and now we know for a fact net rankings mean shit..also look at Pitts horrible metrics...way worse than ru and probably worse inclusion than nc state
BACATOLOGY: 3/11 NCAA Tournament Analysis***Rutgers 95% in***
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The thing is he had us in the field of 60. And we were team 70. It happens and predictions are hard
well you had us in Dayton, where are the posters who didnt have us in beside the usual troll
He would not listen to repeated warning from talking heads last year that Big Ten getting too many bids based on recent Tournament performance. Roasted others who brought it up, mostly me. With the end result we have now, he should own up that his take on RU's chances was a serious fail. And he shouldn't trash other posters' correct takes.
We weren’t team 70.
We were the 50th(?) best team for a 68 team tournament.
A case could be made that so many AQ did us in.
But that’s a different conversation.
This makes no sense when the conference that benefitted is the ****ing Mountain West.
Wyoming got blown out by Indiana in the First Four
6 seed Colorado State lost to 11 seed Michigan
8 seed San Diego State lost to 9 seed Creighton
8 seed Boise State lost to 9 seed Memphis
Four MWC teams made it and faced high majors. They all lost. I'm way more okay with the ACC getting bids than the MWC.
Oh but that's just one year you say?
2021...
6 seed San Diego State lost to 11 seed Syracuse
11 seed Utah State lost to 6 seed Texas Tech
2019...
7 seed Nevada lost to 10 seed Florida
8 seed Utah State lost to 9 seed Washington
The entire ****ing conference hasn't won a game in the NCAA tournament since 2018. Give me a break.
The “too many teams from a conference” sounds like the dumb “too many SEC teams in CFP” arguments.
Just pick the best teams. If that means 3 SEC teams in CFP? 10 or even 11 Big Ten teams in March madness?
So be it. Enough with this “inclusivity”. Sport is supposed to be about merit.
Just pick the best teams. If that means 3 SEC teams in CFP? 10 or even 11 Big Ten teams in March madness?
So be it. Enough with this “inclusivity”. Sport is supposed to be about merit.
Bac was hedging all along re RU. You could read it through his posts. ''Need to take it out of committees hands" I think he said several games ago.
Pike inserts Simpson earlier in season & we r not sitting here pissed today.
Pike inserts Simpson earlier in season & we r not sitting here pissed today.
Well his hedge should have said RU was closer to 50% then. Not 95%. Horrendously poor prediction.I certainly will never give his picks much credence going forward.
Wow, the people giving bac crap in this thread are way off base, but it's kind of predictable. He has a great track record over many years and does all this work out of love for Rutgers basketball and shares it all generously with this community. He was not alone in thinking RU was almost a lock - so did 96% of bracketologists and most of the people on this board. It's impossible to get every prediction right and, of course it's going to sting more when the team screwed over (and we were) is our team. Thanks, bac.
Hey BAC, thanks for keeping us informed and your due diligence is appreciated
wash rinse repeat, the bracket guys are in loves with their metrics in Q2 and 3...every single year.
I didnt like the lock posts from after Michigan but I understand why people made, them..things look good, after that superlative effort down to the wire vs a 1 seed, I felt great about going and with EVERYTHING working out with bid stealers I really felt confident. If the committee was watching RU proved they were a tourney team...unfortunately the committee stopped watching last Sunday
but yeah you never want to leave something out there for the committee to justify a reason to leave you out. This year we got burned
Giving bac shit for this would be a lot more justified IMO if he wasn't aligned with virtually every other bracketologist.
Nonsense. He made a horrific call, essentially as bad as could be, made fun of others who disagreed with what turned out to be his trash calls, and now won't even acknowledge his terrible performance. He is as bad a prognosticator as Brad "Click Bait" Dollars Wachtel.
We were on 78/83 final brackets on bracket matrix. Is your position that all of these guys are bad at it?
Holy fck dude🤣. You’re mad over a bracketology thread? Get a life you clown🤡
They were ignorant for ignoring repeated calls in college basketball to limit Big Ten seeds.
I was expecting a ridiculous response but this exceeded my expectations.
Bracketology is a waste of time. It’s literally impossible to get less than 64 out of 68 teams correct.
I'm PISSED at him. And the other 94.999999999999 % Pissed at myself and pissed at the team, the committee,, the coach, the world (but the dog is safe). But it's not his fault.
I'm gonna need TWO CBD gummies to sleep tonight.
I too want to say THANK YOU to @bac2therac for the TON of work he put into this.
The majority of human activity is a waste of time. If you aren't eating, sleeping, or ****ing, what are you even doing?
I agree. It's commonsense and luck. In this case, Rutgers was sacrificial lamb for Committee to start enforcing seed limits. Rutgers gave them reasons, and they took them. Not to say I'm not angry. OSU steal cost us bid. And their abysmal 1 minute meltdown in Minnesota.
Spend hundreds of hours pouring over the data or just look at lunardis project cause they’re almost identical. Easy decision to me.
The man would be taking a week long victory lap if he got it right. But it’s not his fault when he gets it wrong. Gotttt it.
