Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4203574, member: 1969"]
I think they are fine.    Could they be a 10 or 11 seed instead of the 9 seed the matrix has them at.  Sure, the committee tends to often be harder on the mid-major school vs the consensus expectation.

It would be  very good resume for a bubble team.  
- They do lack a marquee win which is their biggest hole.  They did go 0-5 against Gonzaga (0-3) and St. Mary's (0-2) but those are a #1 and a #5 seed, which speaks to their lack of a marquee victory.  But at the end of the day they have 4 Q1 wins (UAB, BYU, Davidson, @ Santa Clara) which is a fair number if they were a bubbe tem.

So the Q1 situation is not great but its not terrible either.   But they really have no other holes.   
- Very good NET (#24) and very good power rankings (KP#21)
- A very good OOC schedule (SOS #28) and a 12-2 record in it.   It's not like St. Mary's in the past who have scheduled nobody OOC.   While they did not play P5 schools they still scheduled with several top 100 OOC Games -- Davidson, Loyola, UAB, Towson, Grand Canyon, UNLV, Arizona St, Fresno St.  Not many teams have 8 OOC games against top 100 schools.
- A good record in Q1+Q2 games of 9-8.
- Good road record
- Only 1 bad loss

Seem to be a step above to me compared to a team like SMU, Xavier, Wake, Notre Dame.

[ATTACH type="full"]215528[/ATTACH]
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?