2022-23 Bracketology thread

[adoraz]

Rooting interests for best Big East outcomes this March:

Root for:
Providence
Xavier
Marquette
Creighton
UConn

TBD (for now definitely root when they play the bottom 4):
Villanova
Butler

Root against:
St. John's
Seton Hall
DePaul
Georgetown

The Big East standings basically.

[kayako]

I'm kind of surprised that Kenpom really likes the BE vs. the NET this year.

4 UCONN
17 Marquette
18 Creighton
24 Xavier
28 Providence
53 Nova
65 Seton Hall
74 Butler
79 St. John's
147 DePaul
217 Georgetown

[Wizard of Westroads]

Lunardi with 9 Big 12 teams in. Not going to happen because of attrition, but the B12's lowest KenPom team is Oklahoma at 37.

[kayako]

Bracketville 1/6:

https://bracketville.wordpress.com/seed-list/

2 UCONN (5)
3 Xavier (10)
6 Marquette (24)
7 Providence (25)
8 Creighton (31)

[admin]

Bracketville 1/6:

https://bracketville.wordpress.com/seed-list/

2 UCONN (5)
3 Xavier (10)
6 Marquette (24)
7 Providence (25)
8 Creighton (31)

Using this. the Big East would have 5 teams playing in white uniforms in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I think if you offered that to the league office, schools, coaches, and fans before the year started, all would take that in a minute. And if you' told anyone that Nova wasn't one of the 5, most of their minds would be blown.

[ecasadoSBU]

Is it reasonable to expect four Big East teams in the Top25 tomorrow?

[kayako]

Is it reasonable to expect four Big East teams in the Top25 tomorrow?

3 definitely, but I am not too sure about Marquette.

Jesse Newell doesn't get to vote anymore, but he'd have 4 teams in based on kenpom.

3 UCONN
15 Marquette
17 Creighton
18 Xavier

[kayako]

NET vs. Kenpom for the conference through 1/8 games:

UCONN 3/3
Xavier 18/18
Marquette 21/15
Creighton 24/17
Providence 34/30
Butler 73/83
Seton Hall 74/59
Villanova 91/62
St. John's 102/73
DePaul 191/144
Georgetown 247/221

Kenpom is better for a total of 153 places for the conference.

[billyjack]

NET vs. Kenpom for the conference through 1/8 games:

UCONN 3/3
Xavier 18/18
Marquette 21/15
Creighton 24/17
Providence 34/30
Butler 73/83
Seton Hall 74/59
Villanova 91/62
St. John's 102/73
DePaul 191/144
Georgetown 247/221

Kenpom is better for a total of 153 places for the conference.

I wonder how RPI compares to NET and Kenpom ?

Team . NET/ Kenpom/ ... RPI.
.
UCONN 3/3/... 6
Xavier 18/18/... 20.
Marquette 21/15/... 43
Creighton 24/17/... 50
Providence 34/30/... 35
Butler 73/83/... 86
Seton Hall 74/59/... 76
Villanova 91/62/... 113
St. John's 102/73/... 129
DePaul 191/144/... 149
Georgetown 247/221/... 213

[adoraz]

No surprise the RPI rankings are terrible in comparison as those don't take into account anything besides W/L. I think in future years this board can relax a bit if we lose a bunch of close OOC games.

I think there will be 4 ranked teams today. Amazing comeback by the league.