San Diego State Any Good?
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Yes. They beat Iowa, Creighton, and BYU all on road/neutral in the non conference. And obviously it takes remarkable consistency to show up every single night and win .
They have a game at Boise State today at 4PM on CBS Sports Network. Boise has been a spot where many feel like an upset could happen, but not sure Boise can pull it off......Vegas has San Diego State at 5.5 point favs.....
We ll find out in March. I don’t see them as a final 4 team. I think having strong conference games toughens you up for March something that they lack
It’s really hard to run the table no matter what conference and those are quality wins. Problem is, in conference is really weak. Outside of SDSU I don’t think any other team has a ranked win. Most don’t even play anyone with a strong NET or AP ranked and when they do they’ve been utterly destroyed (Duke, Oregon...). A lot easier for a good team like SDSU to have an off night and still pull out a W in a weak conference like that than if they had the grind of the BIG. Hard to know how good they are.
The thing that makes college basketball better than college football is the fact that they will be given the opportunity in March to show how good they are
They lose in round 2. You can book it.
I've watched them play twice now. Yes, they have some really good OOC wins, but I have to say, the competition they played was really poor. If they were in the B1G they would IMO being a middling team. An NCAA team? Yes. But not a #1 seed. More like a 7-9 seed. Why? They don't have a top flight big, their shooting guards are very good, but beat no one off the dribble and they're not a deep team.
They are very good but they are not one of the 4 best teams. They deserve a number 1 seed because they haven’t lost but a loss could move them down to a 3 or 4 seed.
If we are slotted at 8/9, SDST is the team I want. That will have sweet sixteen written all over it for RU if we can get out of round 1.
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They ll be matched against a tough 8/9 seed like wichita state was vs Kentucky several years ago due to their weak conference.
You must not have seen many of their games. This is not a team I want to see in the 2nd round. Granted that means we won the opening round game so id be thrilled but SDSU is a complete team. Flynn is a true POY candidate and they have 1-5 who can shoot and they are defensively very good and athletic. Maybe not in the strongest conference but they are very very good.
Like st joes with Nelson ...they are good enough ...but are they truly and tough experienced enough to win 6 (or even four) against NCAA caliber teams ...when they just haven’t played enough games against ncaa level teams...plus, how do they respond as being the hunted, can’t sneak up on anyone
I have seen plenty of their games, most recently their win over Air Force last week. They have not played a suffocating defense like ours and knocked off Creighton and Iowa long before those teams got hot. I'm salivating at a chance of playing them. I'd be more worried about the 8/9 game than playing them.
Good lord tough crowd. They are undefeated and beat some NCAA teams already. They can only face the schools on their schedule
they beat Creighton and Iowa on neutral courts. Creighton by 30, Iowa by 10, they won at BYU, beat Utah State by 9 and 10
So that would put them at 5 league wins to no league losses playing only 1 home game.
no offense, but they are really damn good. I've seen plenty of their games and they would win plenty of Big Ten games. Now whether they would actually win the conference (like KenPom would favor them to do depending on schedule) I have no idea. But they'd be right in the mix at the top of the conference like everyone else. Their efficiency metrics are right in line with the 2004 St. Joe's team with Jameer Nelson that went undefeated in the regular season and just barely lost in the Elite Eight.
I think there is something to be said for dealing with adversity at times during the season. Not sure how they will react if/when they are behind.
against Iowa many months ago they were behind most of the game.
against Iowa many months ago they were behind most of the game.
the closest history is the 34-1 1990-91 UNLV Runnin Rebels (lost to Duke in the Final 4 79-77 and the 2016-17 37-2 Gonzaga team that lost in the championship 71-65)
They may be really good, but is there any doubt that, if we have to draw a #1 seed in the second round, SD State is who we would want?
I think they would be a particularly bad matchup for Rutgers. They have 7 players in their rotation that have attempted at least 19 three point shots and the worst shooter among them has made 36.8%. So not only are the one of the best shooting teams in the country, they have a bunch of good shooters on the floor at almost all times (as opposed to some teams that pile all their outside shots into just maybe 2 players).
If I were Rutgers I'd much rather see Kansas that relies on scoring inside which is more of a strength of Rutgers defense which is elite inside but does give up a lot of 3 pt shots.
Maybe. We haven't done that well vs teams that can challenge us inside actually. But you may be right. I haven't watched SD State. I just think a team that has spent the season calibrating themselves against the Mountain West would have some trouble going up against our athletic length on the perimeter. But that's just my gut feeling.
SDSU is really good and would be the favorite to win the Big Ten (though they wouldn't come close to going undefeated, obviously).
I am wondering what happens to our defense when the refs are from, say, the PAC... these Big Ten refs are all over the place with letting aggressive D go and later calling touch fouls.. if we get a crew who doesn't "let them play"... could be trouble no matter who we play.
But otherwise I agree with you.
While we haven't defended the 3 (percentage wise) as well of late, I think that our length on the perimeter (if we are locked in) would be a huge issue for SDSU. Not sure they see a lot of 6-6/6-7 2 guards in their league. They start 3 Gs, 2 of whom are 6'1".
Kansas would be an absolute bear for us due to size and athleticism.
same is true for gonzaga.. 6-5 6-3 and 6-7 SF
but how much do you love worrying about what the 1-2 seeds are in the NCAAs?
my point about defending the 3 is that for the entirety of Pikiell's career his defenses have allowed a lot of 3 point attempts. That's what he wants the opponent to do. Kansas relies so much on scoring inside that they would likely struggle with the Rutgers defense because Rutgers can sag off of most of their team and take away those easy inside baskets.