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Mar 8, 2022 20:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 8, 2022 20:22:51 GMT -5
Here is a most interesting twist to a conference tournament...
In the ASUN title game, Bellarmine beat Jacksonville 77-72. However, since Bellarmine is in a four-year probationary transition period to Division I, they are ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament.
Therefore, Jacksonville State from Alabama, the ASUN regular season champion, receives the Dance card. Jacksonville (Artis Gilmore's alma mater) is out in the cold.
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Post by CoachSBU on Mar 10, 2022 0:40:20 GMT -5
This is a RIDICULOUS rule...Why a 4-year probationary transition period??? Anyone see sense in that??
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Post by marylandbonnie1 on Mar 10, 2022 11:16:19 GMT -5
Btw-not sure where to put this but another former Bonnie, Rob Lanier is taking his Georgia St team to the dance.
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Post by bigcat on Mar 10, 2022 15:37:52 GMT -5
Buffalo loses MAC quarterfinal to Akron by 2. J.Williams does not touch the ball on final 3 possessions. Mballa was awful… 3 points and 2 boards. Benched most of second half.
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Mar 10, 2022 15:44:14 GMT -5
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 10, 2022 15:44:14 GMT -5
Buh-bye Bulls
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Mar 12, 2022 22:55:56 GMT -5
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Post by bigcat on Mar 12, 2022 22:55:56 GMT -5
Boise wins the Mountain West championship. Va Tech beats Duke to claim the ACC title. Four days ago the Hokies needed a buzzer-beater three to win their ACC tourney opener over Clemson.
Looks like Bonnies will have played at least 5 teams this season who will earn tourney bids…
Davidson Boise Marquette UConn Va Tech Possibly Dayton or Richmond
Last season with a shortened OOC slate (2 games), SBU faced only one NCAA-bound team during the regular season: VCU. We played the Rams three times.
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Post by bigcat on Mar 13, 2022 6:09:43 GMT -5
Projected NCAA bids by conference… mid majors only … and some observations:
Mountain West = 4 West CC = 3 American = 2 A10 = 1 Spidey win = 2
How can their be so much disparity between the A10 and the top 2 conferences on this list? Bona beat Boise, the top team in the Mountain. The other likely NCAA-bound teams from the MWC are Colo St, San Diego St and Wyoming.
MWC has two horrible programs in Air Force and San Jose St… no diff than Fordham (traditionally the worst team), Duquesne or other A10 bottom dwellers. WCC has at least 3 sucky teams every year. It gets a huge boost from the Zags.
A10 will get a boost next season with addition of Loyola, but that will make it more difficult for SBU to finish top 4. A10 commish needs to look at the reasons behind this disparity, and how to boost the conference profile and net rankings. Is Loyola that answer?
Seems ridiculous that mediocre P6s such as Xavier, Michigan, Indiana, Rutgers, as well as 3rd and 4th place mid majors such as San Fran and Wyoming are getting consideration over VCU and Dayton.
The top 6 teams in the A10 scheduled very aggressively this season. Did not seem to help.
Do the conference tourneys mean a damn thing? If we are in the A10 final today and lose, would that matter?
Bad losses are more penalizing (ie, UD) than great wins… but only for some conferences.
Bottom line is A10 teams have to win nearly ALL of their Quad 1 OOC games and lose no Q3 or Q4 games… while other conferences don’t have that same standard.
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Post by Dunga on Mar 13, 2022 6:53:35 GMT -5
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Post by bonaforeva on Mar 13, 2022 8:20:33 GMT -5
It remains to be seen if 'the NET' is the stupid metric they use exclusively to pick teams for the tournament, despite the prognosticators on here and on TV taking it too seriously. We will find out tonight
however, if that turns out to be the case than we know going forward the Bonnies should use that to their advantage and try to game the NET just like the MW. After we were snubbed in 2016, the shift was to focus on Quad 1 games. Now, if its all about the NET, change strategies, play a bunch of bums and try to blow them out instead, if "efficiency" is all they care about
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 13, 2022 9:26:18 GMT -5
According to a NYT story today, teams like Oklahoma, Rutgers, Wyoming, X and A&M are among six teams in consideration for four spots (can't remember the 6th). It would be three if Spidey wins the A10 as a bid stealer.
The brackets I've seen has X out. If the Musketeers get in, it will have a Tulsa-like rotten smell that Our Guys experienced in 2016.
I believe A&M will go based on their exceptional SEC tourney run regardless of the final result vs Tennessee.
X was among the poorest P6 clubs in the past five weeks. Plus they lost to Butler in the BE qtrs. No way do they belong.
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Mar 13, 2022 9:31:52 GMT -5
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Post by bigcat on Mar 13, 2022 9:31:52 GMT -5
It remains to be seen if 'the NET' is the stupid metric they use exclusively to pick teams for the tournament, despite the prognosticators on here and on TV taking it too seriously. We will find out tonight however, if that turns out to be the case than we know going forward the Bonnies should use that to their advantage and try to game the NET just like the MW. After we were snubbed in 2016, the shift was to focus on Quad 1 games. Now, if its all about the NET, change strategies, play a bunch of bums and try to blow them out instead, if "efficiency" is all they care about Bona had a collection of “bums” this season… Siena Canisius Loyola MD Coppin We normally have Niagara as well. Teams we rarely seem to blowout under Schmidt. Thus our crappy Net ranking. It’s one thing to have A10 teams get snubbed by the P6… but when other mid conferences are blowing off our doors on selection Sunday that is a huge problem. Most A10 teams are in larger markets than than MWC members — but the A10 has not been able to consistently crack the top 30 for a few years.
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Post by Dunga on Mar 13, 2022 10:14:21 GMT -5
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Post by 2fal4life on Mar 13, 2022 10:16:01 GMT -5
It remains to be seen if 'the NET' is the stupid metric they use exclusively to pick teams for the tournament, despite the prognosticators on here and on TV taking it too seriously. We will find out tonight however, if that turns out to be the case than we know going forward the Bonnies should use that to their advantage and try to game the NET just like the MW. After we were snubbed in 2016, the shift was to focus on Quad 1 games. Now, if its all about the NET, change strategies, play a bunch of bums and try to blow them out instead, if "efficiency" is all they care about Bona had a collection of “bums” this season… Siena Canisius Loyola MD Coppin We normally have Niagara as well. Teams we rarely seem to blowout under Schmidt. Thus our crappy Net ranking. It’s one thing to have A10 teams get snubbed by the P6… but when other mid conferences are blowing off our doors on selection Sunday that is a huge problem. Most A10 teams are in larger markets than than MWC members — but the A10 has not been able to consistently crack the top 30 for a few years. Exactly right. And if we would have blown out Coppin, Lofton would not have been on the court to get injured. What might have been.
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Mar 13, 2022 10:22:10 GMT -5
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Post by bonaforeva on Mar 13, 2022 10:22:10 GMT -5
Boise is being talked about as a 5 or 6 seed.
They lost to Bona & St Louis. Does anyone think they’d really won @ Dayton or @ VCU? I don’t. That’s 4 A10 losses right there, they aren’t any different than our bubble teams, the only difference is the stupid NET
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Mar 13, 2022 10:22:33 GMT -5
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 13, 2022 10:22:33 GMT -5
Now I remember that sixth team...Notre Dame.
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