Kentucky and OSU have a much tougher schedule the rest of the season than we do.

[cliftonparksufan]

Both still have five games against Top 25 teams including three on the road and we only have a total of one. Needless to say, Cuse needs to take care of business and let the chips fall as they may.

Kentucky

@ South Carolina
#12 Florida
@ #25 Vandy
Ole Miss
@ #22 Miss State
#25 Vandy
Georgia
@ #12 Florida

OSU

@ 19 Wisky
Purdue
#9 MSU
@ 23 Michigan
Illinois
#19 Wisky
@ Northwestern
@ #9 MSU

Cuse

@ St Johns
#14 Georgetown
UConn
@ Louisville
@ Rutgers
USF
@ UConn
Louisville

 

[CusefanATL]

thats because we have a borderline mid-major schedule this year.

i have a feeling i am going to get hounded for this. but we are going to go the entire season without a true tough test.

 

[Marsh01]

thats because we have a borderline mid-major schedule this year.

i have a feeling i am going to get hounded for this. but we are going to go the entire season without a true tough test.

Marquette was a pretty good test. So was Cincy at Cincy. Uconn and Louisville will still be tough on the road.

Hasnt been murders row but its not that bad.

 

[orangenauburn]

thats because we have a borderline mid-major schedule this year.

i have a feeling i am going to get hounded for this. but we are going to go the entire season without a true tough test.

not to hound ya, but it is of my opinion that Kentucky's schedule is weaker than ours ... so that says something about the state of college hoops in 2012

 

[cliftonparksufan]

thats because we have a borderline mid-major schedule this year.

i have a feeling i am going to get hounded for this. but we are going to go the entire season without a true tough test.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Our SOS is #13, Kentucky is #93 and OSU is # 59.

http://realtimerpi.com/ncaab/

I'm excited about Fab Melo, but you have to know we are still going to have some very tough games.

 

[CusefanATL]

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Our SOS is #13, Kentucky is #93 and OSU is # 59.

http://realtimerpi.com/ncaab/

I'm excited about Fab Melo, but you have to know we are still going to have some very tough games.

our sos is high because we play some good teams, some ok teams, and some bad teams... but unlike osu and uk we dont play any really bad teams.

 

[Niastri]

Or we can use the impartial RPI instead of the biased (and nearsighted) human polls. The results imply that Syracuse does have the easiest path the rest of the season. However... much of this is due to recent cold streaks from the ever dangerous Louisville and UConn teams. Of the three, Syracuse has the lowest average RPI and fewest top 50 opponents remaining. Ohio State has 5 road games, Kentucky and Syracuse have 4. Ohio State has the toughest road by far of the three, since they have no "easy" games with opponents over 54 RPI remaining.

Syracuse Avg RPI of 8 opponents 60.75, 4 road games, 5 top 50 RPI games
02-04 at St. John's 10-12 (4-6) 137 77-66 W - Scouting
02-08 Georgetown 16-4 (7-3) 13 75-64 W - Scouting
02-11 Connecticut 14-7 (4-5) 29 76-63 W - Scouting
02-13 at Louisville 17-5 (5-4) 28 68-71 L - Scouting
02-19 at Rutgers 12-11 (4-6) 147 76-67 W - Scouting
02-22 South Florida 12-9 (6-3) 75 81-60 W - Scouting
02-25 at Connecticut 14-7 (4-5) 29 67-71 L - Scouting
03-03 Louisville 17-5 (5-4) 28 76-63 W - Scouting

Ohio State Avg RPI of 9 opponents 28, 5 road games, 6 top 50 RPI games
02-04 at Wisconsin 18-5 (7-3) 19 74-71 W - Scouting
02-07 Purdue 15-7 (5-4) 54 82-60 W - Scouting
02-11 Michigan St. 16-5 (6-3) 5 82-64 W - Scouting
02-14 at Minnesota 16-7 (4-6) 51 74-69 W - Scouting
02-18 at Michigan 16-6 (7-3) 14 74-71 W - Scouting
02-21 Illinois 16-6 (5-4) 36 82-62 W - Scouting
02-25 Wisconsin 18-5 (7-3) 19 82-63 W - Scouting
02-29 at Northwestern 12-8 (2-6) 49 74-67 W - Scouting
03-04 at Michigan St. 16-5 (6-3) 5 74-72 W - Scouting


Kentucky Avg RPI of 8 opponents 55.38, 4 road games, 6 top 50 RPI games
02-04 at South Carolina 9-11 (1-5) 164 76-64 W - Scouting
02-07 Florida 17-4 (5-1) 17 78-63 W - Scouting
02-11 at Vanderbilt 16-6 (5-2) 24 70-71 L - Scouting
02-18 Mississippi 14-7 (4-3) 42 80-61 W - Scouting
02-21 at Mississippi St. 17-5 (4-3) 35 70-71 L - Scouting
02-25 Vanderbilt 16-6 (5-2) 24 79-63 W - Scouting
03-01 Georgia 10-11 (1-6) 120 83-58 W - Scouting
03-04 at Florida 17-4 (5-1) 17 70-72 L - Scouting

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Or we can use the impartial RPI instead of the biased (and nearsighted) human polls. The results imply that Syracuse does have the easiest path the rest of the season. However... much of this is due to recent cold streaks from the ever dangerous Louisville and UConn teams. Of the three, Syracuse has the lowest average RPI and lowest top 50 opponents remaining. Ohio State has 5 road games, Kentucky and Syracuse have 4. Ohio State has the toughest road by far of the three, since they have no "easy" games with opponents over 54 RPI remaining.

Syracuse Avg RPI of 8 opponents 60.75, 4 road games, 5 top 50 RPI games

Ohio State Avg RPI of 9 opponents 28, 5 road games, 6 top 50 RPI games

Kentucky Avg RPI of 8 opponents 55.38, 4 road games, 6 top 50 RPI games

I was just going to post what you just posted about the projected wins and losses. It's showing Cuse with two more losses, Kentucky with three more losses, Duke with two more losses, Baylor with two more losses and Ohio State not losing the rest of the way which you already posted.

If all of that happened like that, Cuse would definitely be a #1 seed.

 

[Niastri]

Just for fun, I checked out Duke and UNC as well, playing in the weak ACC. Pretty much the only games that are tough are against each other. The ACC looks like a cakewalk even when compared to the SEC.

Duke Avg RPI of 10 opponents 80, 5 road games, 3 top 50 RPI games
02-02 at Virginia Tech 12-9 (1-5) 89 78-77 W - Scouting
02-05 Miami (FL) 13-7 (4-3) 53 84-69 W - Scouting
02-08 at North Carolina 19-3 (6-1) 11 71-79 L - Scouting
02-11 Maryland 13-8 (3-4) 99 86-69 W - Scouting
02-16 N.C. St. 16-7 (5-3) 61 83-70 W - Scouting
02-19 at Boston College 7-15 (2-6) 230 88-73 W - Scouting
02-23 at Florida St. 15-6 (6-1) 26 72-79 L - Scouting
02-25 Virginia Tech 12-9 (1-5) 89 86-68 W - Scouting
02-28 at Wake Forest 11-11 (2-6) 131 81-75 W - Scouting
03-03 North Carolina 19-3 (6-1) 11 79-71 W - Scouting

UNC Avg RPI of 9 opponents 62, 5 road games, 4 top 50 RPI games
02-04 at Maryland 13-8 (3-4) 99 77-75 W - Scouting
02-08 Duke 18-3 (5-1) 2 79-71 W - Scouting
02-11 Virginia 18-3 (5-2) 41 78-69 W - Scouting
02-15 at Miami (FL) 13-7 (4-3) 53 75-76 L - Scouting
02-18 Clemson 11-10 (3-4) 160 86-60 W - Scouting
02-21 at N.C. St. 16-7 (5-3) 61 73-76 L - Scouting
02-25 at Virginia 18-3 (5-2) 41 70-77 L - Scouting
02-29 Maryland 13-8 (3-4) 99 85-67 W - Scouting
03-03 at Duke 18-3 (5-1) 2 71-79 L - Scouting

 

[Niastri]

In Summary, of the 5 top teams in the NCAA, their remaining schedules rank Ohio State, Kentucky, Syracuse UNC and Duke in order of difficulty. I didn't feel like doing the two Big 12 teams, but they must have tougher schedules than the pitiful ACC offering.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

In Summary, of the 5 top teams in the NCAA, their remaining schedules rank Ohio State, Kentucky, Syracuse UNC and Duke in order of difficulty. I didn't feel like doing the two Big 12 teams, but they must have tougher schedules than the pitiful ACC offering.

As I mentioned above they have Baylor projecting with two more losses (at Missouri and at Iowa State) but interestingly enough, they project Missouri to win out including winning on the road at Kansas. If they do that, they will end up in discussions for a one seed.

 

[Niastri]

Syracuse has 12 money wins already, with 6 more on the schedule before the BET. 18 total
Missouri has 9 money wins, with a bad loss and 6 possible money wins remaining. 15 total
Ohio State has 7 with 9 to go. 16 total
Baylor has 9, with 7 more on the way. 16 total
Duke has 10 with 8 more on the way (depending on Maryland and Va Tech staying top 100 RPI, they could lose 4). 18 total
UNC has 7, with 8 to go (see Duke above). 15 total
Kentucky has 7 with 6. 13 total

If all the teams win out, with UNC and Duke splitting their two games, and with Baylor getting revenge against Missouri, Syracuse will have the most top100 RPI wins of all the contenders. Kentucky has the worst schedule by this measure. If Maryland and Va Tech lose a few more games, they drop out of the top 100 and really hurt the ACC teams by this measure. Cinci could do the same to Syracuse, none of the other conferences have any teams likely to drop below top100.

 

[cusetown1]

I was just going to post what you just posted about the projected wins and losses. It's showing Cuse with two more losses, Kentucky with three more losses, Duke with two more losses, Baylor with two more losses and Ohio State not losing the rest of the way which you already posted.

If all of that happened like that, Cuse would definitely be a #1 seed.

That's pretty funny about OSU. Because they are going to lose tomorrow.

 

[orangefan13]

at Uconn and Louisiville is tough every year.
USF was tied for third in the big east last I looked, and Rutgers has a few nice wins at the rak. Gtown is going to be pretty tough.
Then we got to play the Ville and Uconn at home again also.

Forget the looks on paper this is big east ball.

 

[SWFLCUSE]

I think @ vandy will be a very tough game for UK, they are not great on the road and vandy is starting to hit a groove.


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[alibrat66]

That's why they play the games!

 

[ImperialOrange]

We have to get some credit for having already beaten the toughest remaining team on UK's schedule. FWIW I would rather play ranked Vandy and ranked Miss State vs Lville or UConn. Fairly certain their fans would feel the same way.

 

[Niastri]

I think Florida beating Kentucky would be one of the best things to happen this season.