ACC Blows

[bac2therac]

Should the RPI not look at out of conference play in assessing conferences? It should look at in-conference play when assessing conferences?

No never said that but declaring a conference better for what was done in November is dismissing the fact that schools get better or even worse over the course of time. The perfomances and SOS end up benefitting some lesser league schools which end up with inflated rpis...rpi system is flawed and needs to be tweaked. ..

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

Butler vs UNC will be somewhat telling for a lot of reasons......A) Butler is not as talented/quick as UNC.....but will serve as a basketball clinic for a lot of fans that are clamoring for "shooters", as if it determines basketball games.

Just as important as "shooters", is boxing out, defensive rotations by your players, does the team make the extra pass to an open teammate, are they willing to take an offensive charge??

There are more shooters and scorers on North Carolina, but until there were 3 minutes left in the Arkansas game, UNC played casual defense for most of the game. They got away with playing so-so defense.

If you want to know why certain schools with less talent/size like Butler/Wichita State/Xavier stay afloat against these teams down to the wire, it's because they cover those other bases.

Right now the ACC is a league that is dedicated to scoring/running and isn't playing defense the way some other leagues are playing it.....aside from Duke getting mauled by South Carolina, the biggest hit, has to be Florida State and Virginia getting absolutely embarrassed....For FSU to give up 90+ to an Xavier team that limped to the finish line and for UVA to run a worse offense that relies on one guard to generate offense is terrible.

I think it's a one-year blip for the ACC, but the trend line away from defense is telling.....Florida guards everything, as does Wisconsin and South Carolina.....three of those teams made it to MSG....not Villanova and not Duke. The fact that there wouldn't be a shock for fans to see Butler beat Carolina tells you all you need to know about what wins in basketball.

 

[RUJMM78]

Stats can be used to prove any point of view.From my perspective head to head competition is the best indicator to say what league is better at a given point in time.The ACC defeated the B1G in head to head competition which would give them higher rankings going into league competition. As the season progresses things change such as injuries happen and teams improve their performance .

The NCAA Tournament is high pressure because its one and done.There are no do overs so teams better come with their A game .Michigan is a example of a team that started slowly but got hot starting with the B1G Tournament and have been on a high ever since.Gonzaga in contrast has been on a high all season.

 

[RJM_Go_RU]

Hats off to Greg McElroy. In highlight, lowlight and fail segment. His choice of lowlight was the ACC. Really laid into them. "ACC was clearly over-rated. Has proven over the last few days is not nearly as good as we said"

And both he and Zarzour said "the fail" was the officiating.

 

[RU MAN]

"And both he and Zarzour said "the fail" was the officiating." Oh, you mean the ALL THE CALLS that normally go their way, didn't because the officials actually did their job?

 

[ru66]

and that Syracuse game was played at Syracuse

 

[Caliknight]

One horse league like it is every year.