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[Orangezoo]

We did have the one year where margin of victory cost us the NCAA tournament at large slot.

Our first year with Red as coach, we won a lot of decent games, and every one was a nail biter... On the other hand, we got blown out of a bunch of games where we were in single digits with less than five minutes and let the other team expand margin to blowout range over and over. I think it hurt the NET and perception enough to keep us out.

LSU, Gtown, Oregon and UNC were the wins along with @ NC State. Not sure if MOV would have been enough should we have kept the losses close and had more blowouts but certainly would have impacted the conversation

 

[NineOneSeven]

i mean, obviously I hope the team goes undefeated and beats all the Quad 1 games. surely, having some quality wins will be vital to the teams success

but teams like Baylor (14 losses) Kansas (12 losses) UNC (13 losses) Oklahoma (13 losses) Arkansas (13 losses) all made the NCAAT last year ...mostly on margin of victory (and being lucky to be in good conferences)...shows that you can lose and lose A LOT and still squeek in if you have good margin of victory

Im not saying that should be the goal...just want to highlight it because based on reds first 2 years, I dont think he considered margin of victory at all...was just going for W-L record...it seemed.

this 40 point win vs binghampton is encouraging on that front...i think he gets it now (hopefully) (obviously having better players helps there too)

How about we win a singular Q1 game this year. That would be nice. We didn’t have 1 good win last season!