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Post by yankeefriar on Feb 2, 2015 14:42:50 GMT -5
The pathetic part is that Dunn does all the work to setup Lindsey for wide open shots that he hasn't been able to make, and Cartwright for wide open shots which he now won't take. Donnie McGrath would be having a field day at the two if he was playing with a guy like Dunn. Heck, Chris Anrin would be going for double figures every night.
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Post by dex on Feb 2, 2015 14:50:56 GMT -5
It's maddening Yank. Hopefully this Cooley recruited flock of frosh just may need more time. If not, and they are misses, we are screwed.
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Post by yankeefriar on Feb 2, 2015 16:14:43 GMT -5
Here's a stat...St. John's and Marquette have a combined 5 wins in conference. 3 of those 5 wins are against the Friars...not good.
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Post by yankeefriar on Feb 5, 2015 10:20:03 GMT -5
BPI now at 40 after last night's win...That would be good for a 10 seed. RPI sits at 20 this AM.
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Post by billblairsmom on Feb 5, 2015 11:25:25 GMT -5
BPI is strange and really makes no sense when you have Ohio State and PC with same record at 17-6...PC has a SOS rank of 11....OSU SOS is ranked 57....yet they have OSU 20 spots ahead of PC...makes no sense to me...Seems like it's WAY too subjective on part of index designer.
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Post by dex on Feb 5, 2015 11:30:17 GMT -5
Other posters have said it's a Forecast that has no bearing on the Selection Committee that deals with the status quo as to how the season ended
I suppose if we had two games left against Creighton instead of 1st place Top 10 Nova, our forecast BPI would look better
All I know is that if we win Saturday we are ranked and playing for 1st place on Wednesday
which is amazing
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Post by thewalk on Feb 5, 2015 12:22:58 GMT -5
it's interesting...forecast projects us with a 11-7 record and an rpi in the low 20s, yet only expects us to win 3 more games if you look at the games individually....still puts us in the low 30s at 10-8...
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Post by dex on Feb 5, 2015 13:56:45 GMT -5
Walk does it tell you who we beat in those 3 games?
I presume at 10-8 , now combined with our pretty damn good resume against Top 25,50 and 100s, you would predict they would be in?
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Post by thewalk on Feb 5, 2015 14:02:57 GMT -5
we'd be a lock...off memory - marq/shu/DePaul.....they have us losing at home to butler...
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Post by dex on Feb 5, 2015 14:18:18 GMT -5
Dunham is my favorite non-friar player in the Big East.
However at least with Butler you know what you are facing to grind out a win.
Whereas with depaul and SHU, they seem to have hot streaks making shots within a game by multiple weapons.
If you are right about us just being better than Xavier, it would be Two W's to go...Marquette and whoever
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Post by thewalk on Feb 5, 2015 17:09:41 GMT -5
If you are right about us just being better than Xavier....doesn't mean we'll win (obviously)....as mentioned earlier I think gtown is better than us...I think sju is better than us...for clarification - better imo means if each team plays at 75% on sat, we will win....
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Post by wtm97 on Feb 6, 2015 10:50:40 GMT -5
TWEET 2-5-15 Joe Lunardi ✔ @espnlunardi: biggest sleeper team no one is talking about?” Providence.
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Post by Rock on Feb 6, 2015 11:12:07 GMT -5
Ken Pom sees us finishing this way:
Sat Feb 7 26 Xavier L, 76-69 67 27% Away × Wed Feb 11 7 Villanova L, 71-66 65 33% Home × Sat Feb 14 49 Seton Hall W, 72-68 66 67% Home × Wed Feb 18 124 DePaul W, 74-72 68 58% Away × Tue Feb 24 7 Villanova L, 75-63 65 12% Away × Sun Mar 1 106 Marquette W, 70-63 64 80% Home × Wed Mar 4 49 Seton Hall L, 72-68 66 36% Away × Sat Mar 7 18 Butler L, 67-66 65 49% Home ×
Projected record: 21-10 11-7
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Post by wtm97 on Feb 6, 2015 11:39:22 GMT -5
Pretty sure Ken Pom's projections still give us the nod for a Tourney bid, right?
Not going to be any cake walk but our present reality is that we can actually do better than what he projects...need a healthy Henton and Dunn but we sure have a solid shot here.
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Post by thewalk on Feb 6, 2015 12:04:16 GMT -5
that's 10Ws...no...
yes...we'd be in...
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