uva beats bc by 1 at home

[pearl31]

Crazy league this year, prolly moreso than ever before

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I was going to post this in the other ncaa thread, but anyone penciling in two wins against BC needs to be very cautious. Nothings a given and thats why we need to protect our home turf. Be loud, be proud, be Orange!!!

 

[MarketCuse]

I was going to post this in the other ncaa thread, but anyone penciling in two wins against BC needs to be very cautious. Nothings a given and thats why we need to protect our home turf. Be loud, be proud, be Orange!!!

BC looks impressive when they want to be. I'm not penciling anything in regarding SU or BC for that matter.

 

[MarketCuse]

Some crazy info on BC... Their best win against a team not named Duke was Lasalle @119 in the RPI. They beat colgate by 4 and beat a 2-10 Richmond team by 5.

Their opponents average RPI this year is 180. Of the teams they've beaten their average is 219 including Duke or 243 if you didn't include Duke. So they have had an ugly season but they have done well against ACC teams so far. If they didn't beat duke I'm guessing their RPI would be ~160-200.

W's
11-10 Maine 1-11 (0-0) 325 85-65 W
11-12 S. Carolina St. 2-11 (0-0) 305 91-52 W
11-14 Sacred Heart 4-9 (0-1) 304 73-53 W
11-19 vs La Salle 6-7 (0-0) 119 82-61 W
11-22 Colgate 5-6 (1-0) 175 83-79 W
12-02 at Hartford 6-7 (0-0) 276 73-61 W
$$ 12-09 Duke 12-1 (0-1) 1 89-84 W
12-12 Columbia 1-10 (0-0) 289 81-66 W
12-17 Central Conn. St. 8-6 (1-0) 152 84-65 W
12-23 Richmond 2-10 (0-0) 249 78-73 W

L's
11-18 vs Texas Tech 12-1 (1-0) 35 64-75 L
11-25 at Providence 10-4 (1-0) 33 66-86 L
11-29 at Nebraska 10-5 (1-1) 88 62-71 L

Yes this is the most thought I have given BC in a couple decades.

 

[MarketCuse]

SU Stats for comparison

our opponents average RPI is 111, the teams we've beaten have an average RPI of 127 and the two losses average out to 19. The worst RPI team we have faced this year is G-town @ 231. Where as BC played 3 teams above 300 and 3 more above 250. That must have been hard to find that many bad teams.

11-10 Cornell 5-6 (0-0) 209 77-45 W
11-14 Iona 7-6 (1-0) 89 71-62 W
11-18 Texas Southern 0-13 (0-0) 165 80-67 W
11-20 Oakland 9-5 (1-0) 69 74-50 W
11-22 Toledo 7-5 (0-0) 146 72-64 W
$ 11-27 Maryland 11-3 (1-1) 58 72-70 W
12-02 vs Kansas 11-2 (1-0) 9 60-76 L
12-05 vs Connecticut 7-5 (0-0) 93 72-63 W
12-09 Colgate 5-6 (1-0) 175 72-58 W
12-16 at Georgetown 10-2 (0-1) 231 86-79 W
$ 12-19 Buffalo 7-5 (0-0) 43 81-74 W
12-22 St. Bonaventure 10-2 (0-0) 29 57-60 L
12-27 East. Michigan 5-4 (0-0) 130 62-47 W

 

[LarryC44]

Crazy league this year, prolly moreso than ever before

So much parity in college basketball this year. It's like we are seeing NCAA tournament level upsets during non-conference season

 

[jncuse]

I was going to post this in the other ncaa thread, but anyone penciling in two wins against BC needs to be very cautious. Nothings a given and thats why we need to protect our home turf. Be loud, be proud, be Orange!!!

As of now BC is #74 in KP rating, and we are #46. If we played today , BC would be about a 0.5 point favourite at home (give a point or two)

We definetely need to take them seriously.

 

[cuse10]

It wasn't a good game. If it weren't for Ty Jerome having a career day, it would have been your usual ugly Virginia game. BCs mistakes at the end is why they are Boston College.

 

[jncuse]

SU Stats for comparison

our opponents average RPI is 111, the teams we've beaten have an average RPI of 127 and the two losses average out to 19. The worst RPI team we have faced this year is G-town @ 231. Where as BC played 3 teams above 300 and 3 more above 250. That must have been hard to find that many bad teams.

11-10 Cornell 5-6 (0-0) 209 77-45 W
11-14 Iona 7-6 (1-0) 89 71-62 W
11-18 Texas Southern 0-13 (0-0) 165 80-67 W
11-20 Oakland 9-5 (1-0) 69 74-50 W
11-22 Toledo 7-5 (0-0) 146 72-64 W
$ 11-27 Maryland 11-3 (1-1) 58 72-70 W
12-02 vs Kansas 11-2 (1-0) 9 60-76 L
12-05 vs Connecticut 7-5 (0-0) 93 72-63 W
12-09 Colgate 5-6 (1-0) 175 72-58 W
12-16 at Georgetown 10-2 (0-1) 231 86-79 W
$ 12-19 Buffalo 7-5 (0-0) 43 81-74 W
12-22 St. Bonaventure 10-2 (0-0) 29 57-60 L
12-27 East. Michigan 5-4 (0-0) 130 62-47 W

Syracuse essentially gamed a crappy RPI formula this year.. although unintentional.

Beating middle of the pack programs instead of bad programs at home. really does not prove that one team is better than the other. They are all games you should win either way.

 

[Cheriehoop]

As of now BC is #74 in KP rating, and we are #46. If we played today , BC would be about a 0.5 point favourite at home (give a point or two)

We definetely need to take them seriously.

We need to take every single team seriously.

 

[MarketCuse]

We need to take every single team seriously.

Especially the practice team. We need a lot of work and conditioning help for this time of year.

 

[MarketCuse]

Syracuse essentially gamed a crappy RPI formula this year.. although unintentional.

Beating middle of the pack programs instead of bad programs at home. really does not prove that one team is better than the other. They are all games you should win either way.

I cannot disagree but have you got anything better to do? ;-)

PS I'd rather we spent our time not proving anything with an RPI of 12 than proving we aren't very good with an RPI of 50.

Tomorrow is all that matters and I'll take all the smoke and mirrors we can find at this point.