2014-15 Games of Interest

[DwShock]

I can see both teams have over 100 before this one is over.

[WstateU]

Son of a biscuit eater!

[DUShock]

These announcers are Eastie suck ups. "Ya, that's a foul but you're not gonna get it on an away court".

[DUShock]

UNI could validly say they got jobbed on a couple late calls.

Sounds familiar.

[wufan]

UNI can play. No shame in a loss at VCU.

[wusphlash]

Nice to have some company in the world of respectability.

[wufan]

MSU and Loyola pull out the wins over some not great competition.

[ShockerFever]

It looks like UNI is going to lose their first game of the year. @VCU would have been a nice "W" for the MVC.

It is now quite possible that WSU finishes the year without a single win over a top 50 team. I do NOT want the selection committee having any reasons to give the Shox the shaft come seeding time. We really, really, really need UNI, Seton Hall, Alabama, etc. to play well as the season progresses. The difference between "they only won x number of games against the top 50" and "they didn't win ANY games against the top 50" could be substantial come March.

Well, looks like I may have spoke to soon. UNI was down 11, now only down 5 with 5 minutes to go. Come on Panthers!

Um, are you on pot? Overreact much?

[wufan]

Meh. I don't care. If last year proved anything, it is that the Shox will be porked by the committee no matter the seed.

We have a lot of work to do in the front court before tournament time. A lot of time and a lot of talent, but a lot of work.

[Play Angry]

Important to note that amid another fairly grim night for the SoS, Nebraska eeked out a big 56-55 2OT home win against a decent Cincy team to stave off total collapse.

[Shocker-maniac]

Let's not overreact to the UNI loss at VCU last evening. Use of simple logic should prevent most people from making knee jerk, the sky is falling and we're not going to have a top 50 RPI win statements. First, a 2 OT loss at VCU is simply not that bad. It's a tough place to play and win. Including the games on Saturday, UNI and The Hall rank 32 and 48 in the Pomeroy rankings respectively. According to Warren Nolan the RPI rankings as of this morning are Seton Hall is #16, and UNI is #28. Now, there lots of basketball to be played and these rankings will change, but no reason to overreact.

Logic, people, logic. Please use logic.

[Steeleshocker]

Let's not overreact to the UNI loss at VCU last evening. Use of simple logic should prevent most people from making knee jerk, the sky is falling and we're not going to have a top 50 RPI win statements. First, a 2 OT loss at VCU is simply not that bad. It's a tough place to play and win. Including the games on Saturday, UNI and The Hall rank 32 and 48 in the Pomeroy rankings respectively. According to Warren Nolan the RPI rankings as of this morning are Seton Hall is #16, and UNI is #28. Now, there lots of basketball to be played and these rankings will change, but no reason to overreact.

Logic, people, logic. Please use logic.

I think today must be bizzaro day on SN. You just went all JH4P on JH4P.

[Play Angry]

ISUr @ DePaul tips off in 30 minutes on FS1 if anyone wants to double the ratings by tuning in.

[Shocker-maniac]

ISUr @ DePaul tips off in 30 minutes on FS1 if anyone wants to double the ratings by tuning in.

That was good!

[im4wsu]

Let's not overreact to the UNI loss at VCU last evening. Use of simple logic should prevent most people from making knee jerk, the sky is falling and we're not going to have a top 50 RPI win statements. First, a 2 OT loss at VCU is simply not that bad. It's a tough place to play and win. Including the games on Saturday, UNI and The Hall rank 32 and 48 in the Pomeroy rankings respectively. According to Warren Nolan the RPI rankings as of this morning are Seton Hall is #16, and UNI is #28. Now, there lots of basketball to be played and these rankings will change, but no reason to overreact.

Logic, people, logic. Please use logic.

As of 2:30 pm today, here are the teams that sniff the top 50 in one category of RealTime . The right-hand numbers are RealTime projections for the season.

	RealTime- RPI rankings				Team Power Rating from Realtime					Projecions from Realtime
Date	RPI Rank	RPI	SOS Rank	SOS	Rank	Power	Rank	SOS		Rank	Proj	Rank	SOS
Seton Hall	15	0.6641	38	0.5855	39	58.10	72	53.52	19 - 11	30	0.5757	37	0.5485
UNI	29	0.6250	127	0.5238	36	59.96	135	50.70	23 - 7	35	0.5733	113	0.4972
Ill State	41	0.6108	23	0.6061	88	50.49	43	54.88	19 - 9	50	0.5603	89	0.5148
St. Louis	255	0.4339	309	0.4158	50	55.00	235	48.31	17 - 13	143	0.5012	134	0.4890