Illinois 79, Northwestern 68 Postgame

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It will be interesting if we budge from 10 in the Net.
Keep in mind, this is the team sheet the committee looks at while seeding:

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There are 6 metrics the committee looks at, 3 resume based (KPI, SOR, WAB) and 3 predictive (BPI, KenPom, T-Rank). NET isn’t one of them.

Your own NET ranking isn't used in seeding, just the NET rankings of the teams you’ve beaten and lost to.
 
#182      
Another great win. Reid went crazy. I kept waiting for his legs to get tired and it never happened -- just a total pest and baller. NW did great on the glass as well. Thankfully we were clutch tonight. Wagler hogged the ball for a stretch but he corrected and set up Tomi for those two big 3s. Humrichous continues to not be able to shoot but did some great things tonight. Hook and hold is still a dumb automatic call. Nothing like stopping the game for 5 minutes to review a non-dangerous play. Boswell was so, so good. Loved that offensive rebound and putback where he ripped the ball down with one hand. Mirkovic is a force but imagine how insane he'd be if he worked on his ball handling.

This team is really special -- most clutch as a team since 04-05. We don't really get rattled and we've got 5 players who can hit clutch shots -- both ivisic brothers, boswell, wagler, jake davis.
 
#185      
Martinelli gets close to his average and someone else gets a career high. Combined with a couple of terrible calls down the stretch and we still win by eleven. This team might be special.
 
#186      
For all the KJ comps, and I think they’re totally different style of player, it’s really wild that both Keaton and KJ’s patented move is the step back crossover 3.

Keaton adds a slight in and out dribble to his left, while dribbling right-handed, before the step back though - and it almost always gets the defender off balance before he even separates further on the step back. He has so much more space to shoot after his move than KJ did.

For anyone who has played, as a right handed player, that’s a super awkward and unique move.
 
#189      
Can anyone share a video of that minute with the multiple technicals? The replay I saw was mysteriously missing just that 1 minute.
 
#191      
It's fun to watch this team. At least for me, one reason is watching these guys drain the triples. Illini can shoot it!
 
#192      
Winning on the road always presents challenges and this team keeps finding ways to get it down. Wagner had a great second half. Loved seeing Tomi hit big shots. Kylan being Kylan. A comfortable win despite the refs handing NW a 10-0 run with the two techs.

During that same stretch, our zone defense was giving up a lot of open looks. Count me in the camp that is glad we have a zone / different defensive looks to throw at teams. But I sure hope that zone defense gets improved. It seems we go to the zone more often when Z is in. I’m curious if those with more knowledge than me have a sense of why that might be.
I agree. Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal both solid compositions.
 
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Keep in mind, this is the team sheet the committee looks at while seeding:

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There are 6 metrics the committee looks at, 3 resume based (KPI, SOR, WAB) and 3 predictive (BPI, KenPom, T-Rank). NET isn’t one of them.

Your own NET ranking isn't used in seeding, just the NET rankings of the teams you’ve beaten and lost to.
That's our NET in the upper left, right? I do think you're correct that somewhere along the line, someone from the committee said that your NET isn't used in seeding. But, at least over the last couple years, I don't think any metric / ranking is as strongly correlated to a team's seed as NET.

Looking into it.
 
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That's our NET in the upper left, right? I do think you're correct that somewhere along the line, someone from the committee said that your NET isn't used in seeding. But, at least over the last couple years, I don't think any metric / ranking is as strongly correlated to a team's seed as NET.

Looking into it.
I stand corrected.

At least for the top 16 seeds last year, KenPom is the most accurate for predicting seeding.

1. KenPom
2. NET
3. TRank
4. BPI
 
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