...and yet we maintain top-10 BPI (espn) and top-15 RPI
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heresjohnny88
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Was just about to post something about this. Very interesting. Our numbers are awesome for a team that has gone 4-5 in the past 9 and slipping towards an apparent 6 seed...
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close loss on road to ranked team
how in the hell is marquette ranked. their court mops probably smell like the breast milk from the guy that scored 30 on us
Marquette is a team of fighters.
They don't have a ton of skilled players, but they play with a ton of effort.
With college ball as bad as it is now, effort will get you a long way.
I'm not sure I quite get the point of this. I mean, we've lost 5 of our last 9. To quality opponents, that's great. But it's still 4-5 in our last nine. So the top-10 bpi makes you feel better about that somehow? That's like bragging about your favorite baseball team winning 84 games by pointing out that their pythag projection meant they played like more of a 90-win team. That's great, but you still missed the playoffs and barely cleared .500.
Not trying to be debbie downer, but the expectations change when you start winning 25+ every year. There's nothing wrong with being frustrated about playing below expectation levels.
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I'm bragging?
more of a "huh, that doesn't even seem possible"
and also pointing out that maybe we're not quite as doomed as many on here would like us to believe
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I've noticed, and maybe it's just me, but in alot of our losses it's apparant that we are the more talente team. You can see the talent on our team even though one of those talents is not shooting (guess that's a pretty big talent we lack), however the other team wants it soooo much more, and that is just as apparant if not more apparant than our talent. There's a reason why the best team(s) don't usually win the Title or even make it to the Final 4, it's because College Basketball is about effort more so than talent nowadays, especially when the officials let you clutch and grab your way to a victory while you just run the shot clock down in an effort to shorten the game.
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I had trouble posting a Crazy Ralph pic...maybe you coukl help, Pearl, so some people have a visual aid.
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Right now the way we are playing we don't deserve those numbers
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http://espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology
New bracketology
4th seed in the South.
vs Davidson in San Jose
vs. UNLV/Belmont
vs. Florida
vs. Kansas
Nightmare.
New bracketology
4th seed in the South.
vs Davidson in San Jose
vs. UNLV/Belmont
vs. Florida
vs. Kansas
Nightmare.
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We've played well against Florida lately and Kansas lost to TCU - bring it on 
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ing Epic, Milly. I am literally dying on that one.
