Top 25/KenPom/RPI/BPI

[justinhub2003]

Smu is an absolute must win unless we want that shitty 5 seed or 6 seed. I'm confident that's where we are heading if we lose

 

[GoCats88]

So biased, UNC 5 losses and a 2 seed. Watching West Virginia now, sorry they are in no way better than is. Their offense is atrocious.

 

[Cartel]

Wow that sucks. If we are not currently a 4 then I don't we will sneak in. Hopefully this will put a chip on UC shoulder for the SMU game. I feel like we need something

 

[Garybearcat]

We are going to get hosed by NCAA that's obvious. We are ranked higher than 5 of their top 16 seeds. Kentucky and Duke could have 10 losses each and still be in top 16 seeds. If we beat SMU and don't move into top 16 the NCAA committee is basically saying it doesn't matter what you do we are screwing you.

 

[justinhub2003]

Not really all that biased though. We don't best smu and we finish with just 3 top 50 RPI wins.

3-3 in top 50

Kenpom has us with 4 top 50 wins but they won't use it too much till next year .

American conference went full on mid major.

Also should put tons of pressure on smu bc their resume is worse than ours

 

[Garybearcat]

Doesn't matter we are going into that NCAA tourney and kick some butt! The one thing you don't want to play is a pissed off Bearcat it will rip you apart. We are going to have a whole team of them!

 

[GoCats88]

Kentucky a 3 seed too... what a joke.

 

[GoCats88]

Although I won't complain about where they had us as a five, playing WVU in the third round and gonzaga in the sweet 16.

 

[justinhub2003]

I just don't want to play a team like unc-Wilmington in the first round

 

[cincrulz11]

we dont really have a leg to stand on for claiming we should be top 16. we knew our schedule, we still lost to rhode island and butler. had to win 1. we are 20th on kenpom, thats the last 5 seed. can't really argue we deserve to be there more than any of the 4 seeds.


want a 4 seed, go win at smu, no chance without winning that game.

 

[Garybearcat]

Well Duke is one kick away from dropping out. They lose there cry baby with one more temper tantrum. You know it's going to happen he can't help himself.

 

[justinhub2003]

Well Duke is one kick away from dropping out. They lose there cry baby with one more temper tantrum. You know it's going to happen he can't help himself.

Duke looks on a roll.

It's actually why UC will drop probably 5-7 spots if we lose to @SMU and it's mostly just because of what the teams behind us are doing.

Duke, Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky , Florida state and even Purdue could all jump us if we lose.

We'd still be top 20 but barely.

We kinda need to be rooting for Xavier to beat nova today too. We need them to excel big time so it's our best win

 

[Garybearcat]

Duke looks on a roll.

It's actually why UC will drop probably 5-7 spots if we lose to @SMU and it's mostly just because of what the teams behind us are doing.

Duke, Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky , Florida state and even Purdue could all jump us if we lose.

We'd still be top 20 but barely.

We kinda need to be rooting for Xavier to beat nova today too. We need them to excel big time so it's our best win

We are going to drop if we lose believe me they want to drop us. The one idiot AP writer dropped us 3 spots last week even though we won. Someone forgot to tell her SMU game was this week. The AP writers will be jumping at the chance. We are just going to have to piss them off and Win!

 

[justinhub2003]

We are going to drop if we lose believe me they want to drop us. The one idiot AP writer dropped us 3 spots last week even though we won. Someone forgot to tell her SMU game was this week. The AP writers will be jumping at the chance. We are just going to have to piss them off and Win!

I don't think anyone is out to get us.

Its just.. we can't compete with the level of competition the other leagues have.

Top 100 teams in top 7 leagues:

AAC: 6/11 top 100 teams
Big 12: 10/10
ACC: 14/15
Big East: 9/10
Big 10: 13/14
SEC: 12/14
Pac 12: 7/12

Next year, we need to schedule differently. We shouldn't play a single 200+ team, and we should try to play 5-6 top 100 schools in the non conference.

IF not, we are going to get disrespected again. I know our current formula works well for scheduling but if we want to get off the 5 seed line, then we Gotta schedule as many p5 schools that will play us

 

[GoCats88]

I don't think anyone is out to get us.

Its just.. we can't compete with the level of competition the other leagues have.

Top 100 teams in top 7 leagues:

AAC: 6/11 top 100 teams
Big 12: 10/10
ACC: 14/15
Big East: 9/10
Big 10: 13/14
SEC: 12/14
Pac 12: 7/12

Next year, we need to schedule differently. We shouldn't play a single 200+ team, and we should try to play 5-6 top 100 schools in the non conference.

IF not, we are going to get disrespected again. I know our current formula works well for scheduling but if we want to get off the 5 seed line, then we Gotta schedule as many p5 schools that will play us

You mean like playing butler, Iowa state, Rhode Island, Xavier and possibly duke. Oh and Michigan that backed out? And we have basically the same percentage as the PAC-12. Arizona is a 3 seed with two good wins just like us. Just one happens to be better, UCLA.

 

[Garybearcat]

I don't think anyone is out to get us.

Its just.. we can't compete with the level of competition the other leagues have.

Top 100 teams in top 7 leagues:

AAC: 6/11 top 100 teams
Big 12: 10/10
ACC: 14/15
Big East: 9/10
Big 10: 13/14
SEC: 12/14
Pac 12: 7/12

Next year, we need to schedule differently. We shouldn't play a single 200+ team, and we should try to play 5-6 top 100 schools in the non conference.

IF not, we are going to get disrespected again. I know our current formula works well for scheduling but if we want to get off the 5 seed line, then we Gotta schedule as many p5 schools that will play us

You don't think the AP writer that dropped us 3 spots last week wasn't out to screw us. She moved St Marys ahead of us last week with 2 plus 200 wins. I won't argue we need to schedule differently next year and that our league isn't that good. It's still better than College football were we could go undefeated and not have a chance to play for the championship. In the end those seeds are only numbers when you start an NCAA tourney game they all start 0 to 0.

 

[cincrulz11]

Next year, we need to schedule differently. We shouldn't play a single 200+ team, and we should try to play 5-6 top 100 schools in the non conference.

Easier said than done. Unfortunately with our budget we are going to get stuck with crappy 200+ schools. Top 150 teams can demand more buy money and we just can't afford to pay it. I'm sure we'll take on any team in a home and home, but teams from better conferences really have no need or reason to schedule us to potentially take a loss in the OOC when their conference will give them more than enough opportunities at good wins.


We need uconn, memphis, tulsa, and temple to step it up and be top 50 teams. Without that its going to be like this every year.

 

[justinhub2003]

No one has to preach to me about our current scheduling, its been good. Im not complaining about it. We ridded our selves of a lot of those 300+ RPI games that plagued our other wise good schedule 2 years ago.

Im saying we need to step it up some how.


Or get left behind every single year no matter our record in conference play.

I mean, we may even want to sacrifice our ego a bit and try to just be an away game to a top p5 team.

Next years, early tourney is not going to get it done either. We can do better. IT will be hard but we can

 

[mdchick]

There is now way if we finish the season with 2 losses we will be a 4 seed. We will probably be a 2 or 3 seed no way we would be a 4

 

[JasonS]

According to ESPN Stats and Info on twitter, 3 of the top 16 teams in ESPN's Strength of Record were not among the top 16 seeds:

5. Wisconsin
10. Cincinnati
16. Creighton

Hmmm.