2016-17 Bracketology

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

One team is dead last in the league. That eliminates them.

I don't believe a win or loss should count extra because of the opponent's conference affiliation. That is what you are doing when you talk about a minimum "in-conference" record but you don't have a similar rule for non-conference games.

If you win/lose vs the 50th best team in the country, the that is what you did, period.

[Cdizzle]

Sure. Great. You have to be above .500 non-conference too. All the world's problems are solved.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Sure. Great. You have to be above .500 non-conference too. All the world's problems are solved.

Teams A & B both go 7-9 vs the top 100, 15-0 vs all other.
Team A played most of their tough games out of conference.
Team B played most of their tough games in conference.

There is no good reason to have a hard and fast rule that one team is eligible, the other isn't, purely based on the distribution of conference affiliation of those 16 top 100 games.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Put another way, if WSU and Clemson both lose to Louisville, Clemson shouldn't be penalized more because they share the ACC label.

[Cdizzle]

Team A goes 7-9 vs the top 100, 15-0 vs all other.
Team B goes 7-9 vs the top 100, 15-0 vs all other.

Team A played most of their tough games out of conference.
Team B played most of their tough games in conference.

There is no good reason to have a hard and fast rule that one team is eligible, the other isn't, purely based on the distribution of conference affiliation of those 16 top 100 games.

Why not?

Team A very likely played a higher pct of their tough games not at home. Team A chose to schedule good teams.
Team B chose to schedule poorer teams in the non-con. The likely played a much higher pct of games both vs. Top 100 and overall, at home.

Reward the team that deliberately tried to improve their schedule, not the team that deliberately tried to dilute it.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Why not?

Team A very likely played a higher pct of their tough games not at home. Team A chose to schedule good teams.
Team B chose to schedule poorer teams in the non-con. The likely played a much higher pct of games both vs. Top 100 and overall, at home.

Reward the team that deliberately tried to improve their schedule, not the team that deliberately tried to dilute it.

If the 7-9's of A&B were different (one more at home, one more on the road) then of course, evaluate them on that basis. Just don't do it based on conference affiliation alone.

[shocks02]

WSU remains "Last Four Out" in Lunardi's update. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...l/bracketology

WSU slides in on yesterday's update of the bracket matrix. 37/79 brackets for WSU. 71/79 for ISUr. http://bracketmatrix.com/

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Wins over Drake and ISUr this week should cement WSU in everyone's brackets by next week. They would then need to win the next half dozen games in order to build up enough cushion to handle a loss in St. Louis.

[WuShock Reaper]

Bracketology with Joe Lunardi
02/02/17 - Last Updated

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...l/bracketology

LAST FOUR IN!

We are playing in the play-in game in Dayton, against #11-Seed Georgia Tech. With winner playing South Carolina in Buffalo, New York.

[newshock1234]

Bracketology with Joe Lunardi
02/02/17 - Last Updated

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...l/bracketology

LAST FOUR IN!

We are playing in the play-in game in Dayton, against #11-Seed Georgia Tech. With winner playing South Carolina in Buffalo, New York.

That road win over Drake changed Lunardi mind on us lol

[WSUwatcher]

That road win over Drake changed Lunardi mind on us lol

Well, it reinforced the power of the win at Bradley.

[Topshock]

Bracketology with Joe Lunardi
02/02/17 - Last Updated

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...l/bracketology

LAST FOUR IN!

We are playing in the play-in game in Dayton, against #11-Seed Georgia Tech. With winner playing South Carolina in Buffalo, New York.

In Lunardi's bracket, it seems more likely we would play K-State with the winner playing Creighton. How fun would that be?

[shocks02]

Jerry Palm, ladies and gentleman. One of the worst bracketologists known to man-kind. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

Still has ISUR over WSU and no sign of the Shockers in the first four or next four out. Jerry has teams like Arkansas, Rhode Island, Georgia Tech, Syracuse and Wake Forest ahead of WSU.

[Play Angry]

Subject to dramatic leapfrogging between the Arch Madness finale and Selection Sunday.

[shockmonster]

Jerry Palm, ladies and gentleman. One of the worst bracketologists known to man-kind. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

Still has ISUR over WSU and no sign of the Shockers in the first four or next four out. Jerry has teams like Arkansas, Rhode Island, Georgia Tech, Syracuse and Wake Forest ahead of WSU.

He is a BCS hack. He even said recently that the Big East would have trouble keeping up the those conferences.