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Lester Bangs
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Bullrog said:
Who did they beat? 14th-seed ORU and 17th-seed Niagara and went 1-2 against Miami of Ohio. They had an RPI of 67 and a SOS of 178th and it was at 295 before they got into MAC play.
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Lester Bangs said:
Resume's just as good as Nevada's, if not better.
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Ellis Redding said:
Nevada/Akron
Record: 27-4 (with two losses to Utah State as only to non-NCAA teams)/25-7 (losses to Arkansas-Little Rock, Illinois-Chicago, Ohio, Toledo)
RPI — 23/67
Conference RPI — 9/14
SOS — 119/178
OOC SOS — 133/295
Wins over tourney teams — Gonzaga, New Mexico State/ORU, Niagara and Miami
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Lester Bangs said:
RPI is not a valid stat this year, as the brackets indicate. Nevada played precisely no one and couldn't even win its weak conference. Akron lost on a fluke 3.
Having been away from the board for near;ly 2 days, I have come to the following conclusion:
There is no team in the Country who got ****ed worse than Syracuse.
The last 4 in, based on seeding of at-large teams, were Stanford, ODU, Illinois and Arkansas. The 'Cuse is better than any of those teams.
How does a team with a 65 RPI, 18 wins, 5th in the Pac-10 get in ahead of a team that was 5th in the Big East, RPI 50, 23 ****ing wins?
How does a team that was 7-9 in the SE-****ing-C ... couldn't even win a title in a divison in which no team played better than .500... get in a head of team that went 10-6 in the Big East, won 6 of its last 8 and blasted No. 2-seed G'town just two weeks ago?
Just ****ing unbelievable!
There is no team in the Country who got ****ed worse than Syracuse.
The last 4 in, based on seeding of at-large teams, were Stanford, ODU, Illinois and Arkansas. The 'Cuse is better than any of those teams.
How does a team with a 65 RPI, 18 wins, 5th in the Pac-10 get in ahead of a team that was 5th in the Big East, RPI 50, 23 ****ing wins?
How does a team that was 7-9 in the SE-****ing-C ... couldn't even win a title in a divison in which no team played better than .500... get in a head of team that went 10-6 in the Big East, won 6 of its last 8 and blasted No. 2-seed G'town just two weeks ago?
Just ****ing unbelievable!
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Ellis Redding said:
If you say so ...
RPI is as valid this year as any. It is and it isn't, but when you start measuring teams, it helps. Nevada played nobody ... but still played a tougher sked than Akron. Nevada lost its weak conference ... and Akron lost its weaker conference.
If you'd rather ignore the facts, that's cool ... just don't act like Akron got screwed. If they got screwed, it was by the MAC time keepers and themselves for, you know, doing things like losing to Arkansas-Little Rock and not winning their conference tourney.
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spnited said:
Seven of their 10 Big East wins were against the bottom eight in a 16-team conference. They have no nonconference wins of consequence.
The Big East ****ed them with the unbalanced schedule and they ****ed themselves by not playing anybody.
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I can understand Akron not getting into the NCAAs...not necessarily fair, but understandable.
But they lost seven games by TWENTY-ONE POINTS!!!! How the **** do you come that close to an unbeaten season, win 26 games in a solid mid-major and not make the NIT?
That's the biggest ****-up of the postseason right there.
But they lost seven games by TWENTY-ONE POINTS!!!! How the **** do you come that close to an unbeaten season, win 26 games in a solid mid-major and not make the NIT?
That's the biggest ****-up of the postseason right there.
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BYH said:
Maybe the program is being punished for having such a ****ty nickname.
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Gotta be honest ... I didn't know a Zip was a kangaroo.
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Hammer Pants said:
I thought it was a tribute to those ****ty sneakers from the 80s.
Lester Bangs said:
Just saw this little nugget:
Dec. 22, Nevada beat Akron 73-71 at Akron. The Zips had a shot to tie at the end but missed it.
And Nevada didn't win their conference tournament either.
But I guess they're in because they are going to have a first- or second-team All-American, plus the fact that they were tabbed as one of the non-majors to watch early on so they've been ranked all season.
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BYH said:
Who did Hofstra play and/or beat out of conference last year?
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url]http://www.hofstra.edu/Athletics/Mbasketball/ath_mbb_schedule.cfm?syr=2005[/url]Johnny Rockets said:
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Johnny Rockets said:
Does it matter? Drexel beat everyone on the road and didn't get in this year.
Hofstra beat George Mason twice in 11 days. That would have gotten them into the tournament if not for Mason's AD being on the committee. He can rot in hell.
OK no more. Again.
BYH said:
Hey, dickhead...it happened a ****ing year ago. Get over it. Hofstra=loosers, just like BYH=dickhead looser!
As for Drexel, what do all those road wins mean when they finish 4th in the conference and go 1-5 against the top 3 teams. CAA LOOSERS!
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THE CAA GOT THREE BIDS!!!!!!!!!11
(in the women's bracket. ODU 7, JMU 9, Delaware 12. what a wild world).
(in the women's bracket. ODU 7, JMU 9, Delaware 12. what a wild world).
