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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeZeus, post: 2112930, member: 4174"] Everyone is quick to say we have bad non-conference losses to Georgetown (RPI 107), UConn (RPI 110), and St. John's (RPI 126). But for what it's worth, Georgia Tech's RPI now stands at 106 and they were on the bubble until they lost to Pitt. I don't think the Georgetown and UConn losses are nearly as bad as the media is making them out to be, unless we are prepared to call the Georgia Tech loss a bad loss too. We were competitive in each of those losses except for St. John's. Against Georgetown we were down 71-67 with 28 seconds left and some free throws down the stretch made it a 7 point loss. The UConn game came down to a missed box out. The Georgia Tech game came down to a questionable moving pick foul call on Roberson. Now the St. John's game was pathetic. You could literally see our team had given up and weren't even bothering to run back on defense. We competed in a few top 50 losses like home against Louisville and the last game against Miami. We also got blown out in some top 50 matches like @Louisville, @ND, @UNC, and @Wiscy, but those losses aren't too significant given the caliber of the teams and the fact they were road games. We lost on the road at Pitt after making a good comeback to bring it within 3 points in the closing seconds before they hit two more free throws. To me, we really only have two bad losses out of our 14 losses: the St. John's loss as I previously mentioned, and the BC loss that the media doesn't really talk about for some reason. The BC game they shot 61.5% from deep. Obviously that's partly our bad defense that game, but some night's a team is just hot. I'm assuming the committee won't take that close of a look into our games like I just did above, and I'm not sure if the score of games is taken into consideration (I thought I heard in the past that it's not). But to me, our eight top 100 wins and six top 50 wins should be enough to counteract the two bad losses. And one last note to add... St. John's split with Marquette and Providence who are right alongside us on the bubble. [/QUOTE]

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