Need six wins for NIT
- Thread starter dark_check
- Start date
They don't.
Funny, I can remember at halftime of the Michigan game thinking that this team wouldn't win another game this season. And that maybe I should find something else to do with my time.
Rather than the two hours of torture Rutgers basketball had become.
Rather than the two hours of torture Rutgers basketball had become.
From last year's bracket, the worst "at-large" record looks like Florida (16-16, NET 62, KenPom 74). Washington State (NET 73/KP 67) and Colorado (NET 69/KP 70) also got in at 17-16 last year. If we finish 6-4, I'm not sure our metrics would rebound enough, but there's some precedent record wise
I don’t think we can get Wisky at home or there or @ Purdue or @ NEB. That leaves Tuesday, NW, at Minne, md, mich and OSU at home. Possible. Difficulty.
Very tough but good to have something to aim toward. Would be nice to keep the winning-season streak alive and build some momentum toward next year at least
6 wins To be eligible for the NIT. No guarantee to make NIT if eligible however changes have improved for P6 schools as NIT officials eliminated the guarantee of regular season conference champs which greatly hurts small to mid major champs of regular season who don’t win their conference tourney.
Terrible decision as NIT is a great milestone / tournament for the small to mid majors.
Terrible decision as NIT is a great milestone / tournament for the small to mid majors.
Interesting..the top 2 ranked net schools from each of the power 6 are guaranteed spots regardless of record
Big 10 if they get 6 in the ncaa have another 7 competing for nit...ALOT...and RU right now is 7th of those 7
Big 10 if they get 6 in the ncaa have another 7 competing for nit...ALOT...and RU right now is 7th of those 7
I only see 4 reasonably possible (but not likely) wins remaining in the rest of the schedule - OSU, NWU and Michigan at home and MN on the road. The PSU home loss was particularly brutal because we only play them once while we play the top 4 teams in the conference Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska twice. Thus, our conference schedule is particularly difficult.
You get to 17 wins means we won 7 of final 10… based upon our schedule we have a better than 50-50 chance to get an invitation.
That might …thought it wound be painful to get to 9-11/17-14 (thsr would mean wining 7 of the last 11) and losing a 8/9 of 7/10 game on Thursday .
Prettt sure this was in response to FOX sports effort to put a post season tourney together to be held to compete with the NIT
I thought you liked rankings....and that would make more sense over random picking based on biases
there are alot of big 10 schools competing, usually it isnt the case. If they take 2 from all the power 6 thats already 12 schools of the 32 gone. I still think they want to go pretty deep and take as many power 6 as they can
The NET is now basically Kenpom, and Kenpom is much basically a predictive metric. I think it is very good at measuring how good a team is likely to be in the future. So if you are trying to pick the "best" teams, absolutely use it. However, I think postseason qualification should be based on the most "deserving" teams, and that should be based on wins and losses, not efficiency or other predictive metrics. It's sort of like picking the NFL playoffs based on point differential instead of W/L record.
In your kenpom ranking, the difference between a 1 point win and 1 point loss is the same as the difference between a 1 point win and a 3 point win. This is probably correct or mostly correct for predictive purposes, but if winning doesn't matter it robs all of the drama from sports. It's the same reason I LIKE the NCAA tournament but at the same time I will insist it's not a good metric when arguing which teams are actually better.