. If we take care of those and split the rest, we will be 22-9 and should be in the tournament. That said, I think we do no worse than 3-1 vs. Memphis and Tulane, plus I think we will take care of business in most of our home games. I think a 13-3 finish for a 24-7 record is attainable and will put us in position for the regular season championship.
Our single game opponents are USF (home only) and Tulsa (road only). We unfortunately have to play ECU, UCF and Houston twice. Also we play 18 conference games, I think we will win between 13 and 15 games which should be good enough for a 7-8-9 seed. The tough remaining games will be @SMU, vs UConn, @Tulsa and Temple x2. Memphis has the talent to beat us but they are so horribly coached losing either time to them would be disappointing.