Week of 2/5 Games Thread
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uofi7477
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Yep, and I lost my Ignore Virginity to CG a long time ago.
Purdue's win probability never dipped below 92.3%. That's not a close game.
EDIT: We have a 90% chance of beating Michigan at home. Purdue was never worried. Nor am I about beating Michigan at home.
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Sure you build a team to be as successful as possible. If you do that enough times you’re eventually going to make a run in the tourney. It’s dumb to judge the success of a team on a single elimination tournament run though. FAU this year is a great example. Good team, no doubt, but def not a top 4 team. They got hot and likely had a string of adventitious matchups last year.
It was a one possession game with 14 seconds left. Was most certainly VERY close.
No use in continuing this discussion as neither one of us is likely to agree with the other.
Might be adding Rick Barnes or Matt Painter to that signature line this year, too.
I think I kind of agree with everyone on this last issue concerning whether or not we're really good. As we progressed into the season we started to anticipate that the ceiling was potentially very very high.
It seems to me that we were beginning to approach that ceiling, certainly not reach it. Losses to Marquette and Tennessee bear this out. This seems to be Gritty's point.
The loss of TSJ & then his reinstatement has caused us to start from scratch two additional times since the beginning of the season. This is the perspective that Louisville seems to be seeing. We haven't come close to our potential ceiling.
Both Purdue and UConn are playing very close to their ceiling simply because of the amount of time playing together.
I am hoping for a steady incline to a ceiling that shocks the basketball world!!!
It seems to me that we were beginning to approach that ceiling, certainly not reach it. Losses to Marquette and Tennessee bear this out. This seems to be Gritty's point.
The loss of TSJ & then his reinstatement has caused us to start from scratch two additional times since the beginning of the season. This is the perspective that Louisville seems to be seeing. We haven't come close to our potential ceiling.
Both Purdue and UConn are playing very close to their ceiling simply because of the amount of time playing together.
I am hoping for a steady incline to a ceiling that shocks the basketball world!!!
Back on topic...
I'd like to see a Dayton loss here tonight. Their metrics aren't great and they don't have any great wins, but they're creeping up to us in seeding somehow. They're a 4 in the bracket matrix right now, albeit the last 4 (16th).
I'd like to see a Dayton loss here tonight. Their metrics aren't great and they don't have any great wins, but they're creeping up to us in seeding somehow. They're a 4 in the bracket matrix right now, albeit the last 4 (16th).
Dude, S&C simply must be CG... and if not, they're both top three all-time posters here imo. Wicked smahhht.
Ah, Second and Chalmers and Obelisk. Good times.
Nah, different writing styles and CG posts are not lengthy enough. S&G's posts were novellas.
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I can understand your perspective. Just curious, what is our worst Kenpom game this year? From what I’ve read (I don’t have all the KenPom numbers in front of me), we haven’t played alot of bottom feeders as compared to other competitive teams.
We played #332 (out of 360) Fairleigh-Dickinson and then #325 Eastern Illinois.
Here is the nonconference strength of schedule for the top 10 KenPom teams:
222
10
274
161
15
27
19
40
239 <---Illinois
21
We improve to 8th best when factoring in conference games.
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Those are some names I haven’t seen in a long long time. On that note, where did the Judge go?
I’ve been on (with this user name)
Since 2010. I think my first user name only lasted few years before that. @Dan what was your first year of operation?
I worry about our defensive intensity. We are deep enough to play defense harder. Players shoot great percentages against us because we aren't defending them intensely enough. It's not just bad luck after bad luck after bad luck. You create poor shooting percentages just like you allow very good ones.
To give the doubters some credit, we’ve only been #23 in Torvik’s rankings since TJ came back from suspension. Not bad, but not inspiring.
I'm sure that's for the best. There's no way this forum would overreact to anything, right?
and we STILL beat them, everyone seems to forget
Yep, I'm guessing that elbows will be flying tomorrow, they won't be ours and they won't be called
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
I always thought that S & C was the second coming of Groundhogday.
But then logic would dictate that we're not actually WORSE with TJ playing 35 minutes as opposed to 0 minutes. Sample size is growing though. It's been weird, that's for sure.
It was 49-45 VCU over Dayton with 4:46 to go. It's 49-47 VCU with 10 seconds left.
Dan
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Site launched in late 2004, message board (early version) launched in 2005. Go Illini
Geez, just stop it. Someone will always be right behind us in seeding. If it's not Dayton 'creeping up', it's someone else.
It's February. Do you feel that the Illini are unfairly underrated or something? I'll grant that hoping for everyone else to get nicked and _look_ worse is a common attitude, but it's not a winner's attitude.
It's February. Do you feel that the Illini are unfairly underrated or something? I'll grant that hoping for everyone else to get nicked and _look_ worse is a common attitude, but it's not a winner's attitude.
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