If we didn't have Ace and Dylan, I'd agree. However, winning our final five games of the regular season and advancing to the B1G tourney final would get us in.
The Aggies didn't have two of the top three picks in the upcoming NBA draft.
I'm not sure I believe the bold TBH.
I see your point, but viewers tune in to watch top-flight players play not watch top-flight coaches coach.
Agreed ! Nike would make sure we got in! Marketing $$
As you correctly noted, all of the 15 loss teams that got in were in the past 10 years? Why? Consolidation of power conferences and the advent of more games in conference schedules, thus widening the gap in schedule strength between good and bad schedules.
Considering he has had 1 practice in the past two months, what kind of shape did you expect him to be in???
Of course they look at them for bid stealer purposes, but the conference tournaments are not adding to your resume if you are trying to get in as an at large team. They evaluate at large teams essentially prior to the conference tournaments and they already know who is in and who is out and rank the teams. If there are any bid stealers, then the lowest ranked at large team gets dropped out of the field.
It’s not about shape, he’s just not a competent big 10 player. We were stuck with him this year so we all hoped for the best. But if we are all honest, he is not a quality big at this level of play in the Big 10. It is what it is with Ogbole, but he’s very limited as a player. Ideally, we would have had better talent ahead of him and never need to stoop to such a level to add a guy like him. But we did have to add him out of desperation and no other alternatives.
So your basically saying,and I will use RU as an example, that if RU who at this ppint isnt even considered to be a bubble team, gets into Big conference tourney as the last seed, and goes on to win the tournament, that run and conference championship will have no bearing on their resume. If so your premise is 100% wrong
If they win the Big10 tourney resume not considered and they are in. Any team wins conference tournament they are in
A few wins in the BTT, even losing in the championship game, will have minimal impact. The committee has already made its mind up before these things finish. See Texas A&M from 2022.
Once again, for an at large bid consideration, NOT THE AUTOMATIC QUALIFIER FROM WINNING THE CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT. Obviously they get seeded and get in the tourney under that scenario, Rutgers would be a BID STEALER in that case and then get seeded accordingly. If they didn’t win the Big 10 tournament, once again if they did not win the big ten tournament, if they make a run and win 3 or 4 in a row, those games are not being added to their AT LARGE BID RESUME for consideration by the committee. The committee has stated multiple times in recent years that they already have the AT LARGE BID field picked at the beginning of the conference tournaments. In other words, for AT LARGE BID PURPOSES, the teams have basically done all they can do at that point on about Thursday of the conference tournament week. Unless they change it up this year, recent history tells us that this is how they pick the at large bid field.
Let me ask you a question about a hypothetical situation.
Conference record isn't looked at. Oklahoma is 4-10 in the sec and in like 100% of the brackets right now and 6-12 will still get them in
oh great my "stalker" is back....what a freakin' loser....have we hit 300 monikers, yet, @MyFatherSentMeToOldRutgers ???
Stick with the plan, Green, stick with the plan!!!!
Yeh I don't really see any RU "allies" on that list even if we did go on that miracle run undefeated through end of regular season and only lose in BTT finals. Only hope then would be the TV networks putting pressure to showcase Harper and Ace.
