Pistol Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 The KC games are on a Monday and Tuesday? That kind of sucks. That's awful. This isn't a neutral tournament at all, even though it will be called such when the talking heads are justifying KU's seed in March 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For-DaLove Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Just to clarify, UCLA and Syracuse were initially in the field but withdrew. RM wasn't blowing smoke when he mentioned them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Wash St and Tex AM are both B- teams (equiv to Richmond). While we don't know what these teams will be like next year generally (and esp Nov) the ratings (and rankings) tend to carryover. So for the purpose of this post let's assume that is somewhat true. In the final 2 games of the Anaheim tourney, we played Nova and Okla both B rated teams. In next year's tourney we will face a B- team and an A+ team ....therefore this should be a better tourney for the Bills. A couple of other points.... playing Nova (and Okla) did not hurt us and it was worth more than playing Vermont ( C+ ) In another thread someone asked how could Mizzou with a crappy OOC schedule worse than ours be ranked early in the season. It is related to the phenomenon discussed above....carryover. In the earlier thread I said 2 key factors for poll voters (and to some extent the Selection committee) are SOS and big wins (wins against ranked teams) A third factor only occurring at the beginning of the season is carryover...the tendency for voters to figure what ever you did last year, you will do again this year...thus Mizzou ranked early. I guarantee you if we have a deep run into the tourney (Sw16 or El 8) we will be ranked at the beginning of next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 http://espn.go.com/m...violations-ncaa Womp womp. -so the guy that had ryan braun's piss in a bottle went to syracuse?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF1 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 These OOC Tournaments often times never deliver the initial promise. Just hope that they don't have to try to fill out the field late with a non D1 school (this happens more than you would think. At any rate, any potential game with Kansas is good. While it is in their backyard, it is not too bad for SLU as you will probably be the next most respesented school fan wise. Rhode Island will be in a similar format tournament next season as it will participate in the Naismith Hall of Fame Tournament. It will be one of the four hosts along with Ohio State, Washington, and Seton Hall. The other teams are Loyola University Maryland (MAAC), Norfolk State University (MEAC), University of Albany (America East), University of Missouri-Kansas City (Summit League). URI will host two of the four non-hosts and then meet two of the hosts at the neutral site Mohegan Sun Arena which is just 30 miles from the URI campus. Early word is that URI will play its first game at the Sun against Ohio State. http://www.hoophall....for-2012-t.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Metzinger Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 The KC games are on a Monday and Tuesday? That kind of sucks. Parlay that into a week-long Thanksgiving vacation, Box! DE will bring the stuffing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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