They played GW and Colorado before the big east and got destroyed. After last year everyone got the memo to schedule stronger out of conference and they didn't. Now we have them beating people in the big east and messing with things. Good for them for winning but they did the league no favors with their crappy OOC schedule.
http://www.depaulbluedemons.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/depa-m-baskbl-sched.html
Neither did St Johns. But DePaul was worse
There is no way you can complain with our OOC schedule. I think it's #20 or around there. How is that on pat with Depaul
DePaul is 5-2 in conference.
Do you feel confident in St Johns Ooc schedule getting I to the tourny? I don't
The way DePaul scheduled I would think they need to win The conference to get in. And I do like our chances if we do better in the big east. Obviously 19 wins won't do it anymore regardless. But 22 wins (with BET) and I think were there. I just hope that DePaul doesn't kill our our RPI and Strength of schedule.
Our RPI is 42. A bunch of a Big a East teams ahead of us saying the same about us
For starters, Depaul being 5-2 proves that the BE is one of the best conferences, not the opposite like ESPN and some others (but not here of course
) are trying to show. The BE performed better than every conference other than the Big XII in non-conference play. So basically, we beat up on everyone else, but our worst team is good enough to beat just about anyone (they also beat Stanford). That shows weakness? More like depth.
As other posters stated, we have a very strong SOS. By the end of the season we will have played 4 top 10 teams (gonzaga, duke, nova, nova), as well as about 15 other games against bubble or better teams. Non-conf we will have played @Syr, Duke, St. Mary's, and Gonzaga (along with minnesota and long beach st., who aren't as strong as expected). You (Baldi) keep harking on the fact that we have played no one OOC , but our non-conf RPI (which essentially rates your record combined with your SOS and I believe your opponent's SOS) is 13. That's 13th in the country. Meaning, given who we played, and the record we turned in, we had the 13th most successful OOC slate (pending Duke) in the country. Of course it's not an exact measurement, but it gives a pretty good idea of what happened.
*Side note, our RPI is showing as 33, not 42. The fact that there are several BE teams ahead of us, again, shows the strength of the conference (something a MAAC fan wouldn't be familiar with
).