Purdue NET at 29...
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Makes perfect sense, considering St. John’s got a bid with a NET of 71 last year! :Annoyed
Current NET rankings as of Sunday 2/16
Maryland 7
MSU 12
PSU 16
OSU 17
RUTGERS 28
Wisconsin 29
Iowa 30
Michigan 31
Purdue 33
Illinois 38
Minnesota 40
Indiana 57
Northwestern 158
Nebraska 176
Also of note:
Seton Hall 15
Pitt 100
St. Bon's 121
Maryland 7
MSU 12
PSU 16
OSU 17
RUTGERS 28
Wisconsin 29
Iowa 30
Michigan 31
Purdue 33
Illinois 38
Minnesota 40
Indiana 57
Northwestern 158
Nebraska 176
Also of note:
Seton Hall 15
Pitt 100
St. Bon's 121
Also it's looking like Penn State might be our best win, not Seton Hall. Can't overstate how huge a sweep would be there.
Ironically, a win at Purdue with that NET ranking would be huge for us but also hurt because Purdue would drop to a Quad 2 team. The road win is more important however.
I don't understand how Michigan State has a higher ranking than Penn State who has a sustained winning streak.
So our win at Purdue would be Quad 1, while our home win against Purdue would drop to Quad 2, because we beat Purdue on the road?
That’s some crazy back to the future **** right there.
MSU SOS is #6 on KENPOM which means they probably have a better SOV rating. Just a guess.
Agreed but I guess my issue is PSU can finish 2nd and beat MSU twice and still finish behind them if MSU picks up a few huge road wins against good teams. If PSU finishes better in standings and beats them twice but loses at home to us they could in theory end up about same. Sounds flawed.
Bac, can you explain how NET figures out their non-conference SOS? It just doesn't look right.
Penn State is 336... but their OOC includes 46 Gtown, 35 Bama, 58 Yale, 65 Cuse, 81 Ole Miss..... with 5 Q4 games
Baylor is 184.... but their OOC includes 8 Arizona, 19 Butler, 21 Villanova, 36 Florida, 68 Washington... with 5 Q4 games
Rutgers is 81.... and our only OOC opponents over 100 are 15 Seton Hall and 84 SFA..... with 7 Q4 games
Edit: to add SFA
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Keep in mind that while we're technically 5th in NET in the B1G, a few losses likely drop us to at least 9th in NET, given how tightly we're all clustered between 28 and 33.
Added... but the point still stands. No idea how our non-conference SOS comes close to Penn St's, let alone is dramatically higher.
Not sure..i know they played 4 schools like 325-340. It would be by glancing that RU didnt play a good ooc schedule but somehow the numbers worked
Not sure if the NET is still relying on the rpi sos or producing their own schedule metrics
Funny, if we hadn't won the northwestern game, that would have been a worse loss than St Bonaventure.
Yeah really. Which is why I chuckle a bit at posts like "If only we had beaten teams X, Y, and Z. We'd be a 3 seed!" Well it works both ways. Do people realize how close we came to three horrendous home losses with Bryant, Nebraska, and Northwestern?
So we don't look back. We count our blessings, and then we beat Michigan.