So Pitt, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Vandy,

[megadawgmaniac]

Louisville, Georgetown, Purdue, Notre Dame all need to improve their OOC scheduling in order to improve, correct?

AA - bzzz *plop*

 

[Columbus Dawg]

nm

 

[mstateglfr]

Lame if it's serious and lame if it's An attempt to reference MSU's issues and a topic on this board.

Weak.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

The answer is no. Those teams did their job in the regular season by playing and beating good competition and were seeded high because of it. Georgetown won a whopping one game since Valentine's Day and still managed a 6 seed because their SOS was #1. In a 64ish team tournament 48 teams are going home the first weekend. It happened to be those teams this year, but by and large, the higher you are seeded, the better chance you have to advance. That's sort of the point.....survive and advance.

Let's say for example we were to be a five seed. All time vs 12 seeds, 5 seeds win about 70% of the time. Against 4s in the next round, about 47%. Pretty good odds to get through. Slightly better if you are a 4 seed (78/53). Do like we do though, and schedule crap teams, lose to some of them, then end up in the 8/9 game, and you have a 50/50 split all-time on those games, and then the winner beats 1 seeds less than 15% of the time.

An interesting question to have the answer to is what would a 14-2 SEC team's SOS and RPI have to be to get a good seed. I mean Bama was 12-4 but their SOS and RPI didn't really have them in the discussion. When your league is weak like ours, you have to make up for that in OOC games.