stever20 wrote:adoraz wrote:Congrats Friars! Unbelievable season. Not only has the team greatly overachieved all year, they've also proved the pundits and analytics wrong by advancing to the Sweet 16. They finished the season ranked #13 in the AP, #32 in NET, and KenPom has them at only #33 even after their Tournament run. Clearly by making the Sweet 16 they proved they're fully deserving of their AP ranking.
At some point being the "luckiest" team needs to recognized as being one of the best teams, and that's happened now.
It's so funny that 2 teams that had the most extreme situations between metrics and on court performance are still alive- Houston and Providence. From totally opposite situations. Don't think you'd want to play either one of those teams right now at all.
adoraz wrote:stever20 wrote:adoraz wrote:Congrats Friars! Unbelievable season. Not only has the team greatly overachieved all year, they've also proved the pundits and analytics wrong by advancing to the Sweet 16. They finished the season ranked #13 in the AP, #32 in NET, and KenPom has them at only #33 even after their Tournament run. Clearly by making the Sweet 16 they proved they're fully deserving of their AP ranking.
At some point being the "luckiest" team needs to recognized as being one of the best teams, and that's happened now.
It's so funny that 2 teams that had the most extreme situations between metrics and on court performance are still alive- Houston and Providence. From totally opposite situations. Don't think you'd want to play either one of those teams right now at all.
Yeah I'm surprised by how poorly Houston was seeded, should've been at least a couple lines higher. I had them going to the Sweet 16 in my brackets but do have them falling to Arizona.
To be honest I was not very confident in the Friar making the Sweet 16. Fortunately I still had them in my brackets though because I wanted them to win.
adoraz wrote:Ah didn't realize they had only 1 Q1 win, that explains their seeding. I still would've put them a bit higher but yeah really tough to seed them.
kayako wrote:adoraz wrote:Ah didn't realize they had only 1 Q1 win, that explains their seeding. I still would've put them a bit higher but yeah really tough to seed them.
Houston's AAC title game didn't even count. It's their choice to hold the championship game on Sunday, but the NCAA has recommended against it in the past.
stever20 wrote:kayako wrote:adoraz wrote:Ah didn't realize they had only 1 Q1 win, that explains their seeding. I still would've put them a bit higher but yeah really tough to seed them.
Houston's AAC title game didn't even count. It's their choice to hold the championship game on Sunday, but the NCAA has recommended against it in the past.
right...Few years ago they'd have been like Wichita and seeded 9th or something like that. And been an absolute bear for a 1 seed in rd 2.
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