Conference Upsets

[grizindabox]

All those conference upsets and it didn’t do a damned thing for the Griz seeding.

Not sure why they would.

 

[IdaGriz01]

Belmont did get in

Yep. Gave me my one miss ... since I picked TCU instead. TCU ranked #47 in the NET, Belmont ranked 45 (essentially the same value) ... but TCU had the 26th hardest schedule in D-I basketball, while Belmont's SOS was ranked 197. Granted Belmont had 24 D-I games while TCU had "only" 20. But with their weak schedule, Belmont should win most of their games.

The committee just told TCU: Don't play such a tough OOC schedule, we're not going to give you any credit for it anyway. I know they wanted to throw a sop to another mid-major, but TCU has got to feel like they got screwed.

 

[grizindabox]

Belmont did get in

Yep. Gave me my one miss ... since I picked TCU instead. TCU ranked #47 in the NET, Belmont ranked 45 (essentially the same value) ... but TCU had the 26th hardest schedule in D-I basketball, while Belmont's SOS was ranked 197. Granted Belmont had 24 D-I games while TCU had "only" 20. But with their weak schedule, Belmont should win most of their games.

The committee just told TCU: Don't play such a tough OOC schedule, we're not going to give you any credit for it anyway. I know they wanted to throw a sop to another mid-major, but TCU has got to feel like they got screwed.

Not sure the OOC schedule is why TCU had such a hard schedule and is why Oklahoma got in instead of them.

 

[IdaGriz01]

All those conference upsets and it didn’t do a damned thing for the Griz seeding.

Yep. Pretty disheartening. But "it is what it is!"

 

[IdaGriz01]

Belmont did get in

Yep. Gave me my one miss ... since I picked TCU instead. TCU ranked #47 in the NET, Belmont ranked 45 (essentially the same value) ... but TCU had the 26th hardest schedule in D-I basketball, while Belmont's SOS was ranked 197. Granted Belmont had 24 D-I games while TCU had "only" 20. But with their weak schedule, Belmont should win most of their games.

The committee just told TCU: Don't play such a tough OOC schedule, we're not going to give you any credit for it anyway. I know they wanted to throw a sop to another mid-major, but TCU has got to feel like they got screwed.

Not sure the OOC schedule is why TCU had such a hard schedule and is why Oklahoma got in instead of them.

I'd have to go down each schedule to figure a comparison, but somehow, Oklahoma ended up with a rank of #9 on SOS and were #40 NET. Of course that's just a ranking and the way these calculation go, that could be a difference in the second or third decimal place. Anyway, I have no problem with Okie getting in ahead of TCU. Near as I can tell (according to various "experts"), TCU didn't win enough against all those strong teams to "deserve" being in ahead of Belmot. (But, then, what's "Enough"?)

 

[IdaGriz01]

All those conference upsets and it didn’t do a damned thing for the Griz seeding.

Yep. Pretty disheartening. But "it is what it is!"

The way some of the seed projections for the Griz moved up as the upsets happened, I really did think they might make a difference. But, in the end, as you say, none of that meant a damn thing.

But just to wrap this up, I got to wondering how the number of losing 1-seeds compared to past years. Nineteen seemed like a lot. As it turns out, it was high … but not by that much. The average since 2011 (when they went to 68 bids) has been 15, with a high of 20 (2013) and a low of 10. What was unusual was the number of 1-seeds that got bids anyway. Including Belmont (boo-hiss), nine 1-seed losers got bids anyway … almost double the average of 5 since 2011.