If saying this year we somehow get to 21-11 would mean we were 11-1 over last 10 games pre B1G tourney. If you mean next season… all of this board would take 21-11 .
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I read it as he schedule with having Cam and Paul on the roster. Had he known he'd have had this roster, he may not have scheduled up. You're probably replacing Austin and Jeremiah Williams with Cam and Paul from day 1.
Therefore, I'm agreeing with 66 here.
Willing to admit I was misguided here, didn’t fully appreciate the impact of Overtime Elite and Europe
I wonder at some point does the pendulum go back and with NIL these players play 1 year in college and make more money
I can't imagine being one of the 320 over schools that every year have to worry about players they develop going somewhere else and there is nothing you can do about it.
Pike is letting everyone know that this is now his team. Mag and Big O are finally healthy and JWill is back playing. Reading between the lines he's saying that he expects us to play much better from here on.
Yeaaa these guys are not just projected 1st rounders. They are projected 2 and 3 overall picks. If they both aren't lottery picks, that would be disappointing. Ace is just too tall long athletic and skilled not to be a lottery pick. He has NBA superstar written all over him
I don't care about the schedule but his general dismissal of analytics continues to infuriate me and hold the team back.
The funny thing is that people automatically assume Pike is replacing Princeton and Mississippi State with schools ranked in the 350 range.
The key has always been to stay away from 13 losses.....12 losses and you are in decent shape.....11 and 80% of the time you are in.
The key has always been to stay away from 13 losses.....12 losses and you are in decent shape.....11 and 80% of the time you are in.
We have struggled with weak teams early in a season
This has happened over the past couple of years
Considering the shape this team was in after the PSU fiasco, finishing north of .500 would be an accomplishment
This. I don’t get the push from people on this to stick with aiming for the “easiest”. Even Pike’s worst teams have historically performed the same at the RAC against 120-200ish types vs 300+. Scheduling the former mitigates risk most effectively because should we lose, these teams are good enough where a road loss at Rutgers will have a good chance to prop them to Q3 level. We should never schedule a team that projects to be in the 300+ range. It’s one thing if the team ends up underperforming - no excuse for booking LIU who was forecasted to finish dead last in an awful conference.
I don’t want to play any of the mid majors ever in neutrals unless it’s the opening round of a pre season tournament.
That’s kenpom’s NC SOS ranking and it is a straight average of the ratings of the teams you play. That kind of SOS measure is dragged down a lot by playing the the Stonehills of the world even though they aren’t appreciably easier for a good team to beat than is the #275 team or so.
Torvik has a SOS measure called Elite L% which I think is a better measure of SOS if you are looking at win/loss records as opposed to efficiency numbers. Our non conference schedule by that measure is #108 which makes a lot more sense to me.
This is another reason why scheduling the Superbad cupcakes isn’t good; it makes a lot of measures of your SOS go down without really getting you a lot more wins.
Also I will say it’s always better to replace a loss with a win against a cupcake. But this requires you to know what games you’ll lose beforehand. So Pike is not wrong that we would have been better off with an all cupcake schedule this year (assuming we beat them all) but that has as much meaning as the people who were arguing in 21-22 about replacing Lafayette with Kansas. It only works if you look back in time and see the results of the games.
Princeton isn’t so good that it completely excuses the loss but they are pretty good this year. Much, much better than usual.
And we had the set back with losing two guards late
I,could be wrong, but I think we still were a couple of points favorite in that Game, but we just were not ready to play as a team yet, relying on the new players to mesh, and it did not work
We were favored by 6 points, but if there were to be a rematch today Princeton would likely be favored by a couple points.
They would have a hard time beating us right now I'm thinking. Remember, Mag was still on the sidelines and we didn't have JWill available
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