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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5587150, member: 10113"]
Looking at the net. A couple questions for you.

Belmont: their NET is 33.  all of their wins are either quad three or quad four. The toughest game they will play non conference will be Richmond.    They are not even beating the type of teams that the mountain West usually beats to inflate their NET.   Any thoughts on why they is so high?

Yale: NET of 25. has only beaten two quad three/four teams by 20 or more. Has five wins of less than 11 points,  and lost to the only team with a pulse they have played. (Rhode Island).  Any thoughts. 25 seems crazy

St John’s. NET 22:  like us, they lost all of their quad 1 games. (0-3). The only difference in their resume is that they beat Baylor in a quad two game.  But that (plus the Iowa st margin) makes them 69 spots ahead of us?   By that logic, we should be ahead of them if we beat Quad 1 Tennessee tonight.  With such similar resumes how could they be so far ahead?

USC: Net 23.  Looking at their schedule, they played a few Good teams. Arizona State, Seton Hall, Boise, and have close wins, but nobody near the top 25, and that’s all there is to their non conference schedule.

I feel like if we scheduled like USC and won them all, there would be more talk like  “North Carolina coming to Syracuse” and beating “quad one Syracuse” gives the conference more credibility, and thus gives us more credibility. Perception of our ranking would outweigh the “Syracuse hasn’t really played anybody” that might keep us out of the tournament.  If USC goes 10-10 in the BIG and makes the tournament, It will show that we way over scheduled by playing in Vegas.  Playing in Hawaii would have been better.
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