Bracketology thread

Thought this was interesting.
Team A:  1-5 vs. top 50 (home vs #34 RPI).  3-0 vs 50-100 rpi, Top 100 road win @ #51 Iowa.  2 sub 100 losses (including home to Texas Southern).  15-7 overall RPI of 36  SOS of 30
Team B: 2-5 vs. top 50 (home/away vs #23 RPI), 4-0 vs 50-100 rpi, Top 100 road wins @ #23 and #61  2 sub 100 road losses.  13-7 overall RPI of 43  SOS of 27
Team C: 3-6 vs. top 50 (@ #10 and home/away vs #33 RPI), 1-2 vs 50-100 rpi, Top 100 road wins @ #10, #33, and #90, no sub 100 losses.  14-8 overall RPI of 51  SOS of 10

Team A (Michigan St.) gets an 8 seed, while Team B (SJU) is a play in 12, and Team C (Iowa) gets the third 10 seed?  SJU and Iowa have better wins and less harmful losses.  Overall records are very similar.  Doesn't really add up to me...

http://bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html

Ranks bracketologists based on accuracy.  If you click the link to the right of each person, it brings you to their current bracketology.

http://bracketmatrix.com/rankings.html

Ranks bracketologists based on accuracy.  If you click the link to the right of each person, it brings you to their current bracketology.

One of the best sites around for bracketology

Seems like a soft bubble to me honestly.

Latest RPI from NCAA: Seton Hall 36, St. John's 45, Iona 55.

Braziller tweet

Cuse without McCullough is a much different team.

Cuse without McCullough is a much different team.

Cuse playing against legit teams is a different team as well

If you look at their schedule they have lost at various times throughout the season - it isn't tied to conference play. 

Lost to Cal, us, Michigan and Nova pre-conference (and could have easily won three of those games, including ours).   Then lost to Clemson, Miami and North Carolina in-conference.  So not much of a difference.  They lack depth and McCullough is a stud so I think that hurt them big time.

If you look at their schedule they have lost at various times throughout the season - it isn't tied to conference play. 

Lost to Cal, us, Michigan and Nova pre-conference (and could have easily won three of those games, including ours).   Then lost to Clemson, Miami and North Carolina in-conference.  So not much of a difference.  They lack depth and McCullough is a stud so I think that hurt them big time.

Who have they beat is the question

Iowa and the lower half of the ACC.

 None of this stuff matters... We all know what needs to happen to get in... Win more basketball games..  Ranking, RPI, KenPom, etc.... ugh...  Who cares where we are now, what matters is where you are before the conference tourney starts. 

More insult to injury Cuse did a self impose playoff band on themselves for their academic scandal. The team's victory at the Carrier Dome seems even less impressive.

More insult to injury Cuse did a self impose playoff band on themselves for their academic scandal. The team's victory at the Carrier Dome seems even less impressive.

Oh no...I will take a W over Ex-Cuse any day of the week!

First team out of the tourney, pretty ideal when you consider the funeral procession that this site has been for the past month. One game at a time, have to take care of business Wednesday night, leading into a huge opportunity to get us off the bubble for the foreseeable future if we win @X Saturday afternoon.

Joe Lunardi @ESPNLunardi  ·  5m 5 minutes ago
FIRST OUT: St. John's, UCLA, G.W., Purdue. NEXT OUT: Davidson, Clemson, NC State, Florida.

Our RPI on ESPN is 41 but on the NCAA website we are 51. Obviously the NCAA will be the one used to judge us but why such a large difference?

I know this has definitely been asked and probably answered already but the win over Division 2 Franklin and  Pierce doesn't count on their NCAA resume right? Their record is 16-8 but is only 15-8 in the eyes of the selection committee right? Please let me know. Thanks.

They're 16-8.

I know this has definitely been asked and probably answered already but the win over Division 2 Franklin and  Pierce doesn't count on their NCAA resume right? Their record is 16-8 but is only 15-8 in the eyes of the selection committee right? Please let me know. Thanks.

Not sure.  Might be one of those "it only affects you if you lose" kinda things.  I know D2 games don't count towards your RPI ranking, but do count towards your BPI (probably the main reason our BPI has been worse than our RPI all season, as that has been our worst rated game of the season).  I don't know that the overall record is that big of a deal to the committee either way.  So basically, I have no idea, and just felt like hearing myself talk.

The AD gets bashed on here plenty . Most of us don't know what he does or doesn't do. Have to think that it's his fault for not demanding that we play a division 1 team. Why play a game if a loss would hurt and a win wouldn't count?

When a D2 plays a D1 as part of a regularly scheduled game,  it gets designated as an exhibition so there is no doubt from the get go.  FP game was part of a tournament and not designated as such.  Hence I think it counts for whatever that's worth.  When the selection committee gets in the room they just do whatever they want anyway.