Weber at Sac. St

[rocklobster]

Weber loses by two at Sac. St. Starting to bottom out.

 

[IdaGriz01]

Weber loses by two at Sac. St. Starting to bottom out.

Nice for Sac State, bad for Weebs ... and probably really bad for the Big Sky.

For all the blather by the "experts" ... "parity" is generally not a good thing for a conference. Unless all/most teams play strong OOC opponents and win a lot of those games they will get killed in the rankings. Teams in a "parity" conference end up with mediocre/crappy W-L records and lousy NET/RPI/SOS rankings.

 

[SonOfaGriz]

Weber loses by two at Sac. St. Starting to bottom out.

Worth noting Weber State played without Jerrick Harding.

But no disagreement from me---the Wildcats are bottoming out. Of the top teams, only Montana and Montana State are playing close to their best basketball as we hit the stretch run. EWU and Weber both have health issues (EWU: Jacob Davison, leading scorer, is out. No news on a time table. Weber: Zach Braxton missed a few games with injury, then Harding missed the Sac St. game), Northern Colorado only has one total scorer. It's looking like Montana-Montana State is a feasible final if the teams are on opposite sides of the bracket.

 

[marceagfan5]

Weber loses by two at Sac. St. Starting to bottom out.

Worth noting Weber State played without Jerrick Harding.

But no disagreement from me---the Wildcats are bottoming out. Of the top teams, only Montana and Montana State are playing close to their best basketball as we hit the stretch run. EWU and Weber both have health issues (EWU: Jacob Davison, leading scorer, is out. No news on a time table. Weber: Zach Braxton missed a few games with injury, then Harding missed the Sac St. game), Northern Colorado only has one total scorer. It's looking like Montana-Montana State is a feasible final if the teams are on opposite sides of the bracket.

Eastern and Weber will be healthy for the conference tourney and should at least make it a bit competitive...

 

[grizband]

Weber loses by two at Sac. St. Starting to bottom out.

Nice for Sac State, bad for Weebs ... and probably really bad for the Big Sky.

For all the blather by the "experts" ... "parity" is generally not a good thing for a conference. Unless all/most teams play strong OOC opponents and win a lot of those games they will get killed in the rankings. Teams in a "parity" conference end up with mediocre/crappy W-L records and lousy NET/RPI/SOS rankings.

This is, unfortunately for the Big Sky, a very valid point. Sagarin currently has the Big Sky rated 29/32 conferences, which means when lower level teams beat higher level conference teams, it hurts the conference SOS.