stever20 wrote:adoraz wrote:stever20 wrote:Georgetown had an incredible OOC resume 2 years ago. 3 OOC wins vs Kansas St, VCU, and Michigan St. Pretty much going in, folks thought Georgetown beat DePaul and Creighton, they would be in the tourney pretty easily. So wouldn't say the committee was exactly easy on Georgetown....
I wouldn't say that we've seen that the committee clearly views the Big East in the same light as other power conferences. At all. PC would provide an extremely interesting test case if they lose in the BET QF.
Okay, here are the facts (since you don't like using them):
Georgetown was one of the first 4 teams out.
They finished with a 66 RPI.
They lost to DePaul in the first round of the BE tournament (a bad loss).
Nobody thought they were the first 4 out. Nobody. Only the selection committee said this afterwards.
Now, you said they needed to beat Creighton to get in which doesn't line up with the facts. Prove that they needed to beat Creighton to get in.
It would have been interesting. Going into the BET, the thought around totally was that a Georgetown win over Creighton gets them in. Would the committee have put them in with a win over DePaul/loss to Creighton? It's possible, but there again, I look at what we've seen as the committee more rewarding good wins than penalizing bad losses. You can't prove that Georgetown could have lost to Creighton and still gotten in.... We just don't know.
DudeAnon wrote:Whats the highest seed an AAC team will get this year? I think last year Cincy had an 8 or 9.
stever20 wrote:Not really after you thought about it. The committee values OOC play a LOT. Georgetown had a GREAT OOC schedule that year.... Also quite frankly, the committee at that point could have been trying to send a message to teams to schedule better w/o impacting the tourney.
adoraz wrote:Cincy should be a lock. They were the 1 AAC team I wanted to do well since it helps two teams in the Big East.
With how poorly the AAC has been represented the last 2 years by the selection committee you never know, but I'd still bet on Cincy being a lock.
stever20 wrote:adoraz wrote:Cincy should be a lock. They were the 1 AAC team I wanted to do well since it helps two teams in the Big East.
With how poorly the AAC has been represented the last 2 years by the selection committee you never know, but I'd still bet on Cincy being a lock.
The difference this year is in Ken Pom. the league is much better there than they were last year. Also most of the teams did ok OOC schedule. Temple is the one team that I think will get screwed. But Cincy, UConn(if they beat Cincy in the tourney), and Tulsa- I think look pretty decent right now.
JohnW22 wrote:stever20 wrote:adoraz wrote:Cincy should be a lock. They were the 1 AAC team I wanted to do well since it helps two teams in the Big East.
With how poorly the AAC has been represented the last 2 years by the selection committee you never know, but I'd still bet on Cincy being a lock.
The difference this year is in Ken Pom. the league is much better there than they were last year. Also most of the teams did ok OOC schedule. Temple is the one team that I think will get screwed. But Cincy, UConn(if they beat Cincy in the tourney), and Tulsa- I think look pretty decent right now.
Cincinnati's best wins out of conference are to two bubble teams. They had 2/3 big OOC games at home and blew all 3. UCONN had a good win over Texas and that's it... Michigan win was nice too. Tulsa had the win over Wichita State who might not even make the tournament. Temple went under 500. SMU did well. It's not even worth talking about the rest of that conference.
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