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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5201724, member: 722"]
We caused our own pain there... We would beat teams by a basket or two, and get taken to the woodshed when we lost.

We "looked" analytically a lot worse than we actually were as a result.

Our "luck" rating was very high.  This means, based on our raw offense and defense numbers (points scored and allowed) our record was way better than it should be.

When  the talking heads look at our win/loss record, they aren't taking into account margin of victory and a dozen other things that Ken Pomeroy and other analysts do take into account.

The net result is that our record and our computer rankings were very different.

So... We have the option of scheduling 10  blowout victories every year, like the Big 12 did last season, or we can keep doing what we doing and hope the ratings get better.

Keep in mind last year was a complete aberration for us.  They got almost every team right, we were the unlucky one that managed to really skew the results against us.

The thing that pissed me off is that the committee is supposed to know these things, and then decide if we pass the eye test.

Getting blown out by Clemson and NC State to end the season was game over.  If we had won either if those games, it's a vastly different conversation.
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