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If Nebraska has the Big 12 schedule, inevitably they pick up 3 quad one wins at least because the Big 12 was littered with quad one teams. Yet those quad one teams were all so vulnerable. Texas Tech, KU, WVU, OU, all had so many losses that didn’t seem to hurt them as much as they helped the team that beat them.
There’s a math problem here.
There’s a math problem here.
Nebraska might pick up a few quad one wins if they played in the Big 12 but they would have lost more conference games. It would have been a wash.
Everyone needs to stop and take a step back to relax a little bit. It is time for Husker Nation to focus on more important questions...What play will Scott Frost call first in the Spring Game?
That's the thing though. It wouldn't be a wash. That's exactly what the committee just told us. You can lose 11 or 12 games in conference, as long as you hold onto a handful of marquee wins, you're golden (unless your name is Oklahoma State - who was absolutely robbed).
Oklahoma State had the marquee wins AND an 88 RPI. They played 4 300+ rpi teams which wrecked their RPI. Also, their average power ranking was 54 and they were 19-14 which are both very marginal to make it in. USC can probably claim the biggest snub with a 34 rpi / 39 power rating, but their biggest win was against 33 RPI Middle Tennessee, who didn't make the tourney.
Nebraska’s weak out of conference schedule would have still had a huge impact on the selection committee if they were in the Big 12.
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So we would have automatically went from 13 wins to 8 ? I don't think so. We might have done better in the B1G if we didn't have to play 3 out of 4 of the top teams once at their place. Only played Michigan at home. Hmm, what happened in that game at Pinnacle ?
Like I said in the other thread, its the same as the sec football bias.
They all start the year ranked, and when they beat eachother they either move way up because they beat ranked teams...or when they lose they barely drop because again, it was to a ranked team.
Its about the pre and first month of the season. Thats all that matters evidently.
Eventually the media and pundits have their favorites and that trickles into the people making the decisions.
And again, its more than Nebraska. Much more.
Bottom line is if NU beats KU or even creighton they are in.. they didnt so they dont go.. they lost to illinois as well late so no excuses..they didnt get it done. The only thing they can do is schedule better teams in the future cause us saying we got robbed...well it just doesnt do a thing for this years team
Nope.
It wouldnt have got us in.
16 teams ahead of us.
1 game doesnt change the lack of respect shown us, doesnt make up for it.
We barely made the NIT. Second to last at large.
I agree we should have won our games, but theres zero evidence that beating KU gets us in, while there is much to the contrary.
Go look at the final RPI.. we would have been in the high 40’s with a KU win. And ahead of K-State,Florida St and texass who all where on the bubble and made it in.
It is the same but different. It is tough to compare the sports because football is only 12-14 games long. The polls are what they are but SEC teams are winning their out of league games, some against other P5 leagues. So there is a base for their conference schedule. Other leagues are losing out of conference games, again setting a base for the strength of the league.
I understand. I dont think it would have mattered with a committee that used zero logic.
The fact that we were one of the last ones in the nit shows me that one more win wouldnt have mattered. They do nit respect us.
Please do not confuse this with me saying we should not have been in with another win.
Im saying the evidence shows we would not have been selected. The NCAA is a joke and proved it.
Understandable, but who knows what they used for the seeding in the NIT is sure in the hell wasn’t the RPI..
It’s a joke we weren’t at least a 2 seed in the tournament.
the top 4 seeds were the last 4 out of the NCAA tournament. The NIT committee has to have their bracket filled out pretty quickly after the NCAA announces theirs. If I were a betting man, I would assume the NIT placed all the teams they "knew" wouldn't be in the NCAA, left the Top seeds open and filled in the holes after the NCAA was finished. I would also assume they wanted some sort of guarantee of who could host and put those teams where they did. I know its a whole lot less conspiracy and Husker-centric hate, but a lot more logical.
“We had really intense discussions on Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday morning about the teams that really were the last four in,” Rasmussen said on 1620 the Zone. “In fact, it went a little higher than that to teams like Texas, Oklahoma, UCLA, [St. Bonaventure], Arizona State, Syracuse, and then Middle Tennessee and Nebraska were in that discussion. Frankly, Nebraska was one of the last teams that we eliminated.”
Tonight’s game proved that the NCAA Tournament Committee made the correct assessment that this Nebraska team, regardless of current conference membership or conference record, didn’t earn a bid to the Big Dance.