Week of 2/19 Games Thread
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“4 seed” San Diego State and “3 seed” Baylor tumbled tonight. Now let’s keep doing our part.
San Diego St never made sense to me.
The way the ref called the blocking foul on MD at the end of the game looked kind of hilarious. Like he knew all along that he was going to call it against MD. 
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This has been one of the most entertaining nights in college basketball so far this season. What a great slate of games.
MSU's loss tonight tumbles them down to a projected 6th place finish in the B10 due to tiebreaks and out of the double byes. Iowa's win moves them up to a projected 7th place finish. Wisconsin holds serve in 3rd and Maryland with the loss tumbles down to a projected 11th place finish and a 1st round BTT game. Our projected BTT path would be Iowa in the Quarters and the Wisconsin-MSU winner in the Semis.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Beating Iowa 3 times in a month? Yes please!
You are like a walking Illini media guide!
We would other than BU will clear the bench with 8m to go, and the walkons will get a few minutes each.
To be fair to UConn, they were in the AAC up until the last 4 years including this year when they were in the new version of the Big East so it's not as if they had plenty of opportunities at hand. Even their national champion team last season only played 3 true road games in conference against ranked teams with the losses by 10 at then #22 Xavier, 6 at #25 Marquette, and 3 at #23 Creighton.
Let’s do 118-94 on them again, Flyin Illini style.
The 0-13 SEC team had the game of the night
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Haha my secret? Going to the year I’m interested in on Wikipedia and pressing “Next Season >>” and counting them.
MD now 72 and MN 76
how much does margin of victory matter in NET?
Wake goes from 40 to 26 with 91-58 win vs 47 Pitt
Boise goes from 42 to 35 with 82-50 win vs 225 San Jose St
IA goes from 67 to 62 with 78-71 win @20 MSU
Syr goes from 90 to 84 with 87-83 win @75 NC St
Numerous times I've observed teams moving up 10+ spots in the past month by stomping a 200-300 or GTown, Depaul, or Lville
how much does margin of victory matter in NET?
Wake goes from 40 to 26 with 91-58 win vs 47 Pitt
Boise goes from 42 to 35 with 82-50 win vs 225 San Jose St
IA goes from 67 to 62 with 78-71 win @20 MSU
Syr goes from 90 to 84 with 87-83 win @75 NC St
Numerous times I've observed teams moving up 10+ spots in the past month by stomping a 200-300 or GTown, Depaul, or Lville
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
When I heard that, I thought "No way". Surprising.
LOL
Margin of victory matters a ton. So the NET has never revealed their actual formula (this is something I have been a bit vocal about in the past, as if this is the sole *cough* advanced metric *cough* that the committee is encouraged to use as a primary tool for seeding purposes, teams and the public should be allowed to have a detailed understanding of how it is calculated in my opinion).
That all said, team efficiency stats are one of the primary inputs into NET as are quality of opponent and location of game. As efficiency stats in this case are merely pts per possession for and pts per possession against as per educated conclusions based on what has been previously released, that can be simplified to margin of victory. It's also a reason why while other metrics like kenpom are indeed influenced by blowout wins, the limiters to margin of victory effects along with the comparison of margin of victory vs expected margin of victory, are likely far more able to dampen these results than the NET is. Hence, you'll see huge jumps in NET whereas a kenpom or torvik will show small to moderate jumps. Hope that explains things.
I think he's lying about having a job.
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Lately, it probably has something to do with our defense.
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