Lunardi???!

[AreYouNUTS]

SEVEN PAC-12 teams in now??

 

[bac2therac]

Yes..where have u been..its been that way for a week. It may not hold

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Yes..where have u been..its been that way for a week. It may not hold

busy week ...

 

[ScarletLongIsland_rivals]

Stanford down against Oregon State

 

[RUBOB72]

I’m concerned about if we lose to Purdue and only win 1 game in the B1G tourney... we are right now 8-9th or maybe 10th... how many does B1G get in ?

 

[Erial_Lion_rivals140457]

Lunardi is the 55th most accurate bracketologist, we're paying way too much attention to him.

I’d say that people pay way too much attention to The Bracket Matrix’s ranking system and the thought that it has any predictive value looking ahead.

 

[bac2therac]

I’m concerned about if we lose to Purdue and only win 1 game in the B1G tourney... we are right now 8-9th or maybe 10th... how many does B1G get in ?

if we beat Michigan on a neutral court in the Big 10 tourney, RU is getting in. Dont pay attention to the number from the conference

 

[Erial_Lion_rivals140457]

Yes, let’s look at the same two pundits (Lunardi and Palm) who have historically been mediocre to bad, and ignore the top 15-20+ historically who have us as a 10-12 seed consistently.

“Historically”? Many of the people have been doing it a few years or have had positive variance over a small time period. If they do bad for a few years, they quit. They do good, and they jump to the top of the list. There is a good chance that whoever is #1 today will be outside the top 25% moving forward, as I’ve mentioned, I’ve never seen a strong correlation between their results today and results moving forward.

The whole scoring part of the bracket matrix also doesn’t make sense to me. I’d put way more emphasis on teams In vs Out (and maybe be Dayton). I don’t think picking a 9 seed as a 9 or a 7 as a 7 is worth what they give it (especially when you need to move teams up or down a seed line to adhere to bracketing principles.