Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
feather loss team win
A win over Rutgers would have been a feather in their cap, but you can't have a loss to a team which you should beat.
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I think New Mexico has performed far too well to fall completely out, but the loss bumped them from about a six seed down to the middle of the bracket at eight or nine, where you're lucky to win one game, much less two.
based four losing losses road strength
It's all pretty much based on strength of schedule. Another thing you have to look at is all four of Pitt's losses have been on the road. In the new RPI formula, losing on the road is useful.
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The good thing for Pitt is that everyone will be taking on another loss in the last week of the season except for the conference champions.
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Pitt still has some work to do. They are doing well in a pretty good league. They are in pretty good shape. They don't have a lot of good wins, but they also don't have any bad losses, either. They have good victories over Villanova and South Florida.
chances good lose
I would say their chances of making the NIT aren't good if they lose their first game.
air conference earn games improved lower national teams tough won
This year, the conference is just better. They did what they had to do to earn national respect. They scheduled tough games and they won a lot of them. Even teams in the lower part of the conference, teams like Air Force, really improved their RPI.
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Votes like that hurt the credibility. Whether it's carelessness or ignorance, you can't have votes for Idaho. It only takes one guy voting for Idaho to ruin it for the rest of the 114.
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The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.
arkansas bad beaten dominion except good teams western
Vanderbilt's got two Top-25 RPI wins, over Old Dominion and Western Kentucky. That's more than a lot of teams. But Arkansas is a bad loss. All the teams that have beaten Vanderbilt are pretty good except Arkansas.
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USC is in the middle of a lull in the schedule. Texas is about to hit a lull.
closer human likely stay unless usc
More than likely it's just for one week. They are not going to stay there long-term unless they get closer to USC in the human polls.
mediocrity tough year
There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.
oklahoma usc
It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.