Wichita State vs. USF Game Thread 3-6-21

[Mr. Pickle]

Congrats to the coaching staff and the players on a league Championship! What a great place to be after what transpired over the last 12 months.

[Shock Top]

It’s so counter intuitive to try to win by a certain amount of points when you are already beating the hell out of someone. I can see winning by 10 metrics, but 20 is horseshit.

I agree, but it does matter unfortunately.

[1972Shocker]

When it was 11-10 midway through the 1st half I wasn't thinking the Shocks would be putting up 80 in this game.

[Stickboy46]

Is he not supposed to play hard to the end?

Just because WSU gave up, doesn’t mean he has to.

Senior day... Down by 20+ .... Normal game, who cares.

[Singeril]

Admit it...none of us saw this back in November.

[AZ Shocker]

Whoot to the WHOOT!!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS COACHES AND PLAYERS!!!!!!!

AMERICAN CHAMPS!!!!!!!!

[DJShocker10]

Lost a ton of respect for Gregory at the end there. No need for Starters to be in at that point.

I don’t think there’s any love lost between Gregory and our program as a whole. The first meeting this year I think he got T’ed and damn near ejected because HCIB called time outs to ice a free throw shooter. Then I think someone was talking **** to Etienne because he stared down their bench when he hit his first three at the end of the first half.

[Kung Wu]

I agree, but it does matter unfortunately.

Scoring margin is not used in NET calculations.

[Shock Top]

Scoring margin is not used in NET calculations.

but other things like efficiency is.

[Stickboy46]

Scoring margin is not used in NET calculations.

Efficiency is though... So bigger margin = better efficiency numbers

[Kung Wu]

Efficiency is though... So bigger margin = better efficiency numbers

And the delta from +7 instead of +12 over expectation (using kenpom as reference) is going to change the efficiency of this game by how much?

[SB Shock]

Admit it...none of us saw this back in November.

If you were listening to Play Angry in November, they were saying they thought WSU could be a NCAA tournament team.

[1972Shocker]

Efficiency is though... So bigger margin = better efficiency numbers

I would think if these metric guys can adjust there numbers for a "luck" factor the should be able to eliminate stats after rarely used players and walk on are in the games.

[Shock Top]

I don’t want to take away from winning the game big and winning the AAC. Both great things.

But in a crazy year where winning a T7 conference outright doesn’t have you firmly in a dance, ending a game where your winning by almost 30 by 17 hurts when you need all the NET help you can get.

[AZ Shocker]

I would think if these metric guys can adjust there numbers for a "luck" factor the should be able to eliminate stats after rarely used players and walk on are in the games.

...and having only 8 players due to covid-19 playing against two Quad-1 games.